Search Committee

Chair

Amy Hertel
Senior Advisor to the Provost for Strategic Initiatives

Search Committee Members

Rebecca Bahar-Cook
MSU Trustee

Federica Brandizzi
MSU Research Foundation Professor, Plant Biology; MSU Research Foundation Professor, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory; Director, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory; Regular faculty, Molecular Plant Sciences Program; Faculty, Cell & Molecular Biology Program; MSU Foundation Professor, BioMolecular Science Gateway

Christina Chan
Chairperson, Chemical and Electrical Engineering; University Distinguished Professor

Pero Dagbovie
Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Dean of the Graduate School; University Distinguished Professor, Department of History

Kathleen Fitzpatrick
University Distinguished Professor of English; Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters 

Thomas Glasmacher
FRIB Laboratory Director

Eric Hegg
Dean, College of Natural Science; Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Priyanka Kothari
PhD student, Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education; COGS President

David Lanfear
Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President of Research; Co-Director, Center for Individualized and Genomic Medicine Research
Henry Ford Health; Professor of Medicine, MSU College of Human Medicine

Jack Lipton
Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Translational Neuroscience; Associate Dean of Research Analytics, College of Human Medicine; At-Large Member, Faculty Senate

Evonne Pedawi
Executive Director, Contract and Grant Administration

Barbara Schneider
John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, College of Education and Department of Sociology, College of Social Science

George Smith
Director, MSU AgBioResearch; Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Dave Washburn
Chief Executive Officer, MSU Research Foundation

Kurt Zinn
Professor, Departments of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology; Hickman Family Endowed Chair in Oncology; Director, Clinical Innovations Program