Gail Dinter-Gottlieb
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Gail Dinter-Gottlieb B.Sc., Ph.D. is an American university administrator who served as the 14th President and Vice-Chancellor of Acadia University until February 2008.
A native of Port Chester, New York, Dr. Dinter-Gottlieb was educated at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Northeastern University, Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Dr. Dinter-Gottlieb's research and scholarly activities include work on self-cleavage of the Tetrahymena intron with Nobel Laureate Dr. Thomas R. Cech (1989). Her recent focus has been in the application of biotechnology to the study of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis.
Dr. Dinter-Gottlieb pioneered a multidisciplinary course in AIDS education which garnered national acclaim in the United States.[1]
She was a teacher and science curriculum specialist in Massachusetts' Brookline School System. In 1976 she taught at the American International School in Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado and taught at Drexel University from 1986-1996 and 1997-2003 at State University of New York College at Buffalo and Pace University.
Dr. Dinter-Gottlieb assumed the presidency of Acadia University on September 1, 2003. On January 4th, 2008, she tendered her resignation as President and Vice-Chancellor of Acadia, effective February 29, 2008.
During her tenure, the University raised $55 million in its most successful Capital Campaign, constructed a new Biology building, and a Learning Commons, and restructured the Acadia Advantage so that all students would own their laptops. However, there were also two damaging faculty strikes, a sharp downturn in enrollment and an increase in distrust between administration and both faculty and students.
