Sally Deutsch, George McLendon, Jenny Snead Williams, and Pedro Lasch thank comedian Cheech Marin for his generous gift of Chicano art to Duke's Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South. Photo credit: David Jarmul. More...
George L. McLendon
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Dean of Trinity College
George L. McLendon is dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and dean of Trinity College. A professor of chemistry, he is a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso (BS, magna cum laude, 1972) and Texas A&M University (Ph.D. 1976).
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Professor McLendon taught at the University of Rochester, where he chaired the chemistry department, and Princeton University, where he was Russell Wellman Moore Professor and Chair of Chemistry. He has been a National Science Foundation Fellow, an A.P. Sloan Research Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He won the 1990 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
2009 Faculty Newsletter
Click here for Dean McLendon's annual newsletter, including his address to the Arts & Sciences Council, lists of new faculty, department and program chairs, faculty awards, emeriti faculty, and more.
The Dean's List
Dean McLendon's blog about science, higher education, desserts masquerading as salad, life at Duke, art, politics, and other engaging topics.
