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July 8, 2002 Volume 27, Issue 1 |
Jonathan W. Pote
Longtime faculty member and research administrator Jonathan W. Pote will serve as interim vice president for research at Mississippi State.
Beginning July 8, he assumes the duties performed for the past four years by Dr. Robert A. Altenkirch, who recently was named president of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
Pote has been the university's associate vice president for research since 1998 and a faculty member in agricultural and biological engineering since 1985. The Pine Bluff, Ark., native also was director of MSU's Water Resources Research Institute 1992-98.
"Dr. Pote's record of success as a teacher, researcher, and administrator makes him well suited to ensure that operations of the Office of Research and its reporting units continue smoothly, that our federal relations efforts are sustained, and that we continue to make progress in stimulating the development of research-based industry in Mississippi," said Interim President J. Charles Lee.
Mississippi State ranks 57th among the nation's more than 600 public colleges and universities in total research and development activity, according to the National Science Foundation. The university ranks 34th in engineering research and fifth in agricultural research among all universities in the United States.
Pote's own research has been in the areas of water chemistry and water management and conservation, including aquaculture, environmental planning, and alternative agriculture. He has published numerous scholarly journal articles on the use of climate data in engineering design models.
He has been president of the National Institutes for Water Resources and chair of the National Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities section on water resources, and is the current chair of NASULGC's board on Natural Resources.
Pote joined MSU as a faculty member in agricultural and biological engineering after earning a doctorate in the same field at the University of Arkansas. He also holds a master's degree in environmental and water resources engineering from Oregon State University and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Hendrix College in Arkansas.