Faculty and Staff: Communications and Marketing Resources
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- Ph.D. Recruitment Overview (PDF) updated 11.12.2024
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AAEC Committees: Updated 12.4.2024
- Interim Department Head: George Davis
- Graduate Director: Chunbei Wang
- Undergraduate Director: Olga Massa
- Extension Director: John Bovay
- Faculty Senate Rep.: Catherine Larochelle
- Elections: Jen Friedel
Departmental Meetings
Gathering of faculty and staff
Departmental minutes
Governance (Last Term)
To act as a liaison between faculty, staff, and the department head and vice versa for the initiating and discussion of issues to be addressed by the faculty, staff, and department head.
- John Bovay (2025-2026)
- Jen Friedel (2025-2026)
- Olga Massa (2026-2027)
- Shamar Stewart (2026-2027)
Promotion and Tenure (Last Term)
To provide guidance, feedback, and evaluation for individuals seeking promotion and tenure within the university system.
- Darrell Bosch (Ex Officio CALS P&T)
- Mike Ellerbrock (2024-2025)
- Jason Grant (2026-2027)
- Brad Mills (2028-2029)
- Klaus Moeltner (2025-2026)
- Nancy Mosley
- Kurt Stephenson (2027-2028 Chair)
Activities
To develop and implement activities designed to increase social capital both within and outside of the department.
- Elinor Benami
- Darrell Bosch
- Pailin Chaiprasertsiti
- Anubhab Gupta
- Nicola Legrand
- Jennifer Shelton (Co-Chair)
- Kurt Stephenson (Co-Chair)
- Graduate Student Representative
Awards
To identify, recommend, and assist faculty, staff, students, and alumni in achieving recognition for contributions both internally and externally to Virginia Tech.
- Darrell Bosch (Co-Chair)
- Dixie Dalton (Co-Chair)
- Amy Guerin
- Chanita Holmes
- Catherine Larochelle
- Nancy Mosley
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
To advocate and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion by creating a welcoming, diverse, and safe climate for all.
- Michael Cary
- Xi He
- Chanita Holmes
- Catherine Larochelle (Chair)
- Jonathan Van Senten
- Melissa Vidmar
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee minutes
Extension and Outreach
To advance agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities through the conducting and dissemination of research and educational activities.
- John Bovay (Chair)
- Michael Cary
- Shourish Chakravarty
- Jen Friedel
- Patrick Kayser
- Jonathan van Senten
- Melissa Vidmar
Extension and Outreach Committee minutes
External Partnerships and Experiential Learning
To develop plans and processes for establishing partnerships and interactions between the department's students and external stakeholders (industry, gov, communities) regarding funding, research, professional opportunities, and experiential learning. The previous bridge committee clerical/logistics/record-keeping tasks will now fall under the Undergraduate Committee.
- Dixie Dalton (Co-Chair)
- Greg Estep (ex-officio)
- Olga Massa
- Paula Mercadante
- Mario Ortez
- Jonathan van Senten
- Melissa Vidmar
- Le Wang (Co-Chair)
External Partnerships and Experiential Learning Committee minutes
Facilities and IT Planning
To monitor and make recommendations on the use of facilities, space, and issues related to Information Technology (IT) as they impact department operations within the department.
- George Davis
- Klaus Moeltner (Co-Chair)
- Jennifer Shelton
- Wei Zhang
Facilities and IT Planning Committee minutes
Graduate Committee
To assess, revise, and coordinate graduate curriculum courses and activities designed to enhance the graduate program including but not limited to recruitment, applicant evaluations, and admittance and funding recommendations.
- Elinor Benami
- Jason Grant
- Amy Guerin
- Anubhab Gupta
- Brad Mills
- Chunbei Wang (Chair)
- Le Wang
- Wei Zhang
MS Online
To handle day-to-day operational issues of MS online program and longer-term issues related to recruitment, course offerings, and program structure design.
- Dixie Dalton (Chair)
- Amy Guerin
- Brad Mills
- Mario Ortez
- Melissa Vidmar
Seminar
To organize, schedule, and host departmental seminars.
- Elinor Benami
- Zhenshan Chen (Co-Chair)
- Amy Guerin
- Wei Zhang (Co-Chair)
- Graduate Student Representative
Teaching Innovation and Effectiveness
To provide guidance and resources for improving teaching effectiveness.
- Normand Adams
- Dixie Dalton
- Mike Ellerbrock
- Jen Friedel
- Olga Massa
- Kurt Stephenson (Chair)
- Shamar Stewart
Teaching Innovation and Effectiveness Committee minutes
Undergraduate
To assess, revise, and coordinate undergraduate curriculum courses and activities designed to enhance the undergraduate program.
- Normand Adams
- Zhenshan Chen
- Dixie Dalton
- Mike Ellerbrock
- Olga Massa (Chair)
- Pedro Queiroz
- Kurt Stephenson
Undergraduate Committee minutes
Steering
To help communicate, coordinate, and implement activities across committees with common and complementary objectives. This will consist mainly of chairs of certain committees, which may rotate depending on the issues that need to be addressed.
- John Bovay
- Dixie Dalton
- George Davis (Chair)
- Jason Grant
- Anubhab Gupta
- Catherine Larochelle
- Olga Massa
- Kurt Stephenson
- Melissa Vidmar
- Chunbei Wang
- Le Wang
Extra Curricula Advisors
Those individuals working with organizations within the department that are extracurricular but provide very beneficial learning experiences (e.g. AgEcon Club, COINS, NAMA).
Ag Econ Club
- Normand Adams
- Mike Ellerbrock
- Pedro Queiroz
COINS
- Nicola Legrand
- Olga Massa
- Shamar Stewart
NAMA
- Normand Adams
- Paula Mercadante
- Pedro Queiroz
Extra Curricula Advisors minutes
Second-Year Paper Reviewers - Variable
To evaluate, provide feedback, and determine continuation status based on second-year papers of Ph.D. students.
Job Market Packet Reviewers - Variable
To evaluate and provide feedback on fourth- and fifth-year job market packets of Ph.D. students.
Contact:
Melissa Vidmar
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