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Dr. Gillian Small is a thought leader and consultant in the higher education and scientific research arena, having been an active researcher and an academic leader for over thirty years. She has both supported and promoted interdisciplinary and cutting-edge research and has been an engineer of change, having worked at the national and local level to promote biomedical research and entrepreneurship, led changes in academic structure and program offerings for undergraduate and graduate education and conceived and led all aspects of building an advanced science research facility. She has also supported and promoted digital science education globally in her most recent role as President of World Science U.
Dr. Small previously served as University Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Fairleigh Dickinson University where she engaged in restructuring the university academic units to increase efficiencies and create new schools and programs to transform the university into a forward-thinking institution able to lead in the 21st century.
Prior to that she was the Vice Chancellor for Research at The City University of New York where she created an infrastructure supporting first class research, innovation and entrepreneurship across the University. She led strategic planning for faculty hiring, fund raising from private and federal sources, budgetary planning and oversight (operating and capital), research compliance, human subjects research and bioethics as well as technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and economic development. She also conceived and planned, as the founding executive director, a state-of-the-art Advanced Science Research Center that fosters innovative research in five important and emerging areas of science: nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience and environmental sciences. As a woman in science, she made it a high priority to support and mentor the pipeline of women and minorities entering the STEM disciplines at all levels and has been an advocate for promoting ethical standards across the curriculum and in biomedical research.
Dr. Small received her Ph.D. from Wolverhampton University in the UK (previously Wolverhampton Polytechnic), and carried out postdoctoral studies at Cambridge University, UK, and Rockefeller University, New York.
