After an extensive, national search for Utah State University's presidential candidate, the Utah Board of Higher Education has chosen Elizabeth Cantwell as the institution's new president.
LOGAN — The Utah Board of Higher Education announced Elizabeth "Betsy" R. Cantwell as Utah State University's new president Friday afternoon after an extensive, nationwide search.after six years at the university's helm.
The senior vice president has an $825 million research portfolio, and she's used her reach and research to expand the 1,268-acre UA Tech Park — a park that contributes $1.7 billion to the region. She's also served as a professor of aerospace engineering at Arizona and a professor of practice at Arizona State University's College of Engineering.
Before she served at the University of Arizona, Cantwell changed the research development sphere at Arizona State by serving as vice president of Research Development and CEO of the ASU Research Enterprise, an organization dedicated to translating research. Before that, she worked as a director of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and as a division leader at the Los Alamos National Lab.
Cantwell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an MBA in 2003, the University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1992, and the University of Chicago with a bachelor of arts in human behavior in 1976.
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