Dr. Lee Stanton-Yudin, Dean and Director of the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center of the College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CNAS), University of Guam, and Second Vice President of the Asian Association of Agricultural Colleges and Universities (AAACU), pushed for more involvement of University of Guam’s College of Natural and Applied Sciences in AAACU activities in the region. In an email to the AAACU Secretariat, Dr. Yudin emphasized the need for a strategy to keep members interested in the network. Dr. Yudin was elected as Second Vice President of AAACU during the Governing Council Meeting at the close of the 16th AAACU Biennial Convention on 28 October 2006 at the National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.

Aside from being Dean and Director of the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center of CNAS, Dr. Yudin presently serves as Acting Senior Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs and sits on the Board of Director’s of the Agriculture Development in the American Pacific (ADAP), and the Center of Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture (CTSA).

Dr. Yudin has written a number of publications in Entomology and Extension and has managed a number of research projects with grants from USDA such as the Cancer Research Training and Faculty Development (Pilot Program I) 2004-2008, a partnership grant - Faculty and Student Capacity Training at UOG and University of Hawaii; and the recently completed USDA Resident Instruction Grants Program for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Area titled, “Developing Resident Instruction in Food and Agricultural Related Sciences at Land Grant Institutions in the Pacific and Caribbean,” where he served as Project Director.

Dr. Yudin obtained his PhD in Entomology at University of Hawaii (Manoa) in 1988 (E.C. Cedicol with data from L.S. Yudin)