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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Natural Science
Department of Chemistry

Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC)

The Faculty Advisory Committee shall advise the Department Chairperson on any matter that he or she, or any faculty member, or any Academic Specialist, or any student, brings before it. The Faculty Advisory Committee members shall communicate (a) the substance of Committee deliberations to other faculty members, Academic Specialists and students, and (b) the collective opinions of other faculty members, Academic Specialists and students to the Committee. The Faculty Advisory Committee shall be responsible for establishing the rosters of all standing committees and establishing the charges to those committees for the upcoming year. Similarly, the FAC shall be responsible with providing nominees for any University or College committees. The Faculty Advisory Committee shall be the Committee on Committees. The Faculty Advisory Committee shall implement and interpret the Bylaws.

The Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) shall consist of the Department Chairperson, the Associate Chairperson for Education, the Associate Chairperson for Research (all serving as ex officio members – without vote), six elected faculty members, and one elected Academic Specialist, for a total of ten members. The six elected faculty members will be comprised of one each from the Analytical, Chemistry Education Research, Inorganic, Organic, and Physical/Nuclear areas, and one Assistant Professor. The Department Administrator has also been added as an ex-officio member of the FAC.

Faculty representatives shall be elected for a two-year term, and no faculty representative shall be elected for more than two consecutive two-year terms. Academic Specialists shall be elected for a two-year term, and no Academic Specialist shall be elected for more than two consecutive two-year terms.

Committee Members 2022-2023

  • Gary Blanchard, Assoc. Chair of Education-ex-officio and Analytical Representative (term ends SS23)
  • Melanie Cooper, Chemistry Education Research representative (term ends SS23)
  • Jinda Fan, Assistant Professor Representative (term ends SS23)
  • Tom Hamann, Inorganic Representative (term ends SS23; chair)
  • Heedeok Hong, Physical Representative (term ends SS24; vice-chair)
  • Xuefei Huang, Assoc. Chair of Research – ex-officio
  • Rob Maleczka, Organic representative (term ends SS24)
  • Richard Staples, Academic Specialist Representative (term ends SS23)
  • Tim Warren, Department Chair – ex-officio