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October 2005
Executive Committee welcomes new members, approves budget
Roberta Humphreys
Tim Mulcahy
The CTS Executive Committee, chaired by Richard Murphy Jr., president of Murphy Warehouse Company, introduced two new members at its August 18 meeting.
Roberta Humphreys is associate dean for academic affairs at the Institute of Technology (IT) and a professor of astronomy. A faculty member since 1972, Humphreys has been honored as an IT Distinguished Professor and as a recipient of the George Taylor Award for Distinguished Research. Her research interests include astronomy and astrophysics, stellar spectroscopy, and galactic and intergalactic studies.
She replaces Steve Crouch as the standing committee member representing the Institute of Technology on the Executive Committee.
Tim Mulcahy was named the University's vice president for research in February 2005. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor of pharmacology, associate dean for biological sciences, and associate vice chancellor for research policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Office of Vice President for Research had been represented on the CTS Executive Committee before several University reorganizations. In June 2005, the committee voted to re-establish the connection to this University office with a fifth standing member position.
Also at the August meeting, the committee approved the FY05 CTS Performance Measures report and the FY06 budget. CTS director Robert Johns then briefed the committee on the status of grants that will bring funding to the University: the federal reauthorization bill passed in August (see SAFETEA-LU article) and the Access to Destinations research study (the November CTS Report will have details). Associate Professor David Levinson of the Department of Civil Engineering continued this discussion with an update on the University's accessibility research, explaining how accessibility and mobility differ and what each can tell us about the performance of the transportation system.