Clyde Phelix named associate dean in College of Sciences

(Feb. 27, 2002)--Clyde Phelix, associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology, has been named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Sciences. He succeeds Dwight Henderson, who served as Interim Associate Dean and who is in China for a year as a Fullbright lecturer.

The Office of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs takes care of all academic matters in the College of Sciences including all student-related issues. The office also administers scholarships and coordinates catalog revisions and class schedules for the college.

Phelix received his B.S. in biology from the State University of New York at Potsdam and a Ph.D. in anatomy, with a neuroscience emphasis, from the Medical School at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received postdoctoral training in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia-Athens.

Phelix has extensive experience in advising and training undergraduate students and in 1996, he received the UTSA University Life Award - The Diane Abdo Outstanding Registered Student Organization Advisor Award.

He co-directs the Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program, a joint UTSA-St. Philips College grant award from the NIH National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Since 1990, Phelix has taught undergraduate courses at UTSA, ranging from Biology I to the upper-division courses, such as Law and Ethics in Life Sciences; in addition, he has taught seven different graduate courses at both master’s and doctoral levels. He has taught undergraduate courses at the Downtown Campus for three years and is presently teaching an undergraduate course at Brooks Air Force Base. He has served on nine university and college committees including three years as chair of the Graduate Program Evaluation Committee of the Graduate Council and the College of Science and Engineering Faculty Review Advisory Committee.

He is principal investigator in a Department of Defense - Air Force Research Laboratories collaboration with researchers at Brooks Air Force Base, and also collaborates on a grant from the National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Previous NIH support was through the Heart Lung Blood Institute on a Career Development Award.

He has 24 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He was also the associate editor for Brain Research Publications, Inc. on four neuroscience journals for four years. In addition he has served as an ad hoc reviewer on 12 journals including Brain Research and Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry.

Current research interests include substances of abuse (alcohol and amphetamines), the effect of neurotoxins and microwaves on neuronal ultrastructure. He also is working on collaborations on Artificial Neural Networks modeling neuromuscular signaling, diabetic nephropathy with a colleague at UT-Southwestern in Dallas, and biocompatible implants for revascularization of cardiac tissue with a colleague at UTHSCSA.

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