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New York State Initiatives as Dean, State University of New York at Buffalo (1985-91)

Highlights of Thomas George's six-year tenure as dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FNSM) include:

Worked with outside agencies and the faculty to augment the level of external support; e.g.,

• Increased the annual amount of funding from $6 million in 1985 to $13 million in 1991.

• Played an important role in establishing the New York State Institute on Superconductivity at the campus with a special $9 million state allocation.

• Assisted the Foundation in establishing a new senior development officer post dedicated to the sciences, engineering and architecture. Worked with this officer on a $52 million University campaign.

• Established the Sciences Alumni Association.

• Led FNSM in planning and designing a new $72 million science building.

Launched a number of curricular initiatives; e.g.,

• Helped lead the establishment of interdisciplinary programs such as the Center for Electronic and Electro-Optic Materials, the Center for Protein Engineering and the Program in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences.

• Played a central role in creating the Undergraduate College, including a new general education curriculum.

• As a member of the Board of Managers of the Buffalo Museum of Science, worked on curriculum development for a new elementary science magnet school attached to the Museum. This initiative included the preparation of a proposal funded by the Teacher Enhancement Program of the National Science Foundation.

• Helped set up a cooperative arrangement for faculty-student exchange with Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.