At its quarterly meeting on May 31, the board of trustees approved the appointment of nine new members of the tenured faculty. All appointments are effective July 1, except E's, which begins September 1.
E is to be professor of mathematics and applied and computational mathematics.
He works especially in the areas of boundary layer theory, computational fluid dynamics and material sciences. A 1982 graduate of the University of Science and Technology of China with a 1985 MS from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, E earned his PhD at the University of California in 1989. He was a visiting member of the Courant Institute for two years and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study for three years before joining the Courant Institute as associate professor in 1994. Now professor there, he was awarded a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1993 and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1997. Huet , who specializes in 18th century French literature, has been named M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures.