Read about the objects that have meaning to the dean in the latest issue of “CATALYST” magazine.
Some of the objects on the desk of the University of Maryland School of Graduate Studies Dean Kenneth H. Wong, PhD, are reminders of stops along the way in his career — in one case going back to when he was fresh out of high school: a set of propellers for measuring water velocity, typically used in a stream or river.
“My first real science job in the summer after I finished high school was with the U.S. Geological Survey, building and testing hydrologic instrumentation with components like these,” Wong said. “These instruments were hooked up to large, slow [by modern standards] dataloggers and computers from Radio Shack.”
Wong, who also is vice provost for graduate education, University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), arrived on campus in summer 2023. He previously was the senior associate dean of the Graduate School for the National Capital Region and director of the Northern Virginia Center at Virginia Tech. As a research professor, he has studied medical imaging, radiation therapy, image-guided interventions, and applications of machine learning in these fields.
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