Mellon, Paulnock named to Graduate School posts

Two veteran members of the UW–Madison faculty have been named to fill key posts in the Graduate School, according to Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader.

Donna Paulnock, a professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, has been named associate dean for the biological sciences. In her new role, Paulnock will oversee issues related to research and graduate education in the biological sciences.

Paulnock joined the UW–Madison faculty in 1983. Her lab focuses on studies of the response mounted by the immune system to the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.

William Mellon, a professor and former chair of pharmaceutical sciences and associate dean for graduate affairs and research in the School of Pharmacy, has been selected to fill the post of Graduate School associate dean for research policy. In that role, Mellon will assume overarching responsibility for research policy and compliance, including the areas of animal use in teaching and research, human subjects, conflict of interest, and the responsible conduct of research. Mellon will also lead the Graduate School Office of Research Policy.

A UW–Madison faculty member since 1979, Mellon conducted research in the area of vitamin D and, more recently, on the physical and chemical bases of inflammation in urothelial cells.