New Appointments

McGee Appointed Vice President for Research and Compliance

Oliver G. McGee III, Ph.D., has been appointed vice president for Research and Compliance by President H. Patrick Swygert, effective July 1, 2007. McGee will oversee all aspects of the research and sponsored programs administrative enterprise. Working closely with the provost and vice president for Health Sciences, he will shape academic and fiscal research policies, manage the process for the submission of proposals and the subsequent administration of grants, contracts and cooperative agreements awarded to Howard University and Howard University Hospital, and represent the University’s research interests to federal, state and local governments, industry, foundation, consortia, and other national and international constituencies. Read more about McGee on the Howard University Web site.

Pollard Named Dean of Howard University School of Divinity

Dr. Alton B. Pollard, III was named dean of Howard University School of Divinity, effective July 1, 2007. Pollard currently serves as director of the Program on Black Church Studies and associate professor of Religion and Culture at the Candler School of Theology and chair of the American Religious Cultures Program in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta. From 1988 to 1998, he served on the faculty of the Department of Religion at Wake Forest University. Read more about Pollard on the Howard University Web site.