Steele to serve as interim VP
June 21, 2009
W. Glenn Steele, a veteran faculty member and administrator is being named interim vice president for research and economic development at Mississippi State University. Steele, who also holds the title of Bobby Shackouls Professor in the Bagley College of Engineering, currently is co-director of the Sustainable Energy Research Center, a multidisciplinary effort that seeks to identify alternative energy sources. He also is serving as interim director for another campus center, the Institute for Clean Energy Technology, and as co-director of the Energy Institute in the Bagley College.