Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to announce that Professor of Earth and Environmental Geosciences Martin Wong, will be our new associate provost for administration and planning.
Many of you know Martin through his deep and dedicated service to the University. He demonstrated calm and thoughtful leadership as the associate dean of the faculty for global and local initiatives, and as a member of the Emergency Operations Center and Health Analytics Team throughout the disruptions of Covid-19. His wide-ranging experience with budgets and administrative logistics have positioned him well for this new role.
For those who are less familiar with Martin, I offer a little background. A member of the Colgate community since 2007, Martin is an excellent teacher-scholar. He studies extensional tectonics and rifting, metamorphic core complex formation, 40 Ar/39 Ar geochronology and thermochronology, application of thermochronology to tectonic problems, and the geology and tectonics of the western U.S. and Northwestern Mexico. He has published in leading journals including Geology, Tectonics, Geosphere, Lithosphere, Geological Society of America Bulletin, and Tectonophysics. A subset of these publications include Colgate student coauthors. Martin is a dedicated teacher and adviser, offering a range of courses in geology including Evolution of the Planet Earth, Environmental Geology, Tectonics and Earth Structure, Structural Geology, and Tectonics, as well as a First-Year Seminar course on Geology Outdoors.
As remarkable as his teaching and scholarship have been, Martin has been an exceptionally dedicated servant of the University. Currently serving on the Faculty Affairs Committee, the Committee on Promotion and Tenure, and the Government Policies Working Group, he has also served on the Advisory and Planning Committee, the NASC Australia Study Group Steering Committee, the Middle States Self Study Working Group on the Student Experience, the Living the Liberal Arts Working Group, the Watson Fellowship Committee, and as chair of the (then) Geology Department.
Martin’s engagement with many facets of the University’s operations and his interactions with colleagues across the campus through his service to Colgate make him exceptionally well-suited to becoming the next associate provost for administration and planning. We look forward to welcoming him back to the PDOF office and hope you will join our team in offering him congratulations.
Warm regards,
Lesleigh
Lesleigh Cushing
Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Mark S. Siegel University Professor in Religion and Jewish Studies