OSU/A&M Regents approve personnel actions

Friday, June 15, 2012

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

APPOINTMENTS: Ranjith Ramanathan, assistant professor, animal science; Clint Rusk, professor and head, animal science; John Gustafson, professor and head, biochemistry and molecular biology; Cynda Clary, professor and associate dean, division of agricultural sciences and natural resources; Cheryl Mihalko, assistant professor, horticulture and landscape architecture; Sergio Abit, assistant professor, plant and soil sciences; Henry Segerman, assistant professor, mathematics; Bradley Lawson, assistant professor, accounting; Aaron Hill, assistant professor, management; Alexis Smith, assistant professor, management; Cynthia Wang, assistant professor, management; James Burkman, clinical assistant professor, management science and information systems; Jason Nichols, assistant professor, management sciences and information systems; James Matherly, assistant professor, marketing; and Timothy Baghurst, assistant professor, applied health and education psychology.

Di Ann Ryter, assistant professor, teaching and curriculum leadership; Sheri Vasinda, assistant professor, teaching and curriculum leadership; Clint Aichele, assistant professor, chemical engineering; Peter Clark, professor and Samson and Ward Petroleum Chair; chemical engineering; Qiang Li, research assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering; Gregory Clare, assistant professor, design, housing and merchandising; and Joseph Grzywacz, professor and Kaiser Chair, human development and family science.

In the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Kimberly Carter, clinical assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences; Sabrina Reilly, assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences; Michael Schoonover, assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences; and Lesa Staubus, clinical assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences.

TITLE CHANGES: Merrit Taylor, title change from professor and director to professor, agricultural economics; Randy Allen, from professor and endowed chair to professor, director of institute of Agricultural Biosciences in Ardmore and endowed chair, biochemistry and molecular biology; Garey Fox, from associate professor to associate professor and Orville and Helen Buchanan chair, Biosystems and agricultural engineering; Chad Godsey, from associate professor to associate professor and Nutrients for Life professorship, plant and soil sciences; Robert Whitson, from professor, vice president, dean and director to Regents service professor, plant and soil sciences; Liuling Yan, from associate professor to associate professor and Dillon and Lois Hodges professorship, plant and soil sciences; Stacy Takacs, from associate professor to associate professor and director of American Studies, English; Laura Belmonte, from professor and director of American Studies to professor, History;

Jenette Mendez, from professor to professor and department head, political science; Tony Kang, from associate professor to associate professor and Arthur Andersen & Co. Alumni Centennial professorship, accounting; William Schwartz Jr., from assistant professor to associate professor and Judy Freeman Johnson professorship (action granting tenure), accounting; Chad Stefaniak, from assistant professor to assistant professor and Patrick B. Dorr professorship, accounting; Charlotte Wright, from professor to professor and W. Haskell Cudd professorship, accounting;  Michael Morris, from professor, N.Malone Mitchell chair in Entrepreneurship and Head of School of Entrepreneurship to professor and Mitchell chair, entrepreneurship; David Carter, from associate professor to professor and Greg Massey professorship, finance; Joel Harper, from associate professor to associate professor and Williams Cos. Professor in Business, finance; Ali Nejadmalayeri, from assistant professor to associate professor and Jay and Fayanelle Helm professor (action grants tenure), finance; John Polonchek, from professor and head to professor, head and Ed Keller endowed professorship, finance.

Matthew Bower, from associate professor to associate professor and Don R. Brattain professorship, management; Bryan Edwards, from associate professor to associate professor and Joe Synar Chair, management; Sundara Madihally, from associate professor to associate professor and Edward Joullian endowed chair in Engineering, chemical engineering; James Whiteley, from professor to professor and John Hendrix chair in engineering, chemical engineering;  Hyung Jeong, from associate professor to associate professor and Williams Foundation professorship in Civil Engineering, civil and environmental engineering; Charles Bunting, from professor to professor and Halliburton professor in engineering, electrical and computer engineering; Guoliang Fan, from associate professor to professor and Cal & Marilyn Vogt professorship, electrical and computer engineering; William Kolarik, from professor and head to professor, head and Wilson Bentley professorship, industrial engineering;  and Afshin Ghajar, from Regents professor to Regents professor and John Brammer endowed professorship, mechanical and aero-space engineering.

From the office of Academic Affairs, Joel Jenswold, title change from associate director, Graduate Programs in the School of International Studies to director of Academic programs, international; studies and outreach. Christine Ormsbee, title change from professor and interim director to professor, assistant provost and director.

From the OSU Institute of Technology- Okmulgee campus, Kari Chancey, from assistant director to director, distance learning and academic excellence; and Dolph Hayden from assistant division chair to instructor and division chair, engineering technologies.

From the Center for Health Sciences-Tulsa, Gregory Sawyer, title change from associate professor and director, biomedical graduate studies, to associate professor, biochemistry and microbiology;

RETIREMENTS: James Shaw, natural resource ecology and management, August 10, 2012; Patricia Bell, sociology, June 1, 2012; William Beitz, design, housing and merchandising, August 31, 2012; and Linda Sheeran, human and development and family science, July 2, 2012.