Clemson University engineering and science dean steps down

Published: March 5, 2012

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CLEMSON — Clemson University College of Engineering and Science Dean Esin Gulari stepped down Monday, but will continue to serve on the college’s faculty.

Gulari has been on medical leave since June 2011, at which time Associate Dean Larry Dooley was named acting dean of the college. He now will serve as interim dean.
 
“Esin has provided great leadership for the College of Engineering and Science these past five years,” said Provost Doris Helms. “I thank her for her service to Clemson, and I know that her knowledge and experience will continue to be invaluable to the college.”
 
Gulari served as dean of engineering and science since 2006. Before joining Clemson, Gulari was on the faculty at Wayne State University, where she chaired the chemical engineering and materials science department from 1993 to 2000. While at Wayne State, she also was the chief technology officer of nanoSEC, a startup company for manufacturing composites using supercritical fluid processing.

Gulari received a bachelor's degree from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey, and master's degree and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. She spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

She is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the 2003 chairwoman for the Council of Chemical Research and a member of the executive board of the Committee of the Advancement of Women Chemists and Chemical Engineers.

From 2000 to 2004, Gulari worked at the National Science Foundation, where she was the director of the Chemical and Transport Systems Division in the Engineering Directorate. She also was acting assistant director for the Engineering Directorate at the foundation from September 2001 to April 2003.
 
In 2008, Gulari was named to the National Science Board, the nation's top science policy organization. She was elected to serve as the board’s vice-chairman in 2010.

Her research interests include thermodynamics and transport properties of polymer solutions and melts, materials processing with supercritical fluids, nanoscale fillers for composites and light-scattering and optical methods for probing microstructure of complex fluids.
 
Dooley joined Clemson in 1985 as professor of bioengineering and as the research director for the Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina.
 
During his 35-year career, Dooley has also served as chairman of the university’s bioengineering department, chairman and research coordinator for the Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina, president of Clinical Microsystems, Inc., in Melbourne, Fla., and director of the State of Mississippi Biomedical Engineering Program at Mississippi State University.
 
Dooley earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He completed his master’s and doctoral work in bioengineering at Clemson.

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