UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Oceanographer and Top A&M Administrator to Address NSM Students, Faculty
An oceanographer and top administrator from Texas A&M University will deliver the latest installment of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dean’s Lecture Series next month.

Luis Cifuentes has been an oceanography professor at A&M since 1988 and is currently the university’s interim vice provost. He also has served as the executive associate dean for research at A&M’s College of Geosciences.

Cifuentes is a chemical oceanographer and a marine stable isotope geochemist with research interests in organic cycling and the ecology of marine ecosystems, estuaries and the Gulf of Mexico.

He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Swarthmore College and a master’s degree in marine studies and doctorate in oceanography from the University of Delaware.

The lecture will be on April 14 and begin at 4 p.m. in Room 100 of the Science and Engineering Classroom Building.

Cifuentes’ presentation will be the second Dean’s Lecture for 2008. The talks are designed to expose minority students to the possibilities of research and encourage them to pursue graduate studies in science and engineering.

It is sponsored by the NSM Office of the Dean, the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and the Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (H-LSAMP).
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