Purpose
FAS Dean of Science Search Advisory Committee advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on potential candidates for the role of FAS dean of science, whether current full professors in the FAS or those who will be joining the FAS as full professors as the result of recent searches. The committee’s charge is to provide the Dean with a list of promising candidates and a sense of their strengths and challenges.
Committee Membership, 2016-17
Paul Turner, Committee Chair: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Professor of Microbiology; Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Charles Ahn: William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Applied Physics; Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science; Professor of Physics; Chair of the Department of Applied Physics
Gary Brudvig: Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Director of the Energy Sciences Institute; Chair of the Department of Chemistry
Debra Fischer: Professor of Astronomy and of Geology & Geophysics
Vivian Irish: Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Joanne Meyerowitz: Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies