New dean for STEM college

The dean’s background is in chemical and environmental engineering.

YOUNGSTOWN — Martin A. Abraham, dean of the College of Graduate Studies at the University of Toledo, has been named the founding dean of Youngstown State University’s new College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

The STEM college at YSU is being created under an academic reorganization announced earlier this year with the College of Arts and Sciences and the Rayen College of Engineering and Technology reconfigured to form the College of STEM and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

“I’m looking forward to leading the development of this new college and watching it grow,” said Abraham, who is also a professor of chemical and environmental engineering at Toledo.

The STEM college will include 10 academic departments: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Civil/Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Technology, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Industrial & Systems Engineering with Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics and Astronomy.

His background

YSU received applications from 55 candidates nationwide for the position. Abraham begins his duties July 1.

Abraham holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware and joined the faculty at Toledo in 1996. He was associate dean of research and graduate studies in the College of Engineering between 2000 and 2004, at which time he became dean of the College of Graduate Studies.

He previously was an assistant professor and later an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Tulsa.

Abraham is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition; editor of Environmental Progress; a member of the Board of Governors of the Edison Materials Technology Center; and a member of the Environmental Protection Agency Board of Scientific Counselors Technology for Sustainability Subcommittee.