Gail Dinter-Gottlieb

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is an

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university administrator who served as the 14th president and vice-chancellor of

Acadia University Acadia University is a public, predominantly undergraduate university located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, with some graduate programs at the master's level and one at the doctoral level. The enabling legislation consists of the Acadia ...

until February 2008. A native of

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, Dr. Dinter-Gottlieb was educated at the

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Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

, and the

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. Dr. Dinter-Gottlieb's research and scholarly activities include work on self-cleavage of the

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intron with Nobel Laureate Dr. Thomas R. Cech (1989). Her recent focus has been in the application of biotechnology to the study of

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and

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. She was a teacher and science curriculum specialist in

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' Brookline School System. In 1976 she taught at the American International School in Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the

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and taught at

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from 1986 to 1996 and 1997–2003 at

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and

Pace University Pace University is a private university with its main campus in New York City and secondary campuses in Westchester County, New York. It was established in 1906 by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace as a business school. Pac ...

. Dr. Dinter-Gottlieb assumed the presidency of

on September 1, 2003. On January 4, 2008, she tendered her resignation as president and Vice-Chancellor of Acadia, effective February 29, 2008, before the completion of her first term. During her tenure, Acadia built a new Biology building and Learning Commons, $52 million was raised in the Capital Campaign, and the faculty went on strike twice. They were the first and last faculty strikes in the university's history.http://masu.ca/strike-history She currently serves National Executive Director of the American Society of the University of Haifa.

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