Nov 10, 2011 - Claremont, Calif. -

The Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees recently approved the appointment of Kevin Schofield P13 of Bellevue, Wash., at the board's meeting on Nov. 5. Schofield, whose twin daughters currently attend HMC, will join 35 current board members who direct the policies and funds of the College.

Schofield is general manager for strategy and communications at Microsoft Research. His organization drives consensus on technical strategy and priorities for Microsoft's research efforts. He is also responsible for developing Microsoft Research's relationships with customers, press, analysts and Microsoft's own product groups. Schofield joined Microsoft in 1988, and has worked in Microsoft Research since 1997. Over the course of his tenure at Microsoft, he worked in both development and program management for a number of Microsoft product efforts, including networking, operating systems, MSN and multimedia authoring tools. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in computer science.

Schofield is deeply involved with the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research field. He previously served as chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and was co-chair of the "CHI 96" Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. He serves on the advisory board of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), the Advancement Board for University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs, and the Leadership Council of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is the co-author of three issued patents and several pending ones.

"I'm deeply honored to be named a Trustee of Harvey Mudd College," Schofield said. "Anyone who spends even a brief time on the Harvey Mudd campus quickly realizes that this is truly a special place filled with amazing people: students, faculty and administrators dedicated to academic excellence and determined to have a positive impact on the world. And after all that the College has given my daughters, I look forward to the chance to give back to the Mudd community."

Schofield's twin daughters, Elly and Xanda, are both members of the Harvey Mudd class of 2013.