Recent Appointment: Tom Addonizio

Photograph by Chris Kitchen

Photograph by Chris Kitchen

RECENT APPOINTMENT

Tom Addonizio

Vice President, Communications and Marketing

Tom Addonizio joined the UR community as vice president for communications and marketing on Sept. 12, reporting to President Kevin F. Hallock.

Prior to UR, Addonizio was associate dean for communications, marketing, and integration for Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In his five years at Cornell, he made a significant impact leading the school’s crisis communications through the COVID-19 pandemic, launching marketing efforts that helped grow enrollments in professional education, and rebranding the school.

Before Cornell, Addonizio served as a vice president at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. He also had a successful 20-year career in the corporate world, serving as a vice president for IBM and Gartner, where he led large global teams.

“Tom is a remarkable leader,” Hallock said. “Not only is he highly skilled in communications and marketing; he also has impeccable judgment and outstanding leadership skills that will help UR continue its upward trajectory.”

Addonizio holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Binghamton University (then SUNY Binghamton) and an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from Penn State University.

“What drew me to UR was the amazing reputation of the school and the opportunity to join an organization with such strong leadership and potential,” Addonizio said. “I think now is a great time to join the University given the momentum we have here. It really is a unique place with so much going on. World-class students, alumni, faculty, and staff. I think the world needs to know more about what we do here.”

Addonizio, wife Kate, and children Elinor and T.J. are looking forward to being in Richmond and becoming active in the UR community.

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LAUREN TILTON, assistant professor of digital humanities, and Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics, received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project, an open-source technology for the computational analysis of visual culture.

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JOANNA WARES, associate professor of mathematics; Kristine Grayson, associate professor of biology; and Angie Hilliker, associate professor of biology, published “R Markdown as a dynamic interface for teaching: Modules from math and biology classrooms” in Mathematical Biosciences.

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