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Kettering University Names Two New Deans

ettering University has named Dr. Michael Smith pleased to join the members of the Kettering community
as the Dean of the School of Management. As in shaping leaders who are well-prepared to participate
Kthe Dean, Smith also holds an appointment as F. in solving the problems that our society will face in the
James McDonald Chair of Supply Chain Management. future.”

In this new role at Kettering, Smith will oversee the Kettering has also named Dr. Laura Vosejpka as the
School of Management. The School of Management Dean of the College of Sciences and Liberal Arts
offers an undergraduate degree in Business and Professor of the Practice in the Department of
Administration and a variety of master’s programs Chemistry. Dr. Vosejpka serves as the founding dean
including Master of Science in Operations Management, of the newly established college. In her new role at
Master of Science in Engineering Management, Master Kettering, Vosejpka will oversee the Departments of
of Science in Supply Chain Management and Master of Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Computer Science,
Business Administration (MBA). Liberal Studies, Mathematics and Physics.

“I am delighted to join the faculty, staff and students “During my campus visit, I was so impressed by the
at Kettering to craft and implement a vision of extraordinary work being done by Kettering’s world-
management education that is distinctive and leverages class faculty,” Vosejpka said. “Their enthusiasm and
the particular strengths that exist at Kettering commitment, and that of their students and staff
University,” Smith said. “I believe that Kettering is colleagues, was contagious. I look forward to joining
uniquely positioned to foster future business leaders such a vibrant group and doing what I can to help them
that are technologically savvy, and engineers and other accomplish their goals of growing this world-class
disciplinary leaders who are management savvy. I am STEM university.”

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Let Students Grow Outside Major

J ason Chapman ‘17 will walk out of Kettering University with skills he didn’t know he would get

as an undergraduate student.

Even though Chapman was a Mechanical Engineering major, he learned how to properly
conduct X-Ray Diffraction, design research methods, handle chemicals safely and more Chemistry
and Physics principles than he thought he would.

It was all thanks to his involvement in an undergraduate research opportunity with Dr. Uma
Ramabadran in the Physics department.

“For me it’s been incredibly valuable to have a broad range of experiences while I can. It was good to
explore,” Chapman said. “I think it should be something people should consider. You’re here to learn.”

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