Senate elects new officers, Bircher wins presidency
Nicholas G. Bircher, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, has been elected president of the University Senate for 2003-2004.
Succeeding Bircher as the Senate’s vice president will be Irene Hanson Frieze, a professor of psychology, business administration and women’s studies. Josephine E. Olson, a professor of business administration and economics, has been re-elected as Senate secretary.
Their one-year terms begin July 1.
Elected to Faculty Assembly for 2003-2006 were:
Jay W. Sukits of the College of Business Administration; Ellen Ansell, education; the English department’s Philip K. Wion, representing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) humanities division; Robert Daley of computer science and Lewis Jacobson of biological sciences, representing the FAS natural sciences division; Michael Goodhart of political science and Janelle Greenberg of history, representing the FAS social sciences division; Roger R. Flynn, information sciences; Kevin Deasy, law; Guy Salama, medicine; Steven H. Belle, public health; Tracy M. Soska, social work, and Marian C. Hampton, University Library System.
Assembly members’ terms begin July 1. Members serve the first year of their three-year terms on Faculty Assembly. During their second and third years, they serve on both the faculty-only Assembly and on Senate Council, which includes faculty, staff, students and administrators.
— Bruce Steele
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