Team

Matt Lee
Senior Vice Chancellor for Agriculture &
Dean of the College of Agriculture
OVP@agcenter.lsu.edu

Hampton Grunewald
Associate Vice President
Office of the Vice President for Agriculture
HGrunewald@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Ashley Mullens, Ph.D
Director of Governmental Relations
Office of the Vice President for Agriculture
AWMullens@agcenter.lsu.edu

Michael Salassi, Ph.D
Director of Louisiana Agricultural
Experiment Station
MSalassi@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Tara Smith, Ph.D.
Exec. Assoc. Vice President &
Director of Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service
TSmith@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Allen Rutherford, Ph.D.
Executive Associate Dean
LSU College of Agriculture
DRutherford@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Frances Gould
Associate Vice President & Professor
Office of the Vice President for Agriculture
FGould@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Wade Baumgartner
Director
Sponsored Programs and Intellectual Property
WBaumgartner@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Lori Parker
Associate Vice President
Budget & Fiscal Services
LHParker@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Ashley Gautreaux
Assistant Vice President
Human Resource Management
AGautreaux@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Claire Francois
Senior Director of Developmnent
LSU Foundation
cfrancois@lsufoundation.org

Tobie Blanchard
Director of Communications and Public Relations
LSU AgCenter
TBlanchard@agcenter.lsu.edu

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