he served as a role model and advisor for black and other young minority men and women and also chaired external programs such as an undergraduate science symposium for showcasing students' research from six area colleges and universities. An MEP (Minority Engineering Program) report stated that minority first-year freshman pre-engineering students involved in the program in 1998–99 had a mean grad-point average over their first three academic quarters of 2.70. Nearly 79 percent of the participants had GPAs equal to or better than the 2.20 required to begin taking engineering courses. By comparison, white first year freshman pre-engineering students had a mean GPA after three quarters of 2.56 and just below 70 percent had the required 2.20 GPA. Weatherby left Auburn to become an associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Notre Dame in 2004. In 2006, he became the Associate Provost for Student Success at Northern Kentucky University, which he served until his death in September 2007. Death Weatherby died from what doctors speculate was a blood clot that had traveled to his brain. After struggling with high blood pressure most of his life, his kidneys sustained severe damage. Weatherby spent a week in the hospital and a week at home on medication to lower his blood pressure. He was 47 when he died. According to one of his daughters, Audrey Weatherby, during his time at home he hit his foot on a bedpost. Doctors believe a clot formed and eventually caused his death. References 1959 births 2007 deaths People from Brighton, Alabama Central State University alumni University of Dayton alumni Auburn University faculty University of Notre Dame faculty Northern Kentucky University faculty