Livesay Named MTU’s Next Computing Dean

Dennis Livesay will become dean of Michigan Technological University’s Higher education of
Computing on Feb. 1, 2021.

Livesay will come to Michigan Tech from Wichita Condition College (WSU), exactly where he is dean
of the Higher education of Engineering and a whole professor in equally the Section of Chemistry
and Section of Biomedical Engineering. Livesay replaces outgoing dean Adrienne
Minerick.

“We are happy to welcome Dr. Livesay to the College as our subsequent dean of the Higher education of Computing,” stated Jacqueline Huntoon, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.
“The mix of Dr. Livesay’s prior encounters and his eyesight for the foreseeable future
of the Higher education of Computing make him ideally suited to strengthen the Higher education going
forward.” 

“Digital transformation is impacting each individual sector, including engineering and production,”
stated Livesay. “Computing, facts, connectivity, and security are now the cornerstones
of the modern economic climate. I glimpse forward to doing work with every person in the Higher education of Computing,
and across campus, to strengthen our initiatives in these spots.”

Livesay famous that, when he has been happy in his role at WSU, he noticed the opportunity
to lead Michigan’s only school of computing as a single he could not move up. “I seriously
see this as a the moment-in-a-lifetime opportunity that — specified MTU’s common founded
toughness in engineering — aligns flawlessly with my background,” he stated. 

Livesay provides additional than 20 a long time of knowledge in higher instruction to Michigan Tech.
His occupation commenced in 2000 at California Condition Polytechnic College, Pomona, exactly where
he was assistant and then affiliate professor of chemistry. From there, he continued
on to the College of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), exactly where he was a founding
member of the Section of Bioinformatics and Genomics and developed two of UNCC’s
most noticeable investigate plans: the bioinformatics and computational biology doctoral
application and the Charlotte Analysis Students undergraduate investigate application.

In 2016, Livesay joined WSU as dean of the Graduate Faculty and affiliate vice president
of investigate and technology transfer before turning out to be dean of the Higher education of Engineering
in January 2019. Livesay’s investigate skills is in the place of protein spouse and children sequence,
framework and operate relationships, with a specific concentrate on comprehending how
actual physical and chemical properties range with evolutionary divergence. He has spent his
occupation doing work across disciplinary boundaries and intends to prioritize interdisciplinary
operate in his role as Higher education of Computing dean.

“The College was fortuitous to appeal to a pretty strong pool of candidates all through this
search and I am self-assured that we have hired the individual who will be finest able to lead
the Higher education of Computing in the coming a long time,” stated Huntoon. “I want to thank Dr.
Adrienne Minerick for her tenacity and commitment to Michigan Tech. She furnished outstanding
leadership for the Higher education from the working day it arrived into existence. Because of her initiatives,
the Higher education is well positioned to improve in the foreseeable future.”

Born and elevated in Columbus, Indiana, Livesay was a 1st-technology college college student.
He will be joined in Houghton by his wife, Lauren, and son, Maxwell. “My spouse and children and
I are rabid hockey enthusiasts,” Livesay stated, “and we will be huge supporters of Michigan
Tech hockey. In simple fact, I now have an MTU jersey that I have started out putting on all through
rec league.”

Michigan Technological College is a community investigate college, household to additional than
7,000 college students from 54 international locations. Started in 1885, the College gives additional than
120 undergraduate and graduate degree plans in science and technology, engineering,
forestry, business enterprise and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and
social sciences. Our campus in Michigan’s Higher Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway
and is just a number of miles from Lake Exceptional.