Dr. Anne Dorrance has been named Associate Dean and Director for the Ohio State Wooster Campus and Associate Director for the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES). Dr. Dorrance’s four-year term will begin January 1, 2020. In this role, she will serve on the Vice President and Dean’s Administrative Cabinet, providing leadership and oversight for the Wooster Campus.
Dorrance earned her A.S. in Biology from Herkimer County Community College (Herkimer, NY), her B.S. in Forest Biology from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry (Syracuse, NY), her M.S. in Plant Pathology from University of Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. She also was a post-doc in Plant Pathology at Washington State University.
Based on the Wooster Campus with responsibilities in soybean research, field crop extension and teaching, Dorrance has been on faculty in the Department of Plant Pathology at Ohio State since 1997. She served as a professor in the department of Plant Pathology and as the director of the CFAES Center for Soybean Research. Dorrance has developed a nationally recognized research and outreach program on the management of soybean diseases that impact Ohio producers. She and her students have contributed to identifying and characterizing new sources of resistance to many soybean pathogens, as well as evaluation of new chemistries for efficacy focusing primarily on those that are soil borne.
Dorrance has received several awards including the American Soybean Association Special Meritorious Award (2008), Ohio Soybean Council’s Outstanding Achievement Award (2002), The American Phytopathological Society Excellence in Extension (2009) and was designated a Fellow in the American Phytopathological Society (2016).