The University of Georgia has announced a field of four finalists for the position of dean of the Graduate School. All four candidates will visit the Athens campus by the end of the first week in April for a series of interviews and public forums. Three of the four candidates are women.
Suzanne E. Barbour is program director in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the National Science Foundation. From 1993 to 2013, Dr. Barbour served on the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Dr. Barbour is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she majored in chemistry. She holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology and genetics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Carolyn Drews-Botch is professor and vice chair of academic affairs in the department of epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Drews-Botch has been on the Emory University faculty since 1988. She was named an associate professor in 1993 and a full professor in 2012. Professor Drews-Botch is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego. She holds a master of public health degree and a Ph.D. in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Juli S. Wade is a professor and chair of the department of psychology at Michigan State University in East Lansing. She has been on the faculty at the university since 1995. Dr. Wade is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Texas and conducted postdoctoral work at the Brain Research Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles.