Vice Provost

Margaret (Peggy) E. Newell

Peggy Newell is Provost and Senior Vice President ad interim, and continues as Vice Provost of Tufts University. The Office of the Vice Provost is responsible for assisting the faculty in obtaining grants and contracts to fund research, educational initiatives, construction, and core facilities through the Office of Research Administration and the Office of Proposal Development; for protection, management and licensing of the University's intellectual property through the Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration; for oversight of the use of animals, recombinant DNA and infectious materials in research and all laboratory animal facilities; for oversight of the use of human subjects in research in the health sciences as well as in social, behavioral and educational research; for implementation of the University's policies on conflict of interest and misconduct in research; and for working with other areas of central administration and with the schools to foster an environment at Tufts that advances and supports research. The Office of the Vice Provost organizes and sponsors University-wide Research Days each year, publishes Research News, offers annual courses in the Responsible Conduct of Research, and coordinates the Tufts Collaborates research grant program.

In addition to overseeing offices and programs that support research, the vice provost serves as deputy to the provost, participating in academic planning and priority setting across the university and representing the provost in his absence. She provides oversight to the office of the Boards of Overseers, which is responsible for the University's ten boards of overseers, for the Tufts European Center in Talloires, France, all institutional affiliation agreements, the business and financial operations of the Office of the Provost and all programs that report to it, and faculty affairs. She holds a faculty appointment as assistant professor in the department of public health at Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to becoming Vice Provost, Ms. Newell served as Associate Provost for Research at Tufts University from 1998 until 2004. Prior to accepting that position, Ms. Newell served for 16 years as Associate Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts and for 5 years as Associate Dean for Special Programs at the School of Medicine. She holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Suffolk University Law School and a Master of Business Administration degree from Boston College and is admitted to the practice of law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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