OSU Board Approves Personnel Actions
Friday, December 1, 2006
The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents approved several personnel actions
during its Dec. 1 meeting at Langston University.
APPOINTMENTS: Ning Wang, assistant professor, biosystems and agricultural engineering;
Rebecca S. Eastham, clinical instructor, hotel and restaurant administration. TITLE
CHANGES: Jeretta H. Nord, from professor and associate dean for undergraduate programs,
to professor, management science and information systems; Gregory C. Mosier, professor,
Regents Service Professor, economics and legal studies, adds title of Puterbaugh Professor
in Legal Studies and Ethics in Business.
SABBATICAL: Jeanmarie V. Lubicz, entomology and plant pathology, 100 percent sabbatical
leave to conduct research at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom to study plant
mechanisms for resistance to viral pathogens and how viruses used in research suppress
or induce host defenses, from July 1-Dec. 31, 2007; Rathindra Sarathy, management
science and information systems, 100 sabbatical leave to work on and complete a major
research monograph, as well as work on other research initiatives, from Jan. 1-May
31, 2007; Judy Oehler Stinnet, applied health and educational psychology, 100 percent
sabbatical to complete the project funded through the OSU Center for the Study of
Disasters and Extreme Events and to prepare federal grant application for the study
of natural disasters, specifically tornadoes, from Aug. 1, 2007, to Jan. 1, 2008;
Laura Barnes, educational studies, 100 percent sabbatical leave to pursue professional
development in statistical techniques especially for the analysis of hierarchical
or nested data structures and to propose methods for instrument development and evaluation
for multi-level constructs, from Jan. 1-May 31, 2008; Patrick B. Forsyth, educational
studies, 100 percent sabbatical leave to produce a theoretical synthesis that would
take the shape of a scholarly book or monograph, from Aug. 1-Dec. 31, 2007.
RETIREMENTS: Earl D. Mitchell, biochemistry and molecular biology, Feb. 1, 2007; Steven
M. Stone, agricultural sciences and natural resources, Jan. 2, 2007; David L. Nofziger,
plant and soil sciences, Jan. 9, 2007; Robert E. Parks, art, June 1, 2007; David M.
Roberts, art, June 1, 2007; John Wolfe, mathematics, Feb. 1, 2007; Janet I. Kimbrell,
accounting, Jan. 1, 2007; Ronald D. Welsh, Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab,
Jan. 5, 2007.
For the OSU Center for Health Sciences, appointments were approved for Anita L. Showalter,
assistant professor and chair, obstetrics/gynecology; and Dean R. Fullingim, clinical
professor, chair and Endowed Professor, radiology.