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 Dr.
Emmet A. Dennis,
Professor and Dean
of University College
and Vice President
of Student Affair
at Rutgers University
in New Jersey.
Emmet
Dennis is co-director
of the B.A./M.D.
program run jointly
by Rutgers and the
University of Medicine
and Dentistry of
New Jersey, and
director of the
Diversity Advancement
Program of the Graduate
School-New Brunswick.
He is chair of the
Rutgers Steering
Committee for Rutgers/University
of Puerto Rico Collaborations
and is a professor
in the department
of cell biology
and neuroscience.
A
native of Liberia,
Dennis joined Rutgers
in 1969 as an assistant
professor in the
department of zoology.
From 1975 to 1981,
he was an adjunct
associate professor
while serving as
director of the
Liberian Institute
for Biomedical Research,
which he founded.
He
became vice chair
of the department
of biological sciences
in 1985. He served
as acting director
of the Office of
Minority Undergraduate
Science Programs
from 1989 to 1990.
In 1994, he was
named associate
provost for academic
advancement. In
the provost's office,
he also oversaw
the Educational
Opportunity Fund,
the Minority Faculty
Advancement Program,
the Center for Latino
Arts and Culture,
and the Paul Robeson
Cultural Center.
In
1993, Dennis was
recognized as a
distinguished contributor
to undergraduate
education by the
Faculty of Arts
and Sciences-New
Brunswick, and in
1997, he received
the Warren I. Susman
Award for Excellence
in Teaching.
Dr.
Dennis has collaborated
with others to published
several medical
articles, reviews
and papers, including
these titles:
- Lipid
Signaling Enzymes
and Surface Dilution
Kinetics (*)
by:
George
M. Carman (1),
Raymond A.
Deems (2),
Edward A.
Dennis (2)(§)
- Expression
and function of
phospholipase
A2 in brain
FEBS Letters
Volume 531, Issue
1 30 October 2002
Pages 12-17
Marķa A. Balboa1,
2, Isabel Varela-Nieto,
, 2, Karin Killermann
Lucas and Edward
A. Dennis,
- Scavenger
receptors, oxidized
LDL, and atherosclerosis.
Boullier A, Bird
DA, Chang MK,
Dennis EA, Friedman
P, Gillotre-Taylor
K, Horkko S, Palinski
W, Quehenberger
O, Shaw P, Steinberg
D, Terpstra V,
Witztum JL.
- Lipid
signalling: cellular
events and their
biophysical mechanisms.
Dennis EA, Varela-Nieto
I, Alonso A.
Congratulations
Dr. Dennis on your
impressive career
and your contributions
to education. You
are a positive role
model for not only
African youths,
but black youths
around the world.
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