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General Studies
P.O. Box 757580
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7580

As Assistant Provost since 2006 Dr. Dana L. Thomas serves as Dean of baccalaureate students who have not declared a major and works to enhance student success.   He supervises the Honors Program, the Academic Advising Center, Testing Services, and the federally funded Student Support Services Program for first generation, low-income, and disabled students.  Born and raised in Fairbanks and a UAF Biology Program alum, Dr. Thomas returned home to develop a Statistics Program at UAF in 1981 after completing his graduate work in Oregon.  He served six years as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and continues his teaching and research role part-time.  In 2005, Dr. Thomas received the Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching Award.  While on faculty at UAF, he arranged U.S.A.I.D. contracts to work two years in the Republic of Yemen facilitating a national survey of agriculture and two years in the Sultanate of Oman improving their fisheries statistics operations.  Dr. Thomas is recognized for his interdisciplinary research on the design and analysis of studies assessing resource (food and habitat) selection by animals.