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Brian Teasdale, Ph.D. in Plant Biology, is currently the Associate Dean for the D&G Hennings College of CSMT as well as the Executive Director for the School of Natural Sciences. As a trained Phycologist, study of algae, he continues to hold a faculty appointment in the Biological Sciences program and teaches various courses in plant biology.

He has served as both the Vice-Chair and Secretary of the Kean Faculty Senate, administered the joint Kean-Union County College Department of Education Title V STEMPact grant as the executive director at Kean and has more recently been the driving force behind the creation of NJ's first fully online Biology degree program. Additionally, he has previously served as the Primary Investigator for a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant and continues to offer field courses abroad for science majors. Prior to Kean University he was a faculty member at Jacksonville University in their Marine Science Program. He completed his M.S. in Botany at the University of South Florida and Ph.D. in Plant Science at the University of New Hampshire. He has been at Kean University since 2006.