Transcript department committees

PBS Governance/Management (2014-2017)
Departmental Office: Dexi Liu (Head), Joy Wilson (Manager), Francisca Carlson (Assistant to Dept. Head),
Mary Eubanks (Adm. Associate), Leslie Standridge (Adm. Associate), Demetrius Smith
(Stud. Counselor),
Executive Committee: Dexi Liu (Chair), Members: Committee Chairs, Program Directors and Joy Wilson
BS Program
Graduate Program
Director: Michael Bartlett
Member: Gurvinder Rekhi
Arthur Roberts
Director: Shelley Hooks
Member: Raj Govindarajan
Jason Zastre
George Zheng
Responsibilities: Recruit students into the
program; manage the courses and daily
operation; select students for award.
Department Advancement
Committee
Chair: Cory Momany
Member: Raj Govindarajan
Cathy White
Aaron Beedle
Mentoring Committee
Chair: Brian Cummings
Member: Jim Bruckner
Jim Franklin
Responsibilities: Develop guidelines
for mentorship; provide advice to
junior faculty on career development,
research, teaching, and University
policies; help junior faculty with
composition and writing of
manuscripts and grant applications.
Responsibilities: Recruit students into the
program; manage the graduate courses and
daily operation; represent the department
to work with graduate school on graduate
student issues; select graduate students for
awards.
Responsibilities: Establish
department policy; search for and
create opportunities for advancement
of the interests of the Department.
Teaching and Assessment Committee
Seminar Committee
Space/Facility/Safety Committee
Social Committee
Chair:
Phil Greenspan
Member: Aaron Beedle
Deborah Elder
Chair:
Eileen Kennedy
Member: Shelley Hooks
Houjian Cai
Chair:
Mandi Murph
Member: Han-Rong Weng
Warren Beach
Chair:
Scott Pegan
Member: Jason Zastre
Arthur Roberts
Responsibilities: Develop
policy/guideline on teaching assignment;
assess quality of teaching; organize
training in teaching.
Responsibilities: Identify, contact, and
invite seminar speakers; develop itinerary
for each speaker, and make seminar
announcement; organize and manage the
“David Chu Lectureship” on drug
discovery.
Responsibilities: Make
recommendation to the department
head on space and facilities issues;
work with Environment Safety
Division to ensure full compliance of
the department to the standard,
guidelines and policy of the
Government and the University.
Responsibilities: Organize activities to
enhance the spirit of teamwork and
colleagueship; organize 2 departmentwide events per year.