UI to search for new research vice president

IOWA CITY -- A search committee has been formed to find a new vice president for research and economic development at the University of Iowa, officials said Monday.

Current Vice President for Research and Economic Development Jordan Cohen will retire in summer 2012, officials said.

The committee will work over the winter and spring on a national search. UI President Sally Mason hopes to name a replacement at the end of the spring 2012 semester.

The search committee will be co-chaired by Patricia Winokur, professor and associate dean for Clinical and Translational Science in the UI Carver College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine; and Larry Weber, Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics and professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering and director of IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering.

Committee members include Mark Anderson (Internal Medicine); Marc Armstrong (Department of Geography in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences); Ann Campbell (College of Business); William Clarke (College of Public Health); Charles Connerly (Graduate College's Department of Urban & Regional Planning); Sue Curry (dean, College of Public Health) David Drake (College of Dentistry); Nicole Grosland (College of Engineering); George Hospodarsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy); Dorothy Johnson (Department of Art and Art History); Lina Maria Moreno Uribe (College of Dentistry); Kyle Oskvig (undergraduate student in College of Liberal Arts and Sciences); Toni Tripp-Reimer (College of Nursing); Diane Slusarski (Department of Biology); Alexander Somek (College of Law); and Mickey Wells (College of Pharmacy).