People News: Brown named to 2024 WiBN Women to Watch list, Gupta selected for dissertation committee

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ARDP coordinator named to 2024 WiBN Women to Watch list

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Caressa Brown, administrative coordinator for the Central State University Agricultural Research Development Program (ARDP), has been named one of 23 2024 WiBN Women to Watch by the Better Business Bureau's Women in Business Networking (WiBN). The honorees are recognized for being "dynamic professional women who have been recognized for inspiring and encouraging those around them to actively challenge the status quo, working to improve their communities, develop their employees, and advocate for women in general."

Read Brown's biography, and those of the 22 other honorees via dayton937.com.

Professor to serve on doctoral dissertation committees

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Pratibha Gupta, Ph.D., a research associate professor of Food Nutrition and Health at Central State University, has been approved as an associate member for Wright State University's College of Graduate Programs & Honors Studies for a seven-year term ending Aug. 31, 2030.

With the approval, Gupta will serve as a member of doctoral dissertation committees and co-director of doctoral dissertation committees for qualified students.

"Graduate faculty members have an obligation to serve as concerned mentors to our students as they begin independent scholarly inquiry and new professional responsibilities," said Shu Schiller, interim dean of the College of Graduate Programs & Honors Studies.