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Marie Lynn Miranda
Marie Lynn Miranda (born 1962/1963) is an American economist, data scientist, and academic administrator serving as the tenth chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago and a vice president of the University of Illinois System since 2023. She was previously the provost and a professor of applied computational mathematics and statistics at the University of Notre Dame. A self-taught toxicologist and environmental scientist, Miranda researches children's environmental health and geospatial health informatics. Early life and educationMiranda was born in 1962 or 1963.[1] She is the first member of her family to be born in the United States.[2] In 1961, her parents and three brothers moved to South Bend, Indiana from Goa while her father Constancio Miranda was studying civil engineering.[2] He was later a professor at the University of Detroit Mercy.[3] She attended Catholic schools in Detroit.[2] Miranda earned a A.B. in mathematics and economics, summa cum laude, from Duke University in 1985.[4][3] She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.[4] While attending Duke University, she worked as a student manager of the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball under coach Mike Krzyzewski.[2] Miranda earned a M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.[4][3] Her 1990 dissertation was titled, Essays on Land Management.[5] Peter Timmer, Lawrence Goulder, and Jerry Green served on her doctoral committee.[5] Career in academiaMiranda joined the faculty at Duke University in 1990.[3][4] She is a self-taught toxicologist and environmental scientist and joined Duke's integrated toxicology and environmental health program in 1999.[3][6] Miranda was the founding director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative.[3] For nine years, she was the director of undergraduate programs for the Nicholas School of the Environment.[4] She is researches geospatial health informatics.[7] From 2012 to 2015, Miranda was Samuel A. Graham dean of the school of natural resources and environment at University of Michigan.[8][4] With a quantitative methods background, she was a professor of pediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology at the Michigan Medicine.[9][7] In 2019, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4][10] Miranda was the Howard R. Hughes Provost and professor of statistics at Rice University from 2015 to 2019.[3][6] From July 1, 2020, to December 31, 2021, Miranda was the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost of the University of Notre Dame.[11] She succeeded Thomas G. Burish to become was the first woman and person of color to serve in the position.[2][12] She was also a professor of applied computational mathematics and statistics at Notre Dame.[13] In July 2023, Miranda became the tenth chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago.[4] In that capacity, she is also a vice president of the University of Illinois System.[1] Personal lifeMiranda is married to Christopher Geron.[14] They have three children.[14] See alsoReferences
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