

During his final eight years there he chaired the department of chemistry and biomolecular engineering. He previously spent 24 years on the faculty at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. McCloskey Dean of Engineering at Notre Dame from 2008 to 2018. Prior to arriving at Illinois Tech, Kilpatrick was the the Matthew H.

With approximately 2,890 undergraduates and 2,141 graduate students, the school is comparable in size to the Catholic University of America, which has 2,929 undergraduates and 2,130 graduate students, according to its website. Kilpatrick has served as provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Illinois Tech since July 30, 2018. “I look forward to working with the faculty and community to continue moving Catholic University forward as a top tier research institution that also embraces its excellence in theology and the arts.” “Serving as president of The Catholic University of America is a dream job for me, bringing together faith and reason in service to the human person and human dignity,” Kilpatrick said in statement released Tuesday. Kilpatrick, a former dean of the engineering school at the University of Notre Dame who has served as provost at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago for the past four years, has been named the next president of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.Ī chemical engineer who converted to Catholicism while in graduate school and received a pro-life award while at Notre Dame, Kilpatrick, 65, will succeed President John Garvey, a constitutional law scholar who is stepping down after 10 years at the Catholic University of America, effective June 30.
