Gorman Named Chair of Social Sciences

Hugh Gorman
Hugh Gorman

From Tech Today by Mark Wilcox

Bruce Seely, dean of the College of Sciences and Arts at Michigan Tech, has announced that Hugh Gorman will be the next chair of the Department of Social Sciences.

Gorman, who has been on the Social Sciences faculty since 1996, will begin his new duties July 1.  He succeeds Patrick Martin, who completes his term as chair and will retire June 30.

Seely says Gorman has played an integral role in the department’s master’s and doctoral programs in environmental policy. “Hugh is a well-respected scholar in the intertwined communities of history of technology and environmental history,” Seely explains.

Gorman says one of his goals will be to nurture the department’s existing capacity to undertake world-class interdisciplinary research. “Most people are aware of the department’s important contributions to the University’s general education program,” he says. “But our faculty is also producing policy-related knowledge that guides technological development in a direction that encourages uses of the built and natural environment that are sustainable, economically viable and just.”

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