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University of Maryland names its new president

AUG 17, 2010
Physics Today
Washington Post : The University of Maryland has announced that Wallace Loh, currently the provost at the University of Iowa, will assume the presidency of the university’s College Park campus on 1 November. College Park is home to one of the biggest physics departments in the US. According to its website , the Maryland physics department is engaged in more than 30 areas of physics research. Loh was born in Shanghai; grew up in Lima, Peru; and earned degrees in social sciences from Grinnell College, Cornell, the University of Michigan, and Yale.
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