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Indiana University
Below are the results of the recent 2012Alliance Steering Committee elections. The new Steering Committee will take office beginning October 1, 2012. We wish to thank everyone who participated in the 2012 election.
Bloomington
Steering Committee:
● Colin Allen, Provost Professor of Cognitive Science and of History & Philosophy of Science
● Kevin D. Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law
● Ted Carmines, Rudy Professor of Political Science and Warner O. Chapman Professor of Political Science
● Caty Pilachowski, Daniel Kirkwood Chair in Astronomy
● Stanley Wasserman, Rudy Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and of Sociology; Rudy Professor of Statistics
IUPUI
Steering Committee:
● Giuseppe Del Priore, Mary Fendrich Hulman Professor of Gynecologic Oncology
● Howard J. Edenberg, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
● Janice C. Froehlich, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Cellular and Integrative Physiology
● Linda Ann Kelly Hill, M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law
● John I. Nurnberger, Jr., Joyce and Iver Small Professor of Psychiatry
Bloomington
Steering Committee:
Colin Allen is Provost Professor of History & Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science, and currently the director of the Cognitive Science Program. He came to IU in 2004 after 15 years on the faculty at Texas A&M University, and was appointed Provost Professor in 2011. His degrees are in philosophy from the University of London and UCLA. His academic interests include the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, especially in the fields of animal cognition and artificial intelligence, and the application of computational methods in the humanities.
I came to IU eight years ago because I was impressed with the high level of research and cross-disciplinary collegiality here. Since coming to IU I have come to appreciate all the effort it has taken to build and maintain the special atmosphere that enables excellent faculty and students to flourish within and between the disciplines. I believe that the concerns of faculty engaged in the best research and teaching need to be continuously represented to upper administration who, confronted with large-scale budget and political issues, are not always focused on the challenges facing individual faculty who are trying to manage grants, sustain graduate students and research groups, and teach undergraduates to understand the latest ideas. As a member of the Alliance steering committee my goal would be to make sure that we work constructively with upper administration while being unafraid to criticize decisions or policies that create barriers to research and teaching collaborations among faculty.
Professor Brown is the Richard S Melvin Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he started in 1987 and the Emeritus Director of the Hudson & Holland Scholars Program at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is a 1978 graduate from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University-Bloomington and a 1982 graduate from Yale Law School in 1982. Brown’s research interest for the past 26 years is primarily in the area of race, law and education. He believes that the Alliance should be an advocate for the research interest of the University. “We should be willing to have frank discussions with the administration and the trustees regarding their policies that are negatively impacting our abilities as scholars. In these difficult economic times, the Alliance should make certain that the administration does not sacrifice the important goals of scholarship and knowledge creation and demonstrates its respect for equity and diversity in its researches policies.”
Indiana University, like all successful universities, needs an organization that encourages and promotes excellence in all spheres of its activity. This is the role that the Alliance is uniquely capable of fulfilling. With all of the external demands, expectations, and challenges that confront the modern research university from adequate funding for classrooms and labs to the need to recruit a diverse and capable student body it is necessary to have an organization that gives voice to the excellence that should be the hallmark of all of our efforts and activities. This need is even more acute today as universities face extremely difficult economic conditions that threaten their daily operations and in some cases their very survival.
As an Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors, we speak with an authoritative voice. With that authority, however, comes a responsibility to use our voice wisely, to bring our wisdom to bear in service to the mission of Indiana University, in research, in teaching, and in service. From this perspective, our task should be to encourage excellence in others, and to advise the senior leaders of our institution on ways to further excellence among the faculty. We serve as mentors, role models, and advisors to our colleagues, and have a responsibility to those colleagues to create an environment of scholarship, civility, and respect in which all scholars can flourish.
Stan Wasserman came to IU in 2004 after 25 years on the faculties of the University of Minnesota and University of Illinois. He has been a member of the Alliance for 8 years. He has served on College and Campus committees at IU, and was Chair of the Department of Statistics for 5 years, beginning with its inception in 2006.
I am pleased to have been nominated to serve on the Steering Committee of the Alliance. The Alliance is in a unique position to lobby central administration to promote the aspects of the university that matter to us…. research, teaching, and service; the Alliance could be more effective by holding regular meetings with University administrators. The Alliance should represent the entire faculty and can do so uniquely because of its independence from the many Colleges, Schools and Departments of IU. I will work toward improving the links between the Alliance and central administration.
With resources becoming scarcer in future years, the faculty of IU need a strong voice in how those resources will be used to promote excellence. It would be great if the Alliance could be that voice.
IUPUI
Steering Committee:
Dr. Del Priore received his B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Philosophy from The City University of New york (1983), his M.D. with Distinction in Research from The State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn (1987) and his M.P.H. in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Illinois School of Public Health (1993).
Dr. Del Priore’s post-graduate training included a Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Strong Memorial Hospital; OB/GYN residency at the Northwestern University School of Medicine, Prentice Women’s Hospital; and fellowships such as "Frontiers in Reproduction: Molecular Biology Techniques", an NIH funded program at the Marine Biology Institute, Woodshole, MA; a Galloway Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a History of Medicine Fellowship at the Osler Library of McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Prior to joining the Indiana University School of Medicine faculty in 2010, Dr. Del Priore served as Vice-President of Research and Chairman of the IRB at the New York Downtown Hospital. He was also Fellowship Director for the New York State Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program, Director of Gynecologic Oncology, and Associate Residency Program Director at the NY Downtown Hospital.
I have been a member of the Alliance Steering Committee since October 2009. The Steering Committee has sought to generate new ideas and advocate for policies that advance the goals of excellence in all aspects of University life. The importance of strong representation of the faculty is greater than ever in these challenging times. I would be happy to continue to represent you as a member of the Steering Committee.
The Alliance has the opportunity, and the responsibility, to advise the administration as it undertakes actions and makes decisions that alter university life and that shape it's national and international goals. I would like to participate in that process. I have been a researcher throughout my career with appointments in Medicine, Cellular and Integrative Physiology, and Medical Neurobiology. As past President of the Medical School Faculty and Interim Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI, I appreciate the unique strengths of various facets of the university. Making them function synergistically has always been one of my goals.
Linda Kelly Hill is the M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indianapolis. Professor Kelly Hill received a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1988 and a J.D. from U.Va.'s School of Law in 1992. Professor Kelly Hill joined IU in 2002. She was awarded a Grimes Fellowship in 2005 and 2006.
At IU, Indianapolis, Professor Kelly Hill teaches Conflicts of Law, Family Law, Immigration Law, and Trusts and Estates. Consistent with her teaching, Professor Kelly Hill's scholarship focuses upon how traditional norms regarding family and gender roles have influenced numerous discrete areas of law. Her scholarship regularly explores how such norms affect such legal areas as immigration, domestic violence, sexual harassment and probate. In 2006, Professor Kelly Hill also began an immigration clinic at IU, Indianapolis. Through the work of IU's upper level J.D. and L.L.M. students, the Immigration Clinic is providing pro bono legal representation to Indianapolis' indigent immigrant community.
I’m interested in what we can do as a group to foster academic excellence at IU, especially in research and creative activity. I also think that it’s very important to enhance the shared sense of academic mission across the various IU campuses, especially the two main campuses at Bloomington and Indianapolis.