Lokken
By Kevin M. Kiley
August 24, 2001
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has appointed Pamela S. Lokken and Robert E. Thach, Ph.D., to University Council, the University's senior leadership group advising the chancellor.
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Lokken is director of governmental and community relations; Thach serves as dean of the graduate school and professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and of biochemistry and molecular biophysics in the School of Medicine.
The council now includes 23 academic leaders and managers of the administrative and support areas vital to education, research and service missions of the University. The council provides a mechanism for communication and informed decision-making by the individuals responsible for the University's key academic and administrative units.
Wrighton said Lokken is an important addition to the council because of the University-wide effort to enhance its community involvement.
"Federal, state and local government and community relations are vital interests of the University," Wrighton said. "When our community is thriving, we have a stronger environment for our students, faculty and staff. It is important for the University to have a member of its leadership team fully engaged with the issues involving government and community relations."
Lokken has served the University in government and community relations since 1991, taking director's responsibilities in 1993. She previously had worked for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Close Up Foundation, both in the Washington, D.C., area.
Thach directed the medical school's Center for Basic Cancer Research (1972-77)
and served as director of the graduate program in molecular biology in the division
of biology and biomedical sciences (1974-77). He was chair of the Department
of Biology in Arts & Sciences (1977-81) and coordinator of the program for the
special major in biochemistry and molecular biology (1983-93) before assuming
the graduate deanship in 1993.
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"The University is fortunate to have Bob Thach serving in the key leadership position of Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences," Wrighton said. "Inasmuch as approximately half of our students are graduate and professional students, Dean Thach will play an important role on the University Council as we strive to make more progress in our advanced educational programs."
Thach was recently appointed to head the Deans' Task Force of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's new Responsive Ph.D. initiative. He also chairs the Graduate Record Examination Board for the Educational Testing Service and serves on the Emory University Graduate Advisory Council.
Thach has served on the board of the Council of Graduate Schools and the Executive Committee of the Association of Graduate Schools.
Thach earned a doctorate in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1964.
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