Elizabeth S. Boylan

Provost
Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Biology
Barnard College

Elizabeth S. Boylan was named Barnard's Provost and Dean of the Faculty in July, 1995, and is also a professor of Biology with tenure. She also currently serves as Trustee and Chair of the Finance Committee of METRO, the New York Metropolitan Research and Reference Library Agency.

Provost Boylan came to Barnard from Queens College/CUNY where she was Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Programs. On the faculty at Queens College for 22 years, she joined the Provost's office in 1988 and served as Acting Provost in 1992-93. She spent the following year as an American Council on Education Fellow at Pace University with President Patricia 0. Ewers.

A developmental biologist and cancer researcher, Provost Boylan earned a Ph.D. in Zoology from Cornell University and a Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences from Wellesley College. She holds a U.S. patent and has been a consultant for, among others, the National Cancer Institute, the National Science Foundation and the American Cancer Society.