UNC's Holden Thorp hired as provost at Washington University in St. Louis
News and Observer excerpt
When he steps down as chancellor, he’ll head to Washington University in St. Louis to become provost there.
Thorp, 48, who had previously said he would remain on the UNC-CH faculty, will be the chief academic officer of a highly ranked, private university with a robust research enterprise and healthy endowment. The university, with 12,000 full-time students, boasts engineering and medical schools and nearly two dozen Nobel laureates among faculty and alumni.
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