MSU CANR Update Dr. Kelly Millenbah

Dr. Kelly F. Millenbah was named interim dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University on July 1, 2021. She is also the Senior Associate Dean and oversees the academic and student affairs portfolio of the college. Millenbah is a Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and while originally trained as a wildlife biologist, she developed into a scholar of natural resources education with a focus on teaching and learning within the classroom, curricular design, and development, and recruitment and retention of students in the sciences. She earned her B.A. degree in Biology from Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife at MSU. Millenbah previously served as the Associate Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program, Director of Academic Programs in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Associate Dean of Lyman Briggs College (a residential college for students interested in the sciences), all at MSU. She has received numerous awards including a Lilly Teaching Fellowship, the MSU Alumni Club of Mid-Michigan Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Sigma Alpha Agriculture Advocate Award, the Simmons Chivukula Academic Leadership Award, Outstanding Supervisor Award, and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Distinguished Faculty Award.