Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead announced five new appointments in the Dean's Office, including two new assistant deans and the first incumbent of the newly created post of dean's adviser on science education.

The new members of the Dean's Office are:

Saveena Dhall, formerly of the Office of Student Services at the Harvard School of Design, who came to Yale this summer as assistant dean of Yale College and director of the Asian American Cultural Center;

Jonathon Gillette, formerly director of the Secondary School Reform Project at the Yale Child Study Center, who is the new director of the Teacher Preparation Program;

Eileen Hunt, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, who is acting dean of Davenport College for the fall term;

William Segraves, associate professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, who is the first dean's adviser on science education; and

William Whobrey, assistant professor in the Department of German Languages and Literatures, who will serve as assistant dean of Yale College and director of Yale Summer Programs, effective Jan. 1.

Profiles of the five individuals follow:

Saveena Dhall

As director of the Asian American Cultural Center at 295-297 Crown St., Saveena Dhall oversees a facility that serves as the home base of nearly 30 student organizations, which sponsor a wide variety of activities, including lectures, dinners, conferences, community service projects and sports events. She also serves on the Dean's Advisory Committee for Student Grievances and directs the program for auditors in Yale College. Dhall holds a bachelor's degree from Connecticut College, where she was president of the student government association, as well as a master's degree from the Harvard School of Education. At the Harvard School of Design, she worked closely with student groups on a variety of initiatives, including programs to create internships for minority and financially disadvantaged students, and a pilot mentoring program.

Jonathon Gillette

Jonathon Gillette brings first-hand knowledge about local and national education and school reform initiatives to his post as director of the Teacher Preparation Program, a two-year, state-approved program for students interested either in teaching middle or high school students, or in teaching pre-school children. Gillette earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a master's degree in teaching at Wesleyan University and a doctorate in administrative science from Yale. He taught social studies and served as an administrator at New Haven's Hillhouse High School for a decade, winning a city-wide prize for excellence in teaching. At the Yale Child Study Center, he directed the implementation of Dr. James Comer's School Development Program throughout the United States. He is also a lecturer in the Department of
Sociology.

Eileen Hunt

Eileen Hunt, a graduate student in the Department of Political Science, was a resident graduate affiliate in Branford College just prior to taking up the acting deanship in Davenport College. She earned her bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College and then went on to Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar, where she earned a second bachelor's degree and a master's degree, both in philosophy. At Yale she was awarded a Prize Teaching Fellowship, which honors graduate student instructors. This spring she will teach in the Program in Directed Studies.

William Segraves

According to Brodhead, the need for a dean's adviser on science education "has been felt for a long time by deans of Yale College." William Segraves' duties in that post include advising the Office of Undergraduate Admissions on the recruitment of science students, working with departments to increase retention of freshmen in Group IV majors and coordinating support programs for students in the sciences. He will also be participating in the "Perspectives on Science" program and in the Beckman Scholars program. A former member of the Committee on Teaching and Learning, Segraves holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton and a doctorate from Stanford University. His research interests are in the field of the hormonal regulation of insect development and reproduction, and he will continue to coordinate the popular course students call "Repro Bio." He received Yale's Dylan Hixon Prize for Teaching in the Natural Sciences in 1995.

William Whobrey

Although his appointment does not officially begin until the first of the year, William Whobrey has already begun to participate in the planning of Summer Programs 2001. After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in German from the University of Washington, Whobrey earned a doctorate from Stanford University, where he specialized in medieval literature. At Yale, as director of undergraduate studies for both German and the interdisciplinary program in German Studies, he has worked closely with faculty members in many departments to build up Yale's offerings in that area. As a member of last year's ad hoc Committee on Majors, he became familiar with the full range of the Yale College curriculum, which is the source of the curriculum of Yale Summer Programs.

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