APPOINTMENTS
Provost Phyllis Wise named Executive Vice Provost Ana Mari Cauce to be the new dean of the UW College of Arts and Sciences Nov. 20. Cauce will oversee more than 70 academic departments, centers and programs in the college as well as 940 faculty members and more than 25,000 students. Cauce, who has been executive vice provost since 2005, joined the UW in 1986 as an assistant professor of psychology. Since then, she has held numerous administrative positions including director of clinical training in the psychology department (1990–97), chair of the Department of American Ethnic Studies (1997–2000), director of the Honors Program (2000–02) and chair of psychology (2002–05). Cauce was a 1999 winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award. She serves on the National Academy of Sciences Women in Sciences Task Force and is a founding member of the National Hispanic Science Network of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Cauce is a native of Cuba. When she was 3, she left the country with her family during the Communist revolution. She received her doctorate from Yale University in 1984. Cauce succeeds Interim Dean Ron Irving, who is returning to the mathematics department.
Provost Phyllis Wise named Marla Salmon the new Robert G. and Jean A. Reid Endowed Dean of the UW School of Nursing Jan. 3. Salmon is currently dean of the School of Nursing at Emory University. She has served as the chief nurse for the Health Resources and Services Administration, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Division of Nursing, and was a member of the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform under President Bill Clinton. She is currently a member of the Institute of Medicine. Salmon received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in public health and hygiene. As dean of the UW School of Nursing, Salmon will run America’s top-ranked nursing school with more than 600 students and 120 faculty members.
Sylvia Wolf was named the new director of the Henry Art Gallery Jan. 9 and will start in April. Wolf is currently an adjunct curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she has served as head of the department of photography. Previously, she was on the staff of the Art Institute of Chicago where she produced over 25 contemporary art and photography exhibitions. Wolf has taught courses at both the School of Visual Arts, New York, and New York University. She currently teaches in the master’s program for curatorial studies at Columbia University. Wolf received her master’s degree in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently working on her dissertation at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Wolf will succeed Museum Director Richard Andrews, who is stepping down after 20 years at the gallery.
HONORS
The Association of American Medical Colleges announced Nov. 3 that UW Medicine Professor Emeritus Seymour Klebanoff is receiving its Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences. In 1967, he discovered that white blood cells destroy harmful bacteria but also produce their own antibacterial compound. This discovery changed the understanding of the body’s natural defense mechanisms in fighting infection. His work led to new insights and approaches in the study of cancer, viruses (including HIV), and other infectious diseases. Klebanoff joined the UW in 1962 and is a past director of both the UW’s Research Training Unit and the Medical Scientist Training Program.
The Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research named Nursing Associate Dean Pamela Mitchell, ’62, ’91, winner of its 2007 Pathfinder Distinguished Research Award. The award honors researchers whose work is committed to improving lives for people with health care needs. Mitchell pioneered research in the relationship between brain injury, intracranial pressure and responses to ordinary bedside nursing care. Her goal is to change nursing procedures to enhance patient recovery. She received both her bachelor’s degree in nursing and doctorate in health care systems ecology from the UW.
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