Cox, Fuller assume new MAFES duties

Two researchers have been selected to serve as assistant directors of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.

Drs. Nancy Cox and Marty Fuller assumed their new duties July 1.

Cox

"Dr. Cox has primary responsibility for the research planning and management efforts of MAFES," explained MAFES Director Vance Watson. "She provides oversight to the specific areas of grants and contracts, Current Research Information System project management, special research initiatives, research enhancement, promotion board funding, and information exchange groups."

Watson said Fuller has assumed primary responsibility for external affairs. "Those duties will include serving as liaison with branch experiment stations and related agencies and organizations," according to the director. "His responsibilities also include working with me to secure congressional and legislative funding for agricultural research in Mississippi."

Cox is a native of Greer, S.C. She received her bachelor's degree at Furman University and her master's in physiology at the University of Georgia. She completed her doctorate in physiology at North Carolina State University.

Cox has been a member of the university faculty since 1982 when she joined the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences. She has taught classes in advanced reproductive physiology and endocrinology.

Fuller

In addition, she has conduced MAFES research projects aimed at increasing the fertility of sows. She has served as acting MAFES assistant director since 1996.

Fuller has been a member of the Department of Agricultural Economics since 1980. He has served as a professor and economist since 1992.

In 1993, he also assumed the duties of coordinator of special research initiatives for MAFES. His responsibilities in that position included working with Mississippi's U.S. congressional staff to promote MAFES research initiatives and to secure special grants.

Additional duties included development of new initiatives and attracting funding for value-added products from existing crops and evaluating the potential of alternative crops for Mississippi.

The new MAFES assistant director completed his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in agricultural economics at Mississippi State.