Martha Gilliland, Ph.D
Vice President
Education
Dr. Gilliland holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering and systems ecology from the University of Florida, an M.A. in geophysics from Rice University, and an A.B. in geology and mathematics.
Expertise
In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Gilliland to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a panel of 25 leaders from business and academia charged to advise the White House on science and technology issues. Dr. Gilliland served on the PCAST subcommittees on the Science and Technology Workforce, Nanotechnology, Federal R&D priorities, Electric Power Transmission, Energy Alternatives, and Personalized Medicine.
She was founder and CEO of Energy Policy Studies, Inc., focused on U.S. energy options in the 1970s.
Recently, she directed a Literacy Coalition in Tucson, and served as a senior fellow at the Council for Aid to Education (www.cae.org), devoted to enhancing higher education's accountability for student learning outcomes.
Affiliations
Dr. Gilliland is formerly chancellor/CEO of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). As chancellor, she was responsible for a $300 million budget, 3,000 faculty and staff, and 14,000 students in 11 academic programs, including Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Law, Business, Engineering, Education, Music and Dance, Biological Sciences, and Arts and Sciences.
Prior to being appointed as chancellor at UMKC, Dr. Gilliland served as provost at Tulane University in New Orleans and vice president and vice provost at the University of Arizona in Tucson. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she directed the Center for Infrastructure Research in the College of Engineering.
Publications
Two of her publications were selected by the Journal of Mathematical Geology and the Journal of the American Water Resources Association as best papers of the year.
The Policy Studies Organization of the American Political Science Association awarded her the Hubert H. Humphrey Award for top public policy practitioner of the year in 2002.
She was appointed by Governor Bob Kerrey to the Nebraska Power Review Board and by Comptroller General of the U.S. Charles Bowser to the Research and Education Advisory Panel to the U.S. General Accounting Office.
She was a Fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation from 1985-1988.
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