
Sheryl Tucker is the associate vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the Graduate College at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. She is also a professor of chemistry at the university. Earlier, she served on the faculty at the University of Missouri from 1996 to 2011.
Professor Tucker is a graduate of Kent State University in Ohio. She holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of North Texas and did postdoctoral research at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.


