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Norma
M. Allewell, Dean
Dr.
Allewell leads and oversees the
academic, administrative and financial
activity of the College of Life
Sciences, which has approximately
120 faculty members, 630 graduate
students, 135 postdoctoral fellows
and 2,100 undergraduates. Before
she became dean of the College
of Life Sciences in 2000, Dr. Allewell
was a faculty member at the Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn (1970-1973),
Wesleyan University (Connecticut)
(1973-1991) and the University
of Minnesota (1991-1998). While
at Wesleyan University she was
founding chair of the Department
of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
and during her tenure at the University
of Minnesota she chaired the Department
of Biochemistry and was Vice Provost.
In 1999 she moved to Harvard University,
where she was Associate Vice President
for Sponsored Programs and Technology
Transfer.
A
Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science,
Dr. Allewell has served on many
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI) panels for undergraduate
programs in the biological sciences
in addition to NIH and NSF panels.
She has also been a member of the
advisory board for the Brookhaven
Protein Data Bank, the National
Research Council (NRC) space studies
board committee on space biology
and medicine, and the NRC task
group on institutional arrangements
for space station research. She
is a past president of the Biophysical
Society and a current member of
the Board of Directors of the Federation
of American Societies for Experimental
Biology (FASEB) and the NSF Biological
Sciences Advisory Committee. She
is a former member of the editorial
boards of the Biophysical
Journal and the Journal
of Biological Chemistry, a
former associate editor of Biopolymers and
a current associate editor of the Journal
of Biological Chemistry. In
2002 Dr. Allewell received the
Emily M. Gray Award from the Biophysical
Society in recognition of her significant
contributions to education in biophysics.
Dr.
Allewell's research deals with
the molecular mechanisms of biological
function and regulation of multisubunit
proteins. Her current research,
in collaboration with Dr. Mendel
Tuchman at the Children's National
Medical Center, deals with the
biochemical basis of diseases of
nitrogen metabolism. She was the
recipient of both a Research Career
Development Award and a MERIT Award
from the National Institutes of
Health. The principal proteins
she has studied are riboncuclease
S, aspartate transcarbamylase,
neurophysin, ornithine transcarbamylase
and ferritin. She has taught and
advised undergraduates, graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows
both in the laboratory and in the
classroom.
Dr.
Allewell received a B.Sc. (Hon.)
degree in Biochemistry from McMaster
University (Hamilton, Ont., Canada
) and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics
from Yale University. She was
a postdoctoral fellow in the Department
of Chemistry at Yale University
and has done sabbaticals at the
University of Pennsylvania and
University of California, San
Francisco.
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