Wrighton has named Richard J. Smith, Ph.D., the Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor and chair of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, to chair The Advisory Committee for the Appointment of the Dean of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts.

The committee is charged with identifying 3-5 individuals with the intellectual, administrative, personal and leadership qualities sought for the new dean.

Other committee members are: Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for information technology and dean of libraries; Marianne S. Bellino, a member of the Architecture Graduate Advisory Council; Lisa Bulawsky, assistant professor of art; Elizabeth C. Childs, Ph.D., associate professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences;

Paul J. Donnelly, the Rebecca & John Voyles Professor of Architecture; Sabine Eckmann, Ph.D., curator of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum; Peter B. MacKeith, associate dean of architecture; Anisa M. Baldwin Metzger, president of the Architecture Student Council; Christine R. Norrick, a sophomore in Art;

Jeffrey C. Pike, dean of Art; Gruia-Catalin Roman, Ph.D., the Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science and chair of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science;

Jerome J. Sincoff, special assistant to the dean of Architecture and dean designate; and William E. Wallace, Ph.D., the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor and chair of art history and archaeology.