Dr dixon texas a&m english
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Texas A&M University
After a year as interim department head, Dr. Marlene A. Dixon has been appointed the new head of our School’s Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management (KNSM).
Dr. Dixon has several goals for the department, including providing support for all tenured and tenure-track faculty to secure impactful funding for their research and building industry panels to enhance curricular relevance and students’ career preparation. She also aims to continue KNSM’s ‘On the Move’ podcast to highlight the vibrant people and programs that continue to advance the department.
Dixon said she is excited to continue her new role for the next several years. “We have so many excellent and important things going on in our department,” she shared. “I am proud and pleased to help see them develop to maximum impact.”
Dixon has over 30 years of experience in higher learning and has made significant contributions to the field through her research, teaching, coaching, and administr
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Richard Dixon (biologist)
Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of North Texas
For other people named Richard Dixon, see Richard Dixon (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Richard Nixon.
Richard A. Dixon is a British biologist who is distinguished research professor at the University of North Texas, a faculty fellow of the Hagler Institute of Advanced Study and Timothy C. Hall-Heep distinguished faculty chair at Texas A&M University.[2][3][4]
Education
[edit]Dixon studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973[5] followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 for research on the production of Phytoalexin by plant tissue cultures.[6]
Career and research
[edit]After his DPhil, Dixon was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge before starting his own research group at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.