Robert F. Weaver

Associate Dean, Natural Sciences and Mathematics

email: rweaver@ku.edu

Associate Dean Robert Weaver received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, in 1964. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Duke University in 1969, then spent two years doing postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco.

He joined the faculty of the University of Kansas as an assistant professor of biochemistry in 1971, was promoted to associate professor, then to full professor in 1981. In 1984, he became chair of the Department of Biochemistry, and served in that capacity until he was named Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1995.

Dean Weaver is the divisional dean for the natural science and mathematics departments within the College, which includes supervising 13 different departments and programs. As a professor of molecular biosciences, he teaches courses in the molecular biology of cancer and molecular genetics to biology majors and graduate students. He directs a research laboratory in which undergraduates and graduates participate in research on the molecular biology of an insect virus.

Dean Weaver is the author of many scientific papers resulting from research funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the American Cancer Society. He has also co-authored two genetics textbooks, authored one molecular biology textbook, and two articles on molecular biology in the National Geographic Magazine. He has spent two years doing research in European Laboratories as an American Cancer Society Research Scholar, one year in Zurich, Switzerland, and one year in Oxford, England.