UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

PRESIDENT

Office of President, University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-5803; fax: (301) 314-9560
e-mail: president@umd.edu
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Board of Visitors, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010-.

Dean, School of Law, University of Washington, 1990-95 (assistant professor, 1974-77; associate professor, 1977-80; professor,1980-95). Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995-97 (professor of law, 1995-97). Director of Policy, Office of Governor, State of Washington, 1997-99. Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Seattle University, 1999-2008 (professor, public service, psychology, 1999-2008). Executive Vice-President and Provost, University of Iowa, 2008-10.

Born in Shanghai, China, 1945. Grinnell College, B.A. (psychology), magna cum laude, 1965; Cornell University, M.A. (psychology), 1967; University of Michigan, Ph.D. (psychology), 1971 (ford foundation prize fellowship; national science foundation fellowship; foreign area program fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies); Yale Law School, J.D., 1974 (board of editors, Yale Law Journal). Research assistant, faculty of psychology, Universiteit te Leuven, Louvain, Belgium, 1968. President, Association of American Law Schools, 1995 (executive committee, 1991-94; president-elect, 1994; past-president, 1997). Former member, Board of Directors, Seattle Public Library (former vice-president); Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center; Asian Bar Association of Washington; Asian Management Business Association of Seattle; Seattle Opera (education committee, 1999-2001); Empty Space Theater, 2006. Member, Board of Trustees, Iowa Wesleyan College, 2010-. Outstanding Professor of the Year, University of Washington, Law School, 1990. Leadership Award, National Hispanic Bar Association, 1994. Trailblazer Award, National Asian - Pacific American Bar Association, 1994. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Grinnell College, 1994. Chancellor's Medal, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Iowa Wesleyan College, 2010.

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