Provost search committee named

President William R. Greiner has announced the members of the search committee for the position of provost.

The committee, which will be chaired by Greiner, with Senior Vice President Robert J. Wagner serving as vice chair, represents all major campus constituencies.

The committee will recommend a successor to Thomas E. Headrick, who resigned last fall as provost. David J. Triggle, dean of the Graduate School, has filled the dual role of provost and dean of the Graduate School since Jan. 1.

The provost serves as UB's chief academic officer, providing leadership in all matters that affect the faculty, the quality of academic programs, research and scholarship, and student academic life and learning. The provost reports directly to the president, and is the university's second-ranking officer.

Greiner said that ideally the search process will be completed by the end of the year, with the named provost in office by spring or summer 2000.

The members of the committee are Michael E. Bernardino, vice president for health affairs; Christina Bloebaum, associate professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Naniette Coleman, former president of the undergraduate Student Association; H. William Coles, associate director of the Center for Academic Development Services/Educational Opportunity Center and chair of the Professional Staff Senate; Mecca S. Cranley, dean of the School of Nursing; Robert J. Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Oral Biology, and Tyrone Georgiou, professor of art.

Also, Jorge J. Gracia, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Samuel P. Capen Professor of Philosophy; Mary H. Gresham, vice president for public service and urban affairs; Tonya Guzman, president of the Student Bar Association; Jeremy M. Jacobs, Sr., chair of the UB Council and chair and chief executive officer of Delaware North Companies, Inc.; Gerald S. Lippes, member of the UB Council and a partner in the Buffalo law firm of Lippes, Silverstein, Mathias and Wexler, and Lewis Mandell, dean of the School of Management.

Also, Peter A. Nickerson, professor of pathology and chair of the Faculty Senate; Jean C. Powers, president of the UB Alumni Association and a partner in the Buffalo law firm of Jaeckle, Fleischmann and Mugel, LLP; Youcef Rustum, senior vice president for scientific affairs at Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Deborah K. Walters, associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences and assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and Carol Zemel, professor and chair of the Department of Art History.

Ex-officio members are Eileen P. Cain, deputy to the president; Carole Smith Petro, associate vice president for university services, and Loyce Stewart, director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Affirmative Action Administration.