Anupma Prakash
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Anupma Prakash became provost and executive vice chancellor of the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks in July 2018. She previously served as interim dean and associate dean at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ College of Natural Science and Mathematics, where she is a professor of geophysics.
Prakash joined the college’s Department of Geosciences faculty and the Geophysical Institute in 2002. She has contributed extensively to remote sensing-based mapping of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s natural resources and changing landscape. Prakash is also internationally recognized for her research on underground coal mine fires. At ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, she has served as director of both the CNSM Division of Research and the National Science Foundation-funded ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
Prakash conducted postdoctoral research with the Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation () faculty at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She has a Ph.D. in earth sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee in India. She earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees in geology from Lucknow University, India.