APPOINTMENTS TO NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2003

Geoffrey Greene, Professor in the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Cancer Research Center, the Committee on Cancer Biology, and the College, as the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor
Richard Fessler, Professor in the Department of Surgery and Section Chief of Neurosurgery, as the John Harper Seeley Professor

Arthur Haney, Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, as the Catherine Lindsay Dobson Professor
Susan Kidwell, Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College, as the William Rainey Harper Professor in the College
Harinder Singh, Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Committees on Cancer Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Immunology, the Cancer Research Center and the College, as a Louis Block Professor
Chun-Su Yuan, Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, as the Cyrus Tang Professor

FACULTY PROMOTIONS EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2003

Deborah Burnet, Department of Medicine, from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
Stephen Kron, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor

NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2003 TO JUNE 30, 2003

Ioannis Aifantis, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Elaine Petrof, Instructor, Medicine
Shirley Baron, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Kenan Qin, Instructor, Pediatrics
Laura DiGiovanni, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology Shalini Reddy, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Stephen Dinwiddie, Professor, Psychiatry
Miriam Redleaf, Assistant Professor, Surgery
Catherine Dubeau, Associate Professor, Medicine
Sirimon Reutrakul, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Arthur Haney, Professor and Chairman, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Carol Semrad, Associate Professor, Medicine
Mark Hostetler, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Bradley Stolbach, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Carl Maki, Assistant Professor, Radiation & Cellular Oncology
Jerome Taxy, Professor, Pathology

The BSD aims Action Planning Process Concludes
The aims for BSD Action Planning Committees concluded deliberations and submitted their final report to Dean Madara on June 9th, 2003....

BSD Teams Sparkle in New Venture Challenge
Sixty teams began this year's Edward L. Kaplan New Venture Challenge, a business plan competition sponsored by the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business...

Discoveries
A 161 million-year-old Mongolian fossil not only reveals a new species of salamanders, but also provides proof that much of the evolution of salamanders occurred in Asia...

Aims Updates
Removal of Public Distinction of Title, Modest Expansion of the Research Faculty, Academic Affairs, Cost Reduction...

EDUCATION
Holly Humphrey, M.D., Professor in the Department of Medicine, Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and Associate Dean of Students in the Pritzker School of Medicine, was named the new Dean of Medical Education...

FOREFRONT
Emile Bacha, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, has performed two remarkable surgical firsts in the last 6 months...

DEVELOPMENT
The BSD and the Hospitals are major partners in The Chicago Initiative, the University's current campaign to raise $2 billion. Within the Initiative, $550 million is set as the target for Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life, the combined BSD/UCH effort...

ACCOLADES
Recent Awards and Grants Information for Biological Sciences Division Faculty

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Recent Recruitemnts and Appointments of Biological Sciences Division Faculty

Dollars & Sense
BSD met its financial targets for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003. Preliminary results indicate...

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