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Dr. Quentin Wheeler Inaugurated as SUNY ESF's Fourth President

 The State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry inaugurated Dr. Quentin D. Wheeler as its fourth president on Friday.

Wheeler was most recently the dean for Arizona State's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He also served as a professor at Cornell University and as the Keeper of Entomology at the Natural History Museum in London. Wheeler holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. 

On Friday, he spoke about his vision for the ESF education of the future, which will ready students to address the challenges of a suffering natural environment.

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