Mississippi State University and the Search Committee for the Dean of the College of Forest Resources invite interested members of the campus community to attend public presentations by each finalist. The CFR dean also will serve as director of the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center.            

Candidate One: Dr. Wes Burger, Monday, Oct. 25, at 10:30 a.m.     

Location: Tully Auditorium (A100) Thompson Hall

WebEx link to join: https://msstate.webex.com/msstate/j.php?MTID=mcd8894e5979fcc1249c50ebaee45abc1 

Password: search

Meeting ID: 2624 095 2874

Dr. Loren “Wes” Burger currently serves in as the Interim Dean, College of Forest Resources, and Interim Director, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, at Mississippi State. He also is Associate Director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the FWRC. He previously has served as the university’s Interim Head for the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Interim Associate Director for MAFES/FWRC; and Associate Director for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Geosystems Research Institute. The Professor of Wildlife Ecology joined the MSU faculty in 1993.

Dr. Burger completed doctoral work in wildlife biology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he also completed his master’s degree. He has an undergraduate degree in both biology and mathematics from Murray State University.

The Search Committee for the College of Forest Resources is mindful of the critical balance between individual privacy and the public's right to know. It is our responsibility to keep constituent groups informed of the progress of the search, and we are committed to that course.