Dr. Philip Sandberg, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, will retire during Summer 2002.

“Dakota State University was fortunate to have had Dr. Sandberg as Dean of the College of Natural Sciences. Although the University will miss him and we are sorry to see him go, we wish him well in his future endeavors,” said Dr. Jerald Tunheim, President of DSU.

In 1995, Dr. Sandberg came to DSU from the New College of Global Studies at Radford University in Virginia and, earlier, the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his administrative duties, he taught Earth and Physical Science for DSU Elementary Education Majors, applying his geological background and collaborating on line with elementary teachers and classes both locally and nationally.

His wife, Dr. Susan Brown-Sandberg, who taught in the College of Education at DSU from 1995 to 1999 (and now teaches at South Dakota State University), has joined the faculty of the Department of Teaching and Learning at Southeastern Louisiana University and will start teaching there next month.

Dr. Sandberg will join her in Louisiana after the end of the spring semester. They will be living near Dr. Sandberg’s brother and sister-in-law in Mandeville, Louisiana. Dr. Sandberg has a number of projects planned, including continued work on educational software, the writing of fiction and science books for children, and the remodeling of their lake cottage outside Elmira, New York.