The interim associate vice president for environmental safety, E. Wayne Dill, will hold the position permanently.

Dill, who has held the position for the past year, has demonstrated outstanding leadership skills in managing environmental safety, said Hank Huckaby, the senior vice president for finance and administration.

Before becoming the interim vice president, Dill worked in the physical plant at the University as the director of services.

He was a colonel in the Army infantry for more than 26 years prior to joining the University.

The Environmental Safety department oversees programs and activities such as hazardous materials management, radiation safety, fire safety, food sanitation inspection, swimming pool inspection and water quality consultation.

Educational policy lecture, lunch

A National Research Council program director will speak at the University in the College of Education.

On April 27, Michael Feuer, a leading education research and policy analyst will speak on national educational policy issues.

In the speech he will discuss which national education policy issues are most likely to mold the research agenda in education for the next 10 years.

After the speech, he will field questions during a lunch at noon.

Feuer will also hold a discussion with smaller groups of University faculty throughout the day.

Though Feuer is speaking to faculty members from the College of Education, he said he would like to meet other distinguished scientists at the University whose work might interest the National Academies.

Feuer is the executive director of the division of behavioral and social sciences and education at the NRC, which is the overseeing organization of the National Academy of Science.

He also has a doctoral degree in public policy from the University of Pennsylvania and has written a series of papers discussing the link between cognitive science and the science of education policy.

Feuer said that patching this frayed link encourages the development of more rational programs of educational improvement and gives more reasonable expectations for reform and research.

The lecture will begin at 10:30 a.m. in room G-23 in Aderhold Hall.

Discussion sessions on assessment at 2:30 p.m., policy at 3 p.m. and evaluation at 4 p.m. will follow the invitation-only lunch.

- Rebecca Rudolph