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Mary E. Morton, associate professor of biology, has been
named associate dean of the College, effective August 1.
Morton takes over from the current associate dean, Mark Freeman,
who is stepping down after five years in the position. Freeman
will take a year’s sabbatical and return to teaching
in the psychology department.
A 1983 graduate of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, Morton completed her Ph.D.
in biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H., in 1988. Before coming
to Holy Cross, she worked as a research associate at Dartmouth and held an NIH
postdoctoral fellowship in molecular neurobiology at the University of Washington.
Morton joined the faculty at Holy Cross in 1991 as a Charles A. Dana Faculty
Fellow in the department of biology.
A resident of Worcester, she has also served on a number of College committees,
including the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty, Graduate Studies,
the Committee on Faculty Affairs, the Curriculum Committee and the Committee
on Tenure and Promotion. Most recently, she has been serving as the College’s
science coordinator.
The Office of the Dean of the College at Holy Cross is responsible for all matters
relating to the faculty, curriculum and academic affairs. The office is involved
in activities ranging from hiring and promotion to strategic planning.
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