Dr. Gloria S. Wyche-Moore is UDC’s Dean of Community Outreach and Extension
Services (COES), Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) and the Cooperative Extension Service (CES), and coordinator of the planned Water Resources PSM program.
Her tenure at the University has spanned more than three decades, serving as a professor and Chairperson in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. She also served as an Assistant Dean in the former College of Life Sciences. She has experience in conducting research, administering projects, developing curriculum, and proposal writing.
In 1997, Dr. Wyche-Moore became the Director of the University’s Agricultural Experiment Station (AES). From 2000-2002 she also served as Director of the Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI).
Her technical background is in water pollution biology and oceanography. For 5 years Dr.
Wyche-Moore was Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for the Northeastern Regional
Aquaculture Center, been Project Director of USDA’s Strengthening Grant, a Cafritz Foundation Fellow. She directed the NASA-funded “Anacostia River Institute for Remote Sensing (AIRS),” which introduced 9th through 12th-grade students and teachers to water quality analysis and monitoring using remote sensing techniques.
She currently leads UDC’s effort to establish a College of Urban Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, within which the PSM program would be the first graduate offering.
