Monday, April 15, 2013

Welcome Carol Folt, Carolina's new Chancellor-Elect!

On Friday, we were very excited to learn that Carol Folt, the interim president of Dartmouth College, was elected as Carolina's 11th chancellor. She is the first woman to lead Carolina.

An Ohio native, Folt attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, earning a bachelor’s degree in aquatic biology (1976) and a master’s degree in biology (1978). She later received her doctorate in ecology (1982) from the University of California at Davis and conducted postdoctoral studies at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station of Michigan State University.

She'll assume her duties on July 1.

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