Dean Glenda Gillaspy has appointed CALS faculty, staff and students to serve on the search committee for a new leadership position: the associate dean for graduate education.

“I am excited to move forward with this important new position so that CALS can better serve graduate students and postdoctoral scientists. I am also thankful for the service of the committee members who will participate in the search process,” says Gillaspy. 

Names of those invited to interview will be posted in a future edition of eCALS.

Search committee for associate dean for graduate education:

• Committee chair: Sean Schoville, professor and department chair, Department of Entomology
• Audrey Pelikan, graduate student and research assistant, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
• Garret Suen, professor, Department of Bacteriology
• Julie Garvin, graduate program manager, Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences and Department of Biological Systems Engineering
• Krista Blessing, department administrator, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences
• Natalia De Leon Gatti, professor, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
• Paulo Falco Cobra, scientist, Department of Biochemistry