It is my pleasure to announce that Charles Barlowe, Professor of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, has agreed to serve as the Dean of Graduate Studies. Charlie joined the DMS faculty in 1994. He is well known internationally for research in the area of membrane trafficking and molecular genetics in yeast. Charlie's lab group seeks to understand mechanisms of protein and lipid transport through he early secretory pathway in eukaryotic cells. This fundamental cellular process initiates the delivery of proteins to organelles and to the cell surface for secretion. Charlie has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including a Pew Scholars Program Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences and a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund Fellow. His research program has yielded numerous publications and is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health. He has also been extremely active in Dartmouth's graduate and research programs, serving as the Chair of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, on an oversight committee for a multi-million dollar National Institute of General Medical Sciences sponsored training Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Dartmouth, and as a course director and lecturer in graduate courses in cell biology. More than 30 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have benefited from his mentorship. Charlie's service and experience will be of great value as we move forward with cross-disciplinary, cross-divisional research and training initiatives in graduate studies. Charlie also is very active in the research community outside Dartmouth, where he has served as a member of grant review panels for the NSF, NIH and the American Cancer Society. Charlie will begin his two-year term on Friday, September 10, 2004.
