Under the direction of Committee Chair Robert Waller, MD, the search committee for a chancellor at the UTHSC met today and selected eight candidates, who will interview on campus in January.
Dennis R. Schaberg, MD has been named the Gene H. Stollerman, MD, Endowed Professor in Internal Medicine at UTHSC.
Dan Goldowitz, PhD, has been named the Methodist Hospitals Foundation Endowed Professor for Neuroscience at UTHSC.
The UTHSC Outreach Center will be utilizing their communications capabilities to benefit soldiers deployed to Iraq and their families during the holiday season.
Raoul A. Arreola, PhD, UTHSC professor and director of institutional research assessment and planning, has been awarded the W.J. McKeachie Career Achievement Award for 2004 by the American Educational Research Association.
UTHSC, in collaboration with the UT Space Institute and the University of Memphis, has been awarded a $1,000,000 Congressional Directed Medical Research Grant.
As part of the Fiscal Year 2005 Omnibus Spending Bill, Congress awarded direct appropriations of $500,000 to benefit the UT Cancer Institute and $750,00 to benefit UTHSC’s participation in the Delta Health Partnership.
UTHSC will hold graduation ceremonies at 1:30 p.m. on Friday December 3 in the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts at the Memphis Cook Convention Center.