Contact Information

• Richard J. Smith

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor
Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale University, 1980


The Graduate School Office in Umrath
314-935-4843
rjsmith@wustl.edu

Dean Richard J. Smith is a paleoanthropologist, interested in the application of statistical models to the interpretation of the human fossil record.  Before becoming Dean of the Graduate School in July, 2008, he served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology for 15 years.  As Dean, Professor Smith works with the student organizations, faculty, graduate program directors, department chairs, and the Deans of other schools to ensure the continued growth and excellence of the programs leading to all Ph.D's awarded by Washington University, as well as all non-professional Master's degrees.  He serves as Chair of the governing bodies of the Graduate School, including the Graduate Council and the Graduate & Professional Student Coordinating Committee.



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• Elaine P. Berland

Associate Dean Elaine Berland works with the Graduate Council, the Professional and Graduate Student Coordinating Committee (ProGradS), and the Trustee Research-Graduate Affairs Committee on new policies and initiatives related to graduate academic and student affairs.  As Director of the Graduate Center and advisor to the GSS, GPC and university-wide graduate student groups, she works to promote graduate student leadership, shared governance and interdisciplinary opportunities.  Dean Berland serves as the Academic Integrity Officer for the Graduate School and liaison to the Career Center and the Teaching Center.  She administers the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence (TA's); the Presidential Management Fellowship program; New Graduate Student Orientation programs, and the Graduate Student Handbook. She is the founding director of the National Conference on Graduate Student Leadership.



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• Nancy P. Pope



Associate Dean of the Graduate School of
  Arts and Sciences
Olin Fellowship Director
Office Manager
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Washington University
  in St. Louis, 1982  

Associate Dean Pope is a medievalist whose specialty is fifteenth-century manuscripts. As Associate Dean, she directs the Mr. & Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellowship Program for Women, which supports dozens of graduate and professional students across all Schools of the University. She also administers other externally funded fellowships won by students, advises department-specific peer-mentoring programs for doctoral students in Arts & Sciences, and serves as the Graduate School's Office Manager and its liaison to the Community Service Office.  Dean Pope oversees various completion issues, such as defense committee membership, electronic submission of dissertations and theses, and the Hooding and Recognition Ceremony.  She is the editor of the Graduate School Bulletin.


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• Sheri Notaro



Associate Dean of the Graduate School of
  Arts and Sciences
Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship Director
Graduate Financial Services Coordinator
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology,
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1999
M.P.H., Health Behavior/Health Education,
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998

Associate Dean Notaro is the Director of the Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship program. In this role she administers payroll, plans activities, conferences, and other events, and monitors the academic progress of the Fellows. Dean Notaro helps to recruit talented and diverse students to the graduate school by hosting prospective students on our campus, inviting professors to speak with students, and attending recruitment events throughout the country. Dean Notaro administers the Stafford Student Loan program, the Federal Work Study program, the Child Day Care Subsidy for Ph.D. students, as well as several grants and fellowships. She serves as the liaison with Student Health Services.


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• Ann Cooper



Registrar of the Graduate School           

As registrar for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Ann monitors all aspects of records and registration and advises students on policies and procedures of the Graduate School. She is responsible for administration of the Graduate School’s student health fee subsidy, handles proposals and approvals for new graduate courses, processes admissions files and serves as liaison for University College graduate programs, and handles registration of unclassified students.  She also produces data reports for the use of the graduate school dean and the graduate departments and programs.



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• Angie Mahon



Assistant Registrar of the Graduate School

As the Assistant Registrar for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Angie keeps all current student files and updates the Student Information System. She assists in the registration of students and works closely with the departments within Arts and Sciences to perform degree audits prior to students' commencement dates. Angie posts remission and approves registration for summer school courses. She oversees the application and completion of the Certificate Programs which are handled within the Graduate School. She is responsible for collecting and processing the A.B./A.M. applications.



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• Lynn Lowry



Administrative Assistant

As assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School, Ms. Lowry works with faculty, departmental staff, and graduate students. She is responsible for explaining Graduate School guidelines to students, faculty and staff.  She provides administrative support to the Dean by managing his correspondence and calendar, facilitating his interactions with department chairs and graduate studies advisors, and assisting with annual competitions for the Faculty Research Grant and other grants and scholarships.  She works with faculty and staff to process admissions, to make financial awards to new and continuing students, and to allocate assistantship and Federal Wrok Study budgets.



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• Bridget Coleman



Director of Admissions & Recruiting

Bridget manages regular and deferred admissions. Managing admissions includes mailing the admissions and award letters to admitted students and tracking the applicants’ responses. She also manages the on-line application system, including training departmental staff who work with graduate admissions. In addition to admissions work, Bridget coordinates the International Graduate Scholarship Conference and oversees updates to the on-line funding recommendation system.


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• Rachel Pepe




Assistant to Dean Berland
Assistant Director of the Liberman Graduate Center

Rachel provides administrative support to Associate Dean Elaine Berland. In this capacity, she provides logistical support for graduate student groups in Arts and Sciences and University-wide, and for meetings of the Graduate Council, the Board of Trustees Research-Graduate Affairs Committee, and ProGradS. She is responsible for the logistics for the annual New Student Orientation program, the Dean’s Reception, and new Teaching Assistant Orientation. Rachel maintains email lists for graduate students, and the Ph.D. job placement files. She provides support for Graduate School publications and processes graduate student registration for access to the GradLab.



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• Louise Neeley



Accounting Coordinator

Louise supervises and approves the accounting for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Departments rely on her to transfer Federal Work Study cost sharing funds, travel support and travel subsidy into their accounts and to process student account adjustments for tuition remission from departmental or external sources.  Graduate student groups in arts & Sciences and University-wide graduate student groups come to her as she budgets their funds, processes their reimbrusements and provides them with a detailed accounting of their balances.  She also processes all of the Peer Mentoring reimbursements. Louise supervises the payroll approval process for all graduate students in Arts & Sciences and for programs and grants held in the Graduate School for fellowships in other Schools.  She is particularly responsible for the payroll of students supported by fellowships administered by the Graduate School.



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• Nancy Buchanan

Assistant to Dean Pope

Nancy provides support to Associate Dean Nancy Pope by assisting with every aspect of the work for the Olin Fellowship Program and for the administration of external funding won by students.  She also assists her by working with Aramark and Facilities and by ordering all office supplies.  Nancy processes paper copies of dissertations and theses for binding and helps plan and manage the annual Hooding and Recognition Ceremony.  Working with other members of the office, she posts academic-year tuition remission for all graduate students in Arts & Sciences who have been awarded it.



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• Mary Clemens 
  

Engineering Student Coordinator

Mary serves as the primary liaison between the Graduate Arts and Sciences and the Ph.D. students in the School of Engineering & Applied Science. She handles the Graduate School's portion of their admissions process, helps with their orientation, updates their student data and academic milestones in SIS Admin, and provides them with dissertation intake and degree certifications. Any Ph.D. student in Engineering who has a question for the Graduate School should consult Mary. She also serves as the Graduate School's Web Manager and as the Associate Editor of its Bulletin and Handbook.



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• Amy Gassel

Assistant to Dean Notaro

Amy provides Assistant Dean Sheri Notaro with assistance in the administration of the following areas: loans and other federal programs, applications, award letters, record keeping, fellowships, recruitment, and conferences. Amy helps coordinate and plan all aspects of the Chancellor's Fellowship and processes payments from various budgets. She prepares check requests, purchase orders, and ensures the efficient processing of all accounts payable.





• Nancy Bauman 

• Susan Shannon