Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 15, 2005|Volume 32, Number 26

Kim Bottomly

Kim Bottomly has been named as a deputy provost; duties include faculty development

Biologist H. Kim Bottomly has been appointed deputy provost for science, technology and faculty development, according to an announcement by Provost Andrew D. Hamilton.

Bottomly, who will assume her new post on July 1, is professor in the Departments of Immunobiology and Dermatology at the School of Medicine, and in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

As deputy provost, Bottomly will help shape and implement academic, administrative and budgetary policies in the departments in the natural sciences, as well as anthropology, psychology, statistics and linguistics. She will also oversee Yale Engineering, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Haskins Laboratory.

"An important new responsibility for this position will be to work with the deans of Yale College and the Graduate School on issues relating to faculty development," said Hamilton. Bottomly will be involved in new initiatives and programs focused on increasing faculty diversity across the institution; improving recruitment and retention of women and under-represented minorities in science; and enhancing career development for all faculty. In addition, she will oversee several administrative units that contribute in central ways to activities in the sciences.

Bottomly, who came to Yale in 1980, holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, and did postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Laboratory of Immunology.

In addition to serving as acting chair of immunology for the past year, Bottomly has participated on numerous committees across the University. She was a member of the Committee for Yale College Education; led a cross-university analysis of opportunities in the area of bio-informatics; is an active participant in the Women Faculty Forum; and acted as divisional director of the biological sciences.

Her research focuses on the factors that regulate CD4 T-cell differentiation and function, especially the pathogenesis of asthma. Currently, she is the principal investigator on five grants from the NIH and a grant from the Philip Morris Research Institute. She has over 160 peer-reviewed publications.

In addition to serving on several committees of the American Association of Immunologists, Bottomly was the Distinguished Lecturer at its 2004 annual meeting. She was a member of the Immunobiology Study Section and serves on the editorial boards of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Journal of Immunology, and Immunity. In 1998, she was appointed to the Advisory Council for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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