GSAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS' ROSTER

As of Spring 2013

Officers 2012-2015

President
Daniel J. West, Ph.D., M.Ed., Counselor Education; B.S., Rehabilitation Education
Chairman and Professor of Health Administration and Human Resources, The University of Scranton

President-elect
Krishna C. Nadella, M.B.A., Business Administration
Sales Director-Fixed Income/OTC Derivatives Valuations Specialist, Bloomberg LP

Immediate Past President
John J. Miravich, Esq., J.D., Dickinson
Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP

At Large Members

International Alumni Representative
Onker N. Basu, Ph.D., Business
Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy and Planning of the Client Services Group, Key Bank

Riad Dirani , Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration; B.S., Pre-Medicine
Director/Team Leader, Outcomes Research for Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs; Johnson & Johnson

Brook P. Hunt, D.Ed. and M.Ed., Educational Administration
Director, Montgomery County Community College

John C. Thompson III, Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction
Vice President, CTB/McGraw-Hill

Campus, College, and Student Representatives

College of Arts and Architecture
Martha L. Carothers, M.F.A., School of Visual Arts
Professor, Department of Art, University of Delaware

Smeal College of Business
Krishna C. Nadella, M.B.A., Business Administration
Sales Director-Fixed Income/OTC Derivatives Valuations Specialist, Bloomberg LP

College of Communications
Robert C. Trumpbour, Ph.D., Mass Communications
Assistant Professor, Penn State Altoona

College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Barbara Blaine Kinne, M.S., Geography
Research Assistant, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State

College of Health and Human Development
Stephanie T. Lanza, Ph.D. and M.S., Human Development and Family Studies; M.A.S., Applied Statistics
Scientific Director of the Methodology Center, Penn State

College of Information Sciences and Technology
Erik S. Connors, Ph.D., Information Sciences & Technology; Senior Research Associate, SA Technologies, Inc.

College of the Liberal Arts
Robert J. Booz , Ph.D., Speech Communication; B.S., Accounting
Private Consultant

College of Medicine
M. Lynn Pritchard, Ph.D., Physiology; Senior Director, Worldwide Regulatory Strategy, Pfizer Inc.

Graduate Student Association
Wanika Fisher, GSA President, Penn State Law student
Melisa Jill Ziegler, Educational Psychology program
Ashok Venkittaraman, Civil Engineering program

Ex Officio Members

Suzanne C. Adair, Ph.D., Educational Theory and Policy
Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, Senior Director of the Office of Graduate Educational Equity Programs, and Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Penn State

Marilyn B. Engle, B.S., Marketing
Director of Alumni and Public Relations, The Graduate School

Stephen J. Blake
Director of Development, Research and the Graduate School

Regional Director, Penn State Alumni Association

Former Officers

President, 2007-2009
Marianne E. Hazel , M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction; B.S., Elementary and Kindergarten Education
Associate Dean; Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

President, 2005-2007
Kevin R. Steele, Esq., J.D., Dickinson
First Assistant District Attorney in the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office

President, 2003-2005
Tom C. Hogan, M.R.P., Regional Planning; M.P.A., Public Administration
Talent Acquisition Leader, Employment Strategy and Policy; AT&T Education Alliance

President, 2001-2003
Martha L. Starling, Ph.D. and M.S., Clothing and Textiles
Community Volunteer

President, 1997-2001
William A. Burgess, M.B.A.; B.S., Agricultural Business Management
WABurgess, LLC

First President, 1995-1997
M. Susan Barger, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences; University of New Mexico

Vice President, 1997-2001
Waddell A. Biggart, II (deceased), Ph.D., Chemistry
Vice President; Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, MacPeak and Seas, PLLC

*Degrees shown are those from Penn State