Two finalists for the position of dean of The Graduate School will make open presentations 11 a.m. Aug. 5-6 in School of Nursing Building Room 1028. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.
Lori McMahon, Ph.D., professor of cell, developmental and integrative biology, will present Aug. 5, and Daniel Bullard, Ph.D., professor of genetics, will present Aug. 6. Both are members of the graduate faculty.
McMahon also is the Jarman F. Lowder Professor of Neuroscience and director of the UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center. She is associate director for the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging and also holds appointments in Alzheimer's Disease Center, Civitan International Research Center and the Center for Exercise Medicine. Learn more about her research interest on her lab site.
Bullard has additional appointments in Arthritis & Musculoskeletal Diseases Center, Cell Adhesion & Matrix Research Center, Center for Metabolic Bone Disease, Comprehensive Cancer Center and Nephrology Research & Training Center. Learn more about him in this biographical sketch.
Associate Dean Jeffrey Engler, Ph.D., has been interim dean of The Graduate School at UAB during the search for a permanent candidate to fill the vacancy created by the Dec. 31, 2014, retirement of Bryan Noe, Ph.D., who was UAB’s first full-time Graduate School dean from 2005 to 2014.
The search began earlier this year after Provost Linda Lucas met with stakeholders across campus in January to discuss the future of graduate education and get input on qualifications for the school’s next leader.
UAB’s graduate enrollment, up 43 percent in the past decade, is the highest among Alabama universities at 5,937 in fall 2014. The diverse group — two-thirds female, nearly 30 percent minority — are pursuing degrees in 50 master’s programs, 37 doctoral programs and eight education specialist programs.
