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Lawrence Knopp Named Associate Dean of Graduate School

Professor Lawrence M. Knopp, Jr. has been named Associate Dean of the University of Minnesota Graduate School for the Duluth campus, effective January 11, 2007. Dr. Knopp has been a professor in the UMD Department of Geography for over 17 years, and was selected a University of Minnesota McKnight Land-Grant Professor for 1992-94.

In his new position, Professor Knopp will serve three-quarter time as Associate Dean of the UMD Graduate School, while continuing to teach and conduct scholarly research in the Department of Geography.

Professor Knopp came to UMD as an assistant professor of geography in 1989. He was promoted to associate professor in 1993, and to the rank of professor in 1999. His tenure at UMD has included six-years as head of the Department of Geography, nine-years as coordinator of the Urban & Regional Studies Program, and twelve years as director of the UMD Center for Community and Regional Research.

Dr. Knopp's scholarly work in urban, social, and political geography concerns cultural politics, in general, and the politics of sexuality and gender, in particular. His fieldwork has taken him to various parts of North America as well as Europe and Australia. He advises students in the Master of Liberal Studies program at UMD as well as the Masters and PhD programs in geography on the Twin Cities campus. He also serves on the graduate committees of students in geography and related fields at other universities. He is an adjunct professor of geography at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. He maintains active research collaborations with colleagues in History and American Studies on the Twin Cities campus, as well as in geography at the University of Washington, where he is an affiliate professor of geography

UMD currently offers 17 graduate school programs serving nearly 500 students.

The graduate degrees offered include:

M.S. (Master of Science) -- seven programs
M.A. (Master of Arts) - three programs
M.S.E.C.E. (Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering)
M.S.W. (Master of Social Work)
M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts)
M.M. (Master of Music)
M.S.E.M. (Master of Science Engineering Management)
M.B.A. (Master of Business Administration)
M.L.S. (Master of Liberal Studies)

In addition, two "all-university" and three "cooperative" Graduate School programs offer M.S. and Ph.D. degrees that substantially involve UMD faculty and facilities.

Finally, four non-graduate school masters programs are offered by and administered through the UMD Colleges of Science and Engineering,Education and Human Service Professions, and Liberal Arts respectively.

They are:

M.E.H.S. (Master of Environmental Health and Safety)
M.Ed. (Master of Education)
M.Sp.Ed. (Master of Special Education)
M.A.P.L. (Master of Advocacy and Political Leadership)

FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE

www.d.umn.edu/grad/