Gloria Meredith will end her six-year tenure as the inaugural dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
9/2/21 by Celia Woodruff
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Gloria Meredith will step down from her position as dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SOPPS) in the summer of 2022.
Meredith is a neuroscientist who joined Binghamton University faculty in 2015 as founding dean of SOPPS.
Meredith, who received the title of distinguished professor for her research on Parkinson’s disease, has made many contributions to the school during her tenure at BU, including designing the University’s Health Sciences Campus in Johnson City and obtaining funding for the Smart Energy Research and Development (R&D) building adjacent to the pharmacy building. The R&D building will be a laboratory research facility housing physics and chemistry programs focused on future-forward energy technologies. Within BU’s pharmaceutical sciences, Meredith also obtained approval for the Doctor of Pharmacy degree as well as new M.S. and Ph.D. programs in pharmaceutical sciences.
In an August 20 Dateline Addition announcing Meredith’s departure, Donald Nieman, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, praised Meredith’s contributions.
“We are indebted to Gloria for the energy, knowledge, commitment and passion for research and teaching that enabled her to recruit great faculty and build a school that is a premier school of pharmacy,” Nieman wrote.
Before BU, Meredith worked at the Vrije University in Amsterdam, and then the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. According to the SOPPS page, Meredith conducted “research funded by the Health Research Board (Irish equivalent of NIH).”
Meredith has contributed to over 170 publications according to the SOPPS page, with research spanning from Parkinson’s to the “mechanisms of drug addiction.”
Nieman said that the University hopes to have a replacement for Meredith by summer 2022.
In the Dateline addition, Meredith reflected on her time at BU.
“This has been an incredible journey from the start,” Meredith wrote. “I want to recognize and thank the team of faculty and staff whose dedication and hard work has made this school a reality.”
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