Three Women Named Regents Professors at Oklahoma State

The Oklahoma State University Board of Regents has bestowed the title of Regents Professor on three women scholars.

• Shida Rastegari is a professor of agricultural economics. She has been on the university’s faculty since 1984. She also taught at the University of California at Davis and Ripon College in Wisconsin. Dr. Rastegari holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University.

• Estella Atekwana holds the Sun Chair in geology at Oklahoma State. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. in geophysics from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

• Susan E. Little holds the Krull-Ewing Chair in veterinary parasitology at the university. She is a graduate of Cornell University. Dr. Little earned a doctor of veterinary medicine degree at Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. in parasitology at the University of Georgia.