OSU Board Approves Personnel Actions

Friday, January 22, 2010

(MUSKOGEE, Okla., Jan. 22, 2010) -- The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents approved several personnel actions today during its meeting on the Muskogee campus of Connors State College.

APPOINTMENTS: Jennifer A. Hernandez-Gifford, assistant professor, animal science; Jason R. Vogel, assistant professor, biosystems and agricultural engineering; Gina Peek, assistant professor, design, housing and merchandising; Lara A. Sypniewski, clinical assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences; and Precious D. Elmore, director, Inclusion Center for Academic Excellence.

CHANGES: Melanie C. Page, associate professor, psychology, appointment as Riata Entrepreneurship Fellow between the Department of Psychology and Spears School of Business; Julian C. Wallace, associate professor, management, appointment as Brattain Professor of Entrepreneurship; William E. Ryan III, title change from associate professor to associate professor and director, hotel and restaurant administration.

SABBATICALS: Steven E. O’Hara, architecture, 100 percent sabbatical to travel to “Project Lead the Way” schools to research master teachers in civil engineering and architecture to compose a publication to be released in 2011, from Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 2010.

For OSU-Oklahoma City, the appointment of Rachel D. Reeves as instructor, veterinary technology, was approved. Title changes were approved for Kimie L. Pearsall from associate division head to associate vice president, academic affairs; and for Charles G. Sanny, from professor to professor and chair, biochemistry and microbiology. The retirement of Jerry W. Nielsen, electronics and environmental technology, Dec. 31, 2009, was accepted.

RETIREMENT: Alan C. Adolphson, mathematics, June 1; Patrick B. Dorr, accounting, June 30; Nadine F. Olson, teaching and curriculum leadership, July 2; Renee A. Daugherty, human development and family science, Jan. 31; Julius M. Lubicz-Majewski, athletics, Jan. 31.