Recent Appointment: William McLean

DON FORSYTH, Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership, published “Group-level resistance to health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic: A groupthink approach” in Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.

DAVID GIANCASPRO, assistant professor of Spanish, published “The late(r) bird gets the verb? Effects of age of acquisition of English on adult heritage speakers’ knowledge of subjunctive mood in Spanish” in Languages; “Over, under, and around: Spanish heritage speakers’ production (and avoidance) of subjunctive mood” in the Heritage Language Journal, and the chapter “Not in the mood: Frequency effects in heritage speakers’ knowledge of subjunctive mood” in Lost in Transmission: The Role of Attrition and Input in Heritage Language Development (John Benjamins Publishing Co.).

KRISTINE GRAYSON, associate professor of biology, received a $104,500 grant from the Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust for her research project “Forecasting the Spread of an Invasive Forest Pest”; a $97,272 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund a second year of her project “Research and Development on a Rearing System for Emerald Ash Borer”; and $28,660 in supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: RUI: Linking thermal tolerance to invasion dynamics: Climate and physiological capacity as regulators of geographical spread.”

ERIC GROLLMAN, associate professor of sociology, co-published Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements (Rowman & Littlefield).

EMILY HELFT, director of disability services, moderated the panel “Low Tech to No Tech Access Solutions” at the fall 2020 virtual conference of the Association on Higher Education and Disability in Virginia.

JAVIER HIDALGO, associate professor of leadership studies, published “Buddhist Error Theory” in the Journal of Value Inquiry; “Why Practice Philosophy as a Way of Life?” in Metaphilosophy; and “A Dilemma for Buddhist Reductionism” in Philosophy East and West.

RECENT APPOINTMENT

WILLIAM MCLEAN

President and Chief Investment Officer, Spider Management Co.

William H. McLean became president and chief investment officer of Spider Management Co., which oversees the University of Richmond’s endowment, on Jan. 1.

Prior to joining UR, McLean served as vice president and chief investment officer of Northwestern University’s $11 billion endowment. He previously held investment management roles at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Duke Endowment.

One of the most respected university chief investment officers in the country, McLean has a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing nonprofit institutions. He has served on many nonprofit boards, including most recently the TIFF Charitable Foundation, the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.

McLean has served on UR’s board of trustees, the University’s investment committee, and Spider Management’s board of managers in various capacities since 2012. Two of his three children graduated from UR.

“As a long-standing member of our board of trustees and the parent of two Richmond graduates, Will believes strongly in the wise stewardship of the resources that have been entrusted to us,” President Ronald. A. Crutcher said. “He is also committed to Spider Management’s longterm investment strategy, our talented team, and our institutional mission.”

McLean said he is excited to be joining the investment team.

“In my role on the board of trustees, I have had the opportunity to see the quality of the organization firsthand,” he said. “I look forward to supporting the fine partners of Spider Management as they strive to fulfill their individual missions. I have a great deal of respect for President Crutcher and his leadership team and am eager to contribute to the continued advancement of the University.”