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Ashli Brown (Photograph by Beth Wynn)

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ashli Brown has been named affiliate Vice chairman of Mississippi State College’s Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine.

Brown will start July 16 in her new position, serving to to advance MSU’s nationwide popularity as A pacesetter in agriculture and pure useful resource educating, evaluation And restore. The National Science Basis ranks MSU Inside The very biggest 5 % nationwidely for agricultural evaluation.

Brown has served since 2013 as Mississippi’s State Chemist and since January 2021 as interim head of MSU’s Division of Meals Science, Vitamin and Well being Promotion. She additionally serves as a professor Inside the Division of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology.

A lot of Brown’s evaluation focuses on Using analytical methods To reinforce conservation efforts, food safety and regulatory science. Whereas at MSU, she has obtained over $10 million in funding from federal, state and enterprise sources to develop and assist a evaluation group, As properly as To assist fund the mission of the Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory.

Keith Coble, Vice chairman for the university’s Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine, said Brown is revered as an “distinctive scientist who works properly with people On the university and with our clientele.”

“I think about Dr. Brown is A pacesetter who Might assist information the division to greater success And restore in coming years,” said Coble, a William L. Giles Distinguished Professor.

DAFVM models embrace The school of Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Forest Assets, School of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, and the MSU Extension Service. These six models carry out on the university’s primary campus And by way of 4 evaluation and extension facilities, 16 department stations and places, Collectively with MSU Extension workplaces in all 82 counties of Mississippi.

Brown earned a bachelor’s diploma in biology and Ph.D. in chemistry/biochemistry from the College of South Florida, the place she accomplished postdoctoral work in biochemistry. She additionally accomplished postdoctoral work in chemistry/entomology On the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service location in Stoneville.

Darrell Sparks will Function Interim State Chemist and director of the Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory, pending affirmation from the Mississippi Senate and following Brown’s transfer into the affiliate Vice chairman position. Sparks presently serves as Associate State Chemist and is an affiliate professor of biochemical engineering at MSU.

For extra on MSU’s Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine, go to www.dafvm.msstate.edu; the Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory, www.mscl.msstate.edu.

MSU is Mississippi’s main university, out there on-line at www.msstate.edu.