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Thursday, July 06, 2017

BGSU researchers help communities, airports attract air service | Interim dean named for College of Health and Human Services

Will Burns (left), Justin Rex and Russell Mills

BGSU STUDY AIMS TO HELP COMMUNITIES, AIRPORTS ATTRACT AIR SERVICE

In today’s quickly changing, highly competitive world of air travel, communities and even major airports must vie to get and keep passenger routes. A new Bowling Green State University study aims to provide information and guidance to help them be successful. The project will focus on developing research into the use of incentives by airports and communities to attract and retain air service.

A BGSU team has been awarded an 18-month, $325,000 grant from the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The team members are Dr. Russell Mills, an associate professor of aviation studies and political science and Center for Regional Development (CRD) research fellow; William Burns, interim director of the CRD, and Dr. Justin Rex, an assistant professor of political science and CRD research fellow.

They are partnering with GRA, Inc., a leading aviation consulting firm from Philadelphia, and Atlanta Analytics, a consulting firm with airline route-planning experience, on the project.

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HUFF TO LEAVE POST AS DEAN OF COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Dr. Marie Huff, dean of the College of Health and Human Services, is leaving Bowling Green State University to begin a new role as the dean of the Beaver College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, Provost Rodney Rogers announced June 28.

Huff joined BGSU in January 2014 from Western Carolina University and has seen the College of Health and Human Services through the $9.2 million renovation of its building, the creation of three new academic programs, and the integration of the Food and Nutrition program into HHS from its former home in the College of Education and Human Development. She also facilitated the creation of the Optimal Aging Institute, for which she helped secure a $1 million grant from Medical Mutual of Ohio.

Dr. Sue Houston, who retired as vice provost for academic affairs in 2014 and returned as director of institutional effectiveness in November 2016, has agreed to serve as interim dean of the College of Health and Human Services. She came to BGSU in 1991 as a faculty member in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences.

“With her broad academic and administrative experience, she will be a capable leader for the college while a national search is conducted for a new dean,” Rogers said.