February 15, 2025

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School of Natural and Social Sciences at Susquehanna names dean | Local News

SELINSGROVE — Susquehanna University has named Katherine Straub as dean of the Faculty of Normal and Social Sciences. Straub has been serving as interim dean since August.

As dean of the College of Normal and Social Sciences, Straub will oversee 8 academic departments comprised of 71 faculty associates.

Straub joined Susquehanna in 2002 as assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences. She was promoted to affiliate professor in 2008 and achieved complete professor standing in 2014, at which time she was also elected chair of the Office of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

In 2017, Straub was named director of Susquehanna’s Centre for Environmental Training and Research. In this placement, she developed the Office environment of Sustainability and hired and mentored the university’s first sustainability coordinator, both equally of which led to Susquehanna’s 2020 silver certification by the Affiliation for the Development of Sustainability in Better Training Sustainability Monitoring and Reporting Program.

As director of the CEER, Straub also oversees the Freshwater Investigation Institute, an externally funded ecology lab with two complete-time employees customers, and the 87-acre CEER house adjacent to campus that involves a 3-megawatt photo voltaic array, ecology and environmental science research web pages, a demonstration riparian buffer, apiary and a college student-run campus backyard garden. She made a 2021 summer season internship application as a result of the Community for Vocation in Undergraduate Training that positioned college students with husband or wife businesses and furnished intentional vocational discernment programming, a little something she options to expand on as dean. She also co-wrote proposals top to $1.6 million in funding to assist the perform and analysis of the FRI.

Straub gained her bachelor’s degree in earth and planetary sciences from Harvard College in 1994. She went on to earn her master’s diploma and doctorate in atmospheric science from Colorado Condition University in 1999 and 2002, respectively.

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