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MIAMI (Dec. 28, 2005)— FIU’s Applied Research
Center welcomes two new upper level staff members to its
administration; Dr. Norman Munroe, Associate Director for
Research Development and Adrienne Denaro, communications
manager and media specialist.
The Applied Research Center
(ARC) is FIU's largest externally funded applied research
enterprise with over $17 million in ongoing applied research
grants and contracts in areas of energy, environment, and
military technologies. It employs a staff of 120 scientists,
service professionals, and students. ARC will address real-world
problems through multi-disciplinary applied research collaborations
harnessing a broad range of academic, government, and industry
partners.
In this
regard, Dr. Munroe’s responsibilities include;
increasing federal research funding, particularly with
the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the
Environmental Protection Agencies and other such partners.
He will also head the effort to enhance collaborations
between ARC researchers and the FIU academic community,
in order to engage a wider variety of research projects
in environmental remediation, waste management, information
technology, sustainable energy and technology deployment.
Dr. Munroe comes to the center from FIU’s College
of Engineering and Computing where he served as the Associate
Dean as well as the Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering
and Materials Department for the past six years.
Dr. Munroe
received his Eng.Sc.D. Process Engineering and Chemical
Metallurgy from Columbia University, his M.Sc. Metallurgical
Engineering from the University of British Columbia, a
M.Phil. Ceramic and Mineral Engineering from the University
of Leeds and a B.Sc. with Honors in Physics and Chemistry
University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania.
“I recognize the need to develop a better working arrangement and environment
so that faculties from various engineering disciplines,
as well as graduate students, can be successfully engaged in ARC’s research
projects,” said Munroe, “I
also intend to ensure that research deliverables are met
on schedule and that graduate students satisfy their academic requirements
in a timely manner.”
Also new to the Applied Research Center is Adrienne
Denaro. With a diverse background in media and entertainment,
her responsibilities will include; the creation of ARC’s
scientific materials and publications, internal and external
communications (within Florida International University,
the South Florida community, ARC’s
private, public and governmental partners, as well as the
media.
Denaro comes from Clear Channel Broadcasting where
she spent the last three years in radio advertising, event
coordination and commercial copywriting. Prior to this
she worked extensively in print media, television and film.
She holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Miami
in Communications and Psychology.
“My education is not in science, per se” Ms. Denaro pointed out, “but
my goal is to fuse my background in entertainment with the fascinating innovations
in engineering that ARC is developing, so that I can create informative, interesting
and easy to understand articles so the rest of the world may share in the pride
and knowledge that our local university, FIU, is working to change and improve
our world.”
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