2/18/05 Contact: Mitch Emmons, 334/844-5964 (emmonmb@auburn.edu)
David Granger, 334/844-9999 (grangdm@auburn.edu)

TAYLOR PROMOTED TO AVP IN OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT OF RESEARCH

Martha Taylor has been named assistant vice president for Auburn University’s Office of the Vice President for Research.

In announcing Taylor’s promotion, Vice President for Research Michael Moriarty noted her extensive knowledge of the university’s research administration and her ability to manage multiple units effectively.

“Martha is well suited to meet the challenges this new assignment brings, and I am confident that as assistant vice president, she will be extremely effective in initiating program improvements and in ensuring that Auburn’s research administration is both effective and responsive,” Moriarty said.

Taylor’s promotion, as well as other changes in the OVPR administrative organization, are the result of the ongoing initiative to establish a research park at AU, Moriarty added.

“The restructuring is necessary to provide the flexibility and management attention required as we work toward bringing the research park online,” Moriarty said.

Taylor joined Auburn’s research organization in 1989 as a database consultant with what now is the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). She was named assistant director of the OSP that same year and in 1995, became OSP director.

Auburn University is a pre-eminent land-grant and comprehensive research institution with nearly 23,000 students and 6,500 faculty and staff. Ranked among the top 50 public universities nationally, Auburn is Alabama’s largest educational institution, offering more than 230 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs.

(Contributed by Mitch Emmons.)

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