Great Valley CEO recommended to head Capital College
Madlyn
L. Hanes, campus executive officer of Penn
State Great Valley, School of Graduate Professional Studies, and associate
dean of The Graduate School, has been recommended as provost and dean
of Penn State's Capital College, effective July 1. The Board of Trustees
will act on the recommendation at its next meeting, Jan. 21. Capital College
comprises two campuses, Penn State Harrisburg and Penn State Schuylkill.
Hanes is on leave during the 1999/2000 academic year, serving as senior adviser to the chancellor at the University of Georgia System.
As CEO at Great Valley, she has responsibility for the overall administrative and academic strategic directions and operations of the campus, including fiscal and facilities planning, fund raising and external relations with community and business organizations, including campus and institutional partnerships.
Hanes, who joined Penn State in 1988, also was director of academic affairs at the Penn State Delaware County campus from 1988 to 1997. During that time she also served as chief academic officer at Great Valley from 1995-96 and was chair of the Commission for Undergraduate Education for the University from 1992-95. Hanes was the recipient of the University's Administrative Excellence Award in 1998, and was named Visionary of the Year by the Great Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce in 1999.
Hanes joined Penn State from the University of South Carolina, where she was director of graduate studies in the College of Education, among other posts.
She is well-published in the areas of language development and teacher education.
Hanes graduated from the University of Florida, where she received a bachelor's degree in English education in 1969, a master's degree in speech and language pathology in 1973 and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction in 1976. She also was licensed in speech and language pathology by the Professional Services Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 1976.
Health and Human Development appoints new dean
Raymond
Thomas Coward, dean of the School of Health
and Human Services and professor of health management and policy, social
work and family studies at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), has
been recommended to be dean of the College of Health and Human Development,
effective July 1. The Board of Trustees will act on the recommendation
at its next meeting, Jan. 21.
At UNH, Coward oversees the fiscal, academic and administrative operations of the second largest academic unit on campus.
A specialist in gerontology, rural health and community services, he is the author or co-author of seven books and more than 100 book chapters and journal articles. He is currently associate editor of the Journal of Applied Gerontology and was the founding editor of the Journal of Rural Health.
Before becoming dean of the School of Health and Human Services, Coward was the director of the Institute for Gerontology at the University of Florida where he was a member of the faculty of the College of Medicine from 1989 to 1997. He also taught at the University of Vermont for eight years and Purdue University from 1975 to 1978, where he also was director of research for the Child Development Laboratories, and was a senior research associate at the National Institute of Education.
His primary research interests are in the development, delivery and evaluation of health and human services. He has served as an expert witness and consultant to state and federal agencies and legislative bodies with responsibilities in social welfare and health and human services planning.
Coward received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the College of New Jersey in 1968 and 1970, respectively, his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1974 and a master's of social work from McGill University in 1986.
Schreyer Institute director to assume duties on July 1
Renata
S. Engel, associate professor of engineering
design and graphics and engineering science and mechanics at Penn State,
has been appointed director of the Schreyer Institute for Innovation in
Learning. She will assume her new position on July 1.
Supported in part by a gift from William and Joan Schreyer, the Institute was established in 1995 as a laboratory for experiments that create new classrooms, new instructional designs and other new ventures in learning and teaching.
In her role as director, Engel will serve as the principal academic leader of the institute, reporting to the executive vice president and provost of the University.
Engel has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 1990, and holds a University Faculty Senate term through this year.
Engel has received the University's 1999 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1997 Penn State Engineering Society Award for Outstanding Teaching. She was a member of the winning team for the 1998 Boeing Outstanding Educator Award.
Engel earned a B.S. degree in engineering science from Penn State in 1982 and a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from the University of South Florida in 1988.
Engel replaces Larry Spence, who will step down as director of the institute on June 30.
Acting head of Social Sciences Library is now permanent
Debora
Cheney has been named head of the Social
Sciences Library in the University Libraries. While acting in the position
for the past two years, Cheney coordinated and managed the integration
of services, collections and librarians from the General Reference Section
and the Documents/Maps Section to create the Social Sciences Library.
Cheney will continue to serve as coordinator of the U.S. document collection
and as political science selector.
Cheney has been a University Libraries faculty member since 1990. Her previous positions include head of the Documents/Maps Section and documents librarian/cataloger. Before coming to Penn State, Cheney served as a reference librarian, microcomputer support coordinator and database searching coordinator at Bucknell University.
Cheney's other professional experience includes serving as associate editor and advisory board member for the Journal of Government Information and as liaison to the Federal Depository Library Program, in which Penn State participates. She also developed and wrote "Citation Help Text" for Congressional Universe, a Web-based database produced by the Congressional Information Service.
Cheney's research has been published in numerous books and journals and she has written chapters for various guides and books.
She holds a B.A. in political science from Penn State and an M.L.S. from the University of Pittsburgh.
University names assistant vice president for research
Gary Weber, former senior vice president, science and technology, at PPG Industries, has joined Penn State as assistant vice president for research and director of technology transfer in the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Weber, a Penn State alumnus, assumed his post Jan. 17 and will provide overall leadership for the University's intellectual property and technology transfer programs. He will be administratively responsible for the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Central and Northern Pennsylvania, the Industrial Research Office, Intellectual Property Office, Penn State Research Park, Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program and the Research Commercialization Office. He also will hold a faculty appointment in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
At PPG Industries, he led all science and technology for the company, including five laboratories. He joined PPG in 1992 as vice president, technology glass, and was promoted to senior vice president, science and technology, in 1994.
Before joining PPG, he was vice president and deputy chief executive, technology and machinery, at General Electric-Tungstram in Budapest, Hungary. He established the lead environmental program in Eastern Europe and was honored with a commendation from GE's chief executive officer and a medal from the Hungarian Academy of Science.
Weber earned his bachelor's degree in ceramic technology at Penn State in 1965 and his doctorate in ceramic science in 1974. He was honored as a Penn State Centennial Fellow in 1996 and as an alumni fellow in 1998.
IST's Solutions Institute announces new director
The
Solutions Institute in the School of Information Sciences and Technology
is gearing up for action with a new director. Frederick
D. Loomis, director of administration, planning
and information technology for continuing and distance education in the
Office of Outreach and Cooperative Extension, will become assistant professor
of IST and institute director, effective March 1.
For the past year-and-a-half, Loomis also has been executive director of the Pa2K Year 2000 Outreach Program in the Governor's Office for Information Technology, and helped develop the Pennsylvania Governor's School for Information Technology and the first statewide Web master certificate program.
Loomis is an alumnus of Penn State with advanced degrees in higher education and public administration. He has been an administrator at Penn State for 12 years.
For more information about the institute, check the Web at http://www.ist.psu.edu/html/solu_inst.html.