Fetter Named Dean of UM School of Public Policy

COLLEGE PARK, MD -- Steve Fetter will be the new dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, effective July 1. Fetter, currently a professor in the School of Public Policy, replaces Jacques Gansler, who is now serving as vice president for research for Maryland, and William Galston, who served as interim dean.

A member of the Public Policy faculty since 1988, Fetter has directed the School's international security and economics specialization as well as its environmental policy specialization, and served as associate director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute.

"President Dan Mote and I are confident that under Steve's leadership the School of Public Policy will become one of the best nationwide, and we look forward to working closely with him to achieve this goal," said William W. Destler, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.

"I am thrilled to have been selected dean of the School of Public Policy," said Fetter. "I very much look forward to working closely with the faculty, staff, and students of the school as well as the university administration to make an excellent school even better--one that is universally recognized as one of the best in the nation."

Fetter's research interests include nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear energy and health effects of radiation, and climate change and carbon-free energy supply. His articles have appeared in Science, Nature, Scientific American, International Security, Science and Global Security, Nuclear Technology, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Arms Control Today. He is author of Toward a Comprehensive Test Ban, co-chair of a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences, Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Explosive Materials, and a contributor to several other Academy studies.

In the past he has taken leave to serve as special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, and as a fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and later as an American Institute of Physics Fellow at the State Department. He has also been a visiting fellow at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of its Joseph A. Burton Forum Award. Fetter received an S.B. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981) and a Ph.D. in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley (1985).

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