NDSU News | New Hires

Philip Hunt, registrar at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, has been named NDSU registrar. He is set to begin his new duties on June 1.

The Northern Crops Institute on the NDSU campus recently hired Minwei Xu as a food scientist, and Mary Niehaus as a food technologist.

Chris Augustin has been appointed director of NDSU’s Dickinson Research Extension Center. Augustin has been the Extension soil health specialist at NDSU's North Central Research Extension Center near Minot, North Dakota, since 2012. Prior to that, he was a nutrient…

The Northern Crops Institute on the NDSU campus recently hired David Boehm as technical manager. Boehm will be in charge of overseeing safety programs for NCI staff in addition to maintaining facilities and equipment, planning mid- and long-term capital improvements…

NDSU Human Resources has unveiled an innovative virtual tour of the campus to help new employees get around. Previously, NDSU had offered a bus tour of campus for new employees quarterly, but it was determined that a virtual tour would be more effective and more…

Kimberly Wallin, former associate dean of research and graduate programs at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, has been selected as the new dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. Wallin is expected to begin her…

Patricia “Pat” Hanson was named NDSU’s director of payroll, effective Sept. 3. She was hired as the associate director of payroll in the Office of Human Resources and Payroll on Oct. 19, 2018, and served as the interim director of payroll since March 1 of this year.

John Woolsey has been selected as NDSU’s director of human resources following a national search. He began his new role on Sept. 3.

Yuri Montanholi has joined NDSU Extension as the beef cattle specialist. He is native of Brazil and has dual Canadian citizenship. "I feel honored to join a community where the beef industry means a lot and with a long history of Extension assisting producers and…