Brenda McComb, a professor of natural resources conservation and associate dean for research and outreach in the College of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst has been named head of the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society in the OSU College of Forestry. McComb will succeed W. Thomas Adams, interim department head and former head of the Forest Science Department, who is retiring after 30 years of service to the university. She will assume her new position on April 15, 2009.
