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Vimala Pillari, Ph.D., has been selected founding dean of Tarleton State University’s College of Health Sciences and Human Services.

Pillari will begin her duties Aug.

1, pending approval by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.

With its main campus in Stephenville, Tarleton has been a part of the Texas A&M University System since 1917.

Set to open this fall, Tarleton’s new college will house the Department of Nursing and the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Public Health, located in Fort Worth’s medical district.

Programs will be offered in Fort Worth, Waco and Midlothian as well as at Tarleton’s Stephenville campus and via its online Global Campus.

Pillari currently is dean of the Whitney M.

Young Jr. School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, where she has served since 2008. At Clark Atlanta, she has helped to establish a dual degree pro