The second open forum for Iowa State’s senior vice president and provost search will be for David Manderscheid, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The forum will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union. The forum offers a chance for students, faculty and staff to ask questions and hear Manderscheid’s ideas for the position.

Manderscheid has been the dean of the College of LAS and a professor of mathematics at UNL since 2007.

Before taking on his position at UNL, Manderscheid worked for the University of Iowa, beginning in 1985. At this time he was a visiting assistant professor and the National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow.

From 1997 to 2001 he served as the associate chairman and director of the graduate program for Iowa’s math department. In 2001 he was named the chair of the department of mathematics until he left six years later for UNL.

Manderscheid received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Michigan State University in 1976. He then earned a doctorate in mathematics from Yale University in 1981.

This will be the second of three open forums for the provost and vice president of Iowa State. 

The first open forum for Jonathan Wickert, dean of College of Engineering at Iowa State, was Monday. The third and final open forum will be Friday for Carlo Montemagno. This forum will begin at 10:45 a.m. in the Memorial Union Gallery.