President of Rice to Head Columbia
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NEW YORK — The president of Rice University was named Monday to become Columbia University’s president.
“I am most honored to be invited to join this wonderful university. It is a very special place,” George Rupp said at a news conference in Columbia’s Low Memorial Library.
The 50-year-old Rupp, president at Rice since 1985, will succeed Michael I. Sovern on July 1 to become the Ivy League university’s 18th president. Sovern, Columbia’s president since 1980, plans to return to teaching at Columbia’s law school.
Rupp, a theology professor, previously had headed the Harvard Divinity School.
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