Ann Waltner Named Director of the Institute of Advanced Study

The college is pleased to announce the appointment of Ann Waltner (professor, history) as the first director of the Institute of Advanced Study, created as part of the President's Interdisciplinary Initiative on the Arts and Humanities. Ann's service as director will begin immediately and will run through June 30, 2008. The Institute is designed to promote breakthrough research and creative activity within the arts, humanities, social sciences, as well as other areas of inquiry. The Institute will serve scholars and artists of distinction from across the University system. As director, Ann will work with the Institute Advisory Board to provide imaginative intellectual leadership for the Institute and its activities. She will also provide University-wide leadership to develop, enhance, and coordinate collaborative and interdisciplinary research and creative activity, and will act as an entrepreneur on behalf of the Institute's research and creative initiatives.