Janie Fouke
American Engineer
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Janie McLawhorn Fouke is an American biomedical engineer known for her work in airway physiology and academic leadership.
Janie Fouke | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Thesis | Response of tracheal smooth muscle to acetylcholine following ozone exposure in dogs (1982) |
Education and career
Fouke completed her undergraduate education at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in 1973, and then taught in a public school in Scotland County, North Carolina for the next two years.[1] She went on to receive an M.S. (1980)[2] and a Ph.D. (1982)[3] from the University of North Carolina.[4]
From 1981 to 1995, she taught at Case Western Reserve University.[5] From 1995 to 1999, she worked at the National Science Foundation,[6] and from 1999 to 2005, she was dean at Michigan State University.[7] In 2005, she worked at the University of Florida where she was the provost.[1] In 2011 she was named head of the engineering school at Nanyang Technological University.[8]
Honors and awards
Fouke was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1991.[9] In 1995 she was named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.[10] In 2012 she was named a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education.[11] She was also named a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society.[12][when?]
