A Quartet of New Deans

Theresa Tensuan was named dean of multicultural affairs at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Since 2002, she has served as an assistant professor of English.

Dr. Tensuan is a graduate of Haverford College. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Sara L. Campbell is the new dean of the School of Nursing at the University of South Carolina Aiken. She was interim dean for the Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University.

Dr. Campbell holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Illinois State University. She earned a Ph.D. in nursing administration from Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis.

Laurie A. Leshin was appointed dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The appointment is effective on October 1. She was deputy associate administrator of exploration systems for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Dr. Leshin is a graduate of Arizona State University and holds a Ph.D. in geochemistry from California Institute of Technology.

Mary E. Kerr is the new dean at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She also holds the May L. Wykle Endowed Professorship in Nursing. She was the deputy director of the National Institute for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Kerr is a graduate of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. She earned a master’s degree at the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in nursing at Case Western Reserve University.