Richard Houseman is the dean of Continuing Education at BYU. He has also served as the worldwide manager of missionary in-field services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as a mission leader in the Brazil Recife Mission. Before coming to BYU, he spent many years in academia as a professor of entomology at the University of Missouri, a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University and adjunct faculty at both Blinn College and Utah Valley University.
Houseman earned a doctorate in entomology from Texas A&M University, a master’s degree in zoology from BYU and bachelor’s degrees in biology and secondary education, also from BYU.
His rremarks will be broadcast live on BYUtv, BYUtv.org. Video, text and audio are archived on speeches.byu.edu