TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER VICE PRESIDENT APPOINTED TO NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 9, 2004
CONTACT: Suzanna Cisneros Martinez, suzanna.martinez@ttuhsc.edu

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
VICE PRESIDENT APPOINTED TO NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

LUBBOCK  The National Science Foundation (NSF) appointed German R. Nunez G., Ph.D., vice president of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, as a review panelist to the 2005 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Discipline-based review panels meet annually to recommend awardees to NSF for approximately 1,000 new three-year fellowships to support graduate study in science, mathematics and engineering.

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) assists the NSF in the development of the discipline-based review panels and maintains a database of appropriate professors, researchers and others in the fields supported by the NSF. Names are solicited for recommendations of individuals who have demonstrated accomplishments in research and graduate education to serve on the review panels.

M. Roy Wilson, M.D., M.S., president of the Health Sciences Center, said this announcement brings well-deserved recognition to Nunez. At the Health Sciences Center, Dr. Nunez is responsible for developing and implementing programs in all of our schools to increase the enrollment and retention of under-represented minority students. This appointment demonstrates the exceptional leadership Dr. Nunez brings not only to his field of engineering but to our institution, Wilson said.

Nunez previously served as vice provost at Oregon Health and Sciences University and director for the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (CeDMA). He also is a professor of biomedical engineering. He previously was the director of the Minority Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder and associate professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Florida International University. Nunez received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in industrial engineering from West Virginia University.

The 2005 panelists will meet in early February in Washington, D.C. A panelist may be asked to serve for three years over a five-year period.

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