After a national search, FAU selected Bethany Stanhope, Ph.D., as the Executive Director for Academic Operations of the Jupiter campus effective October 19, 2019.
Dr. Stanhope received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Alex Keene, Ph.D., of FAU’s Department of Biological Sciences and taught Evolution on the FAU Jupiter campus for the past two years.
Rod Murphey, Ph.D., associate vice president for academic affairs of FAU's John D. MacArthur Campus, highlighted her strong background in the life sciences and her training as a geneticist.
"Dr. Stanhope will work closely with FAU faculty and institute partners to develop a training and conference facility on the John D. MacArthur campus. She will work with FAU faculty to establish laboratory teaching facilities to support several life science labs, two NSF grants that focus on inquiry-based experiences, the FAU-Max Planck Academy high school, and a variety of other workshops," said Dr. Murphey.
"Among her initial efforts, she will work with Wilkes Honors College faculty member Johanna Kowalko, Ph.D., to establish a laboratory course in genetics and with Ken Dawson-Scully, Ph.D., as he develops inquiry-based labs for the FAU-Max Planck Academy."
