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Pacific Conversations with Provost Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert

Thursday, January 18, 2024
12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Add to Calendar 2024-01-18 12:00:00 2024-01-18 12:45:00 Pacific Conversations with Provost Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert Thursday, January 18 at 12 pm PT, Vice President Scott Biedermann ’05, ’20 invites you to join him for a virtual conversation with Provost Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert. Before joining Pacific as Provost in 2023, Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert served for six years as associate dean of the faculty at Scripps College, the No. 2 academic post at the all-women’s liberal arts college, one of the five Claremont Colleges in southern California. Scripps is ranked No. 33 by U.S. News and World Report among national liberal arts colleges. Most recently she served for 15 months as acting vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, the college’s top academic post. She also has extensive experience working across all five of the Claremont schools, including serving as faculty director of the Claremont Faculty Leadership Program. A molecular biologist who earned a Ph.D. from Weill Medical College of Cornell University/Sloan-Kettering Institute and a B.A. in biology from Swarthmore College, she is a biology professor on the faculties of Scripps, Pitzer and Claremont McKenna. She also is a visiting scientist at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Warsaw Institute for Genetics and Biotechnology in Poland. The conversation will last approximately 45-minutes. Registration is required. Please use the link to register to receive the Zoom info to attend. We look forward to seeing you virtually! Thursday, January 18 12 pm PT Online via Zoom Alumni Association Alumni Association America/Los_Angeles public

Thursday, January 18 at 12 pm PT, Vice President Scott Biedermann ’05, ’20 invites you to join him for a virtual conversation with Provost Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert.

Before joining Pacific as Provost in 2023, Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert served for six years as associate dean of the faculty at Scripps College, the No. 2 academic post at the all-women’s liberal arts college, one of the five Claremont Colleges in southern California. Scripps is ranked No. 33 by U.S. News and World Report among national liberal arts colleges.

Most recently she served for 15 months as acting vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, the college’s top academic post. She also has extensive experience working across all five of the Claremont schools, including serving as faculty director of the Claremont Faculty Leadership Program.

A molecular biologist who earned a Ph.D. from Weill Medical College of Cornell University/Sloan-Kettering Institute and a B.A. in biology from Swarthmore College, she is a biology professor on the faculties of Scripps, Pitzer and Claremont McKenna. She also is a visiting scientist at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Warsaw Institute for Genetics and Biotechnology in Poland.

The conversation will last approximately 45-minutes. Registration is required. Please use the link to register to receive the Zoom info to attend. We look forward to seeing you virtually!