Three UD colleges have welcomed new deans over the past 15 months--the colleges of Arts and Science, Business and Economics and Engineering.

Thomas M. DiLorenzo, formerly chairperson of the Department of Psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, became dean of the College of Arts and Science on July 1, 1999. The largest of the University's seven colleges, the College of Arts and Science has more than 8,000 full- and part-time undergraduate students, some 1,000 graduate students and 29 departments.

At the University of Missouri, DiLorenzo is credited with greatly strengthening academic productivity, and he played an active role in university-wide initiatives to strengthen academic program quality, enhance multicultural education and extend research, graduate education and grant dollars.

A clinical psychologist with an interest in addictive behaviors, DiLorenzo has received more than $5 million in grants for his research, mostly from the National Institutes of Health. He holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and master's and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from West Virginia University.

Michael J. Ginzberg came to the College of Business and Economics in July from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. UD's third largest college has more than 1,900 undergraduate majors in accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing and operations and some 600 students in graduate and executive MBA programs.

Ginzberg, who was named Chaplin Tyler Professor of Business, was professor of management information systems at the Weatherhead School since 1976, serving as the school's associate dean for professional and international programs from 1993.

He says the UD position attracted him because of the potential for growth, particularly in his fields of interest--international programs and information technology.

While at Weatherhead, Ginzberg helped set up collaborative programs with schools in Hungary and Japan and was developing educational alliances with other institutions in Asia and Latin America.

He earned his doctorate in management in 1975 from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author of more than 45 articles and books on information systems development and management, information technology strategy and organizational change, Ginzberg has held leadership positions in various professional organizations.

Former chairperson of UD's Department of Chemical Engineering, Eric W. Kaler, Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering, was named dean of the College of Engineering, effective July 1.

With an enrollment of 1,447, including 1,011 undergraduates and 436 graduate students, the College of Engineering has five departments--chemical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, materials science and mechanical engineering. In addition, it has interdisciplinary centers for coastal research, biomedical engineering research, catalytic science and technology, composite materials and molecular and engineering thermodynamics.

Kaler, who chaired the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1996, conducts research on microstructure and materials synthesis properties of complex fluids. He also is involved in investigation of polymerization in complex fluids, colloidal stability and surfactant phase behavior.

The author of approximately 150 papers and holder of seven patents, Kaler is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal, Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science. He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1984, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the American Society of Engineering Education in 1995 and the American Chemical Society Award in Colloid or Surface Chemistry in 1998.

A graduate of the California Institute of Technology, he earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1982, coming to the University of Delaware in 1989.