Two colleges at Midwestern State University have new deans for the 2024-25 school year, and the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas has a new director.

Dr. Robert Brennan is leading as the dean of the McCoy College of Science, Engineering & Mathematics. He is originally from Emmetsburg, Iowa, and studied and played football at the University of South Dakota. His previous roles at UCO included chair of the biology department and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Education and Research. Before working in academia, Brennan was a microbiology research specialist for 3M Corporation.

“Dr. Brennan brings great experience to the McCoy College dean position, and he will continue to work on the Bolin remodel and the new curriculum initiatives in the college,” MSU Texas Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs Margaret Brown Marsden said. “I am grateful for his leadership, as well as the leadership of Dr. Sarah Cobb, who served as Interim Dean since January 2023.”

Tiffany Ziegler was named dean of the McAda Graduate School in June. Ziegler served in the MSU Texas Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2014 as both an assistant professor and associate professor of history. She also served for four years as graduate coordinator of history. She was the 2022-2023 recipient of the Jane Spears Carnes fellowship. She traveled to Brussels to complete the majority of a manuscript draft to conclude with the publication of a monograph, The Hospital Sisters: Gender, Power, and Communities of Care in Medieval Brussels.

“The McAda Graduate School has a wide range of initiatives and challenges, and I am grateful for Dr. Ziegler taking the lead in addressing them as the new dean,” Brown Marsden said. “She has already brought much to the role as interim and has many ideas to strengthen and grow the graduate school.”

Dr. Zora Carrier, from Bratislava, is the new director for the WFMA. She has an Art Marketing, PR, and Communications Certificate from Sotheby's Art Institute. She was most recently the executive director at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts and the Executive Director at Tampa Bay Business for Culture and the Arts.

“The WFMA is poised for a new era under Dr. Carrier, as she brings a wealth of experience at private museums to inform our work with the public-facing educational programs at the WFMA,” Brown Marsden said. “She is excited to begin new initiatives for the museum. She takes on a role served for over two years by Professor Catherine Prose, who did tremendous work leading the museum while we looked for a new leader.”