Dean With a Dream: How a Physicist Put a School Together
- Stephen Koepp for The Bridge
- August 13, 2018
- Source: https://thebridgebk.com/dean-with-dream-how-physicist-put-school-together/
It may have been useful in his job for the past half decade that Prof. Katepalli Sreenivasan’s academic specialty is the study of turbulence. For the physicist’s task was to preside over the bumpy merger of two schools–one rich and one relatively poor, one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn–who at times had shown animosity toward each other. But as he steps down this week as dean of the now-combined institution, the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Sreenivasan leaves behind a smooth-running engine of innovation.
