Chemistry chairwoman to take on academic leadership for Dana

Dana College is pleased to announce that Dr. Therese Michels, associate professor of chemistry, has been named interim provost and dean of the college. In this position, she will oversee the day-to-day academic affairs of the college and share oversight and provide support to administrators and staff in Student Affairs and Athletics.

Michels has served effectively as chairwoman of the Chemistry Department and as a member of key committees, including service as chairwoman of the Curriculum Committee and Co-chairwoman of the Morton Scholars Program. She is also an active member of the Strategic Planning Committee.

Michels has taught at Dana since the fall of 1994, and has been fulltime since 1999. This year she was awarded the Willard and Leitha Richardson Professorship in the Liberal Arts.

Michels received her bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her master’s of science and doctoral degree in analytical chemistry from Iowa State University. Before coming to Dana, she taught chemistry at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., and before that, was a research chemist at Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Okla.

She will continue to teach parttime in the Chemistry Department.

Michels’s appointment as interim provost and dean of the college will be made effective June 1, 2005. She succeeds Dr. Brian Viets, whose term ends June 15.

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Sarah Cavanah
Communications Coordinator
Dana College
(402) 426-7216
scavanah@dana.edu

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