David Jackson
Interim Executive Vice President and Provost
Dr. Jackson helps facilitate research collaborations across the University of Ãå±±ÂÖ¼écampuses, has responsibility for helping administer the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼éResearch Initiative (an annual $11.5 million State of Ãå±±ÂÖ¼éinvestment designed to seed new University research), supervises the Director of Ãå±±ÂÖ¼éEPSCoR and the Director of NU Export Control, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼éStrategic Research Institute. He also assists campuses in obtaining Board of Regents and Ãå±±ÂÖ¼éCoordinating Commission approvals for new degrees/majors and organizational units.
He has been with the University of Ãå±±ÂÖ¼éfor over 30 years, starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Food Science & Technology in January 1989. A cereal chemist with expertise in food processing, corn/sorgum grain quality and polymer chemistry, he has held research, extension, and teaching appointments as a professor, and has served as the Interim Department Head of Food Science, Associate Dean of the Agricultural Research Division, and Interim Provost.
Dr. Jackson’s undergraduate degree is from Cornell University and his M.S./Ph.D. degrees are from Texas A&M University.
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