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Columns::September 29, 2003
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Campus News
Arts and sciences dean will step down at end of current academic year
By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
Wyatt Anderson, who has been dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences since 1992, has announced that he will step
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down at the end of June 2004.
Anderson, an authority in genetics who is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, will return to research and teaching in the college.
In announcing his decision, Anderson noted that he told former Provost Karen Holbrook more than a year ago that he wanted to step down. However, when Holbrook left the university this past October to become president of Ohio State University, UGA President Michael F. Adams asked Anderson to stay on until a permanent provost was appointed. Arnett Mace was appointed provost in March.
“It has been both a pleasure and an honor to serve as dean of the Franklin College, and I will leave 12 years of service with fond memories,” Anderson said. “I have genuinely enjoyed working with President Adams and Provost Mace, and I will leave the dean’s office knowing that the university is in good hands with the current group of senior administrators.”
Anderson, who was head of the genetics department before becoming dean, has continued to teach and conduct research while serving as dean and said he has always intended to go back to the classroom and laboratory. He said he wants to devote more time to his current research dealing with the evolution of behavior and the evolutionary aspects of genomics.
Adams calls Anderson “the quintessential arts and sciences dean. He not only has been a team player within the administration, but as dean he has added great value to the degree of every graduate of the college. I fully understand his desire to return to his laboratory. He will be missed in his role as dean, and I wish him well.”
Mace says, “I appreciate Wyatt’s willingness to extend his service a year beyond that which he planned until a permanent provost could be appointed. I am grateful for his outstanding leadership and the distinguished contributions he has made to the college and the university. I thoroughly appreciate his desire to return to, and complete, his research.”
Anderson has devoted most of his scientific career to the study of evolutionary biology--the processes that led to the formation of species and how species adapt. He has studied how environmental conditions can cause genetic changes, and he has created mathematical models that combine ecological concepts like population growth and competition with the population genetics of natural selection. |
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