{"id":23340,"date":"2019-03-15T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/?p=23340"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:59:51","slug":"patrice-smith-appointed-fgpa-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/2019\/patrice-smith-appointed-fgpa-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Announces Patrice Smith as Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Announces Patrice Smith as Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Carleton University President Benoit-Antoine Bacon and Provost Jerry Tomberlin are pleased to announce the appointment of Patrice Smith as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs for a five-year term starting July 1, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPatrice is a natural leader who brings unique experience to the role of Dean,\u201d said Tomberlin, who chaired the search committee. \u201cShe is a respected researcher, an enthusiastic instructor, and is passionate about Carleton\u2019s graduate student experience. Please join me in congratulating Patrice on this appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith is a Professor of Neuroscience and currently serves as Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) in the Faculty of Science and as a faculty senator on Carleton\u2019s Board of Governors. She has previously served as President of the Carleton University Academic Staff Association (CUASA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Ottawa and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University before joining Carleton in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An internationally recognized neuroscientist, Smith\u2019s research specializes in understanding how the brain responds to injury and mechanisms to promote repair and recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI look forward to working with faculty, staff, students and the broader community toward facilitating excellence in graduate and postdoctoral training at Carleton,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith will succeed Matthias Neufang who, after much reflection, has decided not to seek renewal for a second term as Dean to allow him to focus more heavily on his research and his work with his own graduate students. Neufang has served as Dean since 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like to express my deepest gratitude to Matthias for his outstanding contributions during his term as Dean and for his innovative leadership in improving the graduate student experience,\u201d said Tomberlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would also like to thank the members of the search committee for their diligence in completing a successful search process and to everyone from the Carleton community who submitted comments and feedback throughout the process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carleton University President Benoit-Antoine Bacon and Provost Jerry Tomberlin are pleased to announce the appointment of Patrice Smith as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs for a five-year term starting July 1, 2019. \u201cPatrice is a natural leader who brings unique experience to the role of Dean,\u201d said Tomberlin, who chaired the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[70,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fgpa-dean-search","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27821,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23340\/revisions\/27821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}