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Ninety-Ninth Year,
DURHAM, N.C.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8,2004
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McLendon outlines top
priorities
genomic
Andrew Collins
by
THE
THE CHRONICLE
NEW
DEAN’S
IGSP adds
GOALS:
What is it about future Dean of the Facof Arts and
ulty
Sciences
don that makes him Peter
nominated him for
the
is
ences
outsider
and lack of
status
but
administrator,
an
of
sense
his
complish during the
long
he
such
sity, and
of the
the
to
McLendon, who
as
process
to
ac-
resources
Chafe
serves at
as
bring
said
next
chair
nearly
lands into
he
ability
are
not
“What
one
toward
An is
to
McLendon
this,
continue the
to
reach
Alex Garinger
make
A and
the
to
plan
resounding December Council
from its least
Council
disdain
meeting,
the
Jan.
vote
15
February
bylaws
committee
body’s
prompting
Ewing
the
on
meeting
and
with
met
the
at
plan
until
spurring to
was
the Arts
Chair Katherine
delay
to
drawing
to restructure
Sciences
the
of his
at
the
rethink
its
issue
at
the size of the Council. the
governing body
members officio
cut to
plus
the
members,
proposal,
hand is
Currendy,
consists of 55 chair and
but
ex
under the
that number would be
15. Five members would be
elected
by faculty
the Arts and
from
Sciences
each
of
divisons
—
the
humanities,
ences
the
social
sci-
and the natural sciences.
“The main this
really
structure
right
built
reason
for
making
the
of the
very
bring
actly
Because of his McLendon about
in
to
seems
with
dealing
budget,
said he has
ties
before,
among the best
past
new
there
that
are
most
be
the
at
Princeton, confident
quite
which has been
projected
immediate future. He
worse
budget
philosophy
Lange
is
and
Chafe
make
and find
have
been
Council
is
be-
Center
for
Genome
the Center
Ethics,
for Bioinforand
Computational Biology;
Director
Huntington
he believes Duke to
genomic
make
posi-
advances
in
medicinebecause of the combi-
of Duke
tem’s
commitment
health, and
the
According
to
Health
University to
policy
an
Willard wrote,
the
developing
and
Sys-
personalized
University’s strength
clinical and health
for
Willard
uniquely
significant
nation
on
is
in
research.
internal document
new
Center will
implementing
delivering genomic
health
focus
models
care,
keep-
Princeton
more
conti-
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the
the
the
chairs
current
is
a
deal with
to
in
through
a
smaller
meet
up
council
bi-monthly
so
would
instead of
that the group could
quickly
and
relationship
much
issues
pressing
develop
with
a
clos-
the adminis-
tration. It would also
restructure
its committee system,
adding
new ones
which
and
each
to
creating
committee
in
reports
the entire Council.
But Council members cember
five
system
a
meeting
at
said the
the De-
proposal
dramatic shift in the of the
fifth interdis-
under its umbrella, which
Policy;
and
IGSP
crunches
simple:
resources
a
the Center for Models of Human Disease.
said
ex-
Arts and
of available
ones.
matics
are
weighty
faced
and his
success
the
Law and
tioned
the red for the
the
but
process
are
very differ-
the same.”
the
members,
classes],
‘There
are
incorporate
fashion.”
monthly,
back
different
said.
the
updated configuration,
center
nology;
business—we’re
that
now
structures,”
and
more
improve
school,
[for
ent
he
learn,”
experience
parts of the learning
Sciences
at
to
con-
practical
actually
committee that it
issues
are
trying
parts of the
same
link
also includes the Center for Genome Tech-
members.
faculty
“We’re all in this
critical
models, officials said.
care
ciplinary
for under-
process
the
scientific research with
that
“It’s been
unwieldy body
timely
to
learning
al students and
commit-
an
the
year
body
a
and
but
Council and
executive
Thomas
areas was
faculty
current
of the former
consensus
er
hopes and
model of
Ewing explained.
take
he
have
now we
on
his
in
new
restructuring plan draws heat
different
serves
also
the
spent
University stronger
fairly unwieldy,
The
primary
to
graduates, graduate students, post-doctor-
McLendon’s
into other
He also advocates
Academic Council,
proposal. The
ones
nuity
theme for McLendon
students
University.
that is board.
out
He said
aspects
cause
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health new
Genome Sci-
kicked off the
Medicine,
necting
to
factor in his nomination.
A&S CounciVs by
budget
of
disciplines.
professor
since he felt such ties
major
initiatives
he has
across
dean, said
new
overarching
between
Dean William
outgoing
the
to
seams.
interdisciplinary
and
and find
undergraduate
who headed the search
important
do is meld the is-
to
achieve
to
said he would seek
Lange
said.
for
tee
as
working
sociology
DiPrete,
continent.”
In order
that
[and]
challenge,
career
Indeed,
and there
solid,
although
be able
to
a
of available
most
Institute for
Policy
with the formation of the Center for Ge-
different levels
all
welcome
entire
ex-
of the Arts and Sciences
luminary,”
as
would like
push
for Duke,
prestige
that,
contingent
Duke
particularly
in
one
will be
studies
interdisciplinary
level,
said
Lange
major challenges
McLendon said he believes this will be
really provide
for
visibility
begun.
education.
Princeton
has islands of
have
McLendon’s
level of Duke’s
that
Duke
and
ences
IGSP will
of the Univer-
currently
strength
parts
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in the
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departments,
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call “that vision
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might
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SEE A&S ON PAGE 10
Membersof the Arts & Sciences Council listen
to
Dean William Chafe
give
his State of the Arts & Sciences address this fall.