Cassandra Moseley is Colorado State University’s Vice President for Research. She oversees the research, discovery and creative artistry portfolio at Colorado State, which is consistently ranked among the country’s top performing research universities. In her role, Moseley leads a robust research enterprise that has increased by 46% in the past decade. She works in partnership with the president, provost, deans, vice presidents and the campus community to expand CSU’s research portfolio and advance CSU’s research and innovation goals as a top-tier research institution.

Moseley previously served for more than 20 years as an accomplished administrator and research professor at the University of Oregon. Her positions there included vice provost for academic operations and strategy and interim vice president for research and innovation.

Moseley’s academic expertise is in wildfire and climate resilience, rural communities and national forest policy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and government from Cornell University and her master’s degree and doctoral degree in political science from Yale University.