OSU/A&M Regents approve personnel actions

Friday, June 18, 2010

Other June 2010 Board Actions:
Promotions
Budget

Several personnel actions were approved during the Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents meeting Friday on the OSU-Oklahoma City campus.

Dr. Jorge H. Atiles was appointed associate dean and professor for extension and engagement in the College of Human Environmental Sciences. Atiles has served as associate dean for outreach and extension in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia, where he also had served as the Family and Consumer Sciences State Program Leader for Cooperative Extension and was a leader in Latino outreach for UGA Extension.

He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in the Dominican Republic, his master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his Ph.D. in housing, interior design and resource management.

Dr. Donald R. Herrmann, associate professor and Arthur Andersen Professor of Accounting, has been named head of the School of Accounting and Anadarko Petroleum Chair in Accounting. He joined the OSU accounting faculty in 2005 after serving on faculties at Oregon State University and Baylor University. He received his B.S. in business administration from John Brown, his master’s degree in accounting from Kansas State University, and his Ph.D. in finance accounting from OSU.

APPOINTMENTS: John L. Abernathy, assistant professor, accounting; Rubindhiran Pillay, Daniel White Jordan Clinical Professor in Entrepreneurship and Creativity, entrepreneurship;  Mihyun Kang, assistant professor, design, housing and merchandising; Julia T. Atiles, associate professor, human development and family science; Kevin R. Fite, associate athletic director, NCAA compliance; Troy A. Levings, director, physical plant administration.

TITLE CHANGES: Don R. Hansen, Regents Service Professor, accounting, adds title of Arthur Andersen Professor; Mark Weiser, associate dean, professor, Fleming Professor and director, management science and information systems, to professor, Fleming Professor and director; James G. Hromas, associate professor, marketing, returning to faculty position, removing director title, appointment to Lawrence L. Boger Chair; Sue C. Jacobs, associate professor, applied health and educational psychology, appointment to Ledbetter Lemon Endowed Diversity Professorship. 

SABBATICALS: Guolong Zhang, animal science, 50 percent sabbatical to study the host immune response to infections with influenza viruses using genomic, protemic and lipidomic techniques at the Washington National Primate Research Center in Seattle, Wash., from Sept. 1, 2010, to Aug. 31, 2011; Ramamurthy Mahalingam, biochemistry and molecular biology; 100 percent sabbatical to collaborate with Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., on the genetic mechanisms of dehydration and drought tolerance, particularly stress signaling mechanisms, from July 1-Dec. 31;  Xiang Fang, marketing, 100 percent sabbatical to serve as a visiting scholar at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics to collaborate on research of consumer responses to cross-border brand acquisitions, Jan. 1-June 30, 2011.

RETIREMENTS: Kim B. Anderson and Joseph E. Williams, both agricultural economics, June 30; Glenn E. Selk, animal science, June 30; Ronald L. Elliott, Michael A. Kizer, Michael D. Smolen, all biosystems and agricultural engineering, June 30; John B. Solie, biosystems and agricultural engineering, June 10; Kenneth E. Conway and Jim T. Criswell, both entomology and plant pathology, June 30; John C. Banks, Bjorn Martin and Thomas F. Peeper, all plant and soil sciences, June 30; Linda C. Leavell, English, Aug. 1; Robert B. Garner, journalism and broadcasting, June 1; Pat D. Brock, engineering technology, Aug. 31; Jim L. Hanson, engineering technology, July 1; Patricia M. Knaub, human development and family science, June 30.

For OSU-Oklahoma City, appointments were approved for Jennifer R. Poynter, instructor and head, arts and sciences; and for Rebecca J. Pruitt, department head, early care education. Scott C. Lovett, instructor of health sciences, was named head of health sciences. A title change was approved for Sally Henderson, veterinary technology, from professor and head to professor; and for David A. Morales, veterinary technology, from assistant professor to assistant professor and head.

For the OSU Center for Health Sciences, appointments were approved for Katherine D. Cook and David M. Wilkett, clinical assistant professors, medicine; Mark H. Thai, clinical assistant professor, osteopathic manipulative medicine; and Travis Campbell and William A. See III, clinical assistant professors, pediatrics. A title change was approved for Sarah M. Hall from clinical assistant professor to assistant professor, family medicine; and for Harriet A. Shaw, from clinical professor to professor, osteopathic manipulative medicine.

For the OSU Institute of Technology, the retirement of Mary A. Dickson, visual communications, July 2, was accepted.