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Dean's Office Administration
Paula M. Lutz (plutz@montana.edu)
Dean
Dean Lutz received her doctorate from the Duke University Medical Center's Department of Microbiology and Immunology. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry with a life science preference from the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Before coming to MSU, she served as dean of the UMR College of Arts and Sciences since 2002, when she became the first woman dean in that university's history. She has received National Institutes of Health support since 1990 for her work on the effects of lead on children's immune systems. To date, she has received nearly $2 million in grant funding for her work from a variety of sources. Her work has been published in journals of immunology and toxicology. Lutz has continued both teaching and research throughout her administrative career. In nearly two decades at UMR, Lutz won more than a dozen outstanding teaching and faculty excellence awards. She was named UMR's Woman of the Year in 1999, the same year she received a UMR Alumni Merit Award. Lutz is active in mentoring women and minority scientists and academicians. She helped to create a Women's Leadership Institute, worked with her university's chapter of Women in Science and Engineering and helped start UMR's Expanding Your Horizons program to encourage interest in science and math in junior high-aged girls.
Adele Pittendrigh (adele@montana.edu)
Associate Dean
Associate Dean Pittendrigh (B.A., M.A., University of Chicago) has served as Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science since 1995. She joined MSU in 1977 as a lecturer in the English Department and additionally served as a faculty writing consultant for Writing Across the Curriculum and as the English Composition Coordinator for Advance By Choice. Beginning in 1998, she directed the six-year “Reinventing the Core” initiative, funded initially by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, to revise Montana State University’s core curriculum. She currently directs the College Seminar for first-year students and is a principal investigator on Montana's INBRE grant which seeks to increase the biomedical research capacity of the state. She was recently recognized as one of ten national "Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates" by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience.
Melody Zajdel (zajdel@montana.edu)
Associate Dean
Associate Dean Zajdel, Associate Professor of English, received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State, her B.A. from Baldwin-Wallace College. She joined the Montana State University faculty in 1979. A committed teacher, Dr. Zajdel has won numerous teaching awards (including the Anna K. Fridley Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Teaching Award, Mortar Board Professor of the Month, and selection as an Influential Educator), as well as the Betty Coffey award for work on women's equity on campus, and recognition by the Montana Committee for the Humanities as a Humanist Scholar for her work in public outreach. Dr. Zajdel has worked on several program and curriculum initiatives in the university, including the Honors program, the Women's Studies minor, the Women's Center, Reinventing the CORE, and the WEEA project. Her most recent research focuses on selected Midwestern writers. She has served as a member of MSU's Faculty Council, Faculty Affairs Committee, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, Presidential Scholars Selection Committee and other faculty/student affairs committees. She is on the Executive Board of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and has held state, regional and national positions in organizations such as the Montana Association of Teachers of English and Language Arts and the Northwest and National Women's Studies Associations.
Christine Tabacchi (christine.tabacchi@montana.edu)
Assistant to the Dean for Finance and Administration
Sarah Guggenheim Alexander (alexander@montana.edu)
Director of Communications
Sarah Alexander has degrees in English from Columbia University (B.A.) and Stanford University (M.A.). She joined the Dean's office in 2003. She directs communication among the College's fifteen departments, as well as between the College, the wider university, and College alumni. Sarah publishes Confluence, the College's annual magazine, manages the L&S website, and produces other College-related brochures and publications.
Teresa Greenwood (tgrnwd@montana.edu)
CLS 101 Program Director
Teresa Greenwood serves as the Program Coordinator for CLS 101, the College Seminar for first-year students. In addition to overseeing the seminar, Greenwood teaches CLS 101 and ENGL 121, College Writing. She has a B.A. in English Literature and a M.A. in Communication Development from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Prior to moving to Bozeman in 2004, she was an adjunct instructor of English at Colorado State University and an Instructional Designer for TrainingOnline in Laramie, Wyoming.
Diane Arnold (arnold@montana.edu)
Administrative Associate
Diane Arnold has been an MSU employee since 1980. She joined the Dean’s office in 1994. She is the assistant to Associate Dean Melody Zajdel, handling student related issues (orientation, MSU Friday, suspension, scholarships, awards, etc.), and faculty awards and grants. Diane facilitates the L&S annual awards ceremony and the L&S graduation ceremony.
Gary Bummer (garyatmontanadotedu)
Information Systems Manager
A native of Billings, Montana, Gary Bummer graduated from Montana State University in 1980 with a B.S. in Computer Science. Before joining the College of Letters and Science, he served as a Unix analyst and systems administrator for MSU’s Information Technology Center from 1980 to 1998. His myriad responsibilities include desktop support coordination and problem solving for L&S faculty and staff, administrative systems support, and long-range planning for the College’s hardware and software needs. Two of his four children are currently students at MSU.
Sarah Miller
Special Projects Coordinator
Sarah provides office support for the office, works on special projects with Associate Dean Pittendrigh, and handles media communications for the BRIN/INBRE program.
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