Several faculty and staff members volunteer to work as a team to plan and stage the annual SURCA event.
SURCA Committee Leadership
Mary Sánchez Lanier
Assistant Vice Provost, Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement | Professor, School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine | sanchez@wsu.edu
Jeremy Lessmann
Director, Office of Undergraduate Research, Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement | Associate Professor and Director of Chemistry Advising, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences | SURCA Co-Chair in the Engineering and Physical Sciences category | SURCA Co-Chair in the Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Information Sciences category | jlessman@wsu.edu
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Veterinary Medicine | SURCA Chair in the Molecular, Cellular, and Chemical Biology category | samantha.gizerian@wsu.edu
Jaclyn Gotch
Program Coordinator, Office of Undergraduate Research, Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement | SURCA Event Coordination | jgotch@wsu.edu
Beverly Makhani
Director, Communications and Marketing, Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement | makhani@wsu.edu
Donelle “Dee” Posey
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences | SURCA Chair in the Social Sciences category | deeposey@wsu.edu
Daniel Rieck
Web Developer and Coordinator, Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement | SURCA Co-Chair in the Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Information Sciences category | SURCA Co-Chair in the Engineering and Physical Sciences category | daniel.rieck@wsu.edu
Andrei Smertenko
Associate Professor, Institute of Biological Chemistry, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences; and National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine | SURCA Co-Chair in the Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Information Sciences category | SURCA Co-Chair in the Organismal, Population, Ecological, and Evolutionary Biology category | andrei.smertenko@wsu.edu