| Dr. James H. Wyche,
former executive director of the Leadership Alliance and associate
provost at Brown University, has been appointed Vice Provost and
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University
of Miami (UM), effective August 1, 2002. Dr. Wyche, who was
the Alliance's director since its inception in 1992, spent last
year as the interim president of our member institution Tougaloo
College in Jackson, Mississippi.
For 14 years, Dr. Wyche was an associate provost and professor
of medical science in the department of molecular biology, cell
biology and biochemistry at Brown University. At UM, he will run
the largest of the university's 14 schools and colleges. According
to The Miami Herald, Dr. Wyche's new position makes him the first
African American dean of an undergraduate school in UM's 75-year
history.
"Dr. Wyche is a fine scientist and noted academic leader,"
said UM President Donna E. Shalala. "We will benefit tremendously
from his expertise and leadership on the issues of science and
diversity in higher education."
Dr. Wyche, who will continue to lead a research team at UM, is
a nationally and internationally known researcher in the field
of cell biology as well as an active member of the American Society
for Cell Biology and the American Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology.
"James Wyche is a great scientist and a born leader,"
said Dr. Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, Founder of the Leadership Alliance and a member of
its External Board. "(UM is) getting a hard-working, conscientious,
collegial, well-connected straight-shooter—a man of integrity."
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