The Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, last week appointed Kanwal Singh as the new dean effective Aug. 1. Singh will succeed Dean Jerrilynn D. Dodds, with whom she worked closely as associate dean.
“I am delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Singh,” college President Karen R. Lawrence said in a press release. “She is a respected scholar and teacher, a much valued colleague, and an accomplished administrator.”
Singh earned her MA and PhD in theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley and her BS in physics with departmental honors, summa cum laude, at the University of Maryland at College Park. She held a National Defense Science and Engineering Doctoral Fellowship and a post-doctoral fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation Her research focused on constructing models in order to understand low-temperature, low-dimensional systems, such as thin films of superfluids or superconducting material.
Singh has published on low-temperature disordered systems as well as on the teaching of science and mathematics and has taught at Middlebury College, Wellesley College, and Eugene Lang College, her bio data on the college website says.
She also received a competitive fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for scientists interested in policy at the national level, working at the National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Education and Human Resources. Her work at the foundation focused on large-scale, multi-year efforts of local school districts in partnership with institutions of higher education to improve science and mathematics teaching.
This experience expanded and strengthened her interests in science education. She also worked with Bank Street College of Education for several years as a consultant on a Carnegie Corporation funded project to help improve its teacher education program.
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