OSU Board approves personnel actions

Friday, March 3, 2006

The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents approved several personnel actions during its March 3 meeting at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

Dr. Mark E. Payton, OSU professor of statistics, was named associate dean of the Graduate College.

Payton, who received his B.S. degree in mathematics education from Missouri State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from OSU, joined the OSU Department of Statistics in 1991.

He was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2004, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 2000. He served as national president of Mu Sigma Rho, the national statistical honor society, from 1997-2000, and was a member of the editorial board of BioScience from 2001-04.

His professional memberships include the American Statistical Association, University Statisticians of Southern Experiment Stations, Royal Statistical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Biological Sciences, Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi. He is currently the elected vice chair of the OSU Athletic Council, and serves on the A&S College Policy and Planning Committee and the OSU Budget Committee.

He is the author of two book chapters and author or co-author of numerous journal articles. While a student at OSU, he received the Robert D. Morrison Award for the Outstanding M.S. Graduate in Statistics and the Carl E. Marshall Award for the Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate in Statistics.

Appointments

Garey A. Fox, assistant professor, biosystems and agricultural engineering;
Clarence E. Watson, professor and associate director, Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, appointment grants tenure;
Jamey D. Jacob, associate professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering, appointment grants tenure.

Changes in Appointment

Rathindra Sarathy, from professor to professor and Ardmore Professor of Business Administration, management science and information systems;
Deming Gou, from research scientist to assistant research professor, physiological sciences, center for veterinary health sciences;
Subramanya Karanth, from research associate to assistant research professor, physiological sciences, center for veterinary health sciences;
Hugh Kierig, from manager to director, parking and transit services.

Sabbatical

Selim S. Hiziroglu, forestry, 50% sabbatical from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007, to research and teach in the Forest Products department at Kasetsart University in Thailand;
Karadeniz Technical University in Turkey; and National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in Taiwan;
Michael W. Palmer, botany, 50% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007, to continue research on spatial scale and dynamics of plant species richness;
Richard P. Batteiger, English, 100% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006,to Jan. 31, 2007, to prepare a book manuscript under contract to Northern Illinois University Press;
Elizabeth Grubgeld, English, 50% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007, to research and write third book on Andre Dubus;
Keith Tribble, foreign languages, 50% sabbatical to work on research project “The Theatrical World of Aleksei Remizov”;
Michael Logan, history, 100% sabbatical to begin work on a fourth book, “A Social History of Immigration into Arizona”;
Stanley Ketterer, journalism and broadcasting, 100% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006, to Jan. 16, 2007, to research and write a guidebook for journalists;
Alan C. Adolphson, mathematics, 100% sabbatical from Jan. 17-May 31, 2007, to prepare work for publication, to work on theory and approach to co-homology, and to investigate p-adic properties of L-functions;
Alan Noell, mathematics, 100% sabbatical from Jan. 7-May 31, 2007, to strengthen research program in several complex variables;
Igor Pritsker, mathematics, 100% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006, to Jan. 16, 2007, to work on area of polynomial problems on the intersection of complex analysis, potential theory, and number theory;
Jiahong Wu, mathematics, 100% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006, to Jan 16, 2007, to work in general area of modeling water waves and eventual periodicity of surface water waves and investigate the periodicity as solutions of partial differential equations;
Rolf Prade, microbiology and molecular genetics, 100% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006, to Jan. 16, 2007, to work on proposal to study non-essential antifungal targets and antifungal resistance;
Scott Gelfand, philosophy, 50% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006, to May 31, 2007, to work on current research agenda, “Ethics and Care of Distributive Justice” with Professor Michael Slote, University of Miami;
Melanie Page, psychology, 100% sabbatical from Jan. 7-May 31, 2007, to work on study of cross-cultural differences and similarities in the successful transition between adolescence and adulthood;
David G. Thomas, psychology, 100% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006, to Jan. 16, 2007, to work an on-going study on nutrition, health and cognition in women and effect on cognitive development of children, and long-term research dealing with the human perception of time;
B. Peter Westerhoff, theater, 50% sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007, to work as a director and choreographer for theatrical producers in New York City.

Retirements

Edward G. Lawry, philosophy, May 1; Peter M. Moretti, mechanical and aerospace engineering, June 2.
At the Center for Health Sciences, appointments were approved for Joseph R. Johnson and Michael Thomas as clinical assistant professors in obstetrics and gynecology. Changes in title were approved for Daniel A. Nader, from visiting assistant professor to clinical assistant professor, internal medicine; Robert W. Fulton, from professor to professor and McCasland Chair in Food Animal Research, veterinary pathobiology; and David R. Wallace, from associate professor to associate professor and assistant dean for research, pharmacology and physiology.
At OSU-Oklahoma City, appointments as instructors in the Nurse Science Department were approved for Heidy R. Brillhart and Sally L. Westfall. Jack D. Hill’s title was changed from director to instructor and department head, Cardiovascular Department. A title change was approved for Mac L. McCrory, from director, Seretean Wellness Center and Spencer Professor, OSU-Stillwater, to vice president, business and industry, OSU-Oklahoma City.
At OSU-Okmulgee, a title change was approved for Patrick A. Braithwaite from department head, division chair and adjunct faculty, to vice president of student affairs and enrollment management.