Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Sharron Quisenberry
Vice President for Research and Economic Development
2610 Beardshear Hall
515-294-1785
Sharron Quisenberry is Iowa State University’s new vice president for research and economic development. She joined ISU on April 1, 2009. She succeeds John Brighton, who retired from the university last spring.
Quisenberry was agriculture dean at Virginia Tech since 2003. Previously, she was:
- dean of agriculture, director of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
- professor of entomology at Montana State University, Bozeman.
- Head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
- Faculty member at the University of Idaho, Moscow; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and Iowa State University.
In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Quisenberry to serve on the Board for International Food and Agriculture Development, a position she held through 2007. Quisenberry is internationally recognized as an expert on plant-insect interactions and plant resistance to insects. She is a fellow and past president of the Entomological Society of America.
Quisenberry received a B.S. Ed. degree in biology (1966) from Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo.; a master of arts in environmental biology (1975) from Hood College, Frederick, Md.; and a master of science (1977) and doctorate (1980) in entomology from the University of Missouri – Columbia.
