Janie McLawhorn Fouke is an American biomedical engineer known for her work in airway physiology and academic leadership.

Janie Fouke
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ThesisResponse of tracheal smooth muscle to acetylcholine following ozone exposure in dogs (1982)

Education and career

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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 the head of the Nanyang Technological University.[8]

Honors and awards

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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?]

References

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  1. ^ a b SIKES, JANINE YOUNG (June 3, 2005). "Machen chooses Fouke as provost". Gainesville Sun. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  2. ^ Fouke, Janie McLawhorn. Transducer for measuring airway diameter (M.S. thesis). OCLC 7081101. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  3. ^ Fouke, Janie McLawhorn. Response of tracheal smooth muscle to acetylcholine following ozone exposure in dogs (Ph.D. thesis). OCLC 978298282. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
  4. ^ "2009 Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Awards" (PDF). facultygov.unc.edu.
  5. ^ "Janie Fouke". Joint BME. 2018-10-17. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  6. ^ "Janie Fouke, Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore" (PDF). nd.edu/.
  7. ^ "Dean Fouke2 PAGE". www.cse.msu.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  8. ^ "Janie Fouke to head engineering school in Singapore". Women In Academia Report. April 21, 2011. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  9. ^ Lollar, Cynthia (1991-03-22). "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows in 1991". Science. 251 (5000): 1505–1505. doi:10.1126/science.251.5000.1505.a. ISSN 0036-8075.
  10. ^ "Janie Fouke, Ph.D. COF-0302 - AIMBE". Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  11. ^ "2012 ASEE Fellows" (PDF). 2012.
  12. ^ "List of Fellows - Biomedical Engineering Society". www.bmes.org. Retrieved 2024-10-22.