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Vice President for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs

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GERMÁN R. NÚÑEZ G., Ph.D.

One of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center's priorities is consistent with and supportive of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's "Closing the Gaps" initiative, of increasing the participation of minority students in health sciences education. Unless we dramatically increase the number of minority health professionals in Texas, the incongruity in the race and the ethnicity of our health care workforce and the general population will continue to widen.

The Health Sciences Center is working to change that, with the appointment of Germán R. Núñez G., Ph.D., as Vice President for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. He will be responsible for developing and implementing programs in all of our schools to increase the enrollment and retention of under–represented minority students.

Dr. Núñez is part of the faculty of the School of Medicine as professor of physiology. Prior to his arrival to TTUHSC, Dr. Nunez had a distinguished career as faculty member with appointments in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Neurosurgery, Aerospace Engineering Science, Engineering Management, and Biomedical Engineering. In 1996, he became Director of the Minority Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder and later went on to become Vice Provost and Director of the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Oregon Health and Sciences University. Dr. Nunez is a nationally recognized leader in the field of diversity and multicultural initiatives in higher education. He serves as a consultant to the National Scinece Foundation (NSF) as an appointed member to the congressionally mandated Committee for Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE). He also serves as a member of NSF's Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering (OISE). In addition, he has also served the NSF as a member of the Committee of Visitors (COV) for Information Research Technology (IRT); member of numerous expert review panels including the National Ecological Observatory, biocomplexity in the Environment, Science and Technology Centers, and Anthropology (Graduate Research Fellowship Program). Dr. Nunez has made over 500 national and international presentations and has authored over 50 published works in topics that range from cardiovascular flow dynamics, neurosurgery, and artificial organs, to cultural anthropology, education, management, history of science, history of medicine, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.