{"id":14490,"date":"2023-04-06T17:56:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buffkinbaker.com\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2023-04-06T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:05:13","slug":"university-of-mississippi-appoints-viola-acoff-as-dean-school-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buffkinbaker.com\/key-placement\/university-of-mississippi-appoints-viola-acoff-as-dean-school-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Mississippi appoints Viola Acoff as Dean, School of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"14490\" class=\"elementor elementor-14490\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4984b458 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"4984b458\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-635a28a6\" data-id=\"635a28a6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-783022be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"783022be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14491 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/buffkinbaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/University-of-mississippi-300x73.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buffkinbaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/University-of-mississippi-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/buffkinbaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/University-of-mississippi.png 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Congratulations to award-winning researcher and educator Viola Acoff on being named Dean of the University of Mississippi\u00a0School of\u00a0Engineering. This announcement follows a comprehensive national search led by\u00a0Martin Baker\u00a0and\u00a0Chelsie Whitelock of the Buffkin\/Baker Higher\u00a0Education\u00a0Practice.<\/p><p>As the first female and first African American to serve in this position, Acoff comes to Ole Miss from the University of Alabama, where she has served as Associate Dean for undergraduate\u00a0and graduate programs since 2014.<\/p><p>\u201cI am most excited about the new opportunities in biotechnology, advanced manufacturing and energy in Mississippi and surrounding areas, which I believe all departments in the School of Engineering can play a role in advancing these emerging technologies,\u201d Acoff said.<\/p><p>She earned her bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and\u00a0doctoral degrees in materials engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and secured more than $13 million in externally funded grants. She has served as a consultant to industry-leading corporations, in addition to serving on multiple boards and in more than two dozen professional\u00a0service roles.<\/p><p>A recipient of numerous national and international awards, Acoff was recognized as one of the Most Influential Black Corporate Directors by Savoy magazine, and as one of the Most Influential Corporate Directors by Women Inc. The Engineering Council of Birmingham named her its educator of the year in 2016.<\/p><p>Learn more at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.olemiss.edu\/\">https:\/\/engineering.olemiss.edu\/<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to award-winning researcher and educator Viola Acoff on being named Dean of the University of Mississippi&nbsp;School of&nbsp;Engineering. This announcement follows a comprehensive national search led by&nbsp;Martin Baker&nbsp;and&nbsp;Chelsie Whitelock of the Buffkin\/Baker Higher&nbsp;Education&nbsp;Practice. As the first female and first African American to serve in this position, Acoff comes to Ole Miss from the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[135,130],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-placement","tag-higher-education","tag-placements"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>University of Mississippi appoints Viola Acoff as Dean, School of Engineering - Buffkin Baker Website<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Viola Acoff, award-winning researcher and educator, has been named Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Engineering.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/buffkinbaker.com\/key-placement\/university-of-mississippi-appoints-viola-acoff-as-dean-school-of-engineering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"University of Mississippi appoints Viola Acoff as Dean, School of Engineering - 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