OSU/A&M Regents approve personnel actions

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

APPOINTMENTS: Pouya Jahanshahi, assistant professor, art, graphic design and art history; Gabriel Cook, assistant professor, chemistry; Smita Mohanty, associate professor, action grants tenure, chemistry; Laleh Tahsini, assistant professor, chemistry; Sabiha Parveen, assistant professor, communication sciences and disorders; Peter Richtsmeier, assistant professor, communication sciences and disorders; Joshua Daniel-Wariya, assistant professor, English; Aimee Parkison, assistant professor, English; Aaron Roggia, assistant professor, foreign languages; Javier Vilcaez Perez, assistant professor, geology; Laura Arata, assistant professor, history; Thomas Carlson, assistant professor, history; and Charles Hughes, assistant professor, history. 

Craig Freeman, associate professor, action grants tenure, media and strategic communications; Jared Johnson, assistant professor, media and strategic communications; Kathleen McElroy, assistant professor, media and strategic communications; Eric Garcia, associate professor, music; Heather Lanners, assistant professor, music; Mark Perry, assistant professor, music; Steve Sanders, assistant professor, music; Justin Horn, assistant professor, philosophy; Marcus Hendershot, clinical assistant professor, political science; Haley Murphy, assistant professor, political science; Aaron Lukaszewski, assistant professor, psychology; Monica Whitham, assistant professor, sociology; Chad Rodgers, clinical instructor, theatre; and Shawn Wilder, assistant professor, zoology. 

Scott White, assistant professor, accounting; Shu Yan, assistant professor, finance; Jun Zhang, assistant professor, finance; Aditi Grover, clinical assistant professor, marketing; Hangshim Lee, assistant professor, applied health and education psychology; Elvira Allison, associate professor, teaching and curriculum leadership; Amy Olson, clinical assistant professor, teaching and curriculum leadership; John Weaver, clinical assistant professor, teaching and curriculum leadership; Prem Bikkina, assistant professor, chemical engineering; Jinal Shah, assistant professor, chemical engineering; Nishantha Ekneligoda, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering; Yuanxiong Guo, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering; Arash Pourhabib, assistant professor, industrial engineering; Christian Bach, assistant professor, mechanical and aero-space engineering; Shuodao Wang, assistant professor, mechanical and aero-space engineering; Ryan Curtis, clinical associate professor and assistant director, laboratory animal resources; Joao Lemos Brandao, clinical assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences; Laura Nafe, assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences. 

For the Center for Health Sciences, Benjamin Shepard, clinical assistant professor, department of medicine; Gavin Gardner, clinical assistant professor, family medicine; and Leslie Ching, clinical assistant professor, oesteopathic manipulative medicine.  

CHANGES: Jiahong Wu, title change from professor to professor and AT&T Professorship, mathematics; Donald Herrmann, title change from associate professor and GDT Chair to associate professor, GDT Chair and PhD Program Coordinator, accounting; Ramesh Sharda, title change from Regents Professor, Watson and ConocoPhillips Chairs to Regents Professor, Watson and ConocoPhillips Chairs, and Vice Dean, Dean of Business Administration; Mary Gade, title change from associate professor to associate professor and PhD Coordinator, economics/legal studies; Robert Baron, title change from Regents Professor and Spears Chair to Regents Professor, Spears Chair and Holder Family Chair, entrepreneurship; Tracy Suter, title change from associate professor to associate professor and Jordan Endowed Chair, entrepreneurship; Joel Harper, title change from professor and Williams Co. Professorship to professor, Williams Co. Professorship and PhD Program Coordinator; Nikun Dalal, title change from professor to professor and PhD Coordinator, management science and information systems; Rathindra Sarathy, title change from professor and Ardmore Chair to professor, Ardmore Chair and MS Program Coordinator, management science and information systems; Kevin Voss, title change from professor and Humphreys Chair to professor, Humphreys Chair and PhD Program Coordinator, marketing; and Katrina Meinkoth, title change from lecturer to clinical assistant professor, veterinary clinical sciences. 

From the Institute of Technology in Okmulgee, Jodi Campbell, title change from instructor to instructor and FNB/CSB Professor, allied health sciences; and Anita Gordy Watkins, title change from Vice President to Executive Vice President, Office of the President and Provost.

From the Center for Health Sciences, Lindsey Kirkpatrick, title change from Director of Admissions and Recruitment to Director of Admissions, admissions; Bria Taylor, title change from Manager of Community Relations and Events to Director of Community Relations and Events, outreach and special events; and Jeffrey Hackler, title change from Interim Department Head to Department Head and Assistant to the Dean, rural health. 

RETIREMENT: Thomas Hennessey, natural resource ecology and management, August 8, 2014; Edwin Miller, natural resource ecology and management, October 10, 2014; Barbara Carlozzi, applied health and educational psychology, August 10, 2014. 

Release by Kim Hunter