E-Insight

June 2004

University News

● Dr. Joyce Berry, a longtime faculty member and administrator at Colorado State University's College of Natural Resources, was named as the new dean of that college beginning July 1. Dr. Berry, who is a faculty member in Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism, served as Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Policy Institute from 1994-2001. She has served as Associate Dean for Colorado State's College of Natural Resources since 2001, was Assistant Dean from 1999-2001 and interim director of the Colorado Policy Institute from 2001-2002. She was an administrator and instructor at Yale before coming to Colorado State. Berry will replace Al Dyer, who served as Dean of the College for 11 years.

● An Associate Dean at Purdue University has been named the new dean for Colorado State University's College of Applied Human Sciences beginning Aug. 1. Dr. April Mason, Associate Dean for discovery and engagement in the School of Consumer and Family Sciences and the Assistant Director of the Cooperative Extension Service at Purdue University, will replace Dr. Nancy Hartley, who has served as the Dean of the College for more than 10 years.

Dr. Mason has been at Purdue University since 1984, beginning as an Assistant Professor of foods and nutrition and extension specialist. In 1993, she worked in the laboratory of biochemistry at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Mason was appointed as Associate Dean for extension in the School of Consumer and Family Sciences in 1996. She has served as Associate Dean of discovery and engagement since August 2002.