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In the role of Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs: Budget and Research (AVPAA:BR), Ribble is the primary point person for academic departments in preparing their annual budget requests for consideration by the VPAA. Additionally, he serves as an ex-officio member of the Faculty Development and Lecturers and Visiting Scholar Committees, coordinates the faculty research dinner series, manages the operation of the DeCoursey and other major campus lecture series, and oversees supplemental funding requests for full-time faculty regarding start-up funding, resource expenses, and support for research, scholarship and creative activities. He supervises the Director of the Center for International Engagement, the Director for Sponsored Research, the Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Science Facilities Manager.

Ribble teaches courses in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. He has been recognized for his passion in the classroom, in the lab, and most especially in the field; his courses often involve multiple weekend field trips where students camp out and work dawn to midnight surveying small mammals, birds, and bats. He has led experiential field-based learning courses within the Untied States, China, and Costa Rica. He names one of his top accomplishments as inspiring students to continue with their own studies of biodiversity with over 12 of his students pursuing or having earned advanced degrees in science. He currently serves as the Chair of the Environmental Studies Major.

As a scholar, Ribble has a significant track record, having delivered dozens of scientific presentations and published numerous scientific articles, most of which have been co-authored with ÐÔ°®ÌìÌà students. His scholarship has taken various students in recent years to Mexico, Tanzania and South Africa, and recently culminated in the discovery and description of a new mammal, the grey-faced elephant-shrew, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of central Tanzania. As Chair of the Biology Department, he supported his colleagues to earn external grant support from the Keck Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Science Foundation. He is a strong supporter of public schools and along with his wife, Helen, has engaged their children's school in promoting an outdoor science-based curriculum.