OSU Board Approves Personnel Actions
Friday, January 19, 2007
The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents approved several personnel actions
during its Jan. 19 meeting at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami.
Dr. Richard Ghiselli, associate professor and interim associate department head in
the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University, was named
professor, director and Charles W. Lanphere Professor of the School of Hotel and Restaurant
Administration. He will assume his position on June 29.
He received his A.O.S. degree in culinary arts from the Culinary Institute of America,
his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and his
M.S. and Ph.D. in restaurant, hotel, institutional and tourism management from Purdue
University. He is a certified culinary educator through the American Culinary Federation.
Ghiselli has served as an assistant or associate professor in the Department of Hospitality
and Tourism Management at Purdue since 1994, and from 1993-94 was an assistant professor
in the Department of Human and Family Resources at Northern Illinois University. His
experience also includes serving as a club manager, food service director, general
manager and assistant manager at facilities in several states.
He holds members in the American Culinary Federation, the Council on Hotel, Restaurant
and Institutional Education, Indiana CHRIE, Eta Sigma Delta international hospitality
honor society, Gamma Sigma Delta agriculture honor society, and the National Restaurant
Association.
Dr. Michael D. Woods, professor of agricultural economics, was named head of the department.
He received his B.S. in economics and finance from Arkansas Technology University,
his M.S. in agricultural economics from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D.
in agricultural economics from OSU.
He was on the faculty of Texas A&M from 1981-86, and joined the OSU faculty in 1986
as an associate professor of agricultural economics and OSU extension economist. His
specialty is rural development.
His professional memberships include serving as state provincial chair representing
Oklahoma for Business Retention Expansion International, the Southern Region Program
Leadership Network, National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals,
Oklahoma Rural Development Council and Southern Region Development Center. He is past
adviser for the OSU Aggie-X Club.
Dr. Mark Weiser, associate professor, Fleming Professor of Information Technology
Management and director of the Master of Science in Telecommunications Management
program, was named associate dean in the Spears School of Business.
He received his B.S. in management information systems from Pennsylvania State University
and his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Iowa. Prior to joining
the OSU faculty in 1995, he was an instructor and a research assistant at the University
of Iowa.
Among the awards and honors he has received are the OSU Technology Innovator Award
in 2004, Outstanding Advising Award in 2001, the Advancia Award of Excellence in Distance
Education in 1998, and the Amoco Innovation in Teaching Award in 1997.
Dr. Toni S. Shaklee, interim assistant vice president for Sponsored Research, has
been named assistant vice president for Sponsored Research in the Division of Research
and Technology Transfer.
She received her B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, from Southwestern Oklahoma
State University, and her M.A. in political science and Ph.D. in environmental science
from Oklahoma State University. She is a Certified Research Administrator.
Shaklee was named an adjunct assistant professor of political science at OSU in 1998,
and she joined the Division of Research and Technology in 2004. From 1984-2004, she
was with the OSU College of Arts and Sciences Research Support Services, including
serving as assistant director of research.
Her professional memberships include the Society of Research Administrators, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, National Council of University Research
Administrators, and Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Alpha Theta honor societies.
APPOINTMENTS: Rodney E. Will Jr., associate professor, natural resource
ecology and management; Mostafa S. Elshahed, assistant professor, microbiology and
molecular genetics; Brian K. Norton, assistant professor, engineering technology;
William R. Degler, assistant professor, library.
TITLE CHANGES: Nigel R. Jones, professor of architecture, adds the title
of architect III for the office of Administration and Finance.
SABBATICAL: Nadine F. Olson, teaching and curriculum leadership, 100
percent sabbatical to research the state of ELL/ESL teacher preparation in South and
Western regions of the U.S. and assess public schools and districts in Central Oklahoma,
from July 1 to Dec. 31, 2007; Jeffrey D. Spitler, mechanical and aerospace engineering,
100 percent sabbatical leave to work with a research group, Energy Systems Research
Unit, Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland, to expand skills and knowledge
in heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, from Jan. 15 to May 31,
2008.
RETIREMENTS: Jim D. Hughey, psychology, Jan. 5, 2007; Pauline J. Holloway, teaching
and curriculum leadership, Jan. 1, 2007; Ronald D. Welsh, Oklahoma Animal Disease
Diagnostic Lab, Jan. 5, 2007; Donald R. Pierce, physical plant, April 2, 2007.
For OSU-Oklahoma City, James D. Gordon was appointed director of the Technology Education
Center.
For the OSU Center for Health Sciences, appointments as clinical assistant professors
in family medicine were approved for Dennis E. Blankenship, Mark E. Blubaugh, Jennifer
J. Eischen, Michele M. Fowler, Aaron Q. Lane and John C. Stepanek; for Susan E. Young,
clinical assistant professor, P.P. surgery; and James E. Harrington, clinical assistant
professor, surgery. Jenny J. Alexopulos, associate professor, department chair and
interim associate dean of family medicine, has been named associate dean, and the
title of Barbara B. Leeper, director of student affairs, has been changed to project
manager, student affairs.