Caltech Names a New President; Engineer Will Lead Cal State-East Bay; Cornell Lures Cell Biologist

TECH SWITCH: Jean-Lou Chameau, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will return to the Golden State to become the new president of the California Institute of Technology.

Mr. Chameau, 53, is a Stanford-educated civil engineer with long experience as a university administrator. He will succeed David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate in medicine who announced in October that he planned to step down.

At Georgia Tech, Mr. Chameau,

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