OSU Board Approves Personnel Actions

Friday, July 25, 2008

(TULSA, Ok., July 25, 2008) -- Several personnel actions were approved during the Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents meeting today on the OSU-Tulsa campus.

APPOINTMENTS: Jody L. Campichi and David W. Shideler, assistant professors, agricultural economics; Justin Q. Moss, assistant professor, horticulture and landscape architecture; Justen M. Renyer, assistant professor, art; Dennis R. Preston, professor, English, action grants tenure; Jeffrey M. Byrnes, assistant professor, geology; Gina J. Noble, clinical assistant professor, journalism and broadcasting; Robert M. Alderson and Jared P. Dempsey, assistant professors, psychology; Alexander G. Ophir, assistant professor, zoology; Conrad L. Woolsey, assistant professor, applied health and educational psychology; Denise F. Blum and Shabana Mir, assistant professors, educational studies; Robin L. Fuxa, clinical instructor, teaching and curriculum leadership; Anthony R. Dark, director, Oklahoma Transportation Center; Hyun-Joo Lee and Adriana G. Petrova, assistant professors, design, housing and merchandising; David W. Davis, clinical instructor, hotel and restaurant administration; Tamara B. Gull, assistant professor, veterinary pathobiology; Daniel R. Ferris, director, utility services, engineering services, physical plant.

CHANGES: Raymond L. Huhnke, professor, biosystems and agricultural engineering, adds title of director, Biobased Products and Energy Center; Alan Adolphson, Regents Professor, mathematics, appointment as Vaughn Professor; Jiahong Wu, professor, mathematics, appointment as AT&T Professor; Alexander Khanov, change in title from assistant research professor to assistant professor, physics; Ronald S. Harrist, associate professor, applied health and educational psychology, appointment to endowed chair, the Hyle Family Professor; Steven W. Edwards, title change from professor and interim associate dean, to professor and associate dean for research and graduate studies, College of Education; Timm J. Bliss, associate professor, educational studies, appointed to an endowed chair at OSU-Tulsa, the Hardesty Chair; Paulette R. Hebert, professor, design, housing and merchandising, stepping down as department head and appointed to Salmon Professorship; Richard Ghiseli, professor and director, hotel and restaurant administration, appointment as Thoma Chair; Radesh R. Palakurthi, professor, hotel and restaurant administration, appointment as Lanphere Endowed Professor; Lin Liu, professor, physiological sciences, appointed to endowed chair, the Lundberg-Keinlen Endowed Chair; Nicole M. Ponzio, change in title from visiting assistant professor to clinical assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences.

SABBATICAL: Daryl Nord, management science and information systems, a 100 percent sabbatical at the University of Primorska in Slovenia to work with faculty and administrators on IT research, seminars and faculty development programs, and his Fulbright  visit is in collaboration with Slovenia State Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, from Jan. 1-June 30, 2009; Jeretta H. Nord, management science and information systems, management science and information systems, 100 percent sabbatical at the University of Primorska, Slovenia, to fulfill a Fulbright Specialists Award Grant to study the impact of different cultures, social systems, etc., on entrepreneurship behaviors, especially in regard to high technology innovations, from Jan. 1-June 30, 2009; Marlys Manson, marketing, 100 percent sabbatical to advance her expertise in the area of consumer health with colleagues at the University of Utah as well as in Minnesota for data collection, from Jan. 17-June 30, 2009.

RETIREMENTS: Arthur L. Pentz Jr., communication sciences and disorders, Aug. 1; Timothy M. Wilson, physics, Sept. 2; Adrienne E. Hyle, education outreach, June 30; Garold D. Oberlender, civil and environmental engineering, Jan. 1, 2009.

At the OSU Center for Health Sciences, appointments were approved for Dennis J. Carter, clinical assistant professor and endowed professorship, family medicine; Gavin V. Gardner, clinical assistant professor, family medicine; and for Jennifer D. Sunday, clinical assistant professor, pediatrics. A change in title was approved for Jeffrey S. Stroup, from clinical assistant professor to associate professor, PP-IM.

For the OSU-Institute of Technology, an appointment was approved for Linda K. Roe, director, business affairs. A change in title was approved for Michael S. Fry, from manager to director, economic development and training center.
For OSU-Oklahoma City, appointments were approved for Dawn Hemphill, instructor, nurse science, and for Kent Studnicka, instructor, public safety.

Title changes were approved for Ottilie Baumgardner, from associate professor to associate professor and associate division head, nurse science department; P. Eileen Stephens, from associate professor and associate division head, to associate professor, nurse science department; and Laura Hare, from director to director and project manager, personnel services. The board accepted the retirement of Irving C. Tang, mathematics, effective July 1.