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NameEric Kaler
First NameEric
Last NameKaler
OccupationScientist
BirthdaySeptember 23
Birth Year1956
Place of BirthBurlington
Home TownVermont
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignVirgo
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Children(s)2

Eric Kaler Biography

Eric Kaler is one of the most popular and richest Scientist who was born on September 23, 1956 in Burlington, Vermont, United States.

Eric W. Kaler (born September 23, 1956) is a chemical engineer, professor and former university administrator. From 2011 to 2019, Kaler served as the 16th president of the University of Minnesota before returning to scientific research and teaching in the University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering in January 2021. Before coming to Minnesota, Kaler served from 2007 to 2011 as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and vice president for Brookhaven affairs at Stony Brook University, New York. In the latter role he oversaw interactions with Brookhaven National Laboratory, which Stony Brook University co-manages with Battelle Memorial Institute.

Kaler received his B.S. (1978) from California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering (1982) from the University of Minnesota under the direction of H. T. Davis and L. E. Scriven.

Kaler was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1956 as an only child in a military family that moved around a lot while his father served as a noncommissioned officer in the United States Air Force.

Eric Kaler Net Worth

Eric is one of the richest Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eric Kaler's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeScientist
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HouseLiving in own house.

Kaler was appointed President of the University of Minnesota after Robert Bruininks during a period of decreased funding from the state legislature to the University of Minnesota. During his first year in office the state legislature reduced appropriations to higher education down to a level that were equivalent to the funding amounts from 1998.

The University of Minnesota was recently profiled in a Wall Street Journal analysis of higher education spending and mismanagement. According to the Journal, the University of Minnesota salary and employment records from 2001 through the spring of 2012 show that the University system added more than 1,000 administrators over that period. Their ranks grew 37%, more than twice as fast as the teaching corps and nearly twice as fast as the student body, the Journal reported.

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Kaler received one of the first Presidential Young Investigator Awards from the National Science Foundation in 1984 and has received numerous awards for his research, including the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Colloid or Surface Chemistry in 1998. He became a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001 and the ACS in 2010. He has served in a variety of positions in several professional societies, including the leadership ladder in the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, of which he was chair in 2006. He was cochair of both the 1997 and 2007 Colloid Symposia, held at the University of Delaware. He has chaired or cochaired three Gordon Research Conferences. Kaler was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2010.

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Growing under previous president Robert Bruininks, the Journal reported that under Kaler the University of Minnesota has the largest share of employees classified as “executive and managerial” among the nation’s 72 “very-high-research” public universities in the 2011–12 academic year.

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He was an assistant professor (1982–87) and associate professor (1987–89) of chemical engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He joined the chemical engineering faculty of the University of Delaware in 1989 and was promoted to professor in 1991. He was named the Elizabeth Inez Kelley professor of chemical engineering in 1998, and was chair of the chemical engineering department from 1996 to 2000. He served as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware from 2000 to 2007 before moving on to Stony Brook to become Provost. He was a visiting professor at the University of Graz, Austria in 1995.

When Eric Kaler took office on July 1, 2011, he became only the second alumnus to rise to the position of University of Minnesota president. In his first year on the job, Kaler emphasized his commitment to academic excellence and rigor by investing in new faculty positions. He stressed the importance of the University’s groundbreaking research enterprise. He led a campaign to contain costs and operate the University more efficiently and effectively, with the goal of freeing up resources for the University’s core teaching, research, and public engagement and service mission.

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Eric Ranked on the list of most popular Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Eric Kaler celebrates birthday on September 23 of every year.

In 2012, the Minnesota Daily, the University student newspaper, criticized the University athletic department, under then-Athletic Director Norwood Teague, for deciding to spend $800,000 to reschedule a football game with North Carolina to increase the football team’s rankings.

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