Posted 9-1-00
CLEVELAND -- Grover "Cleve" Gilmore has been appointed associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Gilmore assumes the position which Samuel Savin vacated upon becoming the college's interim dean July 1, after former dean John Bassett became president of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Gilmore, an award-winning teacher and respected University researcher, joined CWRU's Department of Psychology in 1975 as an assistant professor. He earned tenure as an associate professor in 1981 and was promoted to professor in 1994.
"It is always an honor to serve the University," says Gilmore. He adds that he enjoys administrative work and finds it rewarding to help faculty members do their jobs.
Gilmore has held numerous leadership positions at the University and served on more than 40 committees. He was acting chair of the Department of Statistics for the 1999-2000 academic year, chair of the executive committee for the College of Arts and Sciences from 1998-99, the psychology department's chair from 1985-90, chair of the Faculty Senate from 1989-90, and director of the Experimental Psychology Program from 1983-85.
He currently leads the research group in the psychology department's perception lab, where he studies the visual abilities of older adults and how they process visual information. His research has focused on understanding how Alzheimer's disease and dementia patients view the world and ways to improve their visual perceptions.
His work has received support from such groups as the National Institute on Aging; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the Alzheimer's Association; the Pepper Program at CWRU; the Scottish Rite Foundation; the Ohio Department of Mental Health; and the National Institutes of Health Small Instrument Grant Program.
Students have honored Gilmore with the John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching in 1984, and nominations in 1991 and 1999 for the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award and in 1981, 1997, 1998, and 1999 for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Undergraduate Teaching.
Gilmore earned his B.A. in psychology in 1971 from Brandeis University and his M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. (1975) from Johns Hopkins University.
Gilmore is also active off campus. He serves on the advisory boards of the Alzheimer's Disease Center of University Hospitals and the University Center on Aging and Health. For more than 10 years, he has served in numerous leadership roles with the local Boy Scouts of America, earning the Award of Merit and the Silver Beaver Award, the highest awards given to Boy Scout volunteers.
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