2022-23 BTAA Academic Leadership Program Fellows
The following academics are fellows of MSU’s cohort for the 2022-23 Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program.
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.
Introduction
As part of our Leadership Fellows Program, four MSU academic administrators serve as mentors to our fellows and work collaboratively on a project to benefit their colleges.
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,
Started in 2017-18, the Leadership Fellows program creates partnerships between mentors (current administrators) and fellows. This program involves both a shadowing experience and work on a project developed jointly between the mentor and fellow.
Dr. Genyne L. Royal serves as Assistant Vice President of Student Life and Engagement for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging and Assistant Dean for Student Success Initiatives at Michigan State University.
Dr. Peter Savolainen is an MSU Foundation Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). Prior to this role, he served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,