New Faculty, Academic Staff & Educators
Please join me in welcoming new faculty and academic staff for the 2007-08 Academic year!
Agricultural Economics
Abdullahi Abdulkadri, Visiting Assistant Professor
Hamish Gow, Senior Director of the Global Agrifood Systems Development and Director of the Partnerships for Food Industry Development
Lisa Jansen, Visiting Outreach Specialist
Songqing Jin, Assistant Professor
Mark Skidmore, Betty and David Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy
Animal Science
Ashley Bushman, Beef Management Coordinator for the Agricultural Technology program
Darrin Karcher, Outreach Poultry Specialist
Jason Knott, Assistant Professor
Janice Swanson, Director of Animal Welfare
Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Wei Liao, Assistant Professor
Yan(Susie) Liu, Assistant Professor
Chris Saffron, Assistant Professor
Communities, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies
Colleen Matts, Outreach Specialist for the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems
Kristen Steger
Crop and Soil Sciences
Andrew Grandy, Assistant Professor
Janet Lewis, Assistant Professor
Juan Gao, Visiting Research Associate
Guorong Zhang, Visiting Research Associate
Entomology
Matt Grieshop, Assistant Professor
Mollie Mcintosh, Visiting Research Associate
Julianna Tuell, Visiting Research Associate
Fisheries & Wildlife
Mark Axelrod, Assistant Professor
James Millington, Visiting Research Associate
Carolyn Stell, Visiting Professor
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Jennifer Gray, Research Associate
Saori Obayashi, Instructor
Forestry
Andrew Finley, Assistant Professor
Zhangquan Shen, Visiting Research AssociateHorticulture
Cornelius Barry, Assistant Professor
Daniel Brainard, Assistant Professor
Paolo Sabbatini, Assistant Professor
School of Packaging
Jane Severin, Instructor
School of Planning, Design & Construction
Mohamed El-Gafy, Assistant Professor
Morna Hallsaxton, Visiting Assistant Instructor
Patricia Higdon, Assistant Instructor
Doina Ilies, Visiting Instructor
Laura Lombardi, Assistant Instructor
MSU Extension
Michelle Rodgers, MSU Extension Associate Director for Operations
CYF Family Consumer Sciences
Keerti Patel, Program Leader
Katherine Raphael, Associate Program Leader
Susan Wheeler, Program Leader
Lori Eccles, Family Nutrition Program Assistant, Antrim County
Antoinette Sovis, FCS Program Associate for Genessee County
Tiffany Stevens, FCS Program Associate for Macomb County
Patricia Grzybowski, Program Associate for Genessee County
North Region
Sara Keinath, Wexford County 4-H Youth Educator
J. Robert Sirrine, County Director for the Leelanau County MSU Extension Office
Southeast Region
Andrea Plevek, Washtenaw County Community Development Extension Educator
Patricia Wartinger, Extension Educator
Melissa Payk, Extension Educator, 4-H Youth Development
Southwest Region
Diana Al Sayed Hassan, Extension Educator
Monica Robinson, 4-H Extension Educator for St. Joseph County
Upper Peninsula Region
Rebecca Krans, 4-H Extension Educator
Central Region
Adam Kantrovich CED for Ottawa County
Daniel O'Keefe, District Extension Educator for the southwest district of Michigan Sea Grant
Monica Smith, Extension Educator for Kent County