Terry D. Schwaner
Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Director
Dean, Life and Health Sciences
Mohawk Valley Community College

Schwaner received his Doctorate Degree from University of Kansas in 1979. He was the Department Head, Harry B. Forrester Endowed Scholar Chair, and Professor of Biology at North Georgia College and State University before taking the position of Professor of Biology and Dean of College of Sciences, The University of Findlay in 2007. He retired from Findlay University in 2012 and was appointed Dean of Life and Health Sciences at Mohawk Valley Community College. Schwaner has received more than 60 individual grants from many different funding agencies, including the Australian Research Grants Committee, National Science Foundation (ILI), and the W.M. Keck Foundation for teaching and research activities, mostly involving undergraduates, on projects involving the systematics, ecology, genetics and evolutionary biology of plants and animals (mostly reptiles and amphibians). He is author or co-author of 60+ scholarly articles and has given 50+ invited presentations on his work since 1989.