The college’s newest Ph.D. program in statistics was unanimously approved recently by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Payne will be responsible for faculty promotion and tenure, recruiting and retention, annual faculty reports and faculty development.
Three natural sciences professors will use substantial start-up funds to pay graduate students and get their labs up and running.
College of Natural Sciences graduate student Cory Nelson has received a fellowship as part of a new U.S. Department of Energy program.