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10/07/2016
By Ed Brennen
Protected inside 5-foot inflatable bubbles, students from the Kennedy College of Sciences looked like giant billiard balls smashing into each other on the front lawn of Cumnock Hall. Little did they know that one of the people they were colliding with was their new dean, Noureddine Melikechi.
Melikechi, who officially began as dean on Oct. 1, used the school’s second annual Block Party as a fun and informal way to introduce himself to students, faculty and staff from across Kennedy College — and the university.
“This is an absolutely wonderful opportunity to get to know the school, just to look at people smiling everywhere around you,” Melikechi said as he made his way through the packed Cumnock Hall auditorium, where all six science departments and nearly two dozen student organizations set up tables with experiments, games and giveaways.
The Algerian-born Melikechi joins UMass Lowell from Delaware State University, where he had been vice president for research, innovation and economic development. An atomic, molecular and optical physicist by training with more than 30 years of higher education experience, Melikechi said he’s spending his first days and weeks on campus “introducing myself, hearing from people and getting to know who’s
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10/29/2018
By Geoffrey Douglas
When William Rhodes arrived at ULowell as a first-year graduate student in 1980, he had some serious educational gaps. “I didn’t write well,” he says today. “My math skills were poor. And I wasn’t good at critical thinking.”
Today, as one of the nation’s leading experts on key facets of U.S. homeland security—emergency assessment and response, radiation and explosives detection—Rhodes is in Washington as an advisor to the chairman of the Senate committee that oversees it. It’s not a role he could even have dreamed up 35 years ago. And there is no question in his mind as to where the path began.
“Whatever successes I’ve had since then,” he says, “I credit to ULowell.”
The successes have been many. For the past 25 years, Rhodes has been a leading member of a series of program teams at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the nation’s pre-eminent science and engineering lab working on national security. He is also the author of more than 80 technical papers, book chapters and presentations and has consulted with the International Atomic Energy Agency as an expert on radioactive and nuclear-material security.
Currently on sabbatical (or as he puts it, “on loan”) from his most recent post, as technology and program deputy with Sandia