Provost, Dean of Academic Affairs
Dr. Katherine Meiburg WhatleyBerry CollegeAcademic Services P.O. Box 495038 Mount Berry, GA 30149-5038 706-236-2216 706-238-7872 FAX kwhatley@berry.edu |
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Dr. Katherine Meiburg Whatley came to Berry as Provost in March of 2008.
Dr. Whatley received her B.S. in physics from Wake Forest University, magna cum laude, in 1977 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics from Duke University in 1980 and 1982, respectively. She joined the physics department faculty of the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1982 as an assistant professor. Dr. Whatley served as chair of Honors Program Task Force, set up to plan and implement an Honors Program at UNC Asheville, during the 1983-84 and 1984-85 academic years. She was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1988, and to full professor in 1995. From 1991-2001 she served as the Director of the UNC Asheville Undergraduate Research Program.
Whatley served on the organizing committees for the first (1987), second (1988), and tenth (1996) National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, all held at UNC Asheville, and on the Board of Governors of NCUR from 1997-2003. She is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research and served on the Physics and Astronomy Council of CUR from 1988-1998. Whatley was the 1995-96 Ruth and Leon Feldman Professor at UNC Asheville and the Distinguished Professor in the Natural Sciences in 2000-01. From 2001-2003 she was one of two Associate Vice Chancellors for Academic Affairs (Dean of the Faculty) and, following an administrative reorganization, became the Dean of Natural Sciences (Associate Vice Chancellor for Natural Sciences) from 2003-2006. She served as Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs from January 2006-March 2008, when she left Asheville to move to Berry College.
Dr. Whatley has reviewed physics departments across the country and currently serves on the Board of Examiners for the GRE Physics Test and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society. She has also served as a facilitator for the CUR Institutes on Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research. Her own research interests lie with Mössbauer spectroscopy and its use in the study of materials such as prehistoric Native American pottery and ballast stones from historic shipwrecks.
Dr. Katherine Meiburg Whatley
Provost and Dean of Academic Services
Telephone: (706) 236-2216
E-mail: kwhatley@berry.edu