For Immediate Release June 28, 2005

For More Information Contact: Rich Schneider, 317-278-4564 rcschnei@iupui.edu

Robert Kasberg Appointed IU School of Dentistry's Associate Dean for Student Affairs

INDIANAPOLIS - Robert H. Kasberg Jr., director of admissions for Indiana University School of Dentistry since 2002, has been appointed as the school's associate dean for Student Affairs, effective July 2005.

He replaces Margot L. Van Dis, who served in the associate deanship for eight years before deciding to return to her full-time IU teaching post as a professor of dental diagnostic sciences.

Kasberg will continue in his role as admissions director. He holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and a doctorate in anthropology from Yale University .

After serving as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps in the 1970s, Kasberg spent six years in the Philippines as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer.

Upon completion of his doctoral study, he returned to IUPUI in 1992 as a visiting lecturer in anthropology. He subsequently held positions in the University Education Center and the Center on Philanthropy.

Before being appointed at IUSD, he was assistant dean of the IUPUI Graduate Office. In that role, he co-directed a number of summer research programs with medical school faculty and served as co-principal investigator on a $500,000 "Bridges to the Doctorate" grant from the National Institutes of Health. ###