Campus invited to meet provost finalists

The campus community will be able to meet the two finalists for provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at a pair of receptions scheduled this month.

Patrick Farrell, executive associate dean of the College of Engineering, will be the guest at a reception from 4-5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the Birge Hall lobby.

Another reception will be held for Sue Rosser, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Arts and Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, from 4-5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27, also in the Birge Hall lobby.

Farrell has been with UW–Madison since 1982 as a member of the mechanical engineering faculty. He served as director of the Engine Research Center from 1999-2001, and beginning in 2001 he became the College of Engineering associate dean for academic affairs. He was named executive associate dean in 2005.

Rosser, a professor of public policy and of history, technology and society, has been dean of Ivan Allen since 1999. She has also served as the director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida-Gainesville from 1995-99 and as the director of Women’s Studies at the University of South Carolina-Columbia from 1986-95.