5 continues The Duke University student gave her class a tour of the University of Hawaii Marine Lab where he did his research. “It was love at first sight,” she recalls. They married in 1993 and headed to Canada after Danilowicz completed his doctorate. At the University of Windsor in Ontario, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow for the biological sciences department and the Great Lakes Institute. Meanwhile, Kay earned a master’s degree in speech and language therapy. “Kay saw how much fun I had while earning my Ph.D., so she went back to school, too,” Danilowicz says. In 1996, their son Torin was born after they raced across the Canadian border so he would be delivered in Detroit. Although their son’s Celtic name was purely coincidental, it was a foreshadowing of events to come. In 1997, the family moved to Ireland for Danilowicz’s job as a lecturer — equivalent to an assistant professor in the U.S. — in zoology at University College Dublin. He rose through the ranks to associate dean in science at University College, which had more than 21,000 students and one of the largest research budgets in Ireland. His noted successes there include improving student retention, emphasizing mentoring programs for first-year students and focusing on students who were at extreme risk of failing. While Danilowicz worked tirelessly at the university, it wasn’t his sole focus. He and his family spent an equal amount of time in their community of Enfield, Ireland, a suburb of Dublin known for its traditional Celtic culture. When they met neighbors whose child had Down syndrome, the couple put together an ice cream social in their neighborhood to benefit Down Syndrome Ireland. “In Ireland, the support for Down syndrome was not as expansive as it is in the U.S.,” he says. “We wanted to make a difference.” Jason Caniglia / OSU Foundation Bret Dani lowicz (r ight) visi ts wi th Boone Pickens dur ing a June tr ip to Pickens’ Mesa Vista Ranch in the Texas Panhandle. Pickens invi ted the incoming dean to visi t wi th him and other key const i tuents to get feedback on the col lege before Dani lowicz started his new posi t ion. All the previous deans The 11 men who have previously led the Col lege of Arts and Sciences at OSU include: Dean Years at the top Robert H. Tucker 1905–1907 William W. Johnson 1910–1912 Lowery L. Lewis 1912–1922 Clarence H. McElroy 1922–1935 Schiller J. Scroggs 1935–1958 Robert B. Kamm 1958–1965 James R. Scales 1965–1967 George A. Greis 1968–1980 Smith L. Holt 1980–1998 John M. Dobson 1999–2003 Peter M.A. Sherwood 2004–2012
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