OSU/A&M Regents approve personnel actions
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Several personnel actions were approved during the Oklahoma State University/A&M Board
of Regents meeting Friday on the OSU-Tulsa campus.
Natalie Shirley, a successful business and civic leader, was approved as president
of OSU-Oklahoma City. Shirley served as Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce and Tourism
and was executive director of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce from 2007-11 under
Governor Brad Henry. Prior to that, she held several executive positions during a
16-year career with ICI Mutual Insurance Group, including serving as president and
chief executive officer from 2001 to 2006.
Sheryl Tucker was approved as dean of the OSU Graduate College. Tucker has been serving
as the Program Director for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program with the National
Science Foundation in Washington D.C. She will assume her role as graduate dean on
August 1 and also will hold a tenured appointment as professor of Chemistry in the
College of Arts and Sciences.
Raj N. Singh has been named professor, Williams Company Distinguished Chair in Energy
Technologies, and director of Energy Technologies Program in general engineering.
The action grants tenure. He comes from the University of Cincinnati, where he served
as head of the department of chemical and material engineering and professor of materials
engineering. Singh has a Sc.D. in ceramics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
APPOINTMENTS: Bradley Blaylock, assistant professor, Accounting; Karen Maguire, assistant professor, Economics and Legal Studies; Patricia Henriques, Clinical Assistant Professor and Thoma Family professorship, Entrepreneurship; Brandon Mueller, assistant professor, Entrepreneurship; Cosette Armstrong, assistant professor, Design, Housing and Merchandising; Catherine Curtis, Hotel and Restaurant Administration; Todd Jackson, clinical associate professor and director, Laboratory Animal Resources; Roger Smith, instructor at OSU-OKC Environment and Engineering Resource Management: and Michael Schiesel, Clinical Associate professor, Family Medicine at the Center for Health Sciences.
TITLE CHANGES: Edwin Miller, professor and associate dean of the Division of Agricultural
Sciences and Natural Resources, to regents service professor; William Focht, associate
professor of Environmental Science Graduation program director and certificate program
in Environmental Studies director, to associate professor of Political Science; Bert
Jacobson, professor and head, to professor and interim associate dean, Educational
Studies; and Mackenzie Murphy Wilfong, director of Affirmative Action, to assistant
university counsel and Equal Opportunity Officer.
Shiping Deng, professor and Santelmann Warth Professorship, Plant and Soil Sciences;
Timothy Krehbiel, professor and Watson Family Chair, Finance; Jeretta Horn Nord, professor
and Rhea Women’s Forum professorship, Management Science and Information Systems;
Michael Larranaga, professor, Simplex professor and head, Division of Engineering
Technology; Krishnan Vaidyanathan, Professor and Varnadow Professor of Materials Science
and Engineering, HATRC;
Andrew Arena, professor and T.J. Cunningham endowed chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Daniel Fisher, Professor and Maciula endowed teaching professorship, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Dana Hobson Jr., professor and Construction Management Advisory Board Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Jamey Jacob, professor and Ray and Linda Booker endowed professorship, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Don Lucca, regents professor and Herrington Chair in Advanced Materials, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering;
Raman Singh, professor and C.F. Colcord endowed professorship, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Theodore Drab, associate professor and Salmon endowed professorship, Design, Housing and Merchandising; and Melvin “Bud” Lacy, associate professor, head of School of Accounting and Anadarko chair.
From the Okmulgee campus, Rene Jungo, assistant division chair of Hospitality Technology, to division chair of Hospitality Technology.
RETIREMENTS: Charles Tauer, Natural Resources Ecology and Management, June 30; Nancy Wilkinson, Art, June 1; Neil Purdie, Chemistry, September 2; Ravi Sheorey, English, May 31; Edward Walkiewicz, English, September 1; Maryanne Mowen, Accounting, June 30; Gary Frankwick, Marketing, August 5; Gary Conti, Educational Studies, June 1; Barbara Walker, Teaching and Curriculum Leadership, June 1; Edmour Blouin, Pathobiology, June 30; Vicki Phillips, Library, September 1; and Kay Woodruff Keys, English Language Institute, May 31.