Dr. Glenn Schrader was appointed Associate Dean for Research in August 2009; prior to that, he was head of the department of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Arizona.

Before joining the University of Arizona, Schrader spent more than 25 years on the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Iowa State University, where he was also a chief engineer in the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. He earned his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and has been named an honorary faculty member at the University of Queensland. He was also a Royal Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Technology in Trondheim, Norway and an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney. Dr. Schrader has more than 30 years of experience in academic research, including directing the “Catalysis and Biocatalysis” program in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division of the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Engineering in Washington, D.C.

Schrader is also chair of the University of Arizona’s Campus Sustainability Committee, which coordinates all research, education, and outreach programs related to green principles and climate commitment goals, and leads the university’s Practice School for Sustainability, which involves students and faculty from five colleges in creating new technology and business plans that demonstrate measureable water, energy, and materials sustainability.

 
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