U of MN vice president among finalists for top job at UW-Madison
The sole internal candidate, Dr. Gary Sandefur, has been dean of the College of Letters and Sciences since 2004.The other candidates include Dr. Biddy Martin, provost of Cornell University in New York; Dr. Timothy Mulcahy, vice president for research at the University of Minnesota; and Dr. Rebecca Blank, the former dean at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
Mulcahy is still well-known on campus, where he spent 20 years of his career. He was associate vice chancellor for research policy from 2002 to 2005 before he left for the Minnesota job. He joined the human oncology faculty in 1985 and served as associate dean for biological sciences from 1996 to 2002.