Dr. Lloyd Richardson selected as finalist for associate vice chancellor, Research and Technology Transfer

Sept. 12, 2008 -- Dr. Lloyd I. Richardson, Curator’s Teaching Professor (Education and Mathematics) and head of the Education Leadership and Policy Study at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is a finalist for the position of associate vice chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer at Arkansas State University. Richardson is scheduled to be on campus Thursday, Sept. 18.

Richardson is a distinguished teaching professor at Missouri-St. Louis who has conducted widespread international research. As an International Studies Fellow, he spent three summers in London, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland, and directed the international studies program in those two locations.

Administratively, he is currently the director of the Office of Research and External Funding (OREF) and monitors grant funding totaling over $8 million at Missouri-St. Louis. Richardson has also directed the Center for Excellence in Metropolitan Education (CEME) and served as the co-director of Center for Human Origins and Cultural Diversity for three years at UMSL.

Richardson’s other appointments include the department chair of mathematics at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts from 1982-84, the director of the Mathematics Enhancement Program and Comprehensive Regional Center for Minorities (1989-94), the director of Evaluation and Comprehensive Regional Center for Minorities (1990-95), and as a technical assistant for Databases, consultant to National Science Foundation.

He also has served as a principal or co-principal investigator for numerous grants and publications. Richardson built a computer science program and authored various articles.

Richardson earned his bachelor of science degree in mathematics and secondary education and a master of science in mathematics degree from Northwestern (La.) State University.  He continued advanced math study at the University of Nebraska before receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.
           

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