At its meeting of December 5th, 2019, the University's Board of Governors approved a proposal to divide the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the Okanagan Campus (also known as the Barber School of Arts and Sciences) into two autonomous new faculties. As a result, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science will be established on the Okanagan Campus in July 2020.
This an election for the remaining one (1) position for a faculty member to serve on the Committee for the Selection for the Dean of the new Faculty of Science. Three faculty members were acclaimed as elected in the first round of nominations: Karen Hodges, Edward Hornibrook and Ramon Lawrence.
Eligiblilty
The Departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth Environmental and Geographic Sciences; and, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics will be transferred to the new Faculty of Science upon its establishment in July 2020.
Eligible faculty members are all persons with the rank of professor, associate professor or assistant professor, instructors, senior instructors, lecturers and professors of teaching are eligible. Clinical, adjunct, emeritus, sessional, partner, and honorary faculty are not eligible.
Polls closed at 4pm on Monday, February 10th, 2020.
Candidate Information
Karen Perry, Associate Professor, Chemistry
I am an Associate Professor in Chemistry- my current role is as Acting Head of the department. I have been teaching at this institution for 20 years, first at OUC and then at UBC-Okanagan. During that time, I have sat on or chaired many hiring committees. I have a BSc (Biology) from UVic, a BASc (Chemical Engineering) from UBC-V, and a PhD (Geochemical Oceanography) also from UBC-V. I teach environmental and analytical chemistry and the focus of my research is geochemical limnology and oceanography.
Christina Haston, Professor, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
Questions
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