The new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is expected to be announced soon. 

The search committee met on the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 15, to discuss the candidates. 

The finalists are Albert Boggess, former head of mathematics at Texas A&M; Carolyn Cutrona, chairwoman of the psychology department at Iowa State; Chaden Djalali, chairman of the physics and astronomy department at the University of South Carolina; Douglas Epperson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Washington State University, and Beate Schmittmann, chairwoman of the physics department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.