William Charles Van Buskirk[1] (born 11 March 1942)[2] was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey from Oct 1998 to June 2004,[3][4] and he retired in December 2011 as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and was the Foundation Professor of Biomechanical Engineering at NJIT.
Born in Utah,[2] Van Buskirk received his BS in 1964 from the United States Military Academy, an MS in 1966 and his PhD in 1970 in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Stanford University.
His doctoral thesis was entitled Experimental and theoretical model studies of some dynamic response characteristics of the semicircular canals.
He left Tulane University in 1998 to become the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
[citation needed] He stepped back to teaching and research roles as a Distinguished Professor in the Biomedical Engineering department in 2004.