March 4, 2002
Contact: Robert Lowery (509-963-1487/fax 509-963-2301/e-mail: loweryr@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Central Washington University Provost David L. Soltz has announced that, following a nationwide search, four finalists have been selected for the position of dean of the CWU College of the Sciences.
The four were chosen from a pool of applicants for the position, who were screened by a university search committee, chaired by Dr. Lisa Weyandt, CWU psychology professor, comprised of faculty, staff and students. Each candidate has been invited to Ellensburg to visit with interested campus and community members.
The first visit, March 4-5, will be Dr. Kristina Proctor, a chemistry professor at University of Southern Colorado (USC), Pueblo, where she also serves as assistant provost. In addition, she is both faculty coordinator and fund-raising coordinator for the $7.5 million USC chemistry building remodeling project. Proctor also administers the school’s $536,500 five-year program of excellence grant for chemistry department program enhancements.
Between 1994-2001, Proctor was chair of the university’s chemistry department and, from 1995-96, she directed a collaborative testing program for specially designed airplane brake pads involving the university and BFGoodrich.
Proctor received her bachelor’s degree, with majors in chemistry and biology, from USC in 1984 and her doctor of philosophy degree from Colorado State University in 1989.
Dr. Kenneth Brown, associate dean for finance and administration in the Louisiana State University College of Basic Science, will visit Ellensburg March 7-8. He also serves as the college’s associate dean. Brown recently completed a two-year research project, funded by a $212,305 grant through the Sea Grant Gulf Oyster Initiative Program, to develop “novel methods for deterring black drum predation on oyster leases.”
Before arriving at LSU, Brown was an assistant professor of biology at Purdue University and a zoology instructor at the University of Iowa. Brown received his bachelor’s degree in zoology from Arizona State University in 1970, his master’s degree in zoology from Washington State University in 1972 and his Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Iowa in 1976.
Scheduled to visit March 11-12 is Dr. Wes Leid, a professor in the department of animal science at Washington State University, where he has also served as interim vice provost for research and acting head of admissions for the College of Veterinary Medicine. In the past 10 years, Leid has also spent portions of three years serving as a visiting professor in the department of nephrology at Leiden University and the Leiden University Medical School in The Netherlands.
In addition, he was a research fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham Hospital in Boston.
Leid received his bachelor’s degree in zoology, in 1968, and his master’s degree in biology, in 1970, from CWU and his Ph.D. in microbiology from Michigan State University in 1973.
Dr. Samuel Zeveloff, will visit campus March 25-26. He is currently a professor and chair of the department of zoology at Weber State University, where he has also served as science advisor for the “Great Divide” ecoregion plan, developed by Wild Utah/The Wetlands Project.
Zeveloff’s most recent book — “Raccoons: A Natural History” – is now in press by Smithsonian Institution Press in Washington, D.C.
Zeveloff received bachelor’s degrees in science and mathematics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghampton in 1972, a master’s degree in science education in 1973 from The City College of New York, a second master’s degree in wildlife biology from North Carolina State University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Wyoming in 1972.
The new COTS dean will replace Dr. Barney Erickson, who has served on an interim basis since replacing Dr. John Ninneman.
