Kenneth Warner, an international authority on tobacco policy, has been named dean of the School of Public Health (effective July 1, 2005). Warner will be the sixth dean of the School, which was chartered in 1941.
Warner is the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health and founding director of the U-M Tobacco Research Network. He recently served as the World Bank’s representative to negotiations that led to the World Health Organization’s health treaty, the unprecedented Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Warner earned his AB degree summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1968 and MPhil and PhD degrees from Yale in 1970 and 1974. He has been a popular teacher in the School’s Department of Health Management and Policy for more than three decades. His 200+ professional publications have focused on economic and policy aspects of disease prevention and health promotion, with a special emphasis on tobacco and health.
Warner served as the senior scientific editor of the 25th anniversary U.S. Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health, published in 1989. He is on the editorial boards of four professional journals and chairs the board of the international journal Tobacco Control.
Christopher Kendall, an award-winning conductor and accomplished musician, is the new dean of the U-M School of Music (effective August 1, 2005).
Kendall comes to Michigan from the University of Maryland School of Music, where he served as director since 1996. During his time there, the school experienced extraordinary growth in the stature of its music program and facilities, including the new $130 million Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
At Michigan, Kendall will oversee the completion of the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center on North Campus that will house the Arthur Miller Theatre, along with the departments of Theatre, Drama, and Musical Theatre.
Kendall, who plays the lute, earned a bachelor of music degree from Antioch College in 1972 and a master of music from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music in 1974.
He served as associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony from 1987–1993 and was director of the Music Division and Tanglewood Institute of the Boston University School of the Arts. Since 1975 he has been the conductor and artistic director of the 20th Century Consort, ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution; and since 1978 founder and lutenist of the Folger Consort, early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Janet A. Weiss is the new dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and vice provost for Academic Affairs–Graduate Studies (effective August 1, 2005). She was formerly associate provost for academic affairs.
Weiss, the Mary C. Bromage College Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy, holds faculty appointments at U-M’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She has been a member of the U-M faculty since 1983.
Weiss’ research focuses on public management and public policy, including the roles of information and ideas in the policy process, the challenges of public management, and the interplay between policy design and the management of public programs. She received a PhD from Harvard in psychology and social relations, and a BA from Yale.