Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 5/26/22


Bob Franks, professor and department head for Plant and Microbial Biology (PMB), will temporarily lead the Department of Applied Ecology as the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the department search for its new department head.

“We greatly appreciate Bob stepping in as interim department head of Applied Ecology while continuing as department head of Plant and Microbial Biology,” said John Dole, interim dean of  CALS. “He has a wealth of experience, both as a faculty member and as an administrator, that will serve applied ecology well.”

Franks joined NC State’s faculty in 2004. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Tufts University and his Ph.D. in neurosciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland, College Park, and at the University of California, Berkeley.

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