Dana Brown has been appointed Dean of the Sprott School of Business for a five-year term starting July 1, 2019.
Brown joins Carleton from De Montfort University’s Leicester Castle Business School where she served as the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise) / Dean. She was previously Director of the MBA at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
Before accepting an appointment as University Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2005, Brown served as one of the first employees at Amazon.com and as Director of the Trenton Academic Centre at Rutgers University. In 2010, she joined EMLYON Business School as a Professor of Strategic Management and Academic Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration (France/China).
Larry Kostiuk has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Design. Kostiuk joins Carleton from the University of Alberta and will begin a five-year term on July 1, 2019.
Kostiuk joined the University of Alberta in 1993 and served as Associate Vice-President (Research) after a transformative decade as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. While in the Office of the Vice-President (Research), he also led Future Energy Systems, a $75-million research initiative launched by the University of Alberta under the Government of Canada’s Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
While on administrative leave, he worked as a Special Advisor to the Associate Deputy Minister of the Government of Alberta’s Economic Development and Trade Ministry.
Patrice Smith has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs for a five-year term starting July 1, 2019.
Smith joined Carleton in 2008 after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University. Smith is a Professor of Neuroscience and currently serves as a faculty senator on Carleton’s Board of Governors. She previously served as Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) in the Faculty of Science and as President of the Carleton University Academic Staff Association.
An internationally recognized neuroscientist, Smith’s research specializes in understanding how the brain responds to injury and mechanisms to promote repair and recovery.
A search for a new Dean for the Faculty of Public Affairs is underway as André Plourde’s term is ending in 2020. The Advisory Search Committee anticipates that a new Dean appointment will be effective July 1, 2020.
Portfolio Changes in the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic)