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- Director and Professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
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Erika Offerdahl is Director of the Transformational Change Initiative, Professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences (SMB), and Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs in SMB. Offerdahl is a biochemist by training but her research centers on understanding the mechanisms that support transformational change in undergraduate STEM teaching and learning. She is PI for the Research in Interdisciplinary STEM Education project and Co-PI on the Values-based Academic Leadership Trajectories for Women in STEM (VAuLTS) project at WSU, a member of the Association for Faculty Women, and the SMB liaison for ADVANCE. In 2020, Offerdahl received the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction. Nationally, Offerdahl is known for her work as a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research and as a member of the Education and Professional Development Committee for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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- Senior Vice Provost and Professor in the Department of Human Development, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
Laura Hill is senior vice provost, professor in the Department of Human Development, and a founding faculty member of the Prevention Science PhD program at Washington State University. Hill trained as a clinical psychologist, but along the way became more interested in preventing social and emotional problems rather than treating them.
For years she has conducted research on how parents can strengthen family bonds to promote healthy development of their children and adolescents. Recently, Hill served as associate director for health promotion, research, and evaluation in the university's Health and Wellness Services. In that role she studied risk and protective factors, including relationships with parents and instructors, that affect college students' health, well-being, academic performance, and persistence. Hill is particularly interested in how parents and universities can apply science-based tools to help students feel connected, commit to valued actions, stay focused, and flourish in an academic setting.
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Samantha Swindell is a scholarly professor in the Department of Psychology and assistant dean of undergraduate programs for the College of Arts and Sciences. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in psychology at the University of Puget Sound in 1993 before coming to Washington State University to earn a master's and doctoral degree in experimental psychology.
Swindell completed a postdoctoral research appointment at WSU in 1999 and served as the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Psychology prior to her appointment as an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Swindell's expertise is on behavioral principles of learning with particular interest in the role these principles play in evidence-based practices in teaching and training.
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- Associate Dean of Clinical Education, Vancouver
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- Vice Provost for Academic Administration & Chief of Staff
Kristina Peterson-Wilson initially joined the Provost's Office in 2015 and has served in a variety of administrative leadership roles. In 2023, Kristina accepted an expanded position to serve as the Vice Provost for Academic Administration and Chief of Staff. She is responsible for academic administration, operations, communications, and initiatives in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President. She serves as a principal advisor and strategic partner to the System Provost.
Kristina is responsible for the execution of short, medium, and long-term strategic initiatives for the Provost's Office to ensure organizational effectiveness. She oversees the administrative team, manages the degree approval process, and executes the annual performance review and administrative five-year review process for academic leadership. She also serves as the Provost's Office primary contact for the Board of Regents, President's Office, Attorney General's Office, Human Resource Services, and Government Relations.
Kristina received WSU's Administrative Professional Contribution Award in 2017 and the Crimson Spirit Award in 2022.
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- Acting Associate Dean of Clinical Education, Everett
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- Director - College Access and Transition Programs
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- Associate Dean for Research
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V. Lane Rawlins President's Award for Distinguished Lifetime Service
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- Interim Vice Provost for Academic Engagement and Student Achievement, and Associate Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine
Bill Davis joined the Office of the Provost in 2021 and serves as interim vice provost for academic engagement and student achievement.
William (Bill) Davis is the interim vice provost for academic engagement and student achievement, and associate professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences. He received his BA from Drury University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University in 1999. After two years as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Davis joined the faculty of the School of Molecular Biosciences in 2001. As the associate director for Undergraduate Studies in SMB, he helped lead transformation of its curriculum through the implementation of ongoing programmatic assessment and a focus on undergraduate research. Bill is a faculty mentor in the WSU Team Mentoring Program, a peer and faculty mentoring program for underrepresented students in STEM.
Davis' current research interests focus on the impacts of classroom and laboratory pedagogy on student learning outcomes in large enrollment freshman classes. He also is active in innovative programs that lead to the transformation of both individual faculty and departments/institutions, such as serving as a PULSE Vision & Change Leadership Fellow, a facilitator for the NAS Scientific Teaching Institutes, and a Co-leader of the AAC&U/Project Kaleidoscope STEM Leadership Institute.