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Searches have begun for key leadership positions
By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor
The searches to fill three key leadership positions at UB are under way, with search committees in place and a consultant hired to assist in the process.
The positions being filled are vice president for development and alumni relations, and deans of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Marsha S. Henderson, vice president for external affairs, will serve as chair of the Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Search Committee. Maurizio Trevisan, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions, will chair the search committee for the new medical school dean, and Alexander Cartwright, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, will oversee the search for the engineering school dean.
Ilene Nagel of Russell Reynolds Associates will assist all three committees in the search process. Nagel played a key role in the most recent UB presidential and provostal searches, as well as the searches for vice presidents for research, health sciences and external affairs.
Web sites have been established for the searches. More information about the positions and the application/nomination process may be found at http://www.buffalo. edu/vpdar-search for the vice president for development and alumni relations position and at http://www.buffalo. edu/medicine-dean and http://www. buffalo.edu/engineering-dean for the medical school and engineering dean positions, respectively.
Committee chairs say they are seeking input from members of the UB community in the search process. Suggestions regarding the search process may be sent to vpdar-search@vpsa.buffalo. edu for the vice presidential position and to Engineering-Dean@vpsa. buffalo.edu for the engineering school dean's position and to medicine-dean@vpsa.buffalo. edu for the medical school dean's positions.
In addition to Henderson, members of the Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Search Committee are Marc A. Adler, vice president of client services, Flynn & Friends Inc. and vice president, UB Alumni Association Board; Jim D. Atwood, professor and chair, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences; David L. Dunn, vice president for health sciences; William L. Joyce, member, UB Foundation Inc.; Susan V. Mangold, professor, UB Law School; Warde J. Manuel, director of athletics; Lawrence L. Peckham, a member of the Dean's Advisory Committee, SEAS; Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, vice president of programs, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo; and Nancy J. Smyth, dean, School of Social Work.
Joining Trevisan on the search committee for the new dean of the medical school are Edward M. Bednarczyk, clinical associate professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Jean K. Brown, professor and associate dean, School of Nursing; Judith D. Lampasso, assistant professor, Department of Orthodontics, School of Dental Medicine; Maureen Mussenden, associate counsel, SUNY Office of the University Counsel; Nancy J. Smyth, dean, School of Social Work; Aidong Zhang, professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SEAS; medical student Sujata Sofat; and medical school faculty members Kenneth Blumenthal, professor and chair, Department of Biochemistry; John J. Bodkin II, clinical assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine; Merrill T. Dayton, professor and chair, Department of Surgery; Jian Feng, associate professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics; John Hay, Grant T. Fisher Chair and professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Mark J. Lema, professor and chair, Department of Anesthesiology; Thomas Mahl, clinical associate professor, Department of Medicine; Peter A. Nickerson, chair, UB Faculty Senate, and director, Pathology Graduate Program, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences; and Linda M. Wild, associate professor of clinical pathology, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences.
In addition to Cartwright, members of the search committee for the engineering school dean are Richelle Allen-King, associate professor, Department of Geology, CAS; David L. Dunn, vice president for health sciences; Steven Lerner, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Praxair Inc., and a member of the SEAS Dean's Advisory Council; Bruce D. McCombe SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, CAS, and vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate School; Maureen R. Mayer, doctoral student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, SEAS; and engineering school faculty members Stelios Andreadis, associate professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Joseph F. Atkinson, professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, and director, Great Lakes Program; Ann M. Bisantz, associate professor, Department of Industrial Engineering; Venugopal Govindaraju, professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; and Roger W. Mayne SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.