New Leadership
New Department Heads Appointed in Dietrich College
Professor Gretchen Chapman was named the head of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences. She joined the Dietrich College in 2017 and examines the psychological processes that underly how people make decisions. Chapman succeeds Linda Babcock, who headed the department from 2015 to 2020.
Rebecca Nugent , the Stephen E. and Joyce Fienberg Professor, was named head of the Department of Statistics & Data Science. Nugent, who joined Dietrich College in 2006, is the founding director of the department’s Corporate Capstone Program and has provided leadership for a number of other initiatives, including the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center, Women in Data Science Pittsburgh and the launch of executive education programs through CMU’s Tepper School of Business. Nugent succeeds Christopher Genovese, who served as department head from 2014 to 2020.
Peter Spirtes was named the Marianna Brown Dietrich Professor of Philosophy, as well as the head of the Department of Philosophy. Spirtes, who joined the Dietrich College in 1987, conducts research at the intersection of philosophy, statistics, graph theory and computer science. His work over the past several decades has focused on the TETRAD Project. Spirtes succeeded David Danks, who served as department head from 2014 to 2021.
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