Glenn Boyce has been named chancellor of the U. of Mississippi.
Chief executives
Appointments
Stacy Atkinson,acting chancellor and vice chancellor for academic affairs for the Richmond campus of Ivy Tech Community College, has been named permanent chancellor of the Richmond campus and Connersville site.
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Glenn Boyce has been named chancellor of the U. of Mississippi.
Chief executives
Appointments
Stacy Atkinson,acting chancellor and vice chancellor for academic affairs for the Richmond campus of Ivy Tech Community College, has been named permanent chancellor of the Richmond campus and Connersville site.
Glenn Boyce,former commissioner of Mississippi’s Institutions of Higher Learning and a past president of Holmes Community College, has been named chancellor of the University of Mississippi. He will replace Larry Sparks, who has served as interim chancellor since January.
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Paul Broadie II,president of Gateway Community College and Housatonic Community College, has been named president of Santa Fe College. He will succeed Jackson Sasser, who plans to retire in February.
Sandra J. Doran,interim president of Salem College since May 2018, has been named to the post permanently for a two-year term.
The Rev. Kenneth R. Sicard,executive vice president and treasurer at Providence College, will become president on July 1. He will succeed the Rev. Brian J. Shanley, who plans to step down.
Ryan Smith,former speaker of the House and representative in the Ohio House of Representatives, has been named president of University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College. He replaces Catherine Clark-Eich, who has served as interim president since July 2018.
Matthew Turk,a professor and department chair of computer science at the University of California at Santa Barbara, became president of Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago on July 1. He succeeded Sadaoki Furui, who stepped down.
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Chief academic officers
Appointments
Ann Bain,dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been named executive vice chancellor and provost.
Barbara G. Lyman,senior associate vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education, has been named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Michael A. Perry,interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Rockford University since August 2018, has been named to the post permanently.
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Bryan Slinker,dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University, has been named interim provost and executive vice president.
Other top administrators
Appointments
Brian Bode, chief financial officer at Park University, has been named vice president for facilities.
Will Brantley,director of recruitment in the Graduate College at Oklahoma Baptist University, has been named vice president for enrollment management and marketing at Hannibal-LaGrange University.
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Rana Lacer
Rana Lacer, chief financial officer at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, has been named chief financial officer at Park University.
Tracy McFarland,associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Keuka College, has been named vice president for student affairs at Mount Aloysius College.
Patricia A. Perillo,vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech, has been named vice president for student affairs at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Brent Rockwood,senior vice president for corporate, community and public relations for Pacers Sports & Entertainment, will become vice president and chief of staff at Butler University on November 4.
Steven J. Setchell,vice president for development and alumni engagement at DePauw University, will become vice president for development and alumni relations at Whitman College on November 1.
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W. Eric Sykes, associate vice president for enrollment management and dean of admissions at Emerson College, has been named vice president for enrollment management at Quinnipiac University.
Resignations
Satish Udpa,executive vice president for administration at Michigan State University, plans to step down and return to the faculty.
Deans
Appointments
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David Holmes,associate dean for curriculum and general education in Seaver College at Pepperdine University, has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Lipscomb University.
Marc Hunsaker,purpose and career-design consultant for the Career Services Network at Michigan State University, has been named dean of the Center for Personal and Professional Development at Berry College.
Leykia Nulan,director of freshman admissions and assistant provost for diversity and enrollment at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has been named dean of admission at Mount Holyoke College.
Nils Roemer,director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, has been named interim dean of the School of Arts and Humanities.
Adrienne Y. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, Technologies, and Mathematics at Springfield Technical Community College, has been named interim dean of the division of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at Holyoke Community College.
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Sheila Stamm
Sheila Stamm,president of S. Wright & Associates, a higher-education consulting firm, has been named dean of the School of Education at American International College.
Resignations
Anand Marri,dean of the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester, plans to step down after less than a year.
Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences have begun announcing the recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prizes. Future awards will appear in Gazette after they are announced.
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John B. Goodenough,a professor of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin; M. Stanley Whittingham, a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at Binghamton University; and Akira Yoshino, a professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Meijo University, in Japan, have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
William G. Kaelin Jr.,a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, a professor of medicine at the University of Oxford; and Gregg L. Semenza, a professor of genetic medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
James Peebles,a professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University, was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.” The other half of the prize went to Michel Mayor, a professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Geneva, and Dider Queloz, a professor of physics at the University of Geneva and the University of Cambridge, “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
Deaths
Deborah Marrow,former director of the Getty Foundation, died on October 1. Marrow also served as acting director of the Getty Research Institute and interim president of the Getty Trust. She founded Getty’s Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program in 1993.
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Gerhard Weiss, a professor emeritus of German at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on October 2. He was 93.