Utah State Official Named UMaine Dean

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ORONO — Ann Leffler, Ph.D., associate dean of the Utah State University College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has been named dean of the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  The University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved her appointment earlier this month.

Leffler, a sociologist who has been on the Utah State faculty since 1980, has been associate dean since 1999.  She has also served as interim dean, director of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, and chair of the Regents