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Robert Stanton named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Department of Interior
5/19/2009
Contact: Bill Gibbs, billgibbs@tamu.edu, 979-845-2211
College Station -- Dr. Robert G. Stanton has been appointed deputy assistant secretary of the policy, management and budget for the U.S. Department of the Interior, according to a release from the department. Stanton was appointed by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
Stanton is executive professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences in the Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
He has been on the Texas A&M faculty since 2001. His expertise is in policy, planning and operations management. He also was a visiting professor at Howard University and Yale University.
From 1997 to 2001, he was director of the National Park Service.
Stanton is a graduate of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, and has received honorary doctoral degrees from Texas A&M, Unity College (Maine), Southern University (Louisiana), and Huston-Tillotson University (Texas).
U.S. Department of Interior Release
About the department: The department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences offers undergraduate and graduate degrees with an emphasis in park and recreation administration, natural resource management and policy analysis, and tourism resources development. The department has 19 faculty members and more than 425 students. Dr. Gary Ellis is department head.
About the college:
With an enrollment of almost 6,700 students in 14 academic departments, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees and has a faculty of nearly 400 members, including two Nobel laureates. Research programs include food sustainability and safety, human and animal health, genetics, renewable natural resources and bioenergy. Mark Hussey is Vice Chancellor and Dean.
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