BART J. KOWALLIS NAMED AS ASSOCIATE DEAN

Dr. Bart J. Kowallis, Associate Dean

Bart J. Kowallis has accepted an appointment by Academic Vice President John S. Tanner as associate dean in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Brigham Young University effective July 1, 2009. He replaces Dana T. Griffen who retires on August 31st.

Dr. Kowallis completed an undergraduate degree in geology at BYU in 1977. He completed his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981 receiving M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. He joined the BYU Department of Geology in 1982 teaching classes in Physical Geology, Structural Geology, Field Geology, and Physical Science. His research and publications focus on geochronology, stratigraphy, and structural geology, particularly of the Mesozoic rocks in Utah. Dr. Kowallis served as Chair of the department from 1996-2002.

Since 2001, Dr. Kowallis and his students have mapped along the south and north flanks of the Uinta Mountains in cooperation with the Utah Geological Survey and United States Geological Survey. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and was honored by Brigham Young University in 1986 with an Alcuin General Education Teaching Award and in 2003 with a Karl G. Maeser General Education Professorship.