Ken Grafton, vice president for agricultural affairs, dean of the College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources, and director of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, has announced the selection of the search committee for the associate director of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.
The associate director will have a full-time, 12-month administrative appointment. The associate director will provide leadership for research programs and help lead the development of long-term strategies to enhance the station’s research programs. The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station is central to the research mission of the land-grant tradition of NDSU, and is home to more than 400 faculty and staff with agricultural research appointments.
Grafton selected Marcia McMullen, interim associate director of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, as chair of the search committee.
Other committee members are:
- Maricelis Acevedo, assistant professor of plant pathology
- Sreekala Bajwa, chair of the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
- Paul Langseth, member of State Board of Agricultural Research and Education
- Ryan Larsen, assistant professor of agribusiness and applied economics
- John McEvoy, associate professor of veterinary and microbiological sciences
- Bryan Neville, director of the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center
- Paul Schwarz, professor of plant sciences
- Kevin Sedivec, professor in the School of Natural Resource Sciences
- Kimberly Vonnahme, associate professor of animal sciences.
Advertising for the position began Jan. 28. The search committee will begin screening applications on March 17 and will continue the recruitment and selection process to find an experienced research leader to begin by the new fiscal year. The committee invites the university community to engage with the process by encouraging qualified individuals to apply at https://jobs.ndsu.edu/postings/4509.
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.
