Meet the Provost
Linda Katehi
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Contact Information
217 Swanlund Administration Building
601 East John Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-4545
Fax: (217) 244-5639
E-mail: provost@illinois.edu
Assistants:
Debbie Kemphues, (217) 244-4545
Nikki Hodge, (217) 244-4412
What is a Provost?
The Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs is the chief academic and budget officer for the campus. The Provost oversees academic and budgetary policy and priorities, ensures the quality of the faculty and student body, and maintains educational excellence. All of the deans and directors of academic units report to the Provost.
About the Provost
Linda Katehi is the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She holds a joint appointment with the Program of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, she served as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Graduate Education in the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
From her early years as a faculty member, Professor Katehi has focused on expanding research opportunities for undergraduate students and improving the education and professional experience of graduate students, with emphasis on underrepresented groups. In her role as a faculty member, she supervised, mentored and graduated over 70 post doctoral fellows, PhD and MS students in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Of the 40 PhD students who graduated under her supervision, 21 have become faculty members in research universities in the US and abroad.
In her present role, Provost Katehi is the chief academic and budgetary officer for the campus. She oversees all academic and financial programs, policies and priorities that that have been designed to ensure a memorable educational experience for students and sustain an environment that encourages and supports academic excellence. All of the deans and directors of academic units report to the Provost. Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been committed to excellence in research, teaching, and public engagement. Over 29,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in ten undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study. The divisions are the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; College of Applied Health Science; College of Business; College of Media; College of Education; College of Engineering; College of Fine and Applied Arts; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Institute of Aviation. Graduate students are enrolled in 15 divisions including the College of Medicine, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the School of Social Work, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the College of Law that collectively with the other divisions offer more than 50 fields of studies. The campus has a budget of $1.5B with over $400M in research expenditures. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is embarking on a $1.5B capital campaign which is expected to be completed by 2011.
As a faculty member, Professor Katehi has focused her research on the development and characterization of three-dimensional integration and packaging of integrated circuits with particular emphasis on MEMS devices, high-Q evanescent mode filters and the theoretical and experimental study of planar circuits for hybrid-monolithic and monolithic oscillator, amplifier, and mixer applications. She has pioneered the development of on-wafer integration techniques that led to low-cost, high-performance integrated circuits for radar, satellite, and wireless applications. Her work has led to numerous national and international awards both as a technical leader and educator, 16 U.S. patents, and an additional 6 U.S. patent applications. Professor Katehi has been the author and co-author of 10 book chapters and about 600 refereed publications in Journals and Symposia Proceedings. Prof. Katehi has received numerous awards for her research contributions to the field of High-Frequency Circuit Design.
Professor Katehi earned her diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1977 from the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Following her undergraduate studies, she worked for two years as a Senior Engineer in the Naval Research Laboratory in Athens, Greece. Consequently, she joined UCLA as a graduate student in the fall of 1979, completing an MSEE in December of 1981 and a PhD in 1984, both in Electrical Engineering.
She is a member of many national committees and boards including member of the National Academy of Engineering, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), board member of the AAAS, member of the President’s Awards Committee for the National Medal of Science, member of the Awards Committee for the National Medal of Technology, chair of the NAE committee on K-12 Engineering Education, member of the NAS committee on the Integrity of Research Data, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Committee on the Federal Funding of Research, member of the NRC Committee on Sensors and Electron Devices, member of the Advisory Committee of the California Institute of Technology and board member of the EU Cyprus Institute. She has served as the chair of the NSF Advisory Committee to the Engineering Directorate, a member of the Engineering Advisory Committee for Iowa State University, a member of the NRC Army Research Lab Advisory Committee, a member of the NSF Advisory Committee to CISE, a member of the NASA Aeronautics Research Advisory Committee (ARAC), a member of the NASA Council of Deans, a member of the DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices and a member of the Advisory Board of the Extraordinary Women Engineers Project. She is also a member of the NAE committee on the Assessing the Engineering Research Enterprise in the US and a member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Society on Microwave Theory and Techniques. She is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of URSI and a member of Sigma Xi.