Lincoln (Neb.) - Sept. 1, 2000 - Four candidates for the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will visit the campus this month.
David Brinkerhoff, acting senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the four candidates and the dates of their visits are: William J. Frawley, chair of the department of linguistics at the University of Delaware. Sept. 10-12; Richard J. Hoffmann, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Albany, Sept. 20-22; W.J. "Jim" Lewis, professor and chair of mathematics and statistics at UNL, Sept. 24-26; and Russell S. Tomlin, associate dean of humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon, Sept. 17-19.
UNL seeks a replacement for Brian Foster, who left in the spring to become vice president and provost at the University of New Mexico. Linda Pratt, chair of the English department, is the interim dean of Arts and Sciences.
Frawley has been at Delaware since 1979 and has served as chair of linguistics since 1994. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude in English from Glassboro (N.J.) State University (1975), then earned his master's degree in linguistics at Louisiana State University (1975) and his doctorate in linguistics at Northwestern University (1979). He joined the Delaware faculty as assistant professor of English in 1979 and was promoted to associate professor of English in 1982 and professor of linguistics in 1986. Frawley served five summers as a visiting lecturer in institutions in Poland, Hungary and Morocco and was a Fulbright professor in English at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, in 1985-86. His research has been in the areas of semantics, psycholinguistics, discourse and text structure. He holds joint appointments in cognitive science and English. Frawley is the author of four books, the editor of five, and the author of numerous scholarly articles and papers.
Hoffmann has been dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY-Albany since 1998. A biologist, he earned his bachelor's degree with high honors at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., in (1969) and his master's (1971) and doctorate (1974) at Stanford University. After a year as postdoctoral scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant professor of biological sciences. He moved on to Iowa State University as associate professor of zoology and genetics in 1980 and was promoted to professor in 1987. In his 18 years at ISU, Hoffmann served as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1993 to 1997 and interim dean of the college in 1997-98. In the 1989-90 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan on a Mid-career Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1990, Hoffmann is well-known for his work on the genetics of adaptation. His research has been supported continuously by outside funds, primarily from the National Science Foundation.
Lewis has been a member of the Nebraska faculty since 1971 and chair of the department of mathematics and statistics since 1988. He earned his bachelor's (1966) and doctoral (1971) degrees in mathematics at Louisiana State University. He came to Nebraska as an assistant professor in 1971 and was promoted to associate professor in 1976 and professor in 1993. Lewis has been active in the advancement of elementary, secondary and undergraduate education in mathematics and the sciences. He was co-author of a $10 million National Science Foundation grant that established the Nebraska Math and Science Initiative (1991-98) and co-author of a $1 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute undergraduate biological sciences education grant (1994-97). Most-recently, he co-authored (with Teachers College professors Ruth Heaton and Patience Fisher) a $200,000 NSF grant, "Math Matters: Improving Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education in Nebraska, 2000-2002." Among his many awards, he received the 1997 Erasmus Correll Award from the Lincoln-Lancaster Women's Commission and the 1996 Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women Award. He received a UNL Distinguished Teaching Award in 1979 and has been honored eight times by the UNL Parents Association with Awards for Contributions to Students.
Tomlin has been on the Oregon faculty since 1979 and has been
associate dean of humanities since 1996. He earned his bachelor's degree
with honors (1973) in philosophy and English literature at Knox College
in Galesburg, Ill., and earned his master's (1975) and doctoral (1979)
degrees in linguistics at the University of Michigan. He went to Oregon
as a visiting assistant professor of linguistics in 1979 and was promoted
to assistant professor in 1980, associate professor in 1988 and professor
in 1995. He served as head of the department of linguistics in 1995-96.
Tomlin spent the 1998-89 academic year as a visiting professor of
linguistics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Among his research
activities, he has authored or co-authored numerous scholarly articles
and papers, edited or co-edited five books and has received National
Science Foundation grants for his work in cognitive linguistics.
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