State of the College of Science
External Advisory and Development
Council
H. Joseph Newton, Interim Dean
April 6, 2001
Table of Contents
Some Facts
majors, semester credit hours, headcounts, doctorates awarded,
graduate student recruiting
Department Heads
Faculty
numbers, promotion and tenure, new faculty, current hiring,
accomplishments, diversity, losses, research dollars awarded
AUF Programs
Interdisciplinary Programs
Goals
Some Facts
College of Science Majors - 2,481
– Undergraduate - 1,853
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Biology - 1,306
Chemistry 167
Mathematics 298
Physics 82
– Graduate - 628
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Biology - 98
Chemistry 227
Mathematics 112
Physics 104
Statistics 87
Semester Credit Hours (Fall 2000)
Semester Credit Hours - 101,574
– Undergraduate - 94,362
– Graduate - 7,212
• Biology - 16,653
• Biology - 759
• Chemistry - 21,814
• Chemistry - 2,083
• Mathematics - 36,522
• Mathematics - 1,440
• Physics - 13,730
• Physics - 914
• Statistics - 5,643
• Statistics - 2,016
Headcounts, Calendar Year 2000
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4176
2916
2608
2565
2543
2242
2151
1932
1902
1666
1662
1606
1536
MATH
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
BIOL
MATH
PHYS
MATH
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
CHEM
CHEM
141
113
101
142
123
151
218
152
102
166
208
107
227
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1535
1484
1413
1385
1338
1320
1300
1295
1272
1218
1095
1053
BIOL
MATH
BIOL
MATH
PHYS
STAT
CHEM
CHEM
MATH
STAT
CHEM
STAT
114
308
124
251
201
302
228
237
131
303
238
211
Doctorates Awarded in Last 10 years
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CHEM
ELEN
EPSY
MEEN
CVEN
SCSC
ANSC
EHRD
EDCI
CPSC
CHEN
INEN
EDAD
BIOL
WFSC
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397
252
206
189
180
166
154
151
143
137
135
134
129
127
115
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PSYC
PHYS
BCBP
AGEC
ENGL
ECON
OCNG
PETE
VTPB
ENTO
HLKN
VTPP
STAT
NUEN
MATH
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113
113
102
93
89
88
85
81
73
72
71
69
66
65
64
Graduate Student Recruiting
Biology
Graduate
AFS
Regents College of Science Deans AUF Tuition Heep
Others
Merit
Graduate
Fellowships
Fellowships
Scholars
Fellows
Matching
Fellowship Fellowship
$
$
$ 14,000 $
40,000 $ 8,000 $ 18,000 $
$ -
Chemistry
$ 34,000
$ 18,000
$
14,000
$
40,000
$ 10,000
$
30,000
$
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Mathematics$
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$
9,000
$
14,000
$
40,000
$
8,000
$
18,000
$
-
$
-
Physics
$
-
$
-
$
14,000
$
40,000
$
8,000
$
18,000
$
-
$
-
Statistics
$ 17,000
$ 12,000
$
14,000
$
40,000
$
8,000
$
18,000
$ 5,000
$ 5,000
$ 51,000
$ 39,000
$
70,000
$
200,000
$ 102,000
$ 5,000
$ 5,000
College Total (all sources) = $ 514,000
$ 42,000
Table of Department Heads
Date of
Date of
DEPT
Name
Appointment Next Review
BIOL
Terry L. Thomas
11/1/94
2001-2002
CHEM Emile A. Schweikert
10/1/94
2001-2001
MATH
William Rundell
9/1/93
2000-2001
PHYS Thomas W. Adair, III 7/16/97
search ongoing
STAT James A. Calvin
1/1/98
2002-2003
Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty
Full
15
36
Associate
14
3
Assistant
5
7
Total
34
46
Mathematics
44
16
8
68
Physics
Statistics
Total
33
17
145
6
5
44
1
3
24
40
25
213
Biology
Chemistry
Promotion & Tenure
• Tenured and promoted to Full Professor
– Olga Kocharovskaya (Physics)
• Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor
– Vickie DeRose (Chemistry)
– Bruce Riley (Biology)
– Ken Dykema (Mathematics)
• Promoted to Full Professor
– Glenn Agnolet (Physics)
– Gary Sulikowski (Chemistry)
– Naisyin Wang (Statistics)
• Promoted to Senior Lecturer
– Rita Moyes (Biology)
New Faculty 2000-2001
• Biology
– Philip Youderian - full professor
– Andreas Holzenburg - full professor
• Mathematics
– Ciprian Foias - full professor
– Maurice Rojas - assistant professor
• Statistics
– Gerda Claeskens - assistant professor
Current Hiring 2001-2002
• Biology
– One assistant professor has accepted so far.
• Chemistry
– One assistant professor has accepted so far.
• Mathematics
– Six assistant professors, one full have accepted so far.
• Physics
– Starting to make offers.
• Statistics
– One assistant professor has accepted so far.
Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall
Meeting
• Biology
– Vincent M. Cassone
• University Faculty Fellow
– Susan S. Golden
• Elected to the Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology
• Chemistry
– F. Albert Cotton
• Honorary D.Sc. From Universitat Jaume, Spain
• Honorary doctorate from NC - State - (his 25th honorary degree and
the most for any A&M faculty member)
• ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
• Lavoisier Medal of the French Chemical Society
Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall
Meeting
• Chemistry (continued)
– Paul Cremer
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2001 NSF CAREER Award
2000 3M Nontenured faculty award
2000 ONR Young Investigator Award
Beckman Young Investigators Award
– John P. Fackler
• ACS Award for Distinguished service in the Advancement of
Inorganic Chemistry
• University Distinguished Lecturer - 2000-2001
– Francois Gabbai
• 2001 NSF CAREER Award
Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall
Meeting
• Chemistry (continued)
– Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt
• AFS Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching
– Jaan Laane
• 2000 Honorary Doctorate University of Tartu, Estonia
– Sherry Yennello
• University Faculty Fellow
• Mathematics
– David Dobson
• Felix Klein Award
• University Faculty Fellow
Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall
Meeting
• Mathematics (cont.)
– Catherine Yan
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
• Physics
– Carl A. Gagliardi
• AFS Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching
– Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
• Named a Member of the Highly Cited Researchers by the
Institute for Scientific Information
– Valery Pokrovsky
• AFS Distinguished Achievement Award for Research
– Suhail Zubairy
• Khwarizmi International Award by the Government of Iran
Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall
Meeting
• Statistics
– Raymond Carroll
• NIH Training Grant
– P. Frederick Dahm
• AFS Distinguished Achievement Award for Individual Student
Relations
– James Matis
• Fullbright Fellowship Award
– Larry Ringer
• Paul Minton Distinguished Service Award from Southern Regional
Council on Statistics
Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall
Meeting
• Statistics (continued)
– William Smith
• Named Executive Director of the American Statistical Association
– Marina Vannucci
• 2001 NSF CAREER Award
– Soujin Wang
• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Faculty Diversity & Losses
• Tenured or Tenure-Tracked Faculty
– Female
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Biology - 7 (1 asst., 4 assoc., 2 full)
Chemistry - 4 (1 asst., 1 assoc., 2 full)
Mathematics - 4 (2 asst., 1 assoc., 1 full)
Physics - 1 (full)
Statistics - 4 (3 asst., 0 assoc, 1 full)
– Minorities
• Biology - 1 (assistant)
• Chemistry - 1(full)
• Mathematics - 4 (1 asst., 2 assoc, 1 full)
• Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Losses
– In the last 4 years, the College has lost 16 who it tried to retain.
Research Money
BIOL
CHEM
MATH
PHYS
STAT
TOTAL
FY97
4,203,672
12,209,624
4,490,421
4,013,022
887,110
25,803,849
FY98
3,242,278
9,739,598
3,567,325
5,375,089
484,652
22,408,942
FY99
4,160,149
16,001,311
1,263,676
3,156,288
585,173
25,166,597
FY00
FY01 (to Feb.)
5,187,839
1,871,988
8,333,786
6,937,000
2,823,320
2,317,192
6,287,048
399,727
1,000,330
250,000
23,632,323
11,775,907
AUF Programs ($20M/year)
• University Faculty Fellows
– In first round, Science received 3 out of 12
• Vincent Cassone (Biology)
• Sherry Yennello (Chemistry)
• David Dobson (Mathematics)
• New Faculty Lines for Programmatic Initiatives
– 8 of 32 awarded
• New Graduate Student Lines for Programmatic Initiatives
– 11 of 43 awarded
• Chairs
– Gradipore-AUF Chair
AUF Programs ($20M/year)
• Large amount of $3.5M life sciences initiatives.
• $2M telecommunications/informatics initiatives proposals
submitted.
• Arts & Sciences task force recently submitted their final report
recommending a series of steps to strengthen arts and sciences.
Interdisciplinary Programs
• Information Technology in Science - Center for Teaching and
Learning
• Institute for Quantum Studies
• Bioinformatics
• Telecommunications/Informatics
• Center for Integrated Micro Systems
• Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering
• Center for Environmental and Rural Health
• Center for Mathematics and Science Education
• Technology Mediated Instruction Working Group
Goals
• Return tenured and tenure-track faculty to full strength without
compromising service teaching effectiveness.
• Increase quantity and quality of graduate students
• Increase number of women and minority faculty.
• Continue to find creative ways to address the shortage of
teachers in mathematics and science.
• Provide tools for faculty members who are interested in using
technology-mediated instruction for their classes.
• Continue to work with the A&M Foundation to find successful
matches of donors and giving opportunities.