State of the College of Science

1. State of the College of Science External Advisory and Development Council H. Joseph Newton, Interim Dean April 6, 2001

2. Table of Contents Some Facts majors, semester credit hours, headcounts, doctorates awarded, graduate student recruiting Department Heads Faculty numbers, promotion and tenure, new faculty, current hiring, accomplishments, diversity, losses, research dollars awarded AUF Programs Interdisciplinary Programs Goals

3. College of Science Majors - 2,481 Undergraduate - 1,853 Biology - 1,306 Chemistry 167 Mathematics 298 Physics 82 Graduate - 628 Biology - 98 Chemistry 227 Mathematics 112 Physics 104 Statistics 87 Some Facts

4. Semester Credit Hours - 101,574 Undergraduate - 94,362 Biology - 16,653 Chemistry - 21,814 Mathematics - 36,522 Physics - 13,730 Statistics - 5,643 Graduate - 7,212 Biology - 759 Chemistry - 2,083 Mathematics - 1,440 Physics - 914 Statistics - 2,016 Semester Credit Hours (Fall 2000)

5. 4176 MATH 141 2916 BIOL 113 2608 CHEM 101 2565 MATH 142 2543 BIOL 123 2242 MATH 151 2151 PHYS 218 1932 MATH 152 1902 CHEM 102 1666 MATH 166 1662 PHYS 208 1606 CHEM 107 1536 CHEM 227 1535 BIOL 114 1484 MATH 308 1413 BIOL 124 1385 MATH 251 1338 PHYS 201 1320 STAT 302 1300 CHEM 228 1295 CHEM 237 1272 MATH 131 1218 STAT 303 1095 CHEM 238 1053 STAT 211 Headcounts, Calendar Year 2000

6. CHEM - 397 ELEN - 252 EPSY - 206 MEEN - 189 CVEN - 180 SCSC - 166 ANSC - 154 EHRD - 151 EDCI - 143 CPSC - 137 CHEN - 135 INEN - 134 EDAD - 129 BIOL - 127 WFSC - 115 PSYC - 113 PHYS - 113 BCBP - 102 AGEC - 93 ENGL - 89 ECON - 88 OCNG - 85 PETE - 81 VTPB - 73 ENTO - 72 HLKN - 71 VTPP - 69 STAT - 66 NUEN - 65 MATH - 64 Doctorates Awarded in Last 10 years

7. Graduate Student Recruiting

8. Table of Department Heads

9. Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty

10. Promotion & Tenure • Tenured and promoted to Full Professor • Olga Kocharovskaya (Physics) • Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor • Vickie DeRose (Chemistry) • Bruce Riley (Biology) • Ken Dykema (Mathematics) • Promoted to Full Professor • Glenn Agnolet (Physics) • Gary Sulikowski (Chemistry) • Naisyin Wang (Statistics) • Promoted to Senior Lecturer • Rita Moyes (Biology)

11. New Faculty 2000-2001 • Biology • Philip Youderian - full professor • Andreas Holzenburg - full professor • Mathematics • Ciprian Foias - full professor • Maurice Rojas - assistant professor • Statistics • Gerda Claeskens - assistant professor

12. Current Hiring 2001-2002 • Biology • One assistant professor has accepted so far. • Chemistry • One assistant professor has accepted so far. • Mathematics • Six assistant professors, one full have accepted so far. • Physics • Starting to make offers. • Statistics • One assistant professor has accepted so far.

13. Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall Meeting • Biology • Vincent M. Cassone • University Faculty Fellow • Susan S. Golden • Elected to the Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology • Chemistry • F. Albert Cotton • Honorary D.Sc. From Universitat Jaume, Spain • Honorary doctorate from NC - State - (his 25th honorary degree and the most for any A&M faculty member) • ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry • Lavoisier Medal of the French Chemical Society

14. Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall Meeting • Chemistry (continued) • Paul Cremer • 2001 NSF CAREER Award • 2000 3M Nontenured faculty award • 2000 ONR Young Investigator Award • Beckman Young Investigators Award • John P. Fackler • ACS Award for Distinguished service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry • University Distinguished Lecturer - 2000-2001 • Francois Gabbai • 2001 NSF CAREER Award

15. Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall Meeting • Chemistry (continued) • Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt • AFS Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching • Jaan Laane • 2000 Honorary Doctorate University of Tartu, Estonia • Sherry Yennello • University Faculty Fellow • Mathematics • David Dobson • Felix Klein Award • University Faculty Fellow

16. Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall Meeting • Mathematics (cont.) • Catherine Yan • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow • Physics • Carl A. Gagliardi • AFS Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching • Dimitri V. Nanopoulos • Named a Member of the Highly Cited Researchers by the Institute for Scientific Information • Valery Pokrovsky • AFS Distinguished Achievement Award for Research • Suhail Zubairy • Khwarizmi International Award by the Government of Iran

17. Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall Meeting • Statistics • Raymond Carroll • NIH Training Grant • P. Frederick Dahm • AFS Distinguished Achievement Award for Individual Student Relations • James Matis • Fullbright Fellowship Award • Larry Ringer • Paul Minton Distinguished Service Award from Southern Regional Council on Statistics

18. Faculty Accomplishments Since Fall Meeting • Statistics (continued) • William Smith • Named Executive Director of the American Statistical Association • Marina Vannucci • 2001 NSF CAREER Award • Soujin Wang • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences

19. Faculty Diversity & Losses • Tenured or Tenure-TrackedFaculty • Female • Biology - 7 (1 asst., 4 assoc., 2 full) • Chemistry - 4 (1 asst., 1 assoc., 2 full) • Mathematics - 4 (2 asst., 1 assoc., 1 full) • Physics - 1 (full) • Statistics - 4 (3 asst., 0 assoc, 1 full) • Minorities • Biology - 1 (assistant) • Chemistry - 1(full) • Mathematics - 4 (1 asst., 2 assoc, 1 full) • Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Losses • In the last 4 years, the College has lost 16 who it tried to retain.

20. Research Money

21. AUF Programs ($20M/year) • University Faculty Fellows • In first round, Science received 3 out of 12 • Vincent Cassone (Biology) • Sherry Yennello (Chemistry) • David Dobson (Mathematics) • New Faculty Lines for Programmatic Initiatives • 8 of 32 awarded • New Graduate Student Lines for Programmatic Initiatives • 11 of 43 awarded • Chairs • Gradipore-AUF Chair

22. AUF Programs ($20M/year) • Large amount of $3.5M life sciences initiatives. • $2M telecommunications/informatics initiatives proposals submitted. • Arts & Sciences task force recently submitted their final report recommending a series of steps to strengthen arts and sciences.

23. Interdisciplinary Programs • Information Technology in Science - Center for Teaching and Learning • Institute for Quantum Studies • Bioinformatics • Telecommunications/Informatics • Center for Integrated Micro Systems • Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering • Center for Environmental and Rural Health • Center for Mathematics and Science Education • Technology Mediated Instruction Working Group

24. Goals • Return tenured and tenure-track faculty to full strength without compromising service teaching effectiveness. • Increase quantity and quality of graduate students • Increase number of women and minority faculty. • Continue to find creative ways to address the shortage of teachers in mathematics and science. • Provide tools for faculty members who are interested in using technology-mediated instruction for their classes. • Continue to work with the A&M Foundation to find successful matches of donors and giving opportunities.