- University Department Heads.
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- President of the University.
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- CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE, Ph. D., LL. D., President of the
University, was born May 29, 1857, at Fulton, Wisconsin. He graduated
from the University of Wisconsin in 1879, with the degree of
Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering. Since that time from the
University he has received the following degrees: Bachelor of
Science in 1880; Master of Science in 1882; and Doctor of Philosophy
in 1892. He has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
from the University of Chicago, in 1903, and from Yale University
in 1904. Immediately after graduating in 1879 he entered the
instructional force of the University of Wisconsin and has remained
on its staff in various positions to the present time. In the
University he has been instructor in metallurgy, 1886-88; professor
of mineralogy and petrology, 1888- 90; professor of Archaen and
applied geology, 1890-92; professor of geology, 1892-1903; and
he was elected President of the University in 1903. At the University
of Chicago he was non-resident professor of structural and metamorphic
geology from its foundation to 1903. He has held various positions
on the United States Geological Survey from 1883 to the present
time. Under this organization he was assistant geologist on the
United States Geological Survey 1883-1888; geologist in charge
of Lake Superior Division, 1888-1900; and he has been geologist
in charge of pre-Cambrian and metamorphic geology, 1900 to the
present time. For the state Geological and Natural History Survey
he was consulting geologist from 1897 to 1903. Since 1903 he
has been president of the Board of Commissioners of the Survey.
He was president of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and
Letters, 1893- 96; and vice prescient of Section E of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 1901. He is a member
of the National Academy of Sciences; the Washington Academy of
Science; the Geological Society of America; the American Institute
of Mining Engineers; the Scientific Society of Christiana [Christiania],
Norway; the Boston Society of Natural History. He has been editor
(for structural geology) of the Journal of Geology since 1892.
He has made many contributions to geological literature, of which
the more important are: the Archaen and Algonkian, the Penokee
Iron-bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin (with R. D. Irving),
Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology, the Marquette
Iron-bearing District of Michigan (with W. S. Bayley), the Iron
Ores of the Lake Superior region. President Van Hise has also
given various addresses upon educational subjects.
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- Taken from "The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin:
Complied and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Secretary
of State" (c)1907 Democrat Printing Company, State Printer,
Madison [WI], p. 1179.
- Courtesy of Lori
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