Angelina Sylvain

Angelina Sylvain, PhD, currently serves as the Special Assistant to the Provost and Vice Dean for Graduate Education at the University of South Carolina since April 2021, where responsibilities include providing data insights for financial and policy decisions and leading the tracking of metrics related to program quality. Prior to this role, Angelina Sylvain held various positions at Washington University in St. Louis from October 2016 to March 2021, including Interim Associate Dean for Policy and Program Analysis and Interim Director of the Olin Fellowship, overseeing academic affairs and advising administration on strategy and programming. Earlier experience includes roles as a Graduate Education Analyst, Postdoctoral Researcher at the NIH, and Graduate Coordinator at Princeton University, where research focused on associative memory mechanisms in C. elegans. Angelina Sylvain earned a PhD in Neuroscience from Princeton University and a BS in Biology from UC Irvine.