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Quinn new head of OSU agricultural communications services
Oklahoma Garvin Quinn has been appointed head of the Oklahoma State University Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources agricultural communications services unit, effective July 2. "Dr. Quinn brings an outstanding portfolio of experience to DASNR in the areas of marketing, communications and leadership from his present position as Director in the Institute of Agriculture at The University of Tennessee. His expertise is extremely well-matched to the needs of the Division and OSU," said Robert E. Whitson, vice president, dean and director of agricultural programs at OSU. "We are very pleased that he is joining our leadership team of unit administrators." As department head, Quinn will provide leadership for planning, developing, integrating and implementing departmental teaching, research, extension and international programs and continue with the unit's primary goal--to make available needed information to various target audiences that cross community, county, state, regional, national, and international boundaries. "The Division serves all Oklahomans and I am enthusiastic to serve in this capacity," Quinn said. A native Oklahoman, Quinn served as a county Extension educator in Oklahoma after he graduated from Oklahoma Panhandle State University with a bachelor of science degree in agronomy in 1971. He then went on to receive a master of arts degree in communication from the University of Kentucky in 1977 and a doctoral degree in communication from the UK in 1994. Quinn was active in the Oklahoma 4-H program as a youth and was named the Outstanding 4-H boy in Oklahoma in 1968, National 4-H agricultural winner in 1966 and was Oklahoma State First 4-H vice-president in 1967-1968. Currently, he is on the program committee for the 2007 Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) and National Extension Technology Conference joint international conference in Albuquerque, N.M. He also served as program chair for the 2006 ACE conference held in Quebec City, Canada. Other involvements include the communications program committee chair for the Southern Region Extension Program Leadership Network and professional organizations of Epsilon Sigma Phi and Gamma Sigma Delta.
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