"We are eager to welcome Dean Yeagle to our community and know that he will be a strong and innovative leader for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-Newark," said McCormick. "His combination of scholarly excellence and administrative experience makes him well-suited to this vital position."
Philip Yeagle brings superb leadership experience to this crucial position at Rutgers-Newark, commented Rutgers-Newark Provost Steven J. Diner. As chair for 10 years of a large and complex department at the University of Connecticut, a leading public research university very much like Rutgers, he has gained broad experience with undergraduate education, graduate study, research, and community engagement. He is a person of high energy and is deeply committed to the idea that the arts and sciences are the foundation of a great university.
Yeagle has been professor and head of the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs, CT since 1997. At UConn he has had an outstanding record of leadership in a department of more than 50 faculty members, with substantial increases in graduate and undergraduate enrollment, research funding, and endowments, as well as the development of new graduate programs, distance learning, and global educational partnerships.
Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, Yeagle was a member of the faculty at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, NY. At both Buffalo and UConn Yeagle served as chair and member of numerous university committees, in addition to teaching courses and conducting research in biochemistry. He held visiting professorships at the University of Oxford, England, in 2003 and 1993.
Yeagle is the author of six books, and 145 articles in biochemistry published in leading journals. He was executive editor, from 1997 2006, of the journal Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Biomembranes. He currently serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Yeagle received a Ph.D from Duke University in 1974, and a B.A. from St. Olaf College in 1971, where he graduated magna cum laude with honors in chemistry. Before joining the University of Buffalo faculty he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark encompasses the Newark College of Arts and Sciences (NCAS), University College and the Graduate School-Newark, and traces its history back to the establishment of Dana College in 1930. NCAS, which enrolls more than 60 percent of the undergraduates at Rutgers-Newark (R-N), is the largest of seven schools that constitute R-N, and offers majors in almost 40 fields. Seventeen masters programs and 15 PhD programs are offered by the Graduate School-Newark, in the arts and humanities, sciences, management, nursing, and criminal justice. University College is designed for adult and non-traditional students to attend class evenings or weekends. More information can be obtained at www.newark.rutgers.edu/academics.