The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has introduced two finalists for the vice chancellor for research and innovation place. Selected by way of an inside search, the candidates will take part in interviews with college, workers, stakeholders, college students and directors April 21-22.
Announced by Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Ankerson on April 15, finalists are Jennifer Mize Nelson, interim vice chancellor for research and innovation, and research affiliate professor in the Department of Psychology; and Mark R. Riley, affiliate dean for research and a professor in the College of Engineering.
The vice chancellor stories to the chancellor and serves because the college’s chief research and financial improvement officer, offering mental, strategic and visionary management for Nebraska’s research enterprise. The place oversees the Office of Research and Innovation, together with sponsored packages, research improvement, compliance, business relations and know-how commercialization, in addition to Nebraska Innovation Campus, NUtech Ventures, the University of Nebraska State Museum and the University of Nebraska Press.
The vice chancellor additionally gives management for interdisciplinary research facilities throughout campus and is accountable for advancing sponsored research development, strengthening nationwide competitiveness, aligning research with the college’s strategic plan, and increasing public- and private-sector partnerships.
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Jennifer Mize Nelson
Nelson is interim vice chancellor for research and innovation, a task she has held since November 2024. She beforehand served as affiliate vice chancellor and research integrity officer in the Office of Research and Innovation. In that function, she served as a liaison to college research facilities and main core services, led improvement of a campuswide research knowledge technique and oversaw compliance packages together with human topic safety, animal care and battle of curiosity.
Before becoming a member of the Office of Research and Innovation in 2019, Nelson was director of administration for the UNL Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior. A member of the Nebraska college since 2011, Nelson is research college in the Department of Psychology and has served as a co-investigator in a National Institutes of Health-funded lab learning youngsters’s cognitive improvement and well being outcomes.
Her research focuses on govt management improvement from early childhood by way of adolescence and its implications for psychological and bodily well being. She earned a bachelor’s diploma in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a doctorate in medical little one psychology from the University of Kansas. She accomplished a predoctoral medical internship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the Children’s Health Council.
Mark R. Riley
Riley is affiliate dean for research in the College of Engineering on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a professor of organic methods engineering. He beforehand served as division head in organic methods engineering at Nebraska. Riley additionally held college and management roles on the University of Arizona, together with division head of agricultural and biosystems engineering.
His research focuses on bioprocess engineering, biosensors and environmental monitoring purposes, together with pathogen detection and air high quality evaluation. He has held nationwide management roles in skilled organizations, together with president of the Institute of Biological Engineering and founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Engineering.
Riley is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He holds a doctoral and grasp’s diploma from Rutgers University and a bachelor’s diploma in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.