2016-17 FAS Dean of Science Search Advisory Committee (ad hoc)

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

Position Description

FAS Dean of Science Position Description, 30 January 2017