Department of Biology Committee & Representative Assignments 2007-2008
| Committee Name and Function | Members |
| Department Chair |
Joe Tomasso |
| Associate Chair for Graduate Programs Chairs Graduate Committee, administers Biology graduate faculty, advisor for General Biology MS & MA students, responsible for instructional assistant assignments. |
Daivd Lemke |
| Associate Chair for Departmental Affairs Assists Chair with scheduling classes, space allocation, work-load allocation, budget development, assessment of programs, departmental PPSs. Chairs the Undergraduate Committee. |
Joe Koke |
| College Recruiting Committee Representative | Weston Nowlin |
| Student Speaker Committee Representative | Tim Bonner |
| College Review Committee for REP (elected annually by T & TT faculty) | TBD |
| Internship Coordinator | Randy Simpson |
| Goldwater Scholarship Committee Representative | Bon McLean |
| Bobcat Days Representative | David Von Miller |
| College Review Group for T&P Representative (3-yr term, elected by T & TT faculty 8/17/07) | Gary Aron |
| Second PhD Lead | Chris Nice, Joe Koke & Paula Williamson (provide advice) |
| Library Committee Representative | David Lemke |
| Assessment | Butch Weckerly & Joe Koke |
| Faculty Liason (elected annually by T & TT faculty) | TBD |
| Curator of Botanical Specimens (University appointed title) | David Lemke |
| Curator of Paleobotanical Collections (University appointed title | Gary Upchurch |
| Curator of Vertebrate Collections (University appointed title) | Mike Forstner |
| IACUC (Standing University Committee) | Michael Forstner (Chair), Dana Garcia, Clay Green |
| JAMP (Standing College of Science Committee) | Dede Armentrout, Joe Koke, Dittmar Hahn |
| Science Newsletter / web page news | Clay Green |
| Audio-Visual point of contact | Dan Smith |
| Freeman Building Operations Committee (Standing, meets monthly or as required) To act as an advisory committee to the Field Station Director and the Department Chair, oversee academic and physical use and upkeep of Freeman Building. Also includes the functions of the old Ed Cape Seminar Committee and the Ponds Committee. |
Tim Bonner (Chair & Director) David Hurrman Glen Longley Vince Lopes Weston Nowlin Walter Rast Yixin Zhang TBA Graduate Student |
| Awards Day Committee (Standing, meets annually) To organize, plan and program the annual Awards Day ceremony that occurs in late April. |
David Lemke (Co-chair) Weston Nowlin (Co-chair) Dede Armentrout Robert McLean Thoniot Prabhakaran |
| Biology Land & Properties Use Committee (Standing, meets monthly) To track, control access, and provide chair with timely reports regarding the location and status of the various properties owned and/or administered by the Biology Department. Includes properties that others own or oversee, but to which Biology faculty have access. |
Mike Forstner (Chair) John Baccus Tim Bonner Clay Green Glen Longley Michael Huston Francis Rose TBA Student |
| Budget Committee (Standing, meets monthly or as required) To monitor Departmental budgets and make recommendations regarding capital requests by faculty members. |
Bob McLean (chair) joe Koke Walter Rast Weston Nowlin Ruth Taylor Shane Pierce TBA student |
| Computers & Networking Committee (Standing, meets monthly) To administer, oversee, and maintain the Departmental computer room, High performance Cluster, Departmental GIS stations, Departmental network hardware & software. includes day-to-day maintenance of Departmental web sites. Coordinate applications for University computer funds. |
Joe Koke (Chair) Gary Aron David Huffman Mike Forstner Susan Schwinning Butch Weckerly Ruth Taylor Dan Smith Agata Hebbe (Departmental Webmaster) Student Webmaster |
| Curriculum Committee (Standing, meets as needed and as required by University calendar) To approve and coordinate Departmental curriculum changes including new course requests in compliance with the University academic calendar. |
Joe Koke (chair) Gary Aron Tim Bonner Chris Nice Julie Westerlund Jogn Baccus Randy Simpson TBA Student |
| Development Committee (Standing, meets as required) To monitor and coordinate Department's development accounts and MOUs, Work with Development Officer to use endowment funds in efficient way to support Biology programs, faculty and students. |
Walter Rast (chair) Tim Bonner Mike Forstner Al Groeger COS development Officer (Melinda Braun) David Lemke Associate Dean of Science (Dana Garcia) Associate Dean of Graduate School (Paula Williamson) TBA Student |
| Graduate Committee (Standing, meets weekly as required) To schedula regular meetings to oversee the Department's Graduate programs (includes special appeals and conflict resolution), determine admissions, monitor IA assignments. |
David Lemke (Chair) John Baccus Mike Forstner Dana Garcia (ex officio) Tim Bonner Dittmar Hahn Joe Koke Vince Lopes Jim Ott Walter Rast TBA Students (1 MS, 1 PhD) |
| Greenhouse Committee (Standing, meets as required) To oversee and maintain the existing greenhouse and plan new greenhouse. |
Chris Nice (Chair) Tina Cade (Agriculture) Nihal Dharmasiri Dittmar Hahn Michael Huston Jim Ott Susan Schwinning Gary Upchurch |
| Personnel Committee (Standing, meets as required) Reviews and makes recommendations regarding hiring, awarding of tenure and promoting of tenure-track faculty members |
Robert McLean (Chair, elected by members of the Committee to three-year term) tenured faculty |
| Safety Committee (Standing, meets as required) Perform periodic safety inspections and ensure compliance with University, State and Federal regulations. Manage waste stream issues, coordinate hazardous material storage and disposal, and to maintain open dialog with the Office of Risk management. |
Sandra West (Chair) Al Groeger Dittmar Hahn Francis Rose Charles Laferre Chad Thomas |
| Seminar Committee (Standing, meets monthly) To solicit nominations for the departmental seminar serias and schedual and arrange seminars. | Caitlin Gabor & Chris Nice (co-chairs) Nihal Dharmasiri Bob McLean Noland Martin Weston Nowlin TBA students (1 MS, 1 PhD) |
| Space Committee (Standing, meets as required) Maintains a Biology space inventory, periodically monitors space usage in comparison to funding, student supervision and scholarly activity. Recieves and makes recommendations regarding changes in space allocation. |
Mike Forstner (chair) Randy Simpson Weston Nowlin Walter Rast Francis Rose Dana Garcia |
| Target of Opportunity (Standing, meets as needed) Evaluates potential nominees identified either by members of the Committee or by members of the Faculty. Presents potential nominees to the Faculty with recommendations on actions (nominate or not) |
Francis Rose (Chair) Jim Ott Noland Martin Susan Schwinning Clay Green Nihal Dharmasiri |
| Tenure / Promotion / Continuance Committee (Standing) Mentors and tracks tenure-track faculty, meets with and reviews areas of concern 0 both of faculty and faculty member, reports to Personnel Committee at continuance meeting. |
David Lemke (Chair) Gary Aron Caitlin Gabor Michael Huston Julie Westerlund (relieved this year) |
| Undergraduate Committee (Standing, meets as needed) Oversee undergraduate programs, coordinate section offerings, considers prerequisites, assists Chair with schedules and teaching loads, evaluates undergraduate scholarship applicants. Maintains five subcommittees: academic advising, asessment, colloquium, Tri Beta sponsorship (Nice & Gabor), undergraduate research |
Joe Koke (Chair) Nihal Dharmasiri Clay Green Caitlin Gabor Francis Horne Weston Nowlin Noland Martin Chris Nice Susan Schwinning Tim Bonner David Von Miller Sandra West TBA undergraduate |
| Vehicle Use Committee (Standing) Makes policy for and monitors Deparmental vehicles. Also considers requests for out-of-state vehicle use |
Tim Bonner & Clay Green (co-chairs) Yixin Zhang Noland Martin Charles Laferre Susan Schwinning Randy Simpson |
| Degree Program Advisors | |
| MA & MS Biology | David Lemke |
| MS Aquatic Resources | Tim Bonner |
| MS Wildlife Ecology | John Baccus |
| MS Population & Conservation Biology | Jim Ott |
| MSIS General Elementary or Math/Science/Technology | Sandra West |
| ME Biology | Sandra West |
| PhD Aquatic Resources | Walter Rast |