James Warnock is associate dean of the Morehead Honors College and oversees Honors academic advising and the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities. He is responsible for representing Honors and CURO regionally and nationally, coordinating Honors curricular offerings, supervising several staff members, and working on future Honors initiatives.

Dr. Warnock was chair of the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering and is a professor in the UGA College of Engineering. An active researcher in biomanufacturing workforce development, he has earned international attention for his work in advancing the field of engineering education.

In addition to his role at UGA, Dr. Warnock serves as adjunct director of professional offerings for ABET, the engineering college accreditation board. Before coming to UGA in 2017, he was a professor and associate dean for academic affairs at Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering.

Dr. Warnock holds a bachelor’s degree in biological science from the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. He earned a master’s in biochemical engineering and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham. He was a postdoctoral research fellow for the Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues.