Mellon Project Leadership

The Steering Committee establishes Project priorities, as well as plans and carries out essential activities. The committee is currently comprised of the following:

Chair
William Sakas, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Director
Vita C. Rabinowitz, Provost and Professor, Department of Psychology

Ruth & Harold Newman Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Shirley Scott Clay

Associate Dean/Provost for General Education
Richard Burke, Associate Professor and Chair of Music

Faculty
Adrienne Alaie-Petrillo, Department of Biological Sciences
Philip Alcabes, Program in Urban Health
Ahmed Bawa, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Manu Bhagavan, Department of History
Derrick Brazill, Department of Biological Sciences
Richard Burke, Department of Music
Rebecca Connor, Department of English
James Gordon, Department of Psychology
Michael Steiper, Department of Anthropology

Former Mellon Project Committee Members: Spring 2008 - Summer 2008 and Fall 2008 - Spring 2009

In addition to the Steering Committee, the Mellon Project has benefited in the past from the efforts of the Project Advisory Board and Sub-Committees on Pluralism and Diversity, Science and Math and Writing.

Administration, Staff and Students also contribute.