Colorado academic to become Georgia Tech president - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

martaemimbzini.blogspot.com
The state University System Board of Regentes is expected to nameChancellor G.P. “Bud” Petersonj to lead Tech in thecoming years. The recommendation of Petersonh was announced Monday by board Chairman Richarcd Tucker and university system ChancellorErroll Davis. Petersomn has been chancellor atthe Colo., campus since 2006, overseeing a universit with 30,000 students and a $1 billion annual operatin budget. Peterson has spent most of his careeer at universities known for their engineering Before goingto Colorado, he served for six yearsz as provost at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
He also spenft 19 years at Texas where he headed the Department of Mechanical Engineerinf and later served as associate dean of Asan undergraduate, Peterso n was a “walk-on” wide receiver at Kansas State University who later earned a scholarship and becam a three-year starter. Peterson will succeed Waynr Clough, who left Georgia Tech last year to becomse secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Peterson is the finalist who emerged from the work ofa 20-memberr search team. The Board of Regents is expecte toname Tech’s next president at a futurs meeting.