2024 Election Results – Council of Principal Investigators

Nominees were asked to confirm their nomination by providing a brief statement on why they want to serve if elected. These statements, with links (if available) to the PI’s home page, are posted below. See the full College/Unit CPI seat allocations for 2024-2025.

2024-2025 CPI election results are noted below.

Vice Chair

Alvarado, Jorge (Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution) – “I am honored to be nominated to serve as Vice-Chair of the Council of Principal Investigators (CPI). I have been a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution for over 20 years. During that time, I have served in the CPI and the Faculty Senate through different committees including their respective executive committees. As faculty and researcher, I am a strong believer in the research mission of the university as a land-grant institution. Since joining TAMU, I have seen how the university has grown as R-1 institution, capable of being at the forefront of superb ground-breaking research and service activities. At this moment, the CPI and the administration should continue to work together to embark on even more challenging endeavors to improve our visibility and standing across the State and the Nation. I am committed to be a strong advocate of all faculty members, specifically in matters of research support and initiatives.
As faculty in the College of Engineering, I do research in the areas of thermal management and renewable energy. I have advised and supervised over 10 PhD students and over 50 master students in the last 20 years. I have collaborated with colleagues in the College of Architecture and Texas A&M Agrilife to develop new multidisciplinary technologies. Over the years, I have been able to obtain external research funding from different entities including the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation, among others. As experienced principal investigator, I realize how challenging managing proposals and grants can be; therefore, as CPI Vice Chair, I will always put the interests of all PIs first.”

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Cardoso, Rodolfo C. (Animal Science) – “I am an associate professor in the Department of Animal Science and a faculty member of the Texas A&M Interdisciplinary Faculty of Reproductive Biology (IFRB) and the Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience (TAMIN). I have been funded by grants from the USDA and NIH and have served on several federal review panels. I have been serving as a CPI representative since 2023 as an alternate member. In this role, I am committed to represent all the principal investigators from COALS and work with the CPI and administrators to continue to improve the research environment and facilitate the success of all principal investigators. The CPI has an important role conveying faculty ideas and concerns to the University and COALS/AgriLife administrators. In my opinion, more needs to be done to decrease administrative and compliance burden to PIs, increase financial support to individual research programs, and to facilitate the development of new multidisciplinary collaborations that can be competitive for large extramural funding opportunities. I am honored by the nomination to represent COALS and will enjoy the opportunity to serve as a CPI member, should I be elected.”
Daigle, Courtney Lynd (Animal Science) – “I am honored to be nominated to serve on the Council of Principal Investigators as a representative for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Science, with research interests that span multiple species, including humans. My research program focuses on the use of precision livestock technologies and big data analytics to understand captive animal welfare and management, and I am passionate about cultivating synergistic collaborations to enhance my program. As such, I currently have active interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate divergent data types to address ethically-driven hypotheses. I appreciate the need for taking a multidisciplinary approach to generating scientific information and believe that the intellectual hybrid vigor generated from these types of collaborations are a critical component of furthering the creation of scientific knowledge. I have received funding from USDA, commodity groups, as well as private companies, so I appreciate the diversity of funding opportunities available to investigators, as well as the struggles that accompany each. If elected, I would gladly be the voice for researchers throughout Texas A&M, both within my college and beyond, to ensure modern, sustainable support for research endeavors. I value the role of the CPI in promoting a nationally competitive research landscape for students, faculty, and staff, and am excited at the opportunity to contribute to that mission.”
Herbert, Bruce, (Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications) – ” I am a Professor in ALEC that joined COALs during the reorganization. Prior to that I served as the Director of Scholarly Communications in the University Libraries and as Professor of Geochemistry in Geology and Geophysics. As a soil chemist, my scientific research explored questions concerning soil biogeochemical processes that mediate the interactions between human society and ecosystems, including the fate and bioavailability of contaminants, natural and human perturbations of nutrient and organic carbon, and human impacts on ecosystem functioning. More of you may be aware of my Library work to advance open access, develop Scholars@TAMU, and support tenure and promotion through the creative use of research metrics. CPI is one of the most important campus organizations in providing a channel for communications between faculty and the upper administration. There are important issues facing the College, Agrilife, and the University. Therefore, it is important that our CPI representatives create effective communications so COALs faculty have a voice. Therefore, if I am elected, I promise to visit each and every department, through departmental faculty meetings to build those communication channels. Thank you.”

Arts & Sciences

Bluemel, Janet F, (Chemistry) – “It would be an honor for me to serve on the CPI and representing the PIs in the College of Arts and Sciences. I also see joining the CPI as a unique opportunity to maximize the research strengths of Texas A&M and minimize and work towards eliminating weaknesses. I joined the Chemistry Department of TAMU as a Full Professor in 2007 after pursuing independent research in Germany at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Heidelberg. My research interests range from NMR spectroscopy, catalysis, polymer and surface chemistry to synthetic Inorganic Chemistry. My research has been published in more than 110 papers and I have 2 patents. I have been funded in the US mainly by NSF, RDF, NIH in collaboration with a company, and by diverse industrial partners and consortia. I have educated more than 30 graduate students, 13 masters students and two postdocs, all of whom have since pursued successful careers in industry and academia. Throughout my career I have enjoyed serving in various administrative functions. This includes a six-year term in the Faculty Advisory Council of the former College of Science, with four years as the elected chair. I also served as the Chair for the Texas A&M Section of the American Chemical Society, the Chemistry Seminars Committee, and the Chair of the NMR Users Committee. Most recently, I have been an elected member of the Faculty Senate for 6 years and was active, for example, in the Academic Affairs Committee. Since I enjoyed learning about administrative processes at Texas A&M and contributing to new, improved policies, I would be happy to serve on the CPI as a link between administration and fellow faculty.”
Campbell, Mary E, (Sociology) – “I am a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center, and am currently funded by NSF and the America’s Datahub Consortium. I am the co-chair of the national Executive Committee of the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers and was recently elected President of the Southern Demographic Association. As a member of the CPI, I would be committed to expanding TAMU’s research capacity, supporting social science research at TAMU, advocating for reducing the administrative burdens that accompany research, and supporting the needs of early career and student researchers.”
Guermond, Jean-Luc, (Mathematics) – “I am willing to serve as a representative of the College of Arts and Sciences to the CPI. As the administrative and financial burden put on PIs by the University and other regulatory agencies regularly increases with no end in sight, it is essential that the PIs’ voice be heard through a strong body of representatives. The activity of the CPI is essential to keep in check, or at least moderate, some actions by the higher instances whose effects are, often unintentionally, detrimental to the research activities of PIs. I have already served in the CPI in the past. I have been active in this body by serving in various sub-committees and by regularly sharing my point of view or that of the Math Department or of the College of Arts and Sciences during the monthly meetings.”
Liu, Wenshe, (Chemistry) – “I am a professor in the Chemistry Department for 17 years and hold joint appointments in Departments of Translational Medical Sciences in School of Medicine, Biochemistry & Biophysics in AgriLife, Cell Biology & Genetics in School of Medicine, and Pharmaceutical Sciences in College of Pharmacy. My research is at the interface between chemistry and biology to develop both probes/tools for the studies of biology and therapeutics for human diseases. Right now, I am operating the Texas A&M Drug Discovery Center (TAMDDC) that has the capacity of doing high-throughput screening of small molecule libraries and phage display-based selection of peptides and nanobodies/antibodies. The aim of TAMDDC is to serve researchers at large to translate their basic biological discoveries to preclinical explorations of therapeutics. In the past, I had opportunities to collaborate with many colleagues from a number of different departments. From these collaborations, I learned what challenges many colleagues faced. One roadblock to our research is the out-of-date research infrastructure that the university has. Once elected to CPI, I will strongly advocate the investment on the state-of-the-art research infrastructure and promote more infrastructure supporting programs in addition to the current Research Development Fund program. As a member of CPI, I will also raise awareness of existing cross-disciplinary barriers that have prevented many colleagues from building strong and fruitful collaborations and advocate solutions to improve collaborations between colleges. Other issues that I will raise include research inequities in different sections of the university and the lack of transparency of many decisions made at the university level”.
Morris, Theresa M., (Sociology) – “I would be honored to represent the College of Arts and Sciences on the CPI. I am a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program in the College of Arts and Sciences. I am also a Presidential Impact Fellow. I am interested in participating in the CPI to seek ways to strengthen the infrastructure for collaborative grant-funded research at TAMU for faculty, students, and staff. I am also committed to better facilitating the networks of researchers at Texas A&M to further collaborative research opportunities. I am actively involved in interdisciplinary research with faculty and graduate students throughout TAMU (e.g., Departments of Health Policy and Management; Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences; Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; Law; Medicine; Nursing; Pharmaceutical Sciences; Psychological and Brain Sciences; and Statistics; and the Public Policy and Research Institute) and at the University of Arizona, Stanford, and the City College of New York. I am on the editorial board of an interdisciplinary health journal (Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare) and serve as a reviewer for NSF. If elected, I will listen to the interests and concerns of the College of Arts & Sciences’ PIs and advocate for their interests and share their concerns with the CPI.”
Potter, Henry, (Oceanography) – “I would like to express my gratitude of being nominated to serve on the Council of Principal Investigators. I am a recently tenured Associate Professor of Oceanographer and Ocean Observing Team Lead at Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), a center of excellence at Texas A&M University. As such, I am engaged in basic and applied research for both private and government entities in the fields of oceanic and atmospheric sciences, environmental sciences, and resource geosciences. Much of my research is focused on the Gulf of Mexico and serves the people of Texas. Serving on the CPI will provide me with opportunities to become more familiar with the research engine at Texas A&M while representing the interests of GERG, the Department of Oceanography, and broadly, The College of Arts and Sciences. Ultimately, I look forward to the opportunity to apply my unique skills and experiences to support and elevate the research excellence at Texas A&M.”

Bush School of Government & Public Service

Dague, Laura, (Public Service and Administration) – “I am an economist and associate professor in the Bush School’s Department of Public Service and Administration. My research is in health economics, with a focus on the economics of health insurance and Medicaid. I consistently work with interdisciplinary teams to study health policy questions using survey and administrative data sources and quantitative econometric methods. Reflecting this, at Texas A&M I hold affiliations with the Department of Economics, the Department of Health Policy and Management, the Center for Health Systems & Design, the Telehealth Institute, and the Institute of Data Science. I am a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty, a Research Associate in the NBER’s Economics of Health program, associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and on the board of editors of the Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law. My research has been funded by government and foundation grants as well as policy evaluation contracts from the state and federal governments. I have been serving as the Bush School’s Council of Principal Investigators representative since Fall 2020. If re-elected, I will continue to represent the interests of the diverse social science and policy researchers on our faculty, with particular interest in human subjects research issues, data protection issues (including classified data and HIPAA), and facilitating research administration including contract negotiation timelines. I will continue to review and provide feedback on research-related SAPs, attend meetings for staff and administration briefings, and serve on University committees for CPI as asked. I welcome your input on issues that need to be brought to CPI and will do my best to highlight anything learned at CPI that may need attention from you.”

Engineering

Grunlan, Jamie, (Mechanical Engineering) – I spent my entire academic career (20+ years) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. I am interested in serving in the Council (for the second time) to increase the voice of the faculty in the direction of Texas A&M. There’s too little transparency and too little faculty input in major decisions, which has had dire consequences these past few years. The good and bad of being here so many years is that I know just about everyone from top to bottom and believe I can positively influence things. This is already a terrific university, but it remains far from achieving its tremendous potential. I’d like to play a small role in helping us become a true top research university in the world (in every sense). I’m a very active researcher, having published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers since arriving at A&M. I’ve graduated 29 PhD students, won more than 80 individually sponsored research projects, and had 15 issued patents (with several more in the pipeline). I’m a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). I was (and may still be) one of the youngest Chairs in the College of Engineering, largely for the accomplishments just noticed. I have a big mouth, but those who know me know that my heart is always in the right place (and I put my money where my mouth is).
Hamilton, John A. “Drew”, (Computer Science and Engineering) – “CPI is important to shared governance at TAMU and I have greatly appreciated the efforts the council has made to keep their colleagues informed. I am a professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Director of the TAMU Cybersecurity Center. I received my doctorate in computer science from Texas A&M. After graduating from TAMU, I served as a program manager for two DoD program offices. My first experience with research funding was on the government side and this has informed my approach to research proposals in my university career. In my 23 years in academia (Texas A&M, Auburn and Mississippi State), I have served as PI on 88 research contracts and grants totaling more than $50M. What I have learned from my funded research experience at three SEC universities is that every project and contract is different, and PIs need support from their university to bring in and execute those research contracts. Funded research is very important to support our graduate students. I have chaired 18 successful Ph.D. committees and supervised 58 M.S./M.SwE./M.E. graduates. I am committed to collegiality, multidisciplinary research and have a strong record of working with HBCUs and other HSIs. I have conducted funded research with 7 different HBCUs and 4 HSIs. All faculty research projects are deserving of support regardless of size or duration. I am passionate about assisting new faculty members in their funded research efforts.”
Ragusa, Jean C, (Nuclear Engineering) – “I am honored to be considered for the Council of Principal Investigators at Texas A&M University. I have been a member of the Aggie community since 2004, starting as a tenure-track assistant professor, and I am now a full professor of nuclear engineering. Over the years, I have had the privilege of contributing to multidisciplinary research that spans across engineering and beyond, collaborating with many exceptional colleagues and students. My passion for interdisciplinary research has led to many connections across campus. Since 2009, I have served as the associate director of the Institute for Scientific Computation. My affiliations with several centers and institutes across campus, including CLASS (a multidisciplinary center for large-scale scientific simulations), NSSPI (a center for non-proliferation and policy studies), TAMIDS’s digital twin lab, and TAMIDS’s scientific machine learning lab, have greatly enriched my research experience. With over $11 million in research funding secured from various federal agencies (DOE, DHS, DOD, NRC), national laboratories (LANL, LLNL, INL, SNL, ORNL, ANL), and the private sector, I have successfully led and contributed to both single PI and large, multi-PI, multi-institution grants. I also hold a joint appointment with INL and am a guest scientist at LANL. In addition to my research endeavors, I have served on several university-level committees, including the Engineering Faculty Advisory Council and the Graduate Academic Appeals Panel. My involvement with the American Nuclear Society, where I was twice elected to the Executive Committee of the Mathematics and Computation Division and served as chair and vice-chair from 2022-2024, has provided me with valuable leadership experience. In 2021, I was elevated to the rank of Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. Mentoring students and post-docs is a daily reward, and I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to their academic and professional growth in our research environment. With a passion for research and a wealth of experience accumulated over the last 20 years at A&M, I am eager to give back to the university community by representing the interests of researchers on the Council of Principal Investigators. I respectfully ask for your vote and trust to serve as your representative, ensuring effective communication between PIs and the university administration. Together, we will continue to cultivate and enhance a thriving research community at Texas A&M.”

School of Law

Mormann, Felix – “I would be honored to continue as a member of the Council of Principal Investigators to represent the growing number of PIs at Texas A&M School of Law and to help expand cross-disciplinary collaborations with other TAMU units. External funding has historically not been a topic of great interest to law professors, at TAMU and elsewhere. Times are changing, however. My primary goals, if re-elected to the CPI, would be to further promote the many benefits of grant writing and outside funding among our law faculty and to help forge more and stronger cross-disciplinary collaborations within the broader TAMU community. One way of doing so is the creation of a “Policy Clearinghouse” that connects legal scholars with researchers across TAMU whose work carries policy and regulatory implications. External, peer-reviewed grants have been an integral part of my career since my post-doctoral studies, with a sustained track record of outside funding across appointments at multiple tier-1 research universities. I hope to leverage this background and experience on behalf of all researchers at TAMU.”

School of Medicine

Chakraborty, Sanjukta, (Medical Physiology) – “I am honored and thankful to be nominated to represent the College of Medicine at the CPI. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Physiology. My research focuses mainly on lymphatic metastasis of solid tumors and identification of novel therapeutic targets for lymphatic metastatic cancers. My research program is funded by the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), NIH, AHA, and NASA. I serve as a Co-PI, and project leader in the recently awarded CPRIT Texas Regional Excellence in Cancer Center grant to Texas A&M Health Science Center. I presently am course director for two graduate level courses within the School of Medicine and provide multiple lectures in various graduate and medical courses. I have served on multiple NIH and private cancer foundation study sections and also serve on journal editorial boards. As a member of the graduate faculty in Medical Sciences, Toxicology and Master of Biotechnology Program, I am deeply passionate about mentoring and have served as either a chair or as a committee member for almost thirty graduate students across different colleges. I have also mentored many undergraduate, and medical students and am chair of the curriculum committee of the NIH T32 LYMPH training grant awarded to the College of Medicine. My research spans multiple disciplines and hence I very closely understand the challenges and significant opportunities that arise from interdisciplinary collaborative research. I have served in various leadership positions both within and outside TAMU and was recently elected to the TAMU Faculty Senate. I am the College of Medicine representative to the Council of Faculty and Academic Societies that nationally represents the collective interests of medical school faculty and academic societies on a range of cross-cutting issues to the AAMC. In my capacity as a Texas A&M ASCEND Research Leadership fellow, I have attended several CPI meetings and understand the importance of CPI as a critical platform for research-intensive faculty to voice issues of concern and to work directly with administration to enhance research excellence. I strongly believe shared governance is key to fostering a thriving research environment and if elected as a member of the CPI, I will primarily strive to a) support the development of resources critical for research excellence and fostering multidisciplinary research b) represent faculty interests and act as a conduit between the administration and research faculty to enhance overall productivity c) be a proponent for early career researchers and reduce administrative burdens for personnel hiring and retention within labs d) ensure access and expansion of cutting-edge core capabilities that often act as barriers to implementing impactful research that transform lives.”

School of Pharmacy

Lu, Dai, (Pharmaceutical Sciences) – “I would be honored if I have this opportunity to represent the College of Pharmacy in the Texas A&M University Council of Principal Investigators (CPI). I understood that the CPI is committed to the continued improvement of the research environment for students, faculty, and staff. The members of CPI have the responsibility to work with administrative offices to provide an effective and efficient research organization to achieve the goal of being nationally recognized and competitive in research and teaching. I am committed to taking on these responsibilities.
I learned that the CPI serves an important platform for communication between the research community of College of Pharmacy and the administrative teams to enhance the growth of the research enterprise from College of Pharmacy and our TAMU community of research. I am an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and have been an independent PI since 2012 and have been funded by NIH over the last 10 years. I have also served as a member of NIH and NSF study sections and reviewed R03, R21, R01, SBIR and program project P01 grants. I also served in a variety of committees and task forces at university and college levels. My lab is a medicinal chemistry laboratory working in the interface of pharmaceutical sciences and chemistry. Our lab has abiding interests to develop experimental, preclinical and clinical candidates for some disorders that has longstanding unmet medical needs, which include pain, cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. The above experience warrants my qualification and motivates my willingness to serve in the CPI. As an independent PI, my colleagues at College of Pharmacy and Health Science Center with their concerns and challenges that they faced in their daily research at TAMU. Should I be elected as the CPI representative from College of Pharmacy, I will advocate and make contributions within all my capacity for any endeavors that can improve the research environment, resources and capacities for the College of Pharmacy and the entire TAMU community of research.”

Education & Human Development

Webb, Gwendolyn Carol, (Educational Administration & Human Resource Development) – “As I confirm my nomination, I would be honored to serve on the Council of Principal Investigators (CPI) as a representative for the College of Education. I currently hold a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in Educational Administration and Human Resource Development (EAHR), and Teaching, Learning and Culture (TLAC). I am also the Associate Director of the Educational Leadership Research Center. My research interests include the improvement of leadership, pedagogy, and teacher development through culturally responsive engagement. Currently, I serve as a Co-PI of Project LEADERS (Leading Equity Across Diverse Environments with Revolutionary Synergy. This project is in partnership with Prairie View A&M University. I also serve as a Co-PI on Project RAISES (Research-based Strategies and Artificial Intelligence for School Enhancement: Turning Around Schools), a project in EAHR. Both projects focus on effective partnerships with public school systems to assist in using research and innovation to improve the leadership skills of personnel in PreK-12 settings. The opportunity to work with other CPIs to enrich the direction and support of TAMU’s impact as a land grant institution, is important and exciting. I believe that it does indeed take an entire village to educate leaders and researchers, but we must first reconstruct the educational village! Having the opportunity to serve on the Council will support that belief.”

Qatar

Elbashir, Nimir, (Chemical Engineering) – “Dr. Nimir Elbashir is a professor of Chemical Engineering at TAMUQ and the director of Texas A&M’s Engineering Experiment Station Gas & Fuels Research Center (GFRC). He joined TAMUQ in 2008 and was Chair for the Petroleum Engineering Program. His research focuses on designing advanced reactors, catalysts, and conversion processes for natural gas, coal, and CO2 to ultraclean fuels and value-added chemicals. He has established several unique global research collaboration models between academia and industry, with research funds exceeding thirteen million dollars during the past eight years. He holds several U.S. and European patents and many scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, technical industry reports, and invited talks and presentations. He served as the chair of the TAMUQ Faculty Advisory Council and a Senator and was elected recently to become the chair of the Principal Investigator Committee (PIC). As PIC chair, he replaced Dr. Kakisimos in CPI, representing TAMUQ faculty. He worked with the PIC committee and other faculty leaders to advocate for TAMQU faculty research operation both with TAMUQ and TAMU administration and to highlight the importance of research operating in maintaining the teaching excellence and the quality of the academic program for TAMUQ students, both the undergraduate and the graduates and he will continue the same.”

Veterinary Medicine

Arosh, Joe, (Veterinary Integrative Biosciences) – “Dr. Joe Arosh has 30 years of experience as a clinician, educator, and researcher in veterinary, animal, and biomedical sciences. Dr. Arosh holds a BVSc (equivalent to DVM) in Veterinary Medicine, an MVSc in Veterinary Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a Ph.D. in Physiology-Endocrinology (Biomedical Sciences). He is a tenured Professor in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University and has been a productive faculty member for the past 20 years. Dr. Arosh’s laboratory focuses on understanding the effects of different hormonal and non-hormonal substances on the physiology and pathology of the uterus, ovary, and placenta to develop innovative therapeutic approaches for human and animal health. His primary and collaborative research programs have been funded (17.7M) continuously by the NIH and USDA since 2008, underscoring the potential impact of his work. Dr. Arosh was a Council of Principal Investigators (CPI) member from 2012 to 2015 and 2021 to 2024 and also served on the CPI-Executive Committee from 2022 to 2023. Being part of CPI provided insight into its structure and function and allowed me to advocate for the research-related interests of the PI community at our College. My aim in seeking another term is to represent the PIs and convey their views and concerns, ultimately contributing to research excellence. With 20 years at TAMU, I have gained an institutional understanding and knowledge of university policies to serve our College as a CPI member.”
Thompson, James ‘Jamie’ (Large Animal Clinical Sciences) – “If elected, I will be honored to serve as a member of the Council of Principal Investigators. I have been at Texas A&M for 34 years and am a Professor in the Department of Veterinary Large Animal Clinical Science. I consider myself a clinical researcher and throughout the years, I have been funded by NIH and USDA as well as other external funding agencies. For the past few decades, my research has been Bayesian modeling of clinical events. If elected, it will be my primary goal to facilitate communication among veterinary clinical researchers, the CPI and the university administration with hopes of improving veterinary clinical research at Texas A&M. I will facilitate an increased competitiveness for external funding as well as encourage collaborative arrangements with successful researchers.”

*The CPI defines a “PI” as a PI or Co-PI on at least one externally reviewed and funded project or grant within the previous three years. –see bylaws, Section 2. Representation, A. Definition of PI

**see bylaws Section 2. Representation, F. Allocation of Seats