{"id":11814,"date":"2023-07-19T08:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=11814"},"modified":"2023-07-19T08:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:52:34","slug":"faculty-of-science-is-pleased-to-welcome-our-new-dean-dr-michael-hitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2023\/07\/19\/faculty-of-science-is-pleased-to-welcome-our-new-dean-dr-michael-hitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of Science is pleased to welcome our new Dean, Dr. Michael Hitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Article by Jordan Fernandez, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/blog\/category\/newsroom\/\">UFV Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Dr. Michael Hitch<\/strong> joins UFV as the Dean of the Faculty of Science, effective Sept. 1, 2023. He will also hold a faculty appointment in the School of Land Use and Environmental Change.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A senior leader with more than 38 years of academic and industry experience, Dr. Hitch brings a strong history of sound management and a combined track record of creating high-return opportunities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Hitch most recently served at Curtin University (Australia), where he was the head of School for the Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy &amp; Chemical Engineering. He has also held appointments at Tallinn University (Estonia), the University of New South Wales (Australia), and the University of British Columbia.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With an extensive publication record that includes 82 peer-reviewed journal articles, 52 conference presentations, a published book about his work in Nunavut, and numerous grants totalling millions of dollars, Dr. Hitch is excited about the opportunities he sees at UFV.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/blog\/2023\/07\/dr-michael-hitch-joins-ufv-as-dean-of-the-faculty-of-science\/\"><strong>Continue Reading &gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Jordan Fernandez, UFV Today Dr. Michael Hitch joins UFV as the Dean of the Faculty of Science, effective Sept. 1, 2023. He will also hold a faculty appointment in the School of Land Use and Environmental Change.\u00a0 A senior leader with more than 38 years of academic and industry experience, Dr. Hitch brings &#8230; <a title=\"Faculty of Science is pleased to welcome our new Dean, Dr. Michael Hitch\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2023\/07\/19\/faculty-of-science-is-pleased-to-welcome-our-new-dean-dr-michael-hitch\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":11815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[444,2,3,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","category-mathstats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11817,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814\/revisions\/11817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}