Science and Sociology - Predictive Power is the Name of the Game - Grand Format

Sheldon Ekland-Olson joined The University of Texas at Austin after completing his graduate work at the University of Washington in Seattle and Yale Law School. He is currently the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts and serving as the Director of the School of Human Ecology. For five years he served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts ind then for eight years as Executive Vice President and Provost of the university.
Jack P. Gibbs graduated with his PhD from the University of Oregon in 1957. In addition to holding a faculty position at Vanderbilt University, Gibbs also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Texas, Austin, Washington State University, and the University of Arizona. At Vanderbilt, he was the Centennial Professor of Sociology, as well as chairing the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.