2021-2022 Executive Committee (EC)

Members of the CPI Executive Committee (EC) are selected each year by the CPI Chair and ratified by the full Council. The EC meets for a coordination meeting the first Wednesday of every month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and invites research administrative representatives from Texas A&M, HSC, TEES, TTI, and AgriLife Research to attend.

The CPI EC also meets regularly with the Texas A&M President, Provost and Vice President for Research; Distinguished Professor’s Executive Committee; The Texas A&M University System Chancellor and other representatives or administrators upon request.

The CPI-EC can be contacted by sending an email to cpi-ec@listserv.tamu.edu.

2021-2022 CPI Officers (officers are standing members of the Executive Committee)

David Stelly, Chair
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
stelly@tamu.edu
979.845.2745
CPI Membership Term: 2019 – 2022 (2nd Term)
External Committees: n/a

Debjyoti Banerjee, Vice Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
dbanerjee@tamu.edu
979.845.4500
CPI Membership Term: 2019-2022
External Committees: Texas A&M Stakeholders Operations Committee (TSOC)

Stephen Maren, Past Chair
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
College of Liberal Arts
maren@tamu.edu
979.458.7960
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2022
External Committees: Research Development Fund Advisory Committee; Animal Research Advisory Committee

**RATIFICATION APPROVED** 2021-2022 Executive Committee (terms extend from September 1st through August 31st)

Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
brinkmeyer@tamu.edu
979.845.6780
CPI Membership Term: 2021-2024 (2nd Term)
External Committees: 

Jennifer ‘Jen’ Dulin
Department of Biology
College of Science
jdulin@bio.tamu.edu
979.845.4589
CPI Membership Term: 2020-2023
External Committees:

Jessica Fitzsimmons
Department of Oceanography
College of Geosciences
jessfitz@tamu.edu
979.845.5137
CPI Membership Term: 2019-2022
External Committees: n/a

Kerri Gehring
Department of Animal Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
kbgehring@tamu.edu
979.862.3643
CPI Membership Term: 2021-2024 (2nd Term)
External Committees: 

Shannon Glaser
Department of Medical Physiology
College of Medicine
sglaser@tamu.edu
979.436.9260
CPI Membership Term: 2020-2023
External Committees: 

Carl Gregory
Department of Molecular & Cellular Medicine
College of Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center
cgregory@tamu.edu
979.436.9643
CPI Membership Term 2021-2024 (2nd Term)
External Committees: n/a

Ethan Grossman
Department of Geology and Geophysics
College of Geosciences
e-grossman@tamu.edu
979.845.0637
CPI Membership Term: 2019-2022
External Committees: n/a

Melissa Grunlan
Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering
mgrunlan@tamu.edu
979.845.2406
CPI Membership Term: 2020-2023 (2nd Term)
External Committees: n/a

Tracy Hammond
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
hammond@cse.tamu.edu
979.324.6022
CPI Membership Term: 2020-2023
External Committees:

Rafael Lara-Alecio
Department of Educational Psychology
College of Education and Human Development
a-lara@tamu.edu
979.845-3467
CPI Membership Term: 2018-2021
External Committees: n/a

Dennis Perkinson
Transportation Safety Center (TSC)
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
d-perkinson@tti.tamu.edu
979.317.2246
CPI Membership Term: 2020-2023 (2nd Term)
External Committees: n/a

Lee Tarpley
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont
ltarpley@tamu.edu
409.752 2741 x2235
CPI Membership Term 2020-2023 (2nd Term)
External Committees: External Committees: TAMUS Maestro Steering Committee; TAMUS Maestro Budget Forecasting Leadership Committee