Tom Risch, Andrew Sustich
Andrew Sustich is returning to the classroom, stepping down from his administrative posts as Arkansas State University’s associate vice chancellor for research and technology and as executive director of the Arkansas Biosciences Institute at A-State.
Tom Risch, currently chair of the biological science program, will take over as the interim director of ABI and has also been promoted to interim associate vice chancellor of research and technology.
In a related move, Travis Marsico, associate chair of biological science, was named interim chair of the department.
Sustich took over as associate vice chancellor for research and technology in June 2012, after serving as dean of the graduate school. He was also interim ABI director and later named the permanent director.
A 1999 Ph.D. graduate in zoology from Auburn University, Risch joined A-State in 2001. He is a professor of animal ecology and holds the Judd Hill Endowed Chair of Environmental Biology.
Sustich joined A-State in 1991 as an assistant professor of physics. During his tenure at the university, he served as interim dean of what is now the College of Sciences & Mathematics. He was the dean of the graduate school and of the Honors College from 2006 until 2012.
Sustich received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Following a two-year postdoctoral research appointment at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, he came to A-State. Sustich was promoted to associate professor in 1994 and to full professor in 1999.
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