Sastry G. Pantula, a veteran educator with more than 25 years of leadership experience in higher education and a nationally and internationally recognized leader in statistical sciences, is the new dean of Cal State San Bernardino’s College of Natural Sciences. “We are honored to have someone of Dr. Pantula’s background, experience and leadership abilities joining the College of Natural Sciences,” said CSUSB Provost Shari McMahan. “He has an exceptional record of service and a commitment to the success of students and faculty.” Before joining the university, Pantula was a professor in the Department of Statistics at Oregon State University, where he served as the dean of the College of Science from 2013 to 2017. He also served three years as director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation and spent more than 30 years as a statistics professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU). At NCSU, he also served as the director of Graduate Programs, the head of the Department of Statistics and the director of the Institute of Statistics. Among his accomplishments, Pantula, who earned a doctoral degree in statistics from Iowa State University and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta, India, has been awarded more than $10 million in grants and has a strong record of publications and supervising doctoral dissertations.