Morehead names committee for Provost search

University of Georgia President Jere Morehead appoints members of the search committee that will look for UGA's next provost, a replacement Pam Whitten, who leaves Athens to become president at Kennesaw State University. Terry College of Business dean Bruce Ayers will co-chair the committee with Denise Spangler, who is dean of the University's College of Education. 

Committee members:

• Ben Ayers, Davis Chair of Taxation and Dean of the Terry College of Business (Co-Chair)
• Toby Carr, Associate Vice President for Government Relations and Director of State Relations
• Mi Geum Chorzepa, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
• Michelle Cook, Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Strategic University Initiatives
• Phaedra Corso, UGA Foundation Professor of Human Health
• Alan Darvill, Regents Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
• Bill Douglas, Chair of the UGA Foundation
• Lillian Eby, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
• Ammishaddai Grand-Jean, President of the Student Government Association
• Karen King, Kennedy Professor of Advertising and Public Relations and Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor
• Milton Masciadri, University Professor of Music
• Laura Meadows, Director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government
• Marie Mize, Circulation Manager of the Law Library and President of the Staff Council
• Karen Norris, GRA Eminent Scholar of Immunology and Translational Biomedicine
• Andy Owsiak, Associate Professor of International Affairs and Chair of the Executive Committee of University Council
• Lance Palmer, Professor of Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
• Kathy Pharr, Associate Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Chief of Staff to the President
• Greg Robinson, UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
• Usha Rodrigues, Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law
• Denise Spangler, Aderhold Professor of Early Childhood Education and Dean of the College of Education (Co-Chair)
• Steve Stice, GRA Eminent Scholar of Animal Reproductive Physiology, Brooks Distinguished Professor of Animal and Dairy Science, and Director of the UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center
• Ron Walcott, Professor of Plant Pathology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School

David Williams, Morehead Distinguished Professor and Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Religion, Associate Provost and Director of the Honors