KU News Release

Warren named vice provost for research and graduate studies

Steve Warren

LAWRENCE — Steve Warren, who became interim vice provost for research and graduate studies at the University of Kansas in August, will see the interim tag removed from his title effective immediately, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Richard Lariviere announced today.

“During his service at KU, Steve has shown great ability in managing major research operations, first at the Life Span Institute and then as interim vice provost,” Lariviere said. “Steve has demonstrated a vision for where the university’s research efforts can go in the future and will provide the leadership needed to continue the outstanding progress we’ve already made in establishing KU as an internationally recognized research university.”

Warren was selected for the research and graduate studies position after a KU search committee conducted a nationwide search. Since 2001, he has been director of KU’s Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, one of the nation’s largest research programs for the prevention and treatment of developmental disabilities.

In his new role, Warren will manage an operation that features seven designated research centers on the Lawrence campus, two state surveys, four affiliated centers and 10 research service laboratories. He also will be president of KU’s Center for Research Inc., a full-service, nonprofit research foundation encompassing pre-award and post-award research administration and technology transfer oversight for the Lawrence campus.

“Serving as director of the Life Span Institute has been extraordinarily satisfying for me,” Warren said. “Nevertheless, the opportunity to work with colleagues throughout the university to facilitate the discovery and dissemination of knowledge is a challenge that I simply couldn’t pass up. KU has made enormous strides as a research university in recent years, and yet our impact on many levels can be so much greater in the years ahead.”

Warren came to KU in 1999 from Vanderbilt University, where he was a professor of special education and deputy director of the John F. Kennedy Center for Human Development, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious mental retardation research programs.

His research interests include early communication and language development and remediation, early intervention, prevention of mental retardation and prevention of child neglect. Warren is the co-author of a dozen books and 115 scientific papers, as well as the recipient of awards for his research from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the National Down Syndrome Congress.

Warren holds three degrees from KU, including a doctorate in child and developmental psychology that he earned in 1977. He is married to Eva Horn, professor of special education at KU, and has two daughters, Marie and Lena.

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