A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 20, 2002 New Dean Named For UD College Of Agriculture, Natural Resources NEWARK, Del. Robin W. Morgan, who has served since July as acting dean of the Uni versity of Delaware (UD) College of Agriculture and Natural Re sources, has been named dean of the college, effective July 1, act ing Provost Dan Rich announced March 26. Morgan, a molecular biologist and professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences, joined the UD faculty in 1985. Her research, which she conducts at the University’s Delaware Bio technology Institute, centers on the virus that causes Marek’s dis ease in chickens. “The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources can antic ipate a very bright future under the leadership of Dean Robin Morgan,” Rich said in announc ing the appointment, “and I look forward to continuing to work with her.” He said the search committee, chaired by Engineering Dean Eric W. Kaler, recommended Morgan for the position based on “her strong qualifications as a scholar and teacher and her ex cellent contributions as acting dean contributions that have earned the respect and admira tion of colleagues across the Uni versity and beyond the campus.” The sedrch committee also “made special mention of her open and direct style of commu nications, a quality that enhances her ability to work with the di verse internal and external con stituencies that the college serves,” Rich said. Morgan has served as dean since July, when Dean John Nye left the position and re turned to the faculty. Nye has remained in his role as director of cooperative extension, a job he will continue through June. \The fitpe I spent as gptuif’ dean' yas crit ically' important be- cause it allowed me to the job firsthand,” Morgan said. “It gave me a look at. the dean’s re- sponsibilities and helped me determine some areas on which to focus immediately. It certainly will ease the transition.” Among the priori ties she noted for the college are selecting an associate dean to lead cooperative extension; enhancing the support for graduate pro grams, with a special emphasis on recruiting top students; continu ing the significant con tributions the college makes to the Delaware Biotechnology Insti tute (DBI); and in creasing the number of named professors. Morgan said she plans to launch a search as soon as pos sible to fill the associ ate dean’s position, adding that coopera tive extension is an arm of the college that provides substantial outreach to the agri cultural and broader community in areas from farm manage ment and youth pro grams to nutrient management and poultry health. Of DBI, where a number of the col lege’s faculty members are affiliated researchers, Morgan cited the importance of cross-dis ciplinary work in the sciences. “Some of the most exciting areas of research today involve more than one discipline,” she said. “It’s important to have that collaborative research, and the college is committed to ensuring the success of DBFs program.” The college itself, she said, is stronger than ever, with excellent students, faculty and programs that encompass far more than traditional agricultural subjects. And, with a relatively small un dergraduate population of about 700, students and faculty tend to form close bonds, she said. Morgan said her tenure as act ing dean has enabled her to get to know the larger Delaware agri cultural community, interacting with farmers, business people and policy makers in all three counties. “The opportunity to travel around the state and meet people in the community has been the best part of the past year,” she said. “I’ve met so many people who are so com mitted to agriculture and to the environmental sciences and so willing to work hard that it’s made me even more committed to supporting those efforts.” Morgan said she plans to con tinue her research, working with “my excellent collaborators,” and, although she no longer is able to visit her lab daily, she stops by three or four times a week to oversee the progress of research. She said she has acting stopped teaching “except for a few guest lectures,” but continues to advise about 20 students. “I enjoy teaching very much, and I miss the challenge of being in the classroom,” she said, “but you move on to other things and new challenges.” Morgan is the first woman dean in a college that once was largely male but whose under graduate student body today is more than 60 percent female. She said she often attends profession al meetings at which she is one of only a handful of women occa sionally, she’s been the only woman but that her gender rarely is an issue. “I’ve found the community to be very accepting,” she said. “It’s not something I focus on, and I don’t think others do, either.” Morgan also broke new ground in 1985, when she was the first molecular biologist to join the college, a program that has grown over the years. When she began doing research at UD, she recalled, Worrilow Hall then had no darkroom and certain other facilities she needed. In contrast, her lab today at DBI is “the nic est I’ve ever worked in,” she said. Her research is focused on Ma rek’s disease virus, a herpes virus that causes infectious T-cell lym phomas in chickens. In addition, since 1997, Morgan and Joan Burnside, professor of animal and food sciences, have been analyzing the chicken genome, identifying DNA sequences that represent genes expressed in chicken tissue and posting them to an online database to share with researchers around the world. Before coming to UD, Morgan earned her doctoral degree in bi ology from Johns Hopkins Uni versity and completed postdoc toral work at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to Kaler, members of the search committee for the dean’s position were Robert Baker, Delaware Farm Bureau; John Boyer, E.I. du Pont Profes sor of Marine Biochemistry/ Biophysics; Burnside; Judy Hough-Goldstein, chairperson of Blueprint For Small Farms HONESDALE (Wayne Co.) 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The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources includes about 700 undergraduate and 140 grad uate students and approximately 70 full-time faculty members. It encompasses the departments of Animal and Food Sciences, Bio resources Engineering, Entomol ogy and Applied Ecology, Food and Resource Economics and Plant and Soil Sciences. Bailey, associate professor, de partment of ag economics and rural sociology, Penn State Uni versity, “Pennsylvania’s Position in the U.S. Daily Industry!” and Dr. Tim Snyder, dairy nutrition ist, Pennfield Feed Corporation, “Feeding for Production and Component Yield!” A light lunch, catered by “The Red Schoolhouse” (Mike Eldred and staff), will be served from about 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Partic ipants in this dairy farm meeting are asked to make their lunch reservations with the Wayne County Cooperative Extension by April 22, by calling (570) 253-5970, ext. 239, Sd&flfl WrTB JBf^BBP^BBr >«* wmwm atygwawißfi m mntmMmnz ay y||f f«f _ _jj
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