Interim Vice Provost Adrienne L. MartÃn announced the appointment of Jan W. Hopmans, former associate dean in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, as associate vice provost in the Office of Global Affairs.
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He succeeds MartÃn, who moved up to interim vice provost last July in the office formerly called University Outreach and International Programs.
As associate vice provost, Hopmans provides campus leadership and coordination for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ faculty, students and staff in international research and education, and outreach activities and programs.
Hopmans served as associate dean of CA&ES from 2009 to 2014. A faculty member since 1988, he is a professor of soil hydrology in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, and a former department chair.
His research and teaching focus on soil water flow, plant-soil relationships, irrigation water and nutrient management, and climate change impacts on California hydrology. He has approximately 180 peer-reviewed publications in soil science and water resources journals and received the 2003 Soil Physics Don and Betty Kirkham Award.
He was the 2014 president of the Soil Science Society of America.
He received a master’s degree in hydrology from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands and a Ph.D. in soil physics from Auburn University.
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