William B. Russel has been the Dean of Princeton University’s Graduate School since 2002. Princeton’s graduate school is the administrative home to more than 2,500 master’s and doctoral students. It supports approximately 40 departments and programs ranging from recruitment to graduate alumni relations, including academic and student life responsibilities. Russel holds the A.W. Marks ’19 Professorship in Chemical Engineering. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1974 and continues to conduct research on the crystallization of colloidal dispersions. He also has served as the Chairman of the department of Chemical Engineering and the Director of the Princeton Materials Institute. Russel is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Graduate Schools. He also served as Chair of the Council of Graduate Schools. Russel is the author of The Dynamics of Colloidal Systems and co-author of Colloidal Dispersion. He earned the American Chemical Association’s “2007 Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry.” Russel received his B.A. and M.Ch.E. degrees from Rice University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He held a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University.

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