MARGARET E. (PEGGY) NEWELL
PROVOST and SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT ad interim
Peggy Newell was named Provost and Senior Vice President ad interim in July, 2011. She will continue to serve as Vice Provost during this interim appointment. Peggy has been at Tufts University since 1982, serving as Associate Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Associate Dean for Special Programs at the School of Medicine prior to joining the Provost’s Office as Associate Provost for Research in 1998. In her role as associate provost for research, Peggy created the first office of proposal development and the first office of technology licensing and industry collaboration at Tufts, improving the ability of Tufts researchers to compete for external funding for research programs and providing for the protection and licensing of intellectual property developed at Tufts. She brought our programs for the use of laboratory animals, human subjects, recombinant DNA, and infectious agents into compliance with all relevant regulations, rebuilt the Office of Research Administration, reorganized the financial and administrative operations of the Provost’s area, and worked with the former provost to launch the Tufts in the World program under the auspices of the International Board of Overseers. She has served as deputy to the provost for the past nine years. A 1981 graduate of Boston College with a BA in Psychology, Peggy earned an MBA degree from Boston College Carroll Graduate School of Business in 1988 and a JD degree from Suffolk University School of Law in 1993. She is admitted to the practice of law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Society for Medical Research and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative John Adams Innovation Institute since 2003 and on the Board of Directors of the Tufts Veterinary Emergency Treatment Services, Inc since 2000.
