December 11, 2024
President names search committee for next vice president for research
Submitted by the Office of the President
K-State President Richard Linton has appointed the search committee to lead a national search for the university's next vice president for research.
Co-chairing this committee will be Jesse Perez Mendez, provost and executive vice president, and Ruth Welti, university distinguished professor of biology. The university has engaged the services of WittKieffer, an executive search firm, to support the search process.
Search committee members are:
- Jesse Perez Mendez, co-chair, provost and executive vice president
- Ruth Welti, co-chair, university distinguished professor of biology
- Rachelle Banwart, executive director of corporate engagement
- Brad Behnke, interim dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences
- Blake Billings, deputy general counsel
- Teresa Douthit, current faculty senate president and professor of animal sciences and industry
- Artem Rudenko, Cortelyou-Rust professor of physics and director of the James R. Macdonald Laboratory
- Stacy Hutchinson, associate dean for research and graduate programs in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering
- Greg Lohrentz, senior vice president of operations and finance at the KSU Foundation
- Paul Lowe, associate vice president for research
- Susan Metzger, director of strategic interdisciplinary program development
- Justin Mourn, research technician on the FarmsLab Team
- Claudia Petrescu, vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate School
- Jürgen Richt, Regents and university distinguished professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, director of the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases, and director of NIH COBRE Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
- Alysia Starkey, CEO and dean of K-State Salina
- Marshall Stewart, executive vice president for external engagement and chief of staff, Office of the President
- Marty Vanier, associate director of the Biosecurity Research Institute and director of the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center
- Zane Whitney, president of Graduate Student Council and doctoral student in history