Paulette Clancy Joins WSE as Head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Paulette Clancy was appointed Head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering effective July 1, as approved by the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees.

Clancy comes to Johns Hopkins from Cornell University, where she served as the Samuel W. and Diane M. Bodman Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and as the director of the Cornell Institute for Computational Science and Engineering.

She was the first female director of Cornell’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2002-2010). The founding Chair of Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) faculty in Cornell’s College of Engineering, Clancy is a fierce advocate for the increased representation of women in engineering and the physical sciences. Among her awards for that advocacy are the AIChE National Women’s Initiatives Mentoring Award (2011); the Alice Cook Award for services promoting women in science at Cornell (2005); and the Zellman Warhaft award for the promotion of diversity at the College of Engineering (2007).

She succeeds Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, who chaired the department from 2008 until 2017, and Sean Sun, who has served as interim chair since July 2017.