Dr. Richard W. Wlezien, the Vance and Arlene Coffman Endowed Department Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University and a former researcher and program director at NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has been named vice provost and dean of Missouri S&T’s College of Engineering and Computing. Wlezien will begin his new duties on Aug. 1. Read more at news.mst.edu.