OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Adel Pezeshki

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor

Alyssa Hardaway

Job Titles:
  • Creative Communications Specialist

Amy Lavicky

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Office & Support Staff
  • Senior Administrative Support Assistant

Andrea Eddington

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Office & Support Staff
  • Senior Administrative Support Specialist

Andrew Foote

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor

Andrew Mort

Job Titles:
  • Regents Professor Emeritus

Ashley Mattison

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Audrey Dagnell


Barry Whitworth

Job Titles:
  • Senior Extension Specialist│Food and Animal Health│BQA State Coordinator

Blake Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor

Brian Freking

Job Titles:
  • Area Livestock Specialist

Brianna Cooper-Kordinak

Job Titles:
  • Programs Specialist

Britt Hicks

Job Titles:
  • Area Livestock Specialist

Caleb Watkins


Carlyn Guthrie


Catherine Gosney

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant / Design Specialist

Chang-An Yu

Job Titles:
  • Regents Professor Emeritus

Charles Chen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Bioinformatics Faculty

Chelsea Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Development

Chesley Comstock

Job Titles:
  • Director of Prospective Student Services

Cindy Cummings

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  • Member of the Office & Support Staff
  • Accountant III

Cody Busch

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  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff

Cody Hollingsworth

Job Titles:
  • Rodeo Program Coordinator & Head Coach

Coleman Hickman

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  • Director of Academic Advising

Courtney Dekalb

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  • Student, Received a 2025 ODAFF Specialty Crop Grant

Cynda R. Clary

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean / Ferguson College of Agriculture

Dakota Heidt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Assistant Herd Manager

Dan Stein

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dana Zook

Job Titles:
  • Area Livestock Specialist

Dani Bellmer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean / Ferguson College of Agriculture

Daren Hagen

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Darin Annuschat

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Herd Manager / Sheep & Goat Center

Darren Hagen

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor

David Lalman

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor│Harrington Endowed Chair│Beef Cattle Nutrition and Management

David Payne


David Vaughan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Specialist II

Donald Ruhl

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dylan Kottkamp

Job Titles:
  • Prospective Student Services

Earl D. Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus 1969 - 2007 / Interim Department Head 2004 - 2007

Earl Ward

Job Titles:
  • Area Livestock Specialist

Eldon C. Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Feng Feng

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Franklin Leach

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Frannie Yasseri

Job Titles:
  • Student Engagement & International Experiences

Gabriela Moreta


Gerald Fitch

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor│Teaching Coordinator│Extension Sheep Specialist

Grant Hubbard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Herd Manager / Purebred Beef Cattle Center

Gregory Perdue

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Assistant Herd Manager

Gretchen Mafi

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor│Boulware II Chair│Meat Science, Quality

Guolong (Glenn) Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor
  • Professor│Boulware I Chair│Immunology and Gut Microbiome

Haobo Jiang

Job Titles:
  • Professor Entomology and Plant and Pathology

Harleigh Moore

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Heather Sumner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Office & Support Staff
  • Accountant I

Herb Lengel

Job Titles:
  • Employer & Alumni Relations Coordinator

Holly Jones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Office & Support Staff
  • Senior Administrative Support Specialist

Huishan Liu


Isaac D. Manley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Assistant Herd Manager

Isabella Schultz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Program Coordinator / Willard Sparks Beef Research Center

Jacob Swenson


Janeen Salak-Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Professor│Temple Grandin Professorship│Animal Behavior - Health - Welfare, Stress Physiology, Gut - Brain - Immune Axis, Microbiome, Immunology

Janet Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Core Facility Manager
  • Professional Staff

Jason White

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Jay Edens

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Herd Manager

Jayson Lusk - VP

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Vice President

Jeremy Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff

Jerry R. Malayer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education Veterinary Health Sciences

Jim Coakley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Herd Manager / Swine Center

Jingyi Zhang


Joao Moraes

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Assistant Professor

Joby Bush

Job Titles:
  • Rodeo Program Assistant Coordinator

John E. Gustafson

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Department Head

John Hornbeck

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff

Jose Luis Soulages

Job Titles:
  • Prefessor Emeritus

Judy Hall

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Junpeng Deng

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Sarkeys Distinguished Professorship II

Justin Crosswhite

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Karen R. Hickman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Undergraduate Research, Honors Programs & Academic Assessment

Kashif Mahmood

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor / OSU Institute for Agricultural Biosciences

Kathy Castre

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Associate
  • Member of the Office & Support Staff

Kay Scheets

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor / Department of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution

Kelly Craven

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kenneth L. McNally

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist II, Computation Biology at T.T. Chang

Kevin Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Khursheed Iqbal

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kiran Mysore

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kitty Cardwell

Job Titles:
  • Director, National Institute of Microbial Forensics for Food and Agricultural Biosecurity / Professor, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology

Kris Hiney

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor

Kristin Knight

Job Titles:
  • Communications & Marketing Manager

Kristy Newport

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Office & Support Staff
  • Senior Accounting Specialist

Laila Ismail


Leanne Van der Laan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Herd Manager / Dairy Cattle Center

Linda Yu

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Lloyd Sumner

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Lori Templin

Job Titles:
  • Graduation Certification Coordinator

Lou Vanhauwaert


Margaret Essenberg

Job Titles:
  • Regents Professor Emeritus

Mariana Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Ruminant Nutrition

Marissa Chapa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Herd Manager / Equine Center

Mark Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Professor│Beef Cattle Breeding, Production│Teaching and Extension

Marty New

Job Titles:
  • Specialist

Mary Parnell


Matt Crosthwait

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Manager / Farm Shop

Meaghan Meyer

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Assistant Professor

Megan Janus

Job Titles:
  • Academic Programs Coordinator

Mellissa Crosswhite

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Assistant Professor

Micayla West

Job Titles:
  • Senior Herd Manager

Michael Major

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Herd Manager / South Range

Morgan Pfeiffer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Muhammad Zubair Mehboob


Parker Henley

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Assistant Professor

Patricia Canaan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Paul Beck

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor│Dennis & Marta White Endowed Chair│Beef Cattle Production Management and Nutrition

Paul Vining

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • OQBN Program Coordinator

Pei Jia Ng


Peter Hoyt

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus 2005 - 2023

Peter Muriana

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor│S.E. Gilliland Professorship│Food Microbiology and Safety

Prabir Kumar Gharai

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Pragna Soyam


Ramanjulu Sunkar

Job Titles:
  • Steven 's Endowed Chair in Agriculture

Randy Allen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Sitlington Endowed Chair in Agriculture II - Agricultural Biosciences

Randy Perry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Coordinator Farm Operations

Ranjith Ramanathan

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor│Noltensmeyer Endowed Research Professorship│Meat Science

Ravi Jadeja

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor

Richard A. Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President and Plant Biology Division Director / the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.

Richard Coffey

Job Titles:
  • Department Head and Professor│Swine Nutrition, Production, and Management

Richard Essenberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus 1973 - 2003

Riley Messman

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Assistant Professor

Robert Gholson

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus 1962 - 1993

Robert L. Burnap - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Professor Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Robert Matts

Job Titles:
  • Regents Professor - Sarkeys Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry

Robert Mixon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Office & Support Staff
  • Computer Specialist II

Roger E. Koeppe

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus 1959 - 1990 / Department Head 1963 - 1990

Rolf A. Prade

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ryan Reuter

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor│George Chiga Professorship│Range Beef Cattle Nutrition

Sabrina Amorim

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Sam Bacon

Job Titles:
  • Student Development Coordinator

Scott Carter

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor

Shanelle Caselman

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Specialist I

Sharon Ford

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus 1978 - 2010

Smita Mohanty

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Sonal Badhe


Sophia Fahleson

Job Titles:
  • Digital Communications Specialist

Stephanie Little

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Specialist

Stephen Kotey


Steve Hartson

Job Titles:
  • Prefessor Emeritus

Steven Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor

Toni Bloomer

Job Titles:
  • Graduation Certification Specialist

Udaya DeSilva

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor
  • Professor│Genetics

Ulrich Melcher

Job Titles:
  • Regents Professor Emeritus

Véronique Anne Lacombe

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Waleed Asghar


Wes Crane

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Manager / Willard Sparks Beef Research Center

Wes Dotter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Farm & Research Staff
  • Equipment Specialist / Farm Shop

Willard Sparks

Job Titles:
  • Beef Research Center

William Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Research Plant Pathologist

Xia "Shelley" Lei

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Xufang Deng

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Yong Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Zahra Barati