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Illinois Medicine | 5 ARIE LYNN MIRANDA, MA, PHD, former provost of the University of Notre Dame and a leader in the drive to make higher education more inclusive, will take office in July as the 10th chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago and a vice president of the University of Illinois System. Dr. Miranda served as provost at Notre Dame through 2021 and remains a member of the faculty in its Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics. As provost, she led the private university's academic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and helped drive efforts to increase faculty and student diversity, resulting in the most diverse first-year class in school history in 2021. She also started a transformational leaders program to provide resources for students from underserved backgrounds and led a bottom-up strategic planning process that engaged more than 600 members of the faculty. Miranda brings a wide range of other leadership experience at Rice University, the University of Michigan and Duke University to her new role as chancellor of UIC and its nearly 34,000 students and 13,000 faculty and staff. "It is an honor to be chosen to lead one of the country's great urban universities and to serve this global city and its people," says Miranda. "I look forward to learning from and working with students, faculty and staff as we work collaboratively with our community partners to meet the pressing challenges and opportunities before us. Together we can provide life-changing educational programs at scale while fostering the world-class research and engagement our city, state, country and world need." Miranda's deep experience as a higher education innovator dedicated to access, excellence and community engagement will serve UIC well, says University of Illinois System President Timothy L. Killeen, PhD. "Marie Lynn comes to UIC and the University of Illinois System as a champion for higher education, a believer in the undisputable impact that a great university can have on the lives of its students, their families and the communities it serves. She has been a leader in making certain that higher education is accessible to more and more people, a public good that should be available to students from all backgrounds and income levels. I look forward to working with her to advance UIC and the U of I System." Miranda has an MA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University, where she held a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "It is an honor to be chosen to lead one of the country's great urban universities and to serve this global city and its people." P H O T O : M I K E F A N Marie Lynn Miranda, MA, PhD Marie Lynn Miranda Named UIC Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda, MA, PhD Incoming Chancellor University of Illinois Chicago M

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