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Recruiting and Training Future Scientists:
How Policy Shapes the Mission of Graduate Education
July 25-27, 2003

The seventh annual Merrill summer retreat
on the Research Mission of Public Universities

2003 Participants

Keynote Speakers:
Debra Stewart - President, Council of Graduate Schools - USA
Martha Crago - President of the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies and
Associate Vice Principal of Teaching Programs and Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at McGill

University of Nebraska
Dan Monaghan - Professor of Pharmacology - Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha
Ellen Weissinger - Executive Associate Dean of Graduate Studies - Lincoln campus
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky - Associate Professor of Physics - Lincoln campus

Iowa State University
James Bloedel - Vice Provost for Research and Advanced Studies
John Mayfield - Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Janice Buss - Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology

Kansas State University
Ron W. Trewyn - Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School
James Guikema - Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Research
Jeffrey Katz - Professor of Management & the Payless Shoe Source Professor of Business

University of Missouri - Columbia
Jim Coleman - Vice Provost for Research
Suzanne Ortega - Vice Provost for Advanced Studies & Dean of the Graduate School
John David - Associate Professor and Director of Biological Sciences

University of Kansas
Donald Hagen - Executive Vice Chancellor - Medical Center in Kansas City
David Shulenburger - Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost - Lawrence campus
Janet Murguia - Executive Vice Chancellor for University Relations
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett - Senior Vice Provost
Robert Barnhill - Vice Provost for Research and President, KU Center for Research
Mabel Rice - Director of the Merrill Center and the Child Language Doctoral Program
Diana Carlin - Dean of the Graduate School
John Colombo - Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Psychology
Kim Wilcox - Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Steve Warren - Director of the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
Richard Schiefelbusch - Director Emeritus, Life Span Institute & the Merrill Center

Legislative Liaisons
Keith Yehle - Legislative Director - Office of Senator Pat Roberts
David Kensinger - Chief of Staff - Office of Senator Sam Brownback
Robert Woody - KU Counsel in Washington, D.C.
Jon Josserand - Legislative Liaison - Chancellor's Office, University of Kansas

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