Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Sue B. Clark is the interim vice chancellor for academic affairs until Aug. 15, 2008. A search will be conducted for a permanent vice chancellor.
 
To take on this role, Clark temporarily left her post as the chairperson of the WSU Department of Chemistry and a chemistry professor in Pullman. A leading researcher in her field, Clark currently serves on the National Research Council’s Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board.
 
Clark’s research focuses on the environmental chemistry of plutonium and other actinides, and development of radioanalytical methods to measure actinide elements in environmental samples. Her research efforts are supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology.
 
Prior to joining Washington State University in 1996, she was an Assistant Research Ecologist at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (1992-1996), and Senior Scientist at Westinghouse Savannah River Company's Savannah River Technology Center (1989-1992).  
 
Clark is involved in numerous national and international service activities and has served as a consultant to the Nuclear Energy Agency of France, the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, and the Battelle Memorial Institute. She has received several awards, including the Westinghouse Professorship (2000 to present), Ford Lecturer at Minnesota State University (2003) the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (1998 – 2000), the Young Faculty Achievement Award (1998-1999) in the College of Sciences at Washington State University.  She is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.