Dr. Jeffrey M. Osborn

Dean of the School of Science and Professor of Biology
The College of New Jersey

College & University Service

The College of New Jersey

• President's Advisory Council (2006-present)

• Deans' Council (2006-present)

• Committee on Faculty Affairs (2006-present)

• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Officer (2006-present)

• Dean of the School of Engineering Search Committee, Chair (2007 - present)

Truman State University

University Wide

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program, Director & PI (2004 - 2006). The Next STEP website
• Undergraduate Research Committee (1998 - 1999; Chair, 2002 - 2006) Student Research Conference website
• Sabbatical Review Committee (2000 - 2001)
• Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (1995 - 2006)
• Who's Who Among College and University Students Selection Committee (1995)
• Long-Range Strategic Planning Committee on Faculty Recruitment and Retention (1993)

• Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Co-Director (1993 - 2006)
• Student Research Grant Review Committee (1994 - 2006)
• National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Planning Committee (Coordinator of abstract /registration submissions & travel arrangements, 1994 - 1998)
• Strategic Planning Committee on Enhancing Faculty-Student Research (Chair, 1996 - 1998)
• Building Security Committee, Chair (1993 - 1995)
• Equipment Planning Committee (1991 - 1992)

• Faculty advisor, PLANTS -The botany club (2004 - 2006)
• Co-Coordinatori and Co-PI, Truman's Math-Biology Initiative (2003 - 2006). Mathematical Biology website
• Seminar Committee (1992 - 2003; Chair, 1994 - 1996, 2001 - 2003)
• External Review Committee (Chair, 2001-2002)
• Microscope Advisory Committee, Chair (1993 - 2006)
• Faculty Search Committee (Invertebrate Ecologist) (2000 - 2001)
• Equipment Planning Committee (1995 - 2000, Chair 2003-2006)
• Graduate Student Thesis Committees (6 Students; 1994 - 2006)
• Graduate Committee (1993 -1995; 1996 - 1998)
• Faculty Search Committee (Plant Cell Biologist/Physiologist) (1996 - 1998)
• Public Relations Materials Committee, Chair (1997 - 1998)
• Curriculum Committee (1991 - 1995; Chair, 1994 - 1995)
• Workshop Planning Committee - Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (CoPLAC) Workshop on the Biology Curriculum (1994 - 1995)
• Faculty Search Committee, Chair (Plant Systematist) (1994 - 1995)
• Faculty Search Committee (Population Geneticist) (1994 - 1995)
• Faculty Search Committee (Introductory Biology Coordinator) (1991 - 1992)
• Faculty Search Committee, Chair (Visiting Assistant Professor) (1993)
• Long-Term Course Planning Committee, Chair (1992)
• Alumni Newsletter Committee (1991 - 1992)

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Professional Service

Professional Societies

Council on Undergraduate Research

• President-elect (2007 - present)
• Leadership Team & PI, NSF-funded national workshop dissemination project (2006 – present)
• Biology Division Chair (2001 - 2003)
• Executive Board (2001 - 2003; 2007 - present)
• Biology Councilor (1997 - 2000, 2000 - 2003)
• Nominations Committee (1997 - present; Co-Chair, 1999 - 2003)
• Assessment Committee for Research Institutes (2001 - 2003)
• National Speakers Bureau (1996 - present)
• Facilitator for National Institutes (1997 - present)
• Summer Research Fellowship Review Committee (1998)
• Workshop Organizer, National Conference (1998, 2000, 2002)
• Institutional Liaison at TSU (1994 - 1997)

• Program Director (1999 - 2002, 2002 - 2005)
  Botany 2000 | Botany 2001 | Botany 2002 | Botany 2003 | Botany 2004 | Botany 2005
• Executive Board (1999 - 2005)
• Personnel Committee (2001 - 2005)
• Staff Search Committee (Meeting Manager) (2000 - 2001)
• Karling Graduate Student Research Grant Committee, (1998 - 2000; Chair, 1998 - 1999)
• Maynard F. Moseley Student Award Committee (1996 - 1999; Chair, 1998 - 1999)
• Campus Representative at Truman State University (1995 - 2006)

• Chairperson (1998 - 1999)
• Secretary-Treasurer (1995 - 1998)
• Michael A. Cichan Award Committee (1997 - 1999; Chair, 1999)
• Isabel Cookson Student Award Committee, Chair
• Nominations Committee, for Editor of the annual Bibliography (2000)

• Financial Aid Committee (1996)

• President (1997 - 1999)
• President-Elect (1995 - 1997)
• Community Outreach Committee (1993 - 2003)
• Membership Committee (1993 - 1998)

• State of Oklahoma's multi-year, multi-million dollar Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) and IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) grant from the National Institutes of Health. (2002 - present)
• Fulbright Senior Scholar Peer Review Committee (2002 - 2005)

• American Journal of Botany
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
• Grana
• International Journal of Plant Sciences
• Journal of Paleontology
• Journal of Plant Research
• Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
• Science Teaching Reconsidered: A Handbook (Committee on Undergraduate Education, National Research Council)

• American Journal of Botany (Associate Editor, 2006-present)
• World Pollen and Spore Flora (Editorial Advisory Board)

• National Science Foundation
• National Institutes of Health
• United States Department of Agriculture
• Council for International Exchange of Scholars - Fulbright Senior Scholar's Program
• Petroleum Research Fund - American Chemical Society
• M. J. Murdoch Charitable Trust

• Slippery Rock University, Biology Department (Slippery Rock, PA)
• State University of New York at Geneseo, Biology Department (Geneseo, NY)

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Community Service

Community Outreach Presentations (New Jersey and Northern Missouri)

• Stony Brook Elementary School
• Kirksville High School
• Kirksville Junior High School
• Kirksville Middle School
• Kirksville Optimist Club
• Kirksville Area Association for Life-Long Learning
• Brashear Elementary School
• Gorin Middle School
• Child Development Center, Kirksville

Science Fairs

• Stony Brook Elementary School, Pennington, New Jersey
• Science Fair Judge, Hayes County Consolidated School District, San Marcos, TX

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