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Marie Lynn Miranda
American data scientist and academic administrator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marie Lynn Miranda (born 1962/1963) is an American economist, data scientist, and academic administrator. She became the tenth chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago and a vice president of the University of Illinois System in July 2023. She previously served as provost and 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.
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Early life and education
Miranda 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 an A.B. in mathematics and economics, summa cum laude, from Duke University in 1985.[4][3] She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Duke University.[4] While attending Duke University, she worked as a student manager for the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball under coach Mike Krzyzewski.[2] Miranda earned an M.A. (1988) and a 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]
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Miranda 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 (CEHI).[3] For nine years, she was the director of undergraduate programs for the Nicholas School of the Environment.[4] As a data scientist, her research focuses on geospatial health informatics.[7] From 2012 to 2015, Miranda was the 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 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 a 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 (UIC).[4] In that capacity, she is also a vice president of the University of Illinois System.[1] She also serves as a faculty member in both the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science.
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Personal life
Miranda is married to Christopher Geron.[14] They have three children, two English Setters, and roughly 500,000 honeybees. [14]
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