Martha Gillette, full-time faculty member in Beckman's NeuroTech group and professor of cell and developmental biology, has been named the director of the Neuroscience Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Science at the University of Illinois. Gillette is a world-renowned scholar who has mentored more than 50 graduate and postdoctoral trainees. She served as Head of the Department of Cell and Structural/Developmental Biology from 1998-2008. Gillette replaces Susan Schantz, full-time faculty member in the NeuroTech Group and professor of comparative biosciences, who was serving as interim director.