Meet the Dean

Jennifer Ryder Fox, Dean

Office: Plumas 317

Campus Zip: 310

Phone: 530-898-5844

Fax: 530-898-5845

E-mail Address: jrfox@csuchico.edu

Dean Jennifer Ryder Fox is a Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo alumna of the Soil Science Department. Her graduate work at New Mexico State University focused on conifer seedling root regeneration potential. Prior to coming to California State University, Chico, she was department head for the Horticulture and Crop Science Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo from September 2002 to June 2006.

She brings an extensive background in industry experience in regulatory affairs working with state, national, and international regulatory officials on crop protection issues. She was vice president of regulatory affairs and technical development for a biotechnology company in Davis, Calif. and worked for a multinational crop protection company prior to that.

In June 2003 Dr. Fox received the Presidential Green Chemistry award for her work as part of the development team of a biological fungicide when she was with the biotechnology company. Fox has made invited presentations at international conferences and is an editor of the 2nd Edition of the Horticulture Western Fertilizers Handbook. She is vice-chairman of the board for the Organic Materials Review Institute, serves on the Western Integrated Pest Management Advisory Committee, and as an alternate on the California Department of Pesticide Regulation's Pest Management Advisory Committee.

Her professional interests include new technologies for crop protection, government policies and their impact on agriculture, and pesticide safety.