SENATE From the Senate Office

Under the Faculty Senate Rules, formal notification to members may be accomplished by publication in Almanac. The following is published under that rule.

TO: Members of the Faculty Senate
FROM: Mitchell Marcus, Chair
SUBJECT: Senate Nominations 2002-2003

1. In accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules, official notice is given of the Senate Nominating Committee’s slate of nominees for the incoming Senate Officers. The nominees, all of whom have indicated their willingness to serve, are:

Barry Cooperman (prof chemistry)
Horace DeLisser (asst prof pulmonary & critical care/medicine)
Howard Goldfine (prof microbiology/medicine)
David P. Pope (prof materials science & engineering)

At-large Member of the Senate Executive Committee (to serve a 1-year term beginning upon election):

Lynn H. Lees (prof history)

One Assistant Professor Member of the Senate Executive Committee (to serve a 2-year term beginning upon election):

Sudipto Guha (asst prof computer & information science)

Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election):

Arthur L. Caplan (Trustee prof bioethics/medicine)
Madeleine M. Joullie (prof chemistry)
Martin Pring (assoc prof physiology/medicine)

Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (to serve a 2-year term beginning upon election):

John W. Fantuzzo (prof education)

Senate Committee on Conduct (to serve a 2-year term beginning upon election):

David B. Brownlee (prof history of art)
Susan Gennaro (prof nursing)
Judy Meinkoth (assoc prof pharmacology/medicine)

Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election):

Jere Behrman (prof economics)
Linda Brown (prof nursing)

2. Again in accord with the Senate Rules you are invited to submit "additional nominations, which shall be accomplished via petitions containing at least twenty-five valid names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received no later than fourteen days subsequent to the circulation of the nominees of the Nominating Committee. Nominations will automatically be closed fourteen days after circulation of the slate of the Nominating Committee." Due to the lateness of publication of the slate the deadline for petitions has been extended. Petitions must be received by mail at the Faculty Senate, Box 12 College Hall/6303, or by hand at the Faculty Senate Office, 109 Duhring Wing by 5 p.m., Tuesday, August 13, 2002.

3. Under the same provision of the Senate Rules, if no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Nominating Committee will be declared elected. Should additional nominations be received, an election will thereafter be held by mail ballot.