Stephen Bayne has been named the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure and vice chancellor for innovation and collaboration at Texas Tech University. He has been with the university since 2009, most recently serving as chair of the department of electrical & computer engineering.
Dr. Bayne holds a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. all in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University.
Ebony McGee has been named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. A trained electrical engineer, she has served as a professor of innovation and inclusion in the STEM ecosystem within the university’s School of Education and Public Health and department of mental health for the past year. Prior to her current role, she spent 11 years on the faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. McGee is a summa cum laude graduate of historically Black North Carolina A&T State University, where she majored in electrical engineering. She holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction and mathematics education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
James E. Wright II, has joined the faculty at Arizona State University as an associate professor with the School of Public Affairs and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He comes to his new role from Florida State University, where he taught in the Reubin Askew School of Public Administration and Policy.
Dr. Wright is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he majored in public policy, planning, and management. He holds a master of public policy degree in economics from Pepperdine University in California and a Ph.D. in public administration and public policy from American University in Washington, D.C.
Lawrence “Larry” Sass has been promoted to full professor in the department of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He currently serves as the department’s chair of the computation group. He has conducted extensive research on digital fabrication for low-cost housing.
Dr. Sass earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Pratt Institute in New York. He holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. from MIT.
Antony Joseph has been promoted to full professor in the department of communication sciences and disorders at Illinois State University, where he has taught for the past decade. Prior to joining the Illinois State University faculty, he spent 24 years in executive medicine and audiology with the United States Navy.
Dr. Joseph earned his master’s degree in audiology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his doctor of audiology degree from Central Michigan University. He received a Ph.D. in experimental audiology from Michigan State University.
