CAS appoints three new deans

By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor



Kerry Grant, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has appointed three new associate deans for the college.

Bruce D. McCombe, professor of physics, has been named associate dean for research and sponsored programs; Barbara Tedlock, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, has been named associate dean for undergraduate education, and Munroe Eagles, associate professor of political science, has been named associate dean for graduate studies.

In addition, Grant has created an "administrative cabinet" to administer the college and advise the dean. The group is composed of Grant; Senior Associate Dean Charles Stinger; McCombe; Tedlock; Eagles; Martha Barton, chief financial officer for the college, and Suzanne Gale, director of personnel.

As associate dean for research and sponsored programs, McCombe is responsible for coordinating all aspects of sponsored-program activity throughout the college. He replaces John Ho, who returns to the faculty.

McCombe joined the UB physics department faculty in 1978 and has served in a variety of administrative posts, including associate chair and chair of the physics department, co-director of the Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials and deputy director for the New York State Institute on Superconductivity. He currently is director for the Center for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials (CAPEM).

A fellow of the American Physical Society, his research interests are in semiconductor physics, particularly infrared and far infrared spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures.

In her new position, Tedlock assumes responsibility for all undergraduate education in the arts and sciences, including curricular development and the promotion of learning experiences distinctive to a research university. She replaces Deborah Walters, who will spend 2000-01 as a fellow of the American Council on Education (ACE).

A UB faculty member since 1987, Tedlock is a nationally known specialist in psychological, symbolic and cognitive anthropology, the anthropology of art and aesthetics, and ethnomedicine in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica.

A past editor of American Anthropologist, she will publish her fourth book, "The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine," in 2001.

Eagles has assumed responsibility for all activities connected with graduate study in the college, including curricular review, support for departmental-recruitment efforts and fellowship and award programs.

He joined the UB political science faculty in 1989, and also serves as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Geography. He is a co-investigator with the UB site of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.

He served as associate dean for graduate studies and research for the former Faculty of Social Sciences.

Eagles' research interests include Canadian politics, comparative politics of advanced industrial societies-especially Britain and Canada-geographic information systems and political behavior.