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Provost and Senior Vice President ad interim
Vice Provost
Ballou Hall, Medford

Peggy Newell was named Provost and Senior Vice President ad interim for Tufts University in July 2011 and continues to serve as Vice Provost. As Interim Provost, Peggy is committed to the advancement and support of teaching, research, and scholarship, while she leads the schools in academic planning and priority setting across the University. She has been at Tufts since 1982, serving as Associate Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Associate Dean for Special Programs at the School of Medicine prior to joining the Provost's Office as Associate Provost for Research in 1998. In her role as Associate Provost for Research, Peggy created the first office of proposal development and the first office of technology licensing and industry collaboration at Tufts. As Vice Provost since 2004, she oversees the Office of the Vice Provost which is responsible for the implementation of the University's policies on conflict of interest and misconduct in research, and compliance with regulations on the use of laboratory animals, human subjects, recombinant DNA, and infectious agents. In addition, she rebuilt the Office of Research Administration, reorganized the financial and administrative operations of the Provost's area, and helped launch the "Tufts in the World" program under the auspices of the International Board of Overseers. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Society for Medical Research and a member of the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's John Adams Innovation Institute. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Tufts Veterinary Emergency Treatment Services, Inc. A graduate of Boston College with a BA in Psychology, Peggy earned an MBA degree from Boston College Carroll School of Management and a JD degree from Suffolk University Law School.

September 2011

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