NEWS
11/12/09 6:00pm
Refusal of tenure highlights university's misplaced priorities
Rice is facing a devastating, but ill-publicized, loss. Two assistant professors in the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department, Mary Ellen Lane and Kevin MacKenzie, are leaving the faculty because they did not receive tenure. Lane, a prominent Baker College associate, studied the development of the nervous system. Additionally, she was part of the Committee on the Undergraduate Curriculum, served as an academic adviser and could often be seen dining at Baker. Denied tenure in April, Lane filed an appeal, which went unanswered. She left last month and is now the assistant dean for admissions for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas Heath Science Center.