Category: Leadership Development

Cara Cilano joined MSU’s Department of English as chairperson in the summer of 2016. Since my arrival at MSU, I have joined the Editorial Board at MSU Press and, at Dean Long’s request,

Kendra Spence Cheruvelil is an independent person who enjoys being part of a team. I especially love to solve problems,
scientific or otherwise, by facilitating connections among people with different backgrounds,

The following academics are fellows of MSU’s cohort for the 2022-23 Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program.

Dr. Isoken Olomu graduated from medical school in 1977 and completed a Pediatric Residency program in Nigeria & the United Kingdom in 1985. Since then, I have remained in academic medicine,

Lyudmila Sakhanenko is a professor in the Department of Statistics and Probability. Her area of expertise includes nonparametric statistics, high-dimensional probability, and empirical processes. She applies her methodology work to neuroscience.

Dr. Chen is an MSU Foundation Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Michigan State University. Dr. Chen works with large population-based prospective studies to understand the etiology and natural history of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s with the ultimate goal of disease prevention and healthy aging.

Eric Hegg is a Professor in the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department where his research focuses on focuses on elucidating how microbes perform environmentally important reactions. In particular, his lab studies various enzymes critical to the global nitrogen cycle,

Kari Kammel, is the director of the A-CAPP Center and maintains an active research agenda on legal issues pertaining to trademark counterfeiting, U.S. state and federal law, e-commerce and social media liability for trademark counterfeiting,