Regents approve OSU personnel actions

Friday, September 15, 2006

The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents approved several personnel actions during its Sept. 15 meeting on the OSU campus in Stillwater.

New Appointments

OSU-Stillwater:

Kellie K. Raper, assistant professor, agricultural economics;
Deborah C. Jaworski, assistant professor, entomology and plant pathology;
Martin A. Fischer, professor, action grants tenure, communication sciences and disorders;
Carol A. Mason, English, associate professor;
Anantharum Raghuram and Mathias Schulze, assistant professors, mathematics;
Igor Karaca, Zarina Melik-Stepanova and Donald B. Snow, assistant professors, music;
Edward L. Burkley III, Melissa Burkley and LaRicka R. Wingate, assistant professors, psychology;
Michael J. Stern, assistant professor, sociology;
Jessica M. Maerz, assistant professor, theatre;
Ali Nejadmalayeri, assistant professor, finance;
Federico Aime, assistant professor, management;
David C. Barney, associate professor, applied health and educational psychology;
John W. Lowery, associate professor, educational studies;
David L. Buckner, Jennifer Sanders and Juliana G. Utley, assistant professors, teaching and curriculum leadership;
Jeffrey M. Hawkins, associate professor, teaching and curriculum leadership;
Heather D. Fahlenkamp, assistant professor, chemical engineering;
Rifat Bulut, assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering;
Imadeddine M. Abouzahr, associate professor, engineering technology;
Heather N. Yates, assistant professor, engineering technology;
Lorenzo Cremaschi and Ali K. Kalkan, assistant professors, mechanical and aerospace engineering;
Murat Hancer, associate professor, hotel and restaurant administration;
Arpita Basu, assistant professor, nutritional sciences.

Changes in Appointment:

Kevin G. Moore, from manager, proposal services, to director, CEAT student services;
David M. Smith, from associate head coach, men’s track and cross country, to head coach, cross country;
Michelle H. Wikle, from coordinator, A&S Career Services, to director, student orientation and enrollment, enrollment management.

Retirements:

Alexander Filonow, entomology and plant pathology, Jan 2, 2007;
David K. Lewis, natural resource ecology and management, Sept. 6;
John W. Cartinhour Jr., engineering technology, Jan. 2, 2007.

OSU-Tulsa:

The appointment of Melvin Murdock as director/chief of campus police was approved.

OSU-Oklahoma City:

Appointments were approved for Jacqueline C. Balcewicz, instructor and head, general studies;
Jacqueline Hill, Cyndi Namdar-Yeganeh and Barbara S. Weis, instructors, nurse science.
A change in title was approved for Ann Nancy A. Lowrance, from instructor to instructor and head, public safety.

OSU Center for Health Sciences:

A change in title was approved for Ray Cordry Jr., from assistant professor and interim chair to assistant professor and chair, psychiatry and behavioral sciences.