UO Today interview: Chris Poulsen, Dean, UO College of Arts and Sciences

Chris Poulsen is the Tykeson Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) at the University of Oregon. He is also a climate scientist and a professor of Earth Science. Dean Poulsen’s research seeks to understand the causes of past climate change on Earth and what lessons they hold for predicting our future climate. Before coming to the UO in 2022, Poulsen was the associate dean for natural sciences in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan from 2018 to 2022. He discusses why a liberal arts education is important and the role of the humanities in CAS’s liberal arts mission.