Stephen Lenhardt has been appointed vice president formanagement and fiscal affairs for the University of Massachusetts.Lenhardt received a bachelor's degree in social welfare fromPennsylvania State University, a master's in social work and amaster's in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
John I. Sandson, dean of Boston University's School ofMedicine, will retire after 13 years.
Sandson helped establish programs such as the School of PublicHealth, which enables working students to obtain a master's inpublic health without interrupting their careers. Another was theearly medical selection program, which the school works with ninetraditionally black colleges to increase minority enrollment in theBU School of Medicine.
Sandson attended St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pa., and laterreceived a doctor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.
Thomas O'Brien has been appointed dean of UMass-Amherstschool of management. O'Brien, former White House fellow in the USDepartment of Housing and Urban Development, received a bachelor'sdegree in economics from Tufts University and a master's degree anddoctorate in economics from Cornell University.
Joseph P. Mercurio has been named to the Newbury College boardof trustees. Mercurio, senior vice-president at Boston Universityreceived a bachelor's in applied science in businessadministration from Boston University.
The Association of Independent Colleges and Universities inMassachusetts has elected Gregory H. Adamian chairman.
Adamian, president of Bentley College, received a bachelor ofarts degree from Harvard, a doctor of laws from BostonUniversity's School of Law and a master's degree in publicadministration from the Harvard Graduate School of PublicAdministration.
Jane E. Torrey has been appointed acting director of the NewHampshire College Portsmouth Center. Torrey, who will also serveas academic counselor at the center, received a bachelor's degreefrom Saint Lawrence University.
Emerson College has appointed Richard Duprey acting dean ofgraduate studies. Duprey received a bachelor's degree in Englishfrom St. Anslem College, a master's degree in drama from TuftsUniversity and a doctorate in drama and cinema from New YorkUniversity.
Elissa Koff has been appointed associate dean of WellesleyCollege. Koff, psychology department chair and codirector of theinterdisciplinary program for psychobiology majors, received abachelor's degree in biology from Queens College, City College ofNew York, and a master's and a doctorate in psychology from TuftsUniversity.
Jelle Atema, professor in the Boston University Marine Program,has received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon GuggenheimMemorial Foundation in New York.
Atema will use the fellowship to write a book based on hisresearch on the sense organs of animals and how they discriminateamong stimuli in the environment.
He received a bachelor's degree in biology and a master'sdegree in sensory biology and physics from the University ofUtrecht in the Netherlands, and a doctorate in sensory biology fromthe University of Michigan.
Robert J. Blendon has been named professor of health policyand management and chairman of the department of health policy andmanagement at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Blendon received a bachelor of arts degree from MariettaCollege, a doctor of science in health services administration andresearch and a master's in public health from Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Hygiene and Public Health, and a master's inbusiness administration from the University of Chicago.
Richard C. Frese has been named director of the center forbusiness development and productivity at Bentley College.
Frese, assistant professor of government, received abachelor's degree in social science from Kansas State Universityand a master's degree in political science from the University ofRhode Island. SCHERI;07/01 NKELLY;07/20,18:50 PEEP19
