2017-2018 Biological Sciences Area Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee

The Tenure, Appointments and Promotions Committees (TACs) include a group of Full Professors from the relevant area (Humanities; Social Sciences; Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences) who serve as members of the area committee, along with a representative from a department or program outside the area (the “outside member”). In cases involving faculty from one of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) departments, the Dean of the SEAS also sits on the committee as a voting member.

Each Area Committee is chaired by the Divisional Dean or Director of its corresponding academic division, and the Dean of the FAS oversees the four TACs. TACs review all appointments and promotions to the ranks of Associate Professor on term (Nontenured associate, AOPN); Associate Professor without term (Tenured associate, AOPT); and Professor (PROF).

Committee Membership

Paul Turner (fall only) | Committee Chair; Acting Dean of Science; Chair, Biological Sciences Advisory Committee; Henry Ford II Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Karen Anderson | Professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Ron Breaker | Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

John Carlson | Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Nancy Carrasco | Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Peter Cresswell | Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Cell Biology

Enrique De La Cruz | Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Mark Lemmon | David A. Sackler Professor of Pharmacology

Rick Prum | William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Stephan Strittmatter | Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neuroscience

Tenure and Appointments Committee Members Only: 

Robert Alpern | Dean, School of Medicine | Ensign Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)

Tamar Szabó Gendler | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Menachem Elimelech | Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies