Kathryn A. Higley is a Professor, and former Head of the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering, at Oregon State University. She has managed OSU’s Radiation Health Physics program, including developing its online graduate degree, into the largest in the country. Dr. Higley has been at Oregon State University since 1994 teaching undergraduate and graduate classes on radioecology, dosimetry, radiation protection, radiochemistry, and radiation biology. She is the past Vice Chair of Committee 4 of (Implementation of the Commission’s Recommendations) of the International Commission on Radiological Protection and past Chair of Committee 5 (Protection of the Environment); she is also a council member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.  She is a board member and Fellow of the Health Physics Society and a Certified Health Physicist.  Dr. Higley and her students have done research in radiologically contaminated environments around the globe.