The Division of the Biological Sciences is proud to announce the appointment of S. Murray Sherman, Ph.D., as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, effective July 1, 2004. Dr. Sherman joins us from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was the Leading Professor of Neurobiology and of Anatomy in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior.

Dr. Sherman received his B.S. in Biology from the California Institute of Technology in 1965 and his Ph.D. in Anatomy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship as an NRSA Postdoctoral fellow in P.O. Bishop’s laboratory in the Department of Physiology of the Australian National University. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Virginia in 1972 and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor in 1975 and Professor in 1978. In 1979 he joined SUNY at Stony Brook, where he has remained until present, assuming the Leading Professorship in 1990.

Dr. Sherman has focused his internationally recognized research program on aspects of vision, using animal models with anatomical, physiological, pharmacological, and behavioral approaches to reveal neural substrates of processing in the central visual pathways. More recently, his work has focused in thalamus and thalamocortical interactions, and it has extended from the visual system into other aspects of thalamocortical interactions, such as those in the somatosensory pathways.

The Division is pleased to welcome Dr. Sherman into its leadership ranks.

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