Contact: Phil Hearn
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State research vice president Colin G. Scanes is a new board member of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, a consortium of nearly 100 doctoral-granting member institutions across the country.
A scientist with a national and international reputation in biotechnology, Scanes has served as MSU's vice president for research and graduate studies since 2004. He is beginning a two-year term on the ORAU board.
Established in 1946 and based in Oak Ridge, Tenn., the consortium's 91 member institutions and 11 associate members are located in 28 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.
The member institutions conduct one-third of the nation's university-based research, while also producing one-third of the nation's science and engineering doctorates.
Scanes was an administrator and professor of animal science at Iowa State University before coming to MSU. Earlier in his career, he was distinguished professor and chair of the animal sciences department, as well as director of the Center for Animal Damage Control, at Rutgers University.
"He understands the intricacies of large-scale research and its capacity to expand educational and economic opportunity in Mississippi," MSU President Charles Lee said of Scanes at the time of his arrival on the Starkville campus.
For more information, contact Joan Pritchett at (662) 325-3571 or joan@research.msstate.edu.