Associate Vice President for Research
Oregon State University

Rich Holdren completed his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University and obtained a Ph.D. in Marine Geochemistry from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. After a two year Post-Doctoral experience at Yale University, he served as a junior faculty member in the Geosciences Department at the University of Rochester, and then became a senior scientist, project manager and deputy program manager for EPA's National Aquatic Effects Research Program team in Corvallis, Oregon. Dr. Holdren then spent eight years at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA. where he managed the laboratory's Geology and Geochemistry Technical Group and worked with the laboratory's International Safeguards Program teaching environmental sampling as a non-intrusive means for detection and verification of a country's nuclear activities. He returned to Corvallis in 2000 to become OSU's Director of Research Initiatives, became the Vice Provost for Research in 2001. He currently serves with Dr. John Cassady in the Research Office overseeing many aspects of the institutions research enterprise. Rich was a member of the BEC Board of Directors from 2000 through 2005, and has rejoined the Board starting in January 2008. He was also a member of the Board for the Economic Development Partnership from 2003 through 2005.