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Adrienne Nettles
Communications Specialist
Brooke Nonnenmann
Executive Administrative Associate
Michael O'Brien
Head Coach - Tennis
Dong-Yop Oh
Associate Professor | College of Business
Dr. Oh earned his MS and Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from the University of Alabama, following his undergraduate education at Pukyong National University in South Korea, where he received dual degrees in Business Administration (BA) and Physics (BS). He began his teaching career at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, instructing Business Quantitative Methods, before joining the Statistics faculty at Auburn University Montgomery in 2018.
Dr. Oh’s research focuses on time series econometrics, business analytics, and statistical computing. His work has been published in various academic journals, including Computational Statistics, Empirical Economics, Applied Economics, and Communication in Statistics— Simulation and Computation, among others. He also actively serves as a reviewer for several academic journals.
Ben Okeke
Professor | College of Sciences
Ph.D. (1994): University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
M.S. (1989): University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
B.S. (1985): University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Professor Okeke is a Distinguished Research Professor of Industrial and Environmental Microbiology in the Department of Biology and Environmental Science. His research interests include: biofuel and co-products, biosensors, bioremediation, enzyme biotechnology, effects of pollutants on microbial communities, indicators of microbiological safety of water and food, and genetic engineering of microbes. He teaches industrial microbiology, environmental microbiology, special topics biotechnology, general microbiology and directed research. Professor Okeke did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Riverside; Gifu University, Japan; and the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy. Dr. Okeke has 60 research papers in peer reviewed journals, three US patents, two books, numerous conference abstracts and several research grants including a million dollar grant for research on fuel ethanol from biomass. His excellence awards include Alumni Professor, Ida Belle Young Endowed Professorship. He is the founding Director of the Bioprocessing and Biofuel Research Lab (BBRL). Dr. Okeke served as Associate and Assistant Editor for two peer reviewed international journals; the Journal of Environmental Quality and Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology.
Sameer Pande
Associate Provost of Enrollment Management & Student Affairs
Sameer Pande
Associate Provost of Enrollment Management & Student Affairs
Lastella Paradise-Watson
Associate Director
Daewoo Park
Dean/Professor | College of Business
Dr. Daewoo Park is the Dean and Professor of the College of Business at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM). He assumed this role in August 2024. Dr. Park brings extensive experience in academic leadership and strategic management to AUM. He led curriculum innovation and strategic enrollment management, accreditations/assurance of learning, impactful partnership development/fundraising, and innovation-centered student success initiatives.
Academic Background
- Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Texas A&M University (1992)
- MBA from the University of Texas at Austin (1989)
- B.A. from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (1984)
Professional Experience
- Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Student Success at Northern Illinois University’s College of Business (2019-2024)
- Chair, Department of Business at Hawaii Pacific University (2015-2019)
- Chair, Department of Management & Entrepreneurship at Xavier University’s Williams College of Business (2009-2013)
- Director, Sedler Family Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Xavier
