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Comment: Just being provost does not by itself make her notable particularly as she has no major awards. The current page has too many structural problems. Improve then submit for review. Ldm1954 (talk) 18:55, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
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Tricia Serio is the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Washington. She assumed these roles in 2023.[1]
Academic Career
[edit]Serio earned a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology at Lehigh University. She completed a master’s degree and Ph.D. at Yale.[1] After a postdoc at the University of Chicago and at Yale, Serio joined the faculty of Brown University in 2002.[2] [3]In 2016 she started Speak Your Story, which is a project that documents subtle examples of sexism in science.[4]
Serio's career in administration started when she became head of the University of Arizona department of Molecular And Cellular Biology. Later Serio became the dean of the College of Natural Sciences at UMass in 2017. Five years later she became provost and senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at UMass Amherst.[5]
Research
[edit]Serio’s research has focused on prion proteins. [6] This work has relevance to neurodegenerative diseases in mammals and how to reverse them.[7] [8]
Awards and honors
[edit]Serio was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022.[6] Serio has won several honors for her research. These include the 2016 Mid-career Award for Excellence in Research from the American Society for Cell Biology.[5] She also was named a Pew Scholar in 2003.[9] Serio also won the National Cancer Institute’s Howard Temin Award.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Biography of Provost Tricia R. Serio". University of Washington. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "SerioCV31910post" (PDF). Brown University. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ Harvey, Charlotte (13 December 2002). "The Prospects". Science. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ John, Arnst. "A scientist who seeks stories and speaks her mind". ASBMBToday. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ a b c "UMass Amherst Names Tricia Serio Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs". businesswest.com. Business West. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ a b "CNS Dean and Professor Elected AAAS Fellows". UMass Amherst. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ Victor, Balta. "Tricia Serio named provost at the University of Washington". UW News. University of Washington. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ "New breakthrough may help cure prion disease". news medical. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ Mervis, Jeffrey (19 September 2008). "And then there was one". Science. 321 (5896): 1622–1628. doi:10.1126/science.321.5896.1622. Retrieved 1 May 2025.