agInnovation Executive Committee

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The agInnovation Executive Committee is the representative governing body of the Experiment Station Section (ESS), a unit of the APLU Commission on Food, Environment, and Renewable Resources (CFERR), Board on Agriculture Assembly (BAA). The agInnovation Executive Committee handles continuing business, organization, and policy issues on behalf of the state agricultural experiment station directors and administrators. The committee also provides liaison representatives to a variety of other committees, agencies, associations, and organizations. These representatives are appointed by the Chair of agInnovation after consultation with the Executive Committee.

Each 1862 agricultural experiment station director and 1890 research director participates in a regional association: agInnovation Northeast, the official representative body of the agricultural experiment station directors in the Northeast Region; agInnovation North Central, the official representative body of the agricultural experiment station directors in the North Central Region; agInnovation South, the official representative body of the agricultural experiment station directors in the Southern Region; agInnovation-West, the official representative body of the agricultural experiment station directors in the Western Region; and Association of Research Directors (ARD), the official representative body of the agricultural research administrators of the 1890 Land-grant institutions. All regional associations are affiliated with APLU through the Experiment Station Section and are represented on the agInnovation Executive Committee, but are fundamentally independent organizations.

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VIDEO 2022 ESCOP Chair Priorities & Initiatives

VIDEO 2022 STC Work Plan Presentation

2022 Grand Challenge Templates for State, Regional Use

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Members

Name	Committee Position	Affiliation	Email
Eugene Kelly	agInnovation Chair	agInnovation W	eugene.kelly@colostate.edu
Chandra Reddy	agInnovation Past Chair	ARD	creddy@tnstate.edu
Anton Bekkerman	agInnovation Incoming Chair / BAA CLP Representative	agInnovation NE	Anton.Bekkerman@unh.edu
Shibu Jose	Chair BLC	agInnovation NC	joses@missouri.edu
Beth Gugino	Chair, NRSP RC	agInnovation NE	bkgugino@psu.edu
Vacant	Chair NPGCC
Nathan Slaton	Chair STC	agInnovation South	nslaton@uark.edu
Wesley Whittaker	Regional Representative	ARD	wesley.whittaker@langston.edu
Shibu Jose	BAA/PBD Representative (Alternate: Sreekala Bajwa)	agInnovation NC	joses@missouri.edu
TBD	Regional Representative	agInnovation Northeast
Derek McLean	Regional Representative	agInnovation NC	derek.mclean@unl.edu
Scott Senseman	Regional Representative	agInnovation South	scott.senseman@okstate.edu
Sreekala Bajwa	Regional Representative	agInnovation-West	sreekala.bajwa@montana.edu
Bret Hess	Executive Director, Ex-officio	agInnovation-West	bhess@unr.edu
Jennifer Horton	Administrative Management, Ex-officio	agInnovation-West	jennhorton@unr.edu
Alton Thompson	Executive Director, Ex-officio	ARD	athompson1@ncat.edu
Lisa Williamson	Executive Assistant	ARD	lmwilliamson1@ncat.edu
Gary Thompson	Executive Director, Ex-officio	agInnovation South	gat009@uark.edu
Cindy Morley	Program Coordinator, Ex-officio	agInnovation South	cmorley@uark.edu
Jeanette Thurston	Executive Vice-Chair, Ex-officio	agInnovation NC	jthurston@ksu.edu
Chris Hamilton	Assistant Director, Ex-officio	agInnovation NC	christina.hamilton@wisc.edu
Rick Rhodes	Executive Director, Ex-officio	agInnovation Northeast	rcrhodes@uri.edu
David Leibovitz	Coordinator, Ex-officio	agInnovation Northeast	david_leibovitz@uri.edu
Doug Steele	Liaison, Ex-officio	APLU	dsteele@aplu.org
Bob Mattive	Liaison	CARET	bgmattive@gmail.com
	Liaison	NIFA
	Liaison	ACOP
Bill Hoffman	Liaison	ECOP	whoffman@aplu.org
	Liaison	ICOP
John Blanton	FYI Only (non-EC)	agInnovation Liaison to ECOP	john.blanton@sdstate.edu