OSU Board Approves Personnel Actions

Friday, October 28, 2005

The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents approved several personnel actions during its Oct. 28 meeting at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

Dr. Jonathan V. Edelson, professor and interim head, was named head of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology. He joined the OSU faculty in 1989 as an associate professor of entomology and director of the Wes Watkins Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Lane. Prior to that, he served seven years on the entomology faculty at Texas A&M.

He is president of the Society of Southwestern Entomologists, serves on the advisory panel of the Southern Region Pest Management Center, and is active in the Entomological Society of America and the Southern Region Education/Extension and Research Activity-Information Exchange Group. He received his B.S. degree in fisheries from the University of Missouri, and his M.S. and Ph.D in entomology from Auburn University.

In other regents’ action, Gregory A. Campbell was named associate professor and chief pathologist, action grants tenure, for the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab; Perry J. Gethner, professor and head of the Department of Foreign Languages, was appointed Norris Professor; and Sue L. Bonner had a title change from personnel specialist to director, Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources human resources.

Damona Doye, Regents Professor and Extension economist in agricultural economics, was approved for a sabbatical from Jan. 1-June 30, 2006. The 100 percent sabbatical will be used to survey literature and current research, adapt/interpret results for Oklahoma production systems, evaluate feasibility of alternative production systems and develop material for a website, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

For the OSU Center for Health Sciences, appointments were approved for Gary L. Slick as vice president for academic affairs, senior associate dean and professor, obstetrics and gynecology; Larry L. Ellis Jr., clinical assistant professor, osteopathic manipulative medicine; and Adolfo Garnica, clinical associate professor, pediatrics.