Search complete: Prominent scientist, respected administrator Susan Wente named Vanderbilt provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs
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Search Launch Date: February 11, 2014
Hire Date: July 1, 2014
Committee:
- Nicholas Zeppos, Chancellor, Chair
- Eugene B. Shanks Jr., Board of Trust member, corporate director, former president, Bankers Trust Company;
- Audrey Anderson, vice chancellor, general counsel;
- Brett Sweet, vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer;
- Kenneth Catania, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences;
- Benoit Dawant, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Engineering, professor of electrical engineering, professor of radiology and radiological sciences and professor of biomedical engineering;
- Lynn Enterline, Nancy Perot Mulford Professor of English;
- Tracey George, Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty; professor of law, professor of political science and director of the Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program;
- Christopher Loss, assistant professor of public policy and higher education;
- Bunmi Olatunji, associate professor of psychology and associate professor of psychiatry;
- Sohee Park, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Psychology, professor of medicine, health and society and professor of psychiatry;
- Sandra Rosenthal, Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry, professor of pharmacology, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering; and
- Eric Skaar, Ernest W. Goodpasture Chair in Pathology, associate professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology and director of the Microbial Path Program.