Heads of EOAS and Microbiology and Immunology appointed

Roger Beckie, an internationally recognized groundwater hydrologist, has been appointed head of the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. The appointment is effective July 1, 2014. Beckie has taught a wide variety of lecture, lab and field-based geological engineering courses, and has mentored more than 100 undergraduate students, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars.

Michael Gold has accepted a second five-year term as head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology effective July 1, 2014. Click here for more information.