Three faculty members named associate deans in School of Arts and Sciences

Three University of Richmond faculty members have been appointed associate deans in the School of Arts and Sciences. They are Malcolm Hill, associate professor of biology; Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, professor of political science; and Lisa Gentile, associate professor of chemistry. The appointments are effective in January 2012.

Hill has taught at the university since 2004 and is a former chair of the biology department. He has received grants and awards totaling more than $900,000 to support his research on the evolutionary ecology of sponges in temperate and tropical marine systems.

Wang has taught at Richmond since 1996 and served several years as chair of the political science department. Wang specializes in Asian governments and politics, international relations and comparative politics. Under his leadership, political science and international studies grew to have the most majors in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Gentile has taught at Richmond since 2006 and chairs the chemistry department. Her research explores protein structures and what happens when they are altered in diseased states. Under a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, she led development of Richmond’s Integrated Quantitative Science course, a team-taught, year-long course for students with outstanding science aptitude that combines introductory study of biology, chemistry, physics, math and computer science.

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