Eric Hegg has been recommended to serve as the next dean of Michigan State University’s College of Natural Science effective Sept. 1, 2024.

He will serve as dean designee prior to the MSU Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 6. Pending board approval, Hegg will succeed Phillip Duxbury who has served as the college’s dean since August 2018.

Hegg currently serves as associate dean for budget, planning, research and administration in the College of Natural Science, a position he has held since January 2020. Prior to that, he served for approximately seven years as the director of the MSU Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center’s business operations and as the MSU subcontract lead. He joined the MSU faculty in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2006.