OSU/A&M Regents approve personnel actions

Friday, April 22, 2016

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

APPOINTMENTS: Anand Patel, assistant professor, Mathematics; Amber Dickinson, assistant professor, Political Science; Eric French, assistant professor, Political Science; Joshua Jansa, assistant professor, Political Science; Jaclyn Prentice, assistant professor, Accounting; Gregory Eaton, assistant professor, Finance; Lindsey Greco, assistant professor, Management; Miriam McGaugh, clinical assistant professor, Marketing; Marimuthu Andiappan, assistant professor, Chemical Engineering; Yu Feng, assistant professor, Chemical Engineering; Norbett Delatte, appointment as professor (action confers tenure) and M.R. Lohman professorship, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Jonghoon Kim, assistant professor, Engineering Technology; Haejun Park, assistant professor, Engineering Technology; Avimanyu Sahoo, assistant professor, Engineering Technology; Sabit Ekin, assistant professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Yanmin Gong, assistant professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Kalyani Nagaraj, assistant professor, Industrial Engineering; Aurelie Azoug, assistant professor, Mechanical and Aero-space Engineering; Craig Bradshaw, assistant professor, Mechanical and Aero-space Engineering; Jerome Hausselle, assistant professor, Mechanical and Aero-space Engineering; Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, assistant professor, Mechanical and Aero-space Engineering; and Kurt Rouser, assistant professor, Mechanical and Aero-space Engineering.

Center for Health Sciences –Ben Vassar, clinical assistant professor, Behavioral Sciences.

CHANGES: Linda Watson, title change from professor and department head to professor Botany; John Romans, title change from professor and associate dean to professor and dean, Dean of Education; Stephen Wanger, title change from associate professor to associate professor and Humphreys Chair, Educational Studies; Gayla Foster, title change from clinical assistant professor to clinical assistant professor and Oaks Chair, Teaching and Curriculum Leadership; and Jane Swinney, title change from associate professor to associate professor and head, Design, Housing and Merchandising.

Center for Health Sciences - Jason Beaman, title change from clinical assistant professor to clinical assistant professor and program director, Behavioral Sciences; Dennis Blankenship, title change from clinical assistant professor to clinical assistant professor and chair, Family Medicine; and Michael Thomas, title change from clinical assistant professor to clinical assistant professor, chair and physician executive, Surgery. 

RETIREMENT: Janet Marks, Communications Sciences and Disorders, June 1, 2016; Robert Mayer, English, June 1, 2016; Victor Dmitriev, Foreign Languages, August 10, 2016; Elizabeth Williams, History, June 1, 2016; and Dale Alspach, Mathematics, September 1, 2016. 

Center for Health Sciences – Richard Wansley, Behavioral Sciences, April 1, 2016. 

Romans named College of Education Dean at Oklahoma State University