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i-emgn university, LS Bethlehem, Pennsyhania- FIRST CLASS MAIL U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 230 Bethlehem, Pa. 18015 JAMES D. GUNTON Lehigh Names New Dean Of Arts And Science James D. Gunton, professor of physics and director of the Center for Computational Science at Temple University, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Science at Lehigh University. The appointment, effective July 1, was announced today by David A. Sanchez, provost at Lehigh. "Professor Gunton was one of four finalists presented to me by the search committee, who did a superb job of recruiting qualified candidates for the position," said Sanchez. "I'm confident Jim will be an outstanding dean," said the provost. "He has a strong appreciation for the arts, humanities and social sciences, and he recognizes the potential of the college. He's a builder, an 'ideas' person, and he has a good sense of faculty, as well as a good sense of humor." Gunton currently directs a $2-million supercomputer system at Temple, a smaller version of the system at Cornell, which makes possible "parallel processing," the solution of many complex problems simultaneously. As dean of Lehigh's College of Arts and Science, Gunton will be heading the largest of the university's three undergraduate colleges. The arts college comprises 191 faculty members, or 49 percent of all full-time faculty, and approximately 1,800 students, or 40 percent of undergraduate enrollment. A member of the Temple faculty since 1970, Gunton served on a presidential committee on "the future of Temple," a long-range planning effort for the university. He also has extensive budgetary experience at the college and university level. He has published more than 100 articles in theoretical physics and much of his research has a computational as well as a mathematical formulation. Gunton received a bachelor's degree with highest honors at Linfield College, Oregon, and received a Rhodes Scholarship. Upon receiving a bachelor's degree in physics at Oxford, he was named a Danforth Fellow and attended Stanford, where he earned a doctorate in physics. He was also an honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Stanford Research Fellow. Gunton has been a visiting professor at universities and institutes in Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and France. He is a member of the American Physical Society, Sigma Xi and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He also has participated in several national committees and panels, primarily devoted to computational mathematics, supercomputing and materials science. Gunton and his wife Peggy have three children. They will relocate to the Lehigh Valley in the spring. Oil And The Middle East Topic Of Lehigh Colloquium Dr. Gad G. Gilbar, the Philip and Muriel Berman Visiting Scholar at the Lehigh Valley Center for Jewish Studies, will be the guest speaker at an economics colloquium on Wednesday, March 2. He will discuss "The Oil Decade and Its Aftermath in the Middle East: Some Economic and Political Aspects" at 4 p.m. in room 207 of Drown Hall. His talk is open to the public free of charge. It is sponsored by Lehigh's economics department. Dr. Gilbar is also an economic historian in the department of Middle Eastern history at the University of Haifa in Israel. He has served as an expert witness at hearings of the Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, and has contributed articles on current Middle Eastern affairs to Israeli newspapers and been interviewed on Israeli television and radio. He has written extensively on economic changes and trends in Egypt, Iran, and the oil-producing Arab states in professional journals. Prof. Gilbar earned both bachelor's and master's degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his doctorate from the University of London. Professional Playwright In Residence At Lehigh Easton native Adriana Trigiani, a professional playwright based in New York City, has returned to the Lehigh Valley to serve as a playwright in residence in Lehigh University's theater department. Trigiani is working with students during Lehigh's production other play, "True Colours," which will be performed in Wilbur Drama Workshop March 4-6 and 8-10. Pam Pepper, visiting assistant professor at the University, will direct the play, which ** consists of two one-act comedies, "Stories to be Read Aloud" and "Tray Chic." As a playwright, Trigiani's works have been widely produced in New York City and theatres nationwide. Her "Secrets of the Lava Lamp," written for Camille Saviola, was produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1985. "Seasons of Light" which was commissioned last year by George Keathley, artistic director of the Missouri Repertory Theatre, will be featured in a citywide theatre festival in Kansas City this April. "Tray Chic" is a finalist in the Ensemble Studio Theatre One-Act Play Marathon competition; winners will be announced in early March. Pennsylvania is a "strong arts state" according to Trigiani, who cites many active professional, community and academic theatres statewide. Due to the Lehigh Valley's location and high concentration of performing groups, she believes it has the potential to become "the regional test site for New York City." As costs for producing new plays continue to rise, playwrights and producers have begun to turn to academic theatres as proving grounds for developing new scripts. Trigiani is an enthusiastic proponent of this university connection, adding "academic theatres are professional theatres." Among the benefits of an on-campus residency are that it allows the playwright to see his or her work in progress and concentrate on rewrites and revisions without the pressure to produce the show as a commercial venture. Students learn more about the theatre as a profession, gain work experience, and can develop valuable professional contacts by working with the playwright. "This sort of residency offers a tremendous opportunity to expand the educational impact of our B.A. program on our theatre students," said Prof. Augustine Ripa, head of Lehigh's current division of speech and theater. "An artist in residence can do great things for our theatre students, much more so than a single campus performance by a 'big star,' due to the opportunities for training and contact with a working professional. "On a larger scale, a residency, especially one which culmi- Continued On Page 2>
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Title | LehighWeek Volume 01, Issue 18 |
Subject | Lehigh University--Periodicals |
Description | Reports on the past week's news, and schedules of upcoming events, at Lehigh University. Thirty issues yearly, published weekly, except for vacations, during the school year, and once or twice a month during the summer. |
Creator | Lehigh University. Dept. of University Relations. |
Publisher | Lehigh University |
Date | 1988-02-24 |
Type | Text |
Format | newsletters |
File Format | image/tiff |
Extent | 8 pages |
Dimensions | 38 cm. x 28 cm. |
Identifier | SC LSer L522 V1 N18 |
Language | Eng |
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Catalog Record | https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/304229 |
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Title | [Front cover] |
Identifier | SC LSer L522 V1 N18 001 |
Language | Eng |
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Catalog Record | https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/304229 |
Full Text | i-emgn university, LS Bethlehem, Pennsyhania- FIRST CLASS MAIL U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 230 Bethlehem, Pa. 18015 JAMES D. GUNTON Lehigh Names New Dean Of Arts And Science James D. Gunton, professor of physics and director of the Center for Computational Science at Temple University, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Science at Lehigh University. The appointment, effective July 1, was announced today by David A. Sanchez, provost at Lehigh. "Professor Gunton was one of four finalists presented to me by the search committee, who did a superb job of recruiting qualified candidates for the position," said Sanchez. "I'm confident Jim will be an outstanding dean," said the provost. "He has a strong appreciation for the arts, humanities and social sciences, and he recognizes the potential of the college. He's a builder, an 'ideas' person, and he has a good sense of faculty, as well as a good sense of humor." Gunton currently directs a $2-million supercomputer system at Temple, a smaller version of the system at Cornell, which makes possible "parallel processing," the solution of many complex problems simultaneously. As dean of Lehigh's College of Arts and Science, Gunton will be heading the largest of the university's three undergraduate colleges. The arts college comprises 191 faculty members, or 49 percent of all full-time faculty, and approximately 1,800 students, or 40 percent of undergraduate enrollment. A member of the Temple faculty since 1970, Gunton served on a presidential committee on "the future of Temple," a long-range planning effort for the university. He also has extensive budgetary experience at the college and university level. He has published more than 100 articles in theoretical physics and much of his research has a computational as well as a mathematical formulation. Gunton received a bachelor's degree with highest honors at Linfield College, Oregon, and received a Rhodes Scholarship. Upon receiving a bachelor's degree in physics at Oxford, he was named a Danforth Fellow and attended Stanford, where he earned a doctorate in physics. He was also an honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Stanford Research Fellow. Gunton has been a visiting professor at universities and institutes in Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and France. He is a member of the American Physical Society, Sigma Xi and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He also has participated in several national committees and panels, primarily devoted to computational mathematics, supercomputing and materials science. Gunton and his wife Peggy have three children. They will relocate to the Lehigh Valley in the spring. Oil And The Middle East Topic Of Lehigh Colloquium Dr. Gad G. Gilbar, the Philip and Muriel Berman Visiting Scholar at the Lehigh Valley Center for Jewish Studies, will be the guest speaker at an economics colloquium on Wednesday, March 2. He will discuss "The Oil Decade and Its Aftermath in the Middle East: Some Economic and Political Aspects" at 4 p.m. in room 207 of Drown Hall. His talk is open to the public free of charge. It is sponsored by Lehigh's economics department. Dr. Gilbar is also an economic historian in the department of Middle Eastern history at the University of Haifa in Israel. He has served as an expert witness at hearings of the Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, and has contributed articles on current Middle Eastern affairs to Israeli newspapers and been interviewed on Israeli television and radio. He has written extensively on economic changes and trends in Egypt, Iran, and the oil-producing Arab states in professional journals. Prof. Gilbar earned both bachelor's and master's degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his doctorate from the University of London. Professional Playwright In Residence At Lehigh Easton native Adriana Trigiani, a professional playwright based in New York City, has returned to the Lehigh Valley to serve as a playwright in residence in Lehigh University's theater department. Trigiani is working with students during Lehigh's production other play, "True Colours," which will be performed in Wilbur Drama Workshop March 4-6 and 8-10. Pam Pepper, visiting assistant professor at the University, will direct the play, which ** consists of two one-act comedies, "Stories to be Read Aloud" and "Tray Chic." As a playwright, Trigiani's works have been widely produced in New York City and theatres nationwide. Her "Secrets of the Lava Lamp," written for Camille Saviola, was produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1985. "Seasons of Light" which was commissioned last year by George Keathley, artistic director of the Missouri Repertory Theatre, will be featured in a citywide theatre festival in Kansas City this April. "Tray Chic" is a finalist in the Ensemble Studio Theatre One-Act Play Marathon competition; winners will be announced in early March. Pennsylvania is a "strong arts state" according to Trigiani, who cites many active professional, community and academic theatres statewide. Due to the Lehigh Valley's location and high concentration of performing groups, she believes it has the potential to become "the regional test site for New York City." As costs for producing new plays continue to rise, playwrights and producers have begun to turn to academic theatres as proving grounds for developing new scripts. Trigiani is an enthusiastic proponent of this university connection, adding "academic theatres are professional theatres." Among the benefits of an on-campus residency are that it allows the playwright to see his or her work in progress and concentrate on rewrites and revisions without the pressure to produce the show as a commercial venture. Students learn more about the theatre as a profession, gain work experience, and can develop valuable professional contacts by working with the playwright. "This sort of residency offers a tremendous opportunity to expand the educational impact of our B.A. program on our theatre students," said Prof. Augustine Ripa, head of Lehigh's current division of speech and theater. "An artist in residence can do great things for our theatre students, much more so than a single campus performance by a 'big star,' due to the opportunities for training and contact with a working professional. "On a larger scale, a residency, especially one which culmi- Continued On Page 2> |
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