Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Ml h i f l: rii Mcvcr fclcihcrg li)tr hildlxTg procntl;. icrici js dean of ihc School of Busi- ness He received his B A from ihe Lnivcrsily of Wnwalcrs- rand. his MBA, from Colum- bia, and his Ph.D. from Ihc Uni- versity of Cape Town. Fcldberg formerly held ihe post of direc- tor of Executive Education and professor of Business Policy at Northwestern University. n ' 1.

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Architecture School Dean Ronald C. Filson Arts Sciences Dean Joseph E. Gordon Business School Dean Meyer Feldberg Engineering Dean Hugh Thompson Law School Medical School Dean Paul R. Verkuil Chancellor John Walsh Newcomb College Dean Ravmond Esthus University College Dean Louis BarriUeaux 22 Deans Deans Being a dean is more chal- lenging and demanding than teaching. A teacher is a self-start- er, whereas a dean must deal with external stimuli. Paul Verkuil told that to The Hullabaloo in September, 1978, shortly after he was named dean of Tulane ' s Law School. Since that time, Verkuil has met the challenges and demands rather well. The Law School is one of the foremost in the country, accord- ing to Verkuil. He boldly makes this claim in spite of a cramped Law School building and recent national budget cuts. Based on admissions scores and grade point averages Verkuil places Tulane in the country ' s top twenty-five law schools. Only 21 other schools have a higher GPA, he said. Productivity of the faculty in terms of published works and a library with over 700,000 vol- umes also bolster Verkuil ' s claim. An important member of the cadre of de ans who form the top echelon of Tulane ' s administra- tion, Verkuil is well aware of the threat posed by budget cuts and a declining college age population. To help continue the Law School ' s academic success, Ver- kuil hopes to draw more money into the school through alumni donations, particularly in the form of scholarships. These schol- arships will be necessary to at- tract high quality students as gov- ernment loans become scarce. And despite national trends, the Law School ' s admissions ac- tually increased by 1 5 percent last year. This makes Verkuil optimis- tic for the future. I feel we ' re on the right track, he said. If we can receive continued support from our alum- ni as well as the administration, I see no reason why we can ' t main- tain the level that we have achieved thus far. Verkuil believes that Tulane ' s reputation for teaching Civil Law is a major attraction to perspec- tive students, although some peo- ple are turned off by the dual cur- riculum. The reality, of course, is that if you come here from out of state and have no desire to practice in Louisiana, you can be educated just as well anywhere, he said. But, maintained Verkuil, being exposed to another legal system is an important bonus stu- dents receive at Tulane. Verkuil has been dean just slightly longer than most students attending the school, but he can point to a job well done. He has no immediate plans for leaving Tu- lane, he is quite content with his job here. And needless to say, Tu- lane Law seems quite content with him. Dean Meyer Feidberg points to a graph of the Busi- ness School ' s financial standing while on a tour of selected Louisiana cities to meet Business School alumnae.

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BIOLOGY — Richard Lumsden, Alfred Smalley. Milton Fin- german, Steven Darwin, Merle Mizell. Stuart Bamforth, Har- old Dundee. Gerald Gunning, Claudia de Gray, David Freder- ickson, Joan Bennett, Erik Ellgaard, Leonard Thien. m Wiifi CHEMISTRY — Front Row: D J. Darensbourg, Gary McPherson, Joel T. Mague, John Jacobus, Harry Ensley, Charles Fritchic, Mark Sulkes, Roy Auerback, William Al- worth; Back Row: Larry Byers, Jan Hamer, Melvyn Levy, Marcetta Y. Darcnbourg. Research PHYSICS — Robert Purrington, Joseph Kyame, Robert Morriss, Ann McKay Yards, Karlem Riess, Salvatore Buc- cino, Mike Norman, John Perdew, Ronald Deck. PSYCHOLOGY — Front Row: Chris Wilson, Chezuko Izawa, Lee Hoffman, Lawrence Dachowski, S. Gray Gar- wood; Back Row: Krista-Stewart-Lester, Jeff Lockman, Hal- sey Matteson, Ina Bilodeau, Jeff Sulzer, Jay Hansche, Janis Dunlap, Davis J. Chambliss. 24 Rcsc, •arch The history of sponsored re- search at Tulane closely resem- bles the history of the Titanic, according to Gene D ' Amour, di- rector of sponsored projects at Tulane. In 1 960, Tulane ranked 22nd of all universities in the amount of external funding received for re- search and development. By 1979, Tulane bottomed out at 116th. D ' Amour believes the Univer- sity simply lost its entreprenural spirit. In fact, the office of spon- sored research was actually elimi- nated at one point in the late 70s. Another crucial factor in Tu- lane ' s decline was that the Medi- cal School began construction of a new hospital. This activity drained much of their resources and severely affected Tulane ' s search for research funds because the Medical School usually brings in the majority of research monies. Since these funds are so impor- tant to the University, Tulane de- cided to re-establish the Office Of Sponsored Projects. In the fall of 1980, D ' Amour went to work. The idea was for this office to pick itself up by the bootstraps, but we didn ' t even have the boot- straps, D ' Amour recalled. Not only was there nothing here, but there were all kinds of barriers to doing research. We had to tear down the barriers and start con- structing systems to help faculty. The job of helping the faculty can be divided into two areas, pre- award phase, D ' Amour has estab- lished a grants information sys- tem. Through this system the fac- ulty is made aware of available grants through newsletters, spe- The idea was for this office to pick itself up by the bootstraps, but we didn ' t even have the bootstraps. cial announcements, consultant services and workshops. And once a faculty member has decided to seek a grant, D ' Amour ' s office has developed a new proposal routing procedure to help them apply for the money. D ' Amour and his staff have been working on an extensive post-award program to help fac- ulty through the red tape of ad- ministering research funds. Although he still has much more work before him, D ' Amour can happily point to impressive results from his efforts. He re- ported that 128 faculty members requested 222 grants for $14 mil- lion in 1980-81. This is dramati- cally up from 1979-80, when only 88 faculty members placed 137 applications for $9 million. The application rate is holding steady in 1981-82, he added.