{"71351":{"#nid":"71351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gary Schuster Named  Georgia Tech Interim President","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA 14-year veteran of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Gary Schuster, who currently serves as Tech\u0027s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named the institution\u0027s interim president, effective July 1, 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUniversity System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. announced the appointment today.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSchuster will serve as interim president until the Chancellor and Board of Regents select a new president. He will take over leadership from current president G. Wayne Clough, who is stepping down June 30 to become the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We entertained a number of names and evaluated a group of highly qualified individuals for this critical interim presidency,\u0022 said Davis. \u0022It became clear to us that Gary Schuster was the outstanding choice. We are delighted that he is willing to serve and to lead. I am confident that under Dr. Schuster\u0027s leadership, Tech will continue to build upon the momentum it enjoys as Dr. Clough departs.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition to his current position as provost and executive vice president, Schuster also holds the position of professor and Vasser Woolley Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Previously, he served as dean of the College of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESchuster holds a bachelor of science in chemistry from Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, NY (now Clarkson University) (1968) and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester, NY (1971). After 20 years in the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, he became dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech in 1994. He was a National Institutes of Health Post Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University, a Fellow of the Sloan Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded the 2006 Charles Holmes Herty Medal recognizing his work and service contributions since his arrival at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESchuster is a nationally known scholar and researcher with an extensive list of published articles on topics ranging from biochemistry through physical chemistry as well as a number of scientific discoveries with commercial applications.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A 14-year veteran of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Gary Schuster, who currently serves as Tech\u0027s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named the institution\u0027s interim president, effective July 1, 2008.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Schuster begins as Interim President on July 1, 2008"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-04-04 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71352":{"id":"71352","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Provost Gary Schuster","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894424","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:24"}},"media_ids":["71352"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/","title":"Georgia Tech President G.P. (Bud) Peterson"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the Provost"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1970","name":"Clough"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2137","name":"Interim President"},{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"},{"id":"1052","name":"Management"},{"id":"1271","name":"President"},{"id":"937","name":"provost"},{"id":"169291","name":"Schuster"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}