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School of Pharmacy professor and associate dean for research and graduate studies Henning Schroeder has been named vice provost and dean for graduate education.
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School of Pharmacy professor and associate dean for research and graduate studies Henning Schroeder has been named vice provost and dean for graduate education, pending approval by the regents Nov. 13. Schroeder has served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy since 2007, where his responsibilities covered both Ph.D. and masters programs, as well as aspects of the professional doctorate program. He previously was a visiting professor at Stanford University and served on the faculty of the Martin Luther University School of Pharmacy (where he was chair of the Department of Pharmacology for 12 years) in Germany and Düsseldorf University. He is active in research and advising, has a strong teaching background, and serves on the board of numerous scientific advisory panels. Subject to regents' approval, Schroeder's appointment will begin Jan. 19. Read more in the news release, Graduate Education, and the Provost's announcement.
Jean Quam has been appointed dean of the College of Education and Human Development. The appointment is effective immediately upon approval by the Board of Regents; the appointment request will be presented at the Board's November meeting.
Quam has served as interim dean of the College of Education and Human Development since October 2008. During her interim deanship, Quam demonstrated exceptional leadership and management skills on behalf of the College. She achieved a high level of performance and remarkable success in a relatively short period of time as interim dean.
The University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) has appointed Bradley Carlin head of the Division of Biostatistics.
Bradley Carlin has been appointed head of the Division of BiostatisticsCarlin, who has been a professor in the SPH since 1991, will take over as division head in May 2010. He will work with other SPH leaders to solidify the division’s ranking as one of the top biostatistics units in the nation. In addition to continuing the high level of research productivity among the division’s faculty members, he will work to grow the division’s student body and educational programs, as well as its focus on collaborative, translational research.
Carlin takes over for School of Public Health professor John Connett, Ph.D., who, after serving as head of the division for nine years, is stepping down to devote more time to his own research interests, which focus on clinical trials and lung health.
Carlin's research interests include statistical applications in AIDS research, clinical trial monitoring, joint longitudinal and survival modeling, and spatial and spatio-temporal disease mapping. He also conducts geographical analysis by analyzing public health data that are geographically indexed. He is an expert in Bayes and empirical Bayes methodology, as well as Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for their implementation.
Carlin has a Ph.D. and M.S. in statistics from the University of Connecticut and a B.S. in mathematics and actuarial science from the University of Nebraska. He is a member of the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, and currently serves as editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis, the official journal of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. He has authored numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as textbooks on Bayesian methods and hierarchical modeling for spatial data.
In 2003, Carlin was named Mayo Professor in Public Health, the highest faculty honor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. He has received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Schools of Public Heath Association. He is also the 2008 recipient of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health Leonard M. Schuman Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Karen Seashore has been named the inaugural holder of the Robert Holmes Beck Chair of Ideas in Education. The first endowed chair of its kind in the United States, the Beck Chair encourages scholarly activity that promotes a better understanding of the conceptual foundations underlying critical issues in education. Cornelia Ooms Beck established the chair in memory of her husband, Robert Holmes Beck (1918-1991), who was a faculty member at the college from 1947 until his retirement in 1989.
Seashore, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, was appointed a professor in 1987. In the past, she has served as department chair, associate dean, and as director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement. Her research focuses primarily on school improvement and reform. She is co-principal investigator of research funded by the Wallace Foundation that investigates how principal leadership has an impact on student achievement. Recently, the University Council for Educational Administration awarded Seashore with the Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award. The Beck Chair is a three-year renewable appointment. For more information, see Karen Seashore.
UMM Professor Emeritus of Theatre Raymond J. Lammers has died. Professor Lammers was one of the first University of Minnesota, Morris faculty members and figured prominently in the creation of the Morris theatre major and program. Services are Nov. 4, 10:30 a.m., at Assumption Catholic Church in Morris. For more information, see Raymond Lammers.
U in the News: A selection of U faculty in the news
Lions' taste for human flesh dissected
A notorious pair of man-eating lions that teamed up to terrorize Kenyan labour camps more than 100 years ago did not have the same taste for human flesh, a new study suggests. "Their divergent diets are mostly relevant for illuminating this one particular case," says Craig Packer, an animal behavioural scientist at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, which makes it difficult to extrapolate to other lions. Nature News.
Links Between City Walkability And Air Pollution Exposure Revealed
A new study compares neighborhoods' walkability (degree of ease for walking) with local levels of air pollution and finds that some neighborhoods might be good for walking, but have poor air quality. Researchers involved in the study include University of Minnesota faculty member Julian Marshall and University of British Columbia faculty Michael Brauer and Lawrence Frank. Science Daily.
Fracture Critical
At rush hour on August 1, 2007, the 1,907-foot-long I-35W Bridge near downtown Minneapolis fell into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people, injuring 145 more, severing a key link in the Interstate system, and costing over $300 million in damages and for construction of a new bridge. Thomas Fisher is dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. Design Observer.
White House summit could turn new leaf for tribes
The list of decades-old grievances that Native American nations have lodged against the federal government is lengthy and a source of great acrimony. And it doesn't hurt that America's first black president is a minority, said David Wilkins, a professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota. Greenbay Press Gazette.
Exhibit provides food for thought
How much food does your family eat in a week? That's the basis of a fascinating new exhibit at the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota, which shows how dinner varies throughout the world in quantity, substance and cost. Star Tribune.