James A. Guikema, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Research
Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Biology, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Kansas State University

James A. Guikema, PH.D. is the associate vice president for research at Kansas State University and the associate dean of the Graduate School.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Calvin College in 1973, with a major in biology, and he then attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Michigan, in the cellular and developmental biology program of the Biology Department. He worked for three years at the University of Missouri – Columbia as an NIH postdoctoral fellow, and joined the Kansas State University faculty in 1981 as an assistant professor of biology. In 1990, he became the associate director of the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in Gravitational Biology at Kansas State University and was the senior associate director of the Division of Biology from 1994 – 1998. In 1998, he became the associate dean of the Graduate School and in 2001 was appointed associate vice president for research.