OSU Board Approves Personnel Actions

Friday, September 14, 2007

(STILLWATER, Okla., Sept. 14, 2007) -- The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents approved several personnel actions during its Sept. 14 meeting at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
 
Garvin W. Quinn, director of marketing and communications at the Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tennessee since 2001, was named director of Agricultural Communications Services.
He received his B.S. in agronomy from Oklahoma Panhandle State University, and his master’s degree and Ph.D. in communication from the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Quinn also served as director of agricultural communications at the University of Delaware, Newark, from 1995-2001, and prior to that worked in extension at the University of Kentucky and OSU.

He is active in the Association for Communication Excellence, and received the National Program of Excellence Gold Award in 2000 from Epsilon Sigma Phi, Cooperative Extension’s honorary fraternity.

M. Keith Owens of Texas A&M University, Uvalde, was named professor and head of the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. His appointment grants tenure.

He joined the faculty of Texas A&M University in 1983, and he has served as professor and head of the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management since 2007.

Owens received B.S. degrees in range management and forest management from the University of Idaho, his master’s degree in range management from the University of Wyoming, and his Ph.D. in range science from Utah State University. He holds professional memberships in the Society for Range Management, the Ecological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.  

K. Celeste Campbell, director of the OSU Bureau for Social Research since July 2006, was named university registrar.

She served as assistant director of the OSU Honors College from 1995-96, and was manager of course development and marketing and an instructional developer for OSU’s Independent and Correspondence Study from 1990-94. Prior to this she taught mathematics in Texas and Oklahoma schools and was a part-time mathematics instructor at OSU.

Campbell received her B.A. in mathematics with honors, her master’s degree in applied mathematics, and her Ph.D. in educational psychology, all from OSU.  She is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

Blayne E. Mayfield, OSU associate professor of computer science, was named director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence, formerly known as Educational Television Services.
He received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. in computer science, all from the University of Missouri. He joined the OSU faculty in 1988, served as interim department head from 1993-94, and was head of the department from May 1994 to August 2000.

Mayfield has taught distance education courses for more than 15 years. He holds professional memberships in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery, and Sigma Xi.

    Kelly J. Burley, former news and program director at KOSU radio, was named director of the public radio station. Since 2003 he has worked with AARP, as the associate state director for the Oklahoma State Office and as the interim state director for the Oregon State Office.

    From 1990-97 and from 1998-2003, Burley served as radio news director and then program director at the radio station, earning numerous broadcasting awards, including three National Edward R. Murrow Awards, two National Journalism Awards from the Scripps Howard Foundation, two National Public Radio News Directors Incorporated Awards, and he was a finalist for the DuPont Columbia Award. From 1997-98, he was a visiting assistant professor at the OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting.

    He earned his B.S. in broadcast journalism and his master’s degree in mass communications from OSU.

  APPOINTMENTS: Damian C. Adams, assistant professor, agricultural economics; Damon L. Smith, assistant professor, entomology and plant pathology; Jon D. Billman and Meghan A. Sutherland, assistant professors, English; JaEun Ku and Yanqiu Wang, assistant professors, mathematics; Conor R. Nelson, assistant professor, music; Larry L. Mullins, professor, appointment grants tenure, psychology; Suzanne M. Konz, clinical assistant professor, applied health and educational psychology; Julie A. Thomas, professor and Morsani Endowed Chair, teaching and curriculum leadership; Jonathan S. Goode, assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering; Miles M. Hunter, assistant professor, engineering technology; Reza Abdolvand and Nazanin Rahnavard, assistant professors, electrical and computer engineering; Krishnan R. Vaidyanathan, research professor and director, New Product Development Center, general engineering; David A. Rubenstein, assistant professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering; Elisaveta Slevitch, assistant professor, hotel and restaurant administration; Hyunjin Kim, assistant professor, human development and family science; Jason B. Arble and Justin D. Thomason, assistant professors, veterinary clinical sciences.

CHANGES: James Leising, title change from professor and department head to professor and assistant director of international programs in agriculture and academic program support, agricultural sciences and natural resources; Robert S. Dooley, associate professor, business administration, appointment to Stinchcomb Professorship, business administration; Matthew W. Brosi, assistant director, human development and family science, appointment to director, Center for Family Services; James S. O’Geary, change in title from director to assistant vice president for research compliance, research;  Steven C. Price, change in title from assistant vice president for technology development to associate vice president for technology development, research.
For OSU-Oklahoma City, appointments were approved for Kenneth L. Heitzman, instructor, fire protection, and for Michelle Riley, instructor, nurse science. Larry W. Robinson, assistant professor and interim department head, public safety, was named assistant professor and head of public safety. Armando Cruz, associate professor of science, was named department head.
For the OSU Center for Health Sciences, appointments were approved for Jarrad R. Wagner, assistant professor, associated health sciences; Gerwald A. Kohler, assistant professor, biochemistry and microbiology; and for David M. Gearhart, clinical assistant professor, family medicine.

For OSU-Okmulgee, Deborah J. McIntyre was named vice president, business affairs.

Oklahoma’s only university with a statewide presence, Oklahoma State University is a five-campus, public land-grant educational system that improves the lives of people in Oklahoma, the nation, and the world through integrated, high-quality teaching, research and outreach.  Established in 1890, the Stillwater campus is the home of the OSU System.  The STATE’s university boasts students from all 50 states and nearly 120 nations, and has more than 200,000 alumni throughout the world.