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Stein Sture's CV
Stein
Sture is currently the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs. He is also the Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate
School at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where He has held the
position since August 1, 2007, and he held the position on an interim
basis between October 1, 2005 and July 15, 2006. He also holds the Huber
and Helen Croft Endowed Professor in the College of Engineering and Applied
Science. He has been a faculty member at CU Boulder since 1980. He served
as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and Applied
Science (2002-2005). He has served as department chair for nearly six
years (1990-1991; 1994-1998). Between 1976 and 1980 he was on the faculty
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received his
education in public schools in Oslo, Norway, a degree in engineering mechanics
at the Schous Institute of Technology, in Oslo, and three degrees at the
University of Colorado, Boulder (PhD, 1976). His fields of expertise are
in the areas of experimental and analytical modeling in geomechanics,
computational geotechnics, and geotechnical engineering. He has advised
and graduated 34 PhD and 45 MS thesis students. He has authored or co-authored
over 270 peer reviewed publications and 65 research reports. Between 1985
and 1986 he was a visiting professor at the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology in Trondheim, and the University of Oxford, United Kingdom,
where he is a Jenkin Fellow in Engineering Sciences.
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