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Provost finalists to visit UB this week

By SUE WUETCHER
Published: March 5, 2012

Finalists in the search for UB’s next provost, including a current UB dean, are scheduled to visit campus this week.

They are Arjang A. Assad, dean of the UB School of Management, and Danny Reible, Bettie Margaret Smith Chair of Environmental Health Engineering and director of the Center for Research in Water Resources at the University of Texas.

Assad’s “visit” is set for today; Reible will be on campus Friday.

One candidate, Charles F. Zukoski, Eliakim Tarika Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, visited UB last Friday.

Another candidate scheduled to visit campus on Wednesday has withdrawn from the search.

The finalists’ CVs may be viewed on the candidates’ page on the search website.

The finalists’ on-campus visits will include meetings with select UB faculty, members of the senior academic and administrative leadership, staff, students, alumni and volunteers, as well as the public forum with members of the university community. All forums will take place from 3-4 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

Following each campus visit, the search committee invites input on the candidates from the campus community. Feedback or questions may be directed to the committee at provostsearch@buffalo.edu no later than March 11.

The finalists were whittled from a diverse pool of approximately 60 well-qualified candidates from many top research university. Individuals come from a wide range of disciplines and experience. The search committee, headed by co-chairs Anne B. Curtis, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine, and David Felder, Birge-Cary Chair in the Department of Music, conducted confidential off-site interviews with 14 of the strongest candidates, and recommended three to five candidates to take part in on-campus interviews as finalists.

A new provost is expected to be on board by July.