Service / Leadership | Dr. Jeffrey M. Osborn

Professional Leadership and Service

Professional Societies

Council on Undergraduate Research

PI and Leadership Team, three consecutive NSF-funded national projects (2006 – present)
CUR Quarterly Strategic Vision Task Force (2013 – 2015)
CUR 2012 National Conference, Host Planning Committee, Chair (2010 – 2012)
Immediate Past-president (2009 – 2010)
President (2008 – 2009)
President-elect (2007 – 2008)
Executive Board (2001 – 2003; 2007 – 2010)
Biology Division Chair (2001 – 2003)
Biology Councilor (1997 – 2000, 2000 – 2003)
Nominations Committee (1997 – 2003; Chair, 1999 – 2003)
Assessment Committee for Research Institutes (2001 – 2003)
National Speakers Bureau (1996 – present)
Coordinator/Facilitator for national workshops/institutes (1997 – present)
Summer Research Fellowship Review Committee (1998)
Institutional Liaison at Truman State University (1994 – 1997)

Botanical Society of America

Associate Editor, American Journal of Botany (2006 – present)
Publications Committee (2010 – 2016)
Program Director (1999 – 2002; 2002 – 2005)
Executive Board (1999 – 2005)
Editor-in-Chief Search Committee, American Journal of Botany (2008)
Scientific Inquiry though Plants Steering Committee (2005 – 2010)
Personnel Committee (2001 – 2005)
Staff Search Committee (Meetings Manager) (2000 – 2001)
Karling Graduate Student Research Grant Committee, (1998 – 2000; Chair, 1998 – 1999)
Maynard F. Moseley Student Award Committee (1996 – 1999; Chair, 1998 – 1999)
Campus Representative at Truman State University (1995 – 2006)

Paleobotanical Section, Botanical Society of America

Chairperson (1998 – 1999)
Secretary-Treasurer (1995 – 1998)
Michael A. Cichan Award Committee (1997 – 2002; Chair, 1999)
Isabel Cookson Student Award Committee, Chair (1993)
Nominations Committee, for Editor of the annual Bibliography (2000)

International Organization of Paleobotany Conference – V

Financial Aid Committee (1996)

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Kirksville Chapter

Researcher-of-the-Year Selection Committee (2004)
President (1997 – 1999)
President-elect (1995 – 1997)
Executive Committee (1995 – 2001)
Community Outreach Committee (1993 – 2002)
Membership Committee (1993 – 1998)

External Advisory Boards

State of Oklahoma’s multi-million dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH) IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Program (2002 – present)
Fulbright Senior Scholar Peer Review Committee (2002 – 2005)

Manuscript Reviews for Scientific Journals / Councils

American Journal of Botany
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
CUR Quarterly
Grana
International Journal of Plant Sciences
Journal of Paleontology
Journal of Plant Research
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Science Teaching Reconsidered: A Handbook (Committee on Undergraduate Education, National Research Council)

Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals

American Journal of Botany (Associate Editor, 2006-present)
World Pollen and Spore Flora (Editorial Advisory Board)

Grant Proposal & External Panel Reviews

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fulbright Senior Scholar Program – Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Israel Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
United States Department of Agriculture
Petroleum Research Fund – American Chemical Society
M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust

College & University Leadership and Service

The College of New Jersey

Steering Committee, Co-Chair (2020 – 2024)
Committee on Strategic Planning and Priorities, Co-Chair (2020 – 2024)
Council of Deans (2006 – 2024)
Campus Emergency Response Team & Emergency Operations Center (2009 – 2024)
College Promotions and Tenure Committee (2020 – 2024)
Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Reaccreditation Steering Committee (2022 – 2024)
Vice President and Treasurer (CFO) Search Committee, Chair (2022 – 2023)
Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Search Committee (2019)
Behavioral Intervention Team (2017 – 2020)
Dean of the School of Education Search Committee, Chair (2017)
Signature Experiences Coordinating Council (2017 – 2020)
Entrepreneurial Enrollment Planning Task Force (2016 – 2017)
Campus Diversity Council (2016 – 2017)
Strategic Planning and Resources Committee (2015 – 2016)
Public Art Selection Committee (2015 – 2016)
Facilities Master Plan Working Group (2014 – 2015)
Director of Grants and Sponsored Research Search Committee, Chair (2014 – 2015)
Vice Provost for Faculty and Strategic Planning Search Committee (2013 – 2014)
Middle States Reaccreditation Task Force (2013 – 2014)
Enrollment Management Planning Council (2011 – 2014)
Major Gifts Officers Search Committee (2013, 2014)
Compliance Committee (2013 – 2014)
Strategic Planning Task Force (2011 – 2012)
Committee on Faculty Affairs (2006 – 2011)
Dean of the School of the Arts and Communication Search Committee, Chair (2008 – 2009)
Dean of the School of Engineering Search Committee, Chair (2007 – 2008)

Truman State University

University-Wide

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program, Director & PI (2004 – 2006)
Strategic Planning Advisory Committee (2005 – 2006)
Undergraduate Research Committee (1998 – 1999; Chair, 2002 – 2006)
Student Health Center Advisory Council (2003 – 2006)
Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (1995 – 2006)
Search Committee, Ronald E. McNair Program Research Coordinator (2004 – 2005)
Sabbatical Review Committee (2000 – 2001)
Who’s Who Among College and University Students Selection Committee (1995)
Strategic Planning Committee on Faculty Recruitment and Retention (1993)

Science Division

Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Co-Director (1993 – 2006)
Student Research Grant Review Committee (1994 – 2006)
National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Planning Committee (Coordinator of abstract /registration submissions & travel arrangements, 1994 – 1998)
Strategic Planning Committee on Enhancing Faculty-Student Research (Chair, 1996 – 1998)
Building Security Committee, Chair (1993 – 1995)
Equipment Planning Committee (1991 – 1992)

Biology Department

Faculty advisor, PLANTS -The botany club (2004 – 2006)
Co-Coordinatori and Co-PI, Truman’s Math-Biology Initiative (2003 – 2006). Mathematical Biology website
Seminar Committee (1992 – 2003; Chair, 1994 – 1996, 2001 – 2003)
External Review Committee (Chair, 2001-2002)
Microscope Advisory Committee, Chair (1993 – 2006)
Faculty Search Committee (Invertebrate Ecologist) (2000 – 2001)
Equipment Planning Committee (1995 – 2000, Chair 2003-2006)
Graduate Student Thesis Committees (6 Students; 1994 – 2006)
Graduate Committee (1993 -1995; 1996 – 1998)
Faculty Search Committee (Plant Cell Biologist/Physiologist) (1996 – 1998)
Public Relations Materials Committee, Chair (1997 – 1998)
Curriculum Committee (1991 – 1995; Chair, 1994 – 1995)
Workshop Planning Committee – Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (CoPLAC) Workshop on the Biology Curriculum (1994 – 1995)
Faculty Search Committee, Chair (Plant Systematist) (1994 – 1995)
Faculty Search Committee (Population Geneticist) (1994 – 1995)
Faculty Search Committee (Introductory Biology Coordinator) (1991 – 1992)
Faculty Search Committee, Chair (Visiting Assistant Professor) (1993)
Long-Term Course Planning Committee, Chair (1992)
Alumni Newsletter Committee (1991 – 1992)