Two of four finalists for the position of Harlan Vice Chancellor at the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and NU Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources will visit the university Sept. 26-29.

The position opened when Ronnie Green was promoted to chancellor earlier this year.

Michael Boehm, professor of plant pathology and vice provost for academic and strategic planning at the Ohio State University; will visit Sept. 26-27. His live-streamed state and campus town hall is 3 p.m. Sept. 26 in 107 Hardin Hall and a faculty forum is 2:30 p.m. Sept. 27 in Room 113, McCollum Hall.

Boehm has been responsible for strategic planning for Ohio State’s six campuses; K-12 and community college partnerships; the University Libraries System, College of Public Affairs and Office of Institutional Research and Planning; dean reappointment reviews and academic unit reviews; integrated capital planning; and classroom readiness. He oversees Ohio State’s Discovery Themes initiative, a 10-year program to produce solutions to the challenges of the 21st century, and he is co-lead for the Humanities and the Arts Discovery Theme.

Boehm was previously chair of Ohio State’s Department of Plant Pathology. He is an authority on the integrated management of turf grass diseases and focuses on the biology, ecology and management of fungal diseases of turf grass. He also works on the integrated management of Fusarium head blight of wheat with a focus on the development of biological control strategies for this economically important and challenging disease. The author of 38 peer-reviewed articles and edited book chapters and nearly 100 abstracts, reviews and proceedings papers treating these issues, Boehm holds five U.S. and 15 international patents related to his work on the biocontrol of Fusarium head blight. He has secured about $2.5 million in external funding.

William F. “Bill” Brown, dean for research and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tennessee, will visit Sept. 28-29; live-streamed state and campus town hall, 3 p.m. Sept. 28 in the East Union Arbor Suite; faculty forum, 2:30 p.m. Sept. 29 Great Plains Room, East Union. Brown oversees research activities and coordinates with academic programs and extension across seven academic departments. He is a national leader with the Experiment Station Committee on Policy. Before his 2008 appointment as dean, Brown was assistant dean for research and assistant director of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida. In that role he coordinated interactions with commodity groups and their support programs, facilitated the development of faculty-driven multidisciplinary centers and served as a liaison between the institute and university-level sponsored programs and technology transfer offices.

Brown’s training is in animal science with a focus in ruminant nutrition. He earned his doctorate from Nebraska. In his faculty role, his research program focused on forage quality, energy and protein supplementation, grazing systems and heifer development primarily for beef cattle but also including dairy cattle. He has published widely in refereed and clientele/public venues and is active in professional society editorship responsibilities with several academic journals.

Ron Yoder, IANR’s current interim vice chancellor, will host a live-streamed state and campus town hall 3 p.m. Oct. 3 in the East Union Great Plains Room and a faculty forum, 2:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in Room 113 of McCollum Hall. Gary Thompson, associate dean for Research and Graduate Education and director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station at Pennsylvania State University, will host a live-streamed state and campus town hall 3 p.m. Oct. 6 in the East Union Great Plains Room; and a faculty forum at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 7 in the East Union Great Plains Room.

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