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; and Jamey D. Jacob, associate professor, mechanical
and aerospace engineering, appointment grants tenure.
CHANGES IN TITLE: 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;
and Hugh Kierig, from manager to director, parking and transit services.
RETIREMENTS: Edward G. Lawry, philosophy, May 1; Peter M. Moretti, mechanical and
aerospace engineering, June 2.
SABBATICALS: Selim S. Hiziroglu, forestry, 50 percent 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 f Science and Technology in Taiwan; Michael W. Palmer, botany, 50 percent
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 percent
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 percent
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 percent
sabbatical to begin work on a fourth book, “A Social History of Immigration into Arizona”;
Stanley Ketterer, journalism and broadcasting, 100 percent sabbatical from Sept. 1,
2006, to Jan. 16, 2007, to research and write a guidebook for journalists; Alan C.
Adolphson, mathematics, 100 percent 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 percent sabbatical
from Jan. 7-May 31, 2007, to strengthen research program in several complex variables;
Igor Pritsker, mathematics, 100 percent 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 percent 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 percent 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 percent 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 percent 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 percent 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 percent sabbatical from Sept. 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007, to
work as a director and choreographer for theatrical producers in New York City.
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.