College of Liberal and Professional Studies Names New Executive Director

Dr. Dave Bieber has been appointed Executive Director of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. As Director of LPS Programs in the Natural Sciences for the last four years, he has had responsibility for the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Health Program as well as four master's degrees, in Environmental Studies, Applied Geosciences, Medical Physics, and Applied Positive Psychology. He has also overseen LPS’ relationships with Penn’s departments of Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Physics, and Psychology.

Dr. Bieber holds a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to Penn, he was a research scientist at Stanford, started several successful professional master's programs at California universities, and served as the founding executive director of the National Professional Science Master's Association.