OSU/A&M Regents approve personnel actions

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Several personnel actions were approved during the Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents meeting on Friday at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

APPOINTMENTS: Shaoqian Zhang, assistant professor, art; Toby Nelson, assistant professor, chemistry; Ronald Rahaim, assistant professor, chemistry; David Chan-Tin, assistant professor, computer science; Tingting Chen, assistant professor, computer science; Nancy Caplow, assistant professor, English; Brian Jacobson, assistant professor, English; Jeffrey Menne, assistant professor, English; Juan Meng, assistant professor, media and strategic communications, Virginia Broffitt, assistant professor, music; Ryan Gardner, assistant professor, music;

Jerimy Polf, clinical assistant professor, physics; Susan Miller, assistant professor, political science; Timothy Peterson, assistant professor, political science; Bradley Blaylock, assistant professor, accounting; Alexander Boquist, assistant professor, finance, Joel Cramer, associate professor, applied health and educational psychology; Benjamin Solomon, assistant professor, applied health and educational psychology;  Jennifer Volberding, assistant professor, applied health and educational psychology; Kimberly Davis, assistant professor, teaching and curriculum leadership; Faryl Kander, assistant professor, teaching and curriculum leadership; and Lobat Tayebi, assistant professor, mechanical and aero-space engineering.

For the Center of Veterinary Health Sciences, Shelby Hayden, clinical assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences and Holly Moore, clinical assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences. For OSU-Oklahoma City, Tiffany Smith, associate professor, public safety.

CHANGES: Francis Epplin, agricultural economics, title change from professor and Breedlove professorship to professor and Neustadt Chair; Dale Alspach, mathematics, title change from department head and professor to professor; Kyle Wray, title change from associate vice president to vice president, enrollment management and marketing; and Richard Barr, academic information services, title change from interim director of infrastructure to director.

RETIREMENT: John Chandler, professor of computer science, effective September 1, 2011; and Jan Wagner, professor of chemical engineering, effective October 31, 2011.    

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