The Senate Assembly on Monday elected faculty members from LSA, the College of Pharmacy and the College of Engineering to the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, the executive arm of the university’s faculty governance system.
David Smith
Silke-Maria Weineck
Bill Schultz
Elected to three-year terms were:
• John Lehman, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
• David Smith, John G. Wagner Collegiate Professor of Pharmacy, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• Silke-Maria Weineck, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures, and comparative literature, and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature.
Also elected was Bill Schultz, professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, and naval architecture and marine engineering. He will serve the remaining two years of a term left vacant by the resignation of Laura Olsen, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
A separate election for University Senate secretary was not conducted due to the lack of a quorum of the full University Senate. SACUA is expected to name an interim secretary.
Bob Fraser, librarian at Mardigian Library, UM-Dearborn, was the only candidate for Senate secretary, which is charged with maintaining records for U-M’s faculty governance panels and with keeping the minutes of meetings of the University Senate, Senate Assembly and SACUA.
The Senate Assembly chose the four new SACUA members from among nine candidates. Lehman, Smith and Weineck will begin their terms May 1 and serve through April 30, 2017. Schultz’s term runs through April 30, 2016.
The University Senate consists of all professorial faculty, librarians, full-time research faculty, executive officers and deans. The Senate Assembly consists of 74 elected faculty members from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. SACUA is the nine-member executive arm of the Senate and Senate Assembly.
Also running for SACUA were: Sara Ahbel-Rappe, professor of Greek and Latin, and adjunct associate professor of Near Eastern studies; Dan Burns, professor of mathematics; Kimberlee Jane Kearfott, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, biomedical engineering, and radiology; Janine Maddock, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; and Stefan Szymanski, professor of kinesiology.
Lehman, Smith and Weineck will succeed outgoing members Karen Staller, associate professor of social work; Dr. Charles Koopmann, professor of otorhinolaryngology, and pediatrics and communicable diseases; and Finn Larsen, professor of physics.
The new members will join incumbents Rex Holland, professor of cariology, restorative sciences and endodontics; Scott Masten, professor of business economics and public policy, and adjunct professor of law; Anne Mondro, associate professor of art and design; Sally Oey, professor of astronomy; and Robert Ziff, professor of chemical engineering.
