McCombe, Tedlock and Eagles Named Associate Deans in College of Arts and Sciences

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Three new associate deans have been appointed in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo by Kerry Grant, dean of the college.

Bruce D. McCombe, professor of physics, has been named associate dean for research and sponsored programs; Barbara Tedlock, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, has been named associate dean for undergraduate education, and Munroe Eagles, associate professor of political science, has been named associate dean for graduate studies.

As associate dean for research and sponsored programs, Bruce D. McCombe is responsible for coordinating all aspects of sponsored-program activity throughout the college. He replaces John Ho, who returns to the faculty to concentrate on research and teaching.

McCombe, a resident of Clarence, joined the UB physics department faculty in 1978 as an adjunct professor of physics and was named a full professor in 1982. He has served in a variety of administrative posts, including associate chair and chair of the physics department, co-director of the Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials and deputy director for the New York State Institute on Superconductivity. He currently is director for the Center for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials (CAPEM).

His research interests are in semiconductor physics, particularly infrared and far-infrared spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures.

A fellow of the American Physical Society, he is the author or co-author of more than 90 articles in refereed journals and a like number of refereed conference proceedings.

McCombe has received research grants from numerous agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and, most recently, $10 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

He received a doctorate from Brown University.

In her new position, Barbara Tedlock of East Aurora assumes responsibility for all undergraduate education in the arts and sciences, including curricular development and the promotion of learning experiences distinctive to a research university. She replaces Deborah

Walters, who will spend the 2000-01 academic year away from campus as a fellow of the American Council on Education (ACE).

A UB faculty member since 1987, Tedlock is a nationally known specialist in psychological, symbolic and cognitive anthropology, the anthropology of art and aesthetics, and ethnomedicine in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica.

A past editor of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, she received the association's President's Award in 1997 "for distinctive leadership in forging a new vision" for the journal and "for dedication and commitment to the profession of anthropology" and to the association.

Tedlock is a widely published author of many abstracts and journal articles, and magazine and newspaper pieces. She also has published three books: "Time and the Highland Mayan," "Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations" and "The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Zuni Indian Encounters." A fourth book, "The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine," is forthcoming in 2001.

Her field research has taken her among the Zuni Indians of New Mexico; the Quiché Mayan Indians of Guatemala; the Iwo, Ife, Oshogbo and Ibadan peoples of Nigeria, and to Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Belize.

She has received many of the most respected fellowships and grants in her field.

Tedlock received a doctorate in anthropology from the University at Albany.

Munroe Eagles of East Aurora has assumed responsibility for all activities connected with graduate study in the college, including curricular review, support for departmental-recruitment efforts and fellowship and award programs.

He joined the UB political science faculty in 1989, and also serves as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Geography and an adjunct professor of political science at Simon

University in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition, he is a co-investigator with the UB site of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA).

He served as associate dean for graduate studies and research for the former Faculty of Social Sciences.

His research interests include Canadian politics, comparative politics of advanced industrial societies -- especially Britain and Canada -- geographic information systems and political behavior.

He has authored or co-authored many articles in refereed journals. His works-in-progress include a book, "Money and Politics at the Grass Roots: A Constituency-Level Study of Canadian Practice and Experience," expected to be completed in 2001.

He has delivered scholarly papers at numerous conferences, colloquia and professional meetings in the United States, Canada and England, and has presented briefs to committees of the Canadian Senate and House of Commons.

He received a doctorate in political science from the University of California at Irvine.