Read what Fellows and their mentors are saying about the FSLI experience:

FSLI Fellows are leaders who bring a great deal of knowledge and experience to the program, creating a rich networking and peer-coaching environment that enhances the leadership development experience.  See below for listing of past and current FSLI cohorts:  

Learn how Fellows are creating change, in their organizations and beyond:

FSLI Fellows, Cohort #6, 2010-2012

 John Arthington, Center Director and Professor, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Range Cattle Research and Education Center, University of Florida

  Jean Bertrand, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia

  Caula Beyl, Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, University of Tennessee

  Michael Boehm, Vice Provost for Academic Planning, Professor of Plant Pathology, Office of Academic Affairs, The Ohio State University

  Doug Britton, Manager of the Agricultural Technology Research Program, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Food Processing Technology Division, Georgia Institute of Technology

  William Brown, Dean for Research and Director Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Tennessee

  Shirley Hymon-Parker, Associate Dean for Research, School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, North Carolina A & T University

  David Jackson, Associate Dean and Associate Director/Professor, Agricultural Research Division/Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Rodney Johnson, Professor of Animal Sciences and Director, Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

  Matthew Kuchan, Section Manager, Pediatric Nutrition Strategic Research, Abbott Nutrition Research and Development, Abbott Nutrition

  Stacy Livisay, Program Manager, Campbell Soup Company (Currently working as Manager of Taste Applications for Hills Pet Nutrition )

  Dirk Maier, Professor and Head, Department of Grain Science and Industry, College of Agriculture, Kansas State University

  Ernie Minton, Associate Director, Research and Technology Transfer, Kansas State University, Agriculture Experiment Station

  Brian Myers, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, University of Florida

  Suzanne Nielsen, Department Head, Food Science, Purdue University

  Oghenekome (Kome) Onokpise, Professor and Associate Dean, College of Engineering Sciences, Technology and Agriculture, Florida A & M University

   Chandra Reddy, Dean and Director of Research/Administrator of Extension, School of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, Tennessee State University
 
  Cynthia Smith, Professor/Chair Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Alabama A&M University

  Marshall Stewart, Associate Director, NC Cooperative Extension Service, Head and State Program Leader Department of 4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University

  Jon Wraith,  Associate Dean of Agriculture, Associate Director NH Agricultural Experiment Station, (Currently serving as Dean), College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, University of New Hampshire





 

FSLI Fellows, Cohort #5, 2009-2011


   Bill Batchelor, Department Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University (Currently serving as Dean, College of Agriculture; Director, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University) 

   Linda Berlin, Director, Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Faculty of Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, the University of Vermont

   Carrie Castille, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry

   Pat Colyer, Regional Director (NW Region), Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Red River Research Station

   Nelson Daniels, Associate Extension Administrator and Program Leader for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cooperative Extension, Prairie View A & M

   Susan Fritz, Associate Vice Chancellor, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Interim Dean and Director of Agricultural Research Division, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Currently serving as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the System Level for the University of Nebraska)

   Lisa Guion, Professor and Interim Assistant Dean for Diversity, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Agricultural and Extension Education, North Carolina State University

   Richard Linton, Associate Director of Agriculture Research Programs, Director of the Center for Food Safety Engineering, College of Agriculture, Purdue University (Currently serving as Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University)

   Steve Martin, Interim Head Extension Economist, Division of Agriculture Forestry and Veterinary Medicine, Delta Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University

   Neal Merchen, Department Head of Animal Science, University of Illinois (Currently serving as Associate Dean for Research and Director, Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station)

   Bill Randle, Professor and Chair of Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University (Currently serving as Dean of the School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina A&T State University)

  Mark Rieger, Associate Dean, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, IFAS, UF, University of Florida (Currently serving as Dean for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Delaware.)

   Daniel Schmitz, Laboratory Director, Abbott Nutrition, Abbott Laboratories

   Zachary Senwo, Professor/Director of Research Programs, School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Alabama A & M University 

   Christine Steele, Section Manager, Adult Nutrition R & D, Nutrition Science Brand Management, Abbott Laboratories

   Teferi Tsegaye, Chair and Director  Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences/Center of Excellence for Watershed Management, Alabama A & M University (Currently serving as Dean for the College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems, Kentucky State University)

   Greg Wiecko, Associate Dean/Director, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Western Pacific Tropical Research Center

   Scott Willard, Department Head, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the MS Agriculture & Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi State University

   Charlene Wolf-Hall, Assistant Dean, College of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies, North Dakota State University (Currently serving as Department Head, Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences)

FSLI Fellows, Cohort #4, 2008-2010


Makola M. Abdullah, Dean and Director, College of Engineering Sciences, Technology and Agriculture, Florida A & M University (Currently serving as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Florida Memorial University)

David Benfield, Associate Director, The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), The Ohio State University

Patricia Curtis, Professor and Director, Poultry Products Safety & Quality Peaks of Excellence Program, Auburn University (Currently serving as Director of the Auburn University Food Systems Initiative)

Michael Doyle, Director, BMCC Renewable Energy Center of Excellence, Bay Mills Tribal Community College (Currently serving as Senior Scientist, Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society)

Cary J. Green, Assistant Dean & Head Advisor, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University (Currently serving as Associate Dean for Academic and International Programs at Oregon State University)

Van Kelley, Department Head, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South Dakota State University

Barbara Kirby, Associate Director of Academic Programs and Director of the Agriculture Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, (Currently serving as Associate Vice Provost for Academic Programs & Services), North Carolina State University

Jozef Kokini, Associate Dean for Research, College of Agricultural Consumer and Economic Sciences, University of Illinois

Laurie Kramer, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Agricultural Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Mary Simon Leuci, Assistant Dean for Community Development Extension, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri

Gary Pierzynski, Professor & Head, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University (Currently serving as Interim Dean for the College of Agriculture and Interim Director of Kansas State Research and Extension

Tom Rosol, Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research for Technology Lincensing and Commercialization, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University

Rubin Shmulsky, Department Head, Forest Products, College of Forest Resources/Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State

Jeffrey C. Silvertooth, Professor & Department Head, Soil Water and Environmental Science, College of Agriculture & Life Science, University of Arizona (Currently serving as Associate Dean for Economic Development and Director of Arizona Cooperative Extension)

Robert Taylor, Professor and Dean, School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Alabama A & M University (Currently serving as Dean of the College of Agriculture and Food Science and Director of Land Grant Programs at Florida A&M University)

Gary A. Thompson, Professor & Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, (Currently serving as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs / Director of the Pennsylvania Experiment Station at Penn State University.)

Lakshman Velupillai, Associate Vice Chancellor, International Programs, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, and Louisiana State University and A & M College

Tom Wahl, Department Head, College of Agriculture, Food Systems & Natural Resources Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University

Tim White, Professor & Director, School of Forest Resources & Conservation, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

Dale Whittaker, Associate Dean & Director of Academic Programs, College of Agriculture, Purdue University (Currently serving as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs)

Scott G. Witter, Director, School of Planning, Design and Construction, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University


 

FSLI Fellows, Cohort #3, 2007-2009


  Jo Britt-Rankin, Associate Dean, Program Director,Human Environmental Sciences Extension, University of Missouri  (Appointed one of five Mizzou Advantage faculty facilitators from the University of Missouri.  She will represent "Food for the Future", one of five strategic assets identified by the University)

  Tim Cross, Associate Dean, UT Extension, University of Tennessee (Currently servingt as Dean, UT Extension)

  Faye Dong, Professor and Department Head, Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 
 

  Jonathan Edelson, Professor and Department Head, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, (Currently serving as Professor and Assistant Director, Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station)
 

  Richard Griffin, Department Head and Interim Research Director, Prairie View A & M University 
 

  Parker Hall, Group Manager, Campbell USA R&D (Currently serving as Director of the Sauce and Beverage North American Soup, Sauce and Beverage (NASSB) group from the Campbell Soup Company)
 

  Steve Hanson, Department Chairperson and Professor, Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
 

  CY Hu, Associate Dean and Associate Director for Research, Manoa College of ropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii 
 

  Nancy A. Irlbeck, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Agricultural Sciences, Colorado State University
 

  Pete Jacoby, Asssociate Dean for Outreach, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) and Agricultural Program Director for Washington State University Extension,  Washington State University 
 

  Jane Kolodinsky, Professor, Chair and Co Director, Community Development and Applied Economics, University of Vermont 
 

  Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, Associate Dean and Director, International Programs in Agriculture, Purdue University 
 

   Don Marshall, ASsociate Dean and Director of Academic Programs South Dakota State University (Currently serving as Acting Dean college of Agriculture and Biological Sciences)

  M. Ray McKinnie, Associate Dean and Administrator for Extension and Outreach, Cooperative Extension Program, North Carolina A & T State University 
 

  Benjy Mikel, Professor and Head, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion,  Mississippi State (Currently serving as Associate Vice President for International Programs and Executive Director of the University's International Institute)
 

  Mike Mullen, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, University of Kentucky (Currently serving as Vice Chancellor and Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at North Carolina State University)
 

  Shiretta Ownbey, Associate Dean For Academic Programs and Services, College of Human Environmental Sciences, Oklahoma State University 
 

  Sam Pardue, Department Head, Poultry Science,  (Currently serving as Interim Associate Dean and Director in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), North Carolina State University 
 

  Pamela Price, Section Manager, Pediatric Nutrition Science and Research, Abbott Laboratories 
 

  Denise Smith, Professor and Chair, Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University (Currently serving as Director of School of Food Science at Washington State University)
 

  Ora Spann, Professor of Management, Business Division, South Carolina State University 
 

   Eric Young, Executive Director, Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
 

   Lydia Zepeda, Professor, Department of Consumer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

FSLI Fellows, Cohort #2, 2006-2008
  

 Khalid Abdelrahim,  Group Manager Process Safety, Campbell Soup Company, (Currently working with Nestle Corporation)


 

  

  Robert Birkenholz,  Professor of Agricultural Education Chair of Human & Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University

  
   


  Shane Burgess,  Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Economic Development, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University (Currently serving as Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona)


  


  


 Mark Denbaly,  Deputy Director for Data and Web Communication, USDA ERS


  

  

  Frieda Eivazi,   Associate Research Director for the Cooperative Research Unit, Lincoln University 

 
  




  Tom Gillpatrick,   School of Business Administration, Executive Director, Food Industry Leadership Center and Juan Young Professor of   Marketing, Portland State University


    


   


  Julene Kennerly,    Dean of Academic Affairs, Blackfeet Community College

   


  


  Bob Larson,    College of Veterinary Medicine, Professor, Coleman Chair Food Animal Production Medicine, Kansas State University


   

  

  Dyremple Marsh,   Dean, College of Agriculture & Related Sciences, Delaware State University

  
 


  Steve Meredith,   College of Natural Science, Mathematics, and Technology; Dean, Research Director and Extension Administrator,  Lincoln University

   


  
  Michael Morrissey,    Superintendent of the Food Innovation Center, Oregon State University

   


  
  Pradip Mukerji,  Center Director, Pacific-Asia R & D for Abbott Nutrition (Currently Senior Vice-President, Worlwide Research and Development at Herbalife) 

 
  



 

  Jeff Mullahey,   Director, West Florida Research & Education Center,  University of Florida (Currently Head of the Department of Crop Science at North Carolina State University)

   



  

  Vickie Parker-Clark,   Director, Northeast District Extension, Washington State Extension

   



  

  Fred Schlutt,   Executive Director of Cooperative Extension, University of Maine (Currently serving as Vice Provost for Extension and Outreach/Director of Cooperative Extension at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.)






 Alton Thompson,  Dean and Research Director, School of Agriculture and Environmental  
 Sciences, North Carolina A&T State University. Currently serving as Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. (Currently serving as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs for Delaware State University.)

  

 
 

  K.C. Ting,   Professor and Department Head, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering,  University of Illinois

   

 


  Michael Vayda,  Associate Director, Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences,  University of Vermont. (Currently serving as Dean of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences and Associate Vice President for Academic Programs in the Division of Agriculture at the University of Arkansas.)

   

  


  C.Y. Wang,   Professor and Head, Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Hospitality, Agriculture Experiment Station, South Dakota State University (Currently serving as Associate Dean of Research and Extension/Assistant Director of SDAES)

   

  


  Donn Ward,  Professor and Department Head, Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, College of Agriculture & Life Science, North Carolina State University (Emeritus)



 

FSLI Fellows, Cohort #1, 2005-2007

Anita Azarenko  Department Head, Horticulture, College of Agruicultural Sciences(currently serving as Associate Dean of the Graduate School), Oregon State University

Craig Beyrouty   Professor and Head, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Purdue University (Currently serving as Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado State University)

William Boggess   Executive Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University

Dan Clay  Director, Institute of International Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University

George Cooper  Deputy Administrator, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service- Science and Education Resources Development, Department of Agriculture. (President Emeritus of South Carolina State University)

Joseph DiPietro  Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida  (Currently serving as President of the University of Tennessee)

Kenneth Esbenshade  Associate Dean and Director of Academic Programs, College of Agriculture & Life Science, (Currently seving as Alumni Distinguished Professor of Animal Science), North Carolina State University

John Floros   Department Head and Professor of Food Science, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University (Currently serving as Dean and Director for the College of Agriculture & K-State Research and Extension, Kansas State University)

Rory Fraser   Director, Center for Forest Ecosystems Assessment, School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Alabama A&M University

Douglas O. Lantagne  Interim Director, UVM Extension, University of Vermont (Curretnly serving as Dean of Extension)

Gary Lemme  Dean, College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, South Dakota State University (Currently serving as Director of Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University)

Linda C. Martin  Assistant Dean for Academic Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University  (Currently serving as Associate Dean and Director of Academic Affairs, College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University)

Rob Miller Director, Healthcare Professional Products, Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories (Currently serving as Divisional Vice President for Research and Development, Abbott Nutrition)

Melissa Mixon  Associate Vice President, Division of Agriculture, Forestry, & Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University (Currently Vice President Emeritus, Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine)

Michael Ouart  Associate Vice Provost for Extension and Associate Director for University Extension, Iowa State University  (Currently serving as Vice Provost for University of Missouri Extension and Director of Cooperative Extension)

Robin Shepard  Assistant Dean and State Program Leader for Extension, University of Wisconsin

Keith Smith   Associate Vice President for Agriculture Administration, Director of University Extension, and Associate Dean, College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University (Appointed to the George R. and Genevieve B. Gist Endowed Chair)

Linda Snetselaar|  Chair, Preventative Nutrition Education, and Professor, Department of Epidemiology College of Public Health, University of Iowa (Currently serving as Interim DEO of Community and Behavioral Health Departments of Community and Behavioral Health and Epidemiology, College of Public Health)

Susan Sumner  Department Head, Food Science and Technology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech University (Currently serving as Interim Associte Dean of Academic Programs and Director of Academic Programs)

Larry W. Turner  Director of Cooperative Extension and Associate Dean for Extension, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky (Deceased)