Primary Contacts
Jessi L. Smith, Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator/ Director of ADVANCE
Sara Rushing, Ph.D.,
Co-Director of ADVANCE/
University Family Advocate
Co-P.I.s
Waded Cruzado, Ph.D., President, Montana State Univerity
Martha A. Potvin, Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Thomas J. McCoy, Ph.D., Vice President for Research, Creativity and Technology Transfer
Project TRACS Team Organizational Chart
ADVANCE Management Team
Jessi L. Smith, Department of Psychology, ADVANCE Project TRACS Director
Sara Rushing, Department of Political Science, ADVANCE Project TRACS Co-Director
Theresa Marchwick, ADVANCE Project TRACS, Project Manager
Internal Implementation Team
Nicol Rae, Letters and Science Dean
Jeff Jacobsen, College of Agriculture Dean
Robert Marley & Brett Gunnik, College of Engineering Dean
Tracy Sterling, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences Department Head
Anne Camper, President's Commission on the Status of University Women Chair
Marilyn Lockhart, Director of Faculty Development
Mary Murphy, AFMSU Union Representative/Women's and Gender Studies
Diane Letendre, Office of Institutional Equity
Elizabeth Burroughs, Women's Faculty Caucus Chair
Sara Rushing, University Family Advocate
Paula Lutz, Cell Biology Professor
Phenocia Bauerle, Diversity Awareness Office
Fiscal Management Team
Lois Evans, Office of Sponsored Programs
Kathy Marcinko, Office of the VP for Research, Creativity, and Technology Transfer
Leslie Schmidt, Office of the VP for Research, Creativity, and Technology Transfer
Theresa Marchwick, ADVANCE Project TRACS
Research Capacity and Opportunity
Linda Young, Dept of Political Sciences
Leslie Schmidt, Office of the VP for Research, Creativity, and Technology Transfer
Micaela Young, ADVANCE Project TRACS, Grant Submission Training Coordinator
Allen Harmsen, Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases
Marilyn Lockhart, Center for Faculty Excellence
Work-Life Integration
Sara Rushing, Department of Political Science
Sue Monahan, College of Letters & Science
Lisa Buss, Office of Human Resources
Tricia Wimbish, Office of Human Resources
Kathy Olsen, College of Engineering
WFC Family Friendly Working Group
Cultural Attunement
Ian Handley, Department of Psychology
Diane Letendre, Office of Institutional Equity
Al Zale, Department of Ecology
Kallie Mathers, Office of Human Resources
Paula Lutz, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
John Paxton, Department of Computer Science
Walter Fleming, Department of Native American Studies
Social Science Research Team
Joy Honea, Department of Sociology, MSU – Billings
Liz Shanahan, Department of Political Science
Bethany Letiecq, Department of Health & Human Development
Ian Handley, Department of Psychology
Elizabeth Burroughs, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Linda Young, Department of Political Sciences
Becca Belou, ADVANCE Project TRACS, Equity Data Analyst
Evaluators
Mariko Chang, Off Site Evaluator
Irene Grimberg, On Site Evaluator
External Advisory Board
Kim Sullivan, Utah State University
Denise Battles, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan
Toni Schmader, University of British Columbia
Proposal Planning/Steering Committee
Jessi L. Smith, Dept of Psychology, PI
Anne Camper, College of Engineering and Center for Biofilm Engineering
Laura Black, College of Business
Elizabeth Burroughs, Dept of Mathematical Sciences
Sarah Codd, Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Joy Honea, Dept of Sociology, MSU – Billings
Gwen Jacobs, Dept of Cell Biology & Neuroscience and Ctr for Computational Biology
Paula Lutz, College of Letters and Science
Heidi Pasek, College of Technology, MSU – Great Falls
Liz Shanahan, Dept of Political Science
Tracy Sterling, Dept of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
Rosalyn Templeton, Academic Affairs, MSU – Northern
Cathy Whitlock, Dept of Earth Sciences and Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Linda Young, Dept of Political Sciences
Martha Sellers, Hughes Undergraduate Biology
Audrey Thurlow, Office of Sponsored Programs, Committee Coordinator
Proposal Components Additional Subcommittee Members
Chris Fastnow, OPA
Dave Roberts,Ecology
Valérie Copié, Chemistry
Robert Marley, Engineering
Harry Benham, Business
Ken Bowers, Mathematics
Sara Rushing, Political Science
Dick Smith, Physics
Megan Higgs, Mathematics
Susan Dana, Business
Jerry Johnson, Political Science
Lee Spangler, Chemistry
Joe Fedock, Administration
Abbie Richards, Engineering
Sue Monahan, Sociology
Ron Larsen, Engineering
Mike Babcock, Psychology
Al Zale, Ecology
Lisa Davis, Mathematics
Some members of the Project TRACS team pose for a group photo on the steps of Montana Hall at the Montana State University campus in Bozeman.
