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