March 28, 2008

Ex-President of William and Mary Heads Back to N.C.; Georgia Tech Chief to Take Over Smithsonian Institution; Arizona State Staffs Up New School of Geographic Sciences

By EUGENE MCCORMACK, ANDREW MYTELKA, and PAULA WASLEY

CAROLINA BOUND: Gene R. Nichol, whose controversial presidency at the College of William and Mary ended last month, is heading back to the Tarheel State.

Mr. Nichol, 56, has accepted an offer to rejoin the law faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, beginning on July 1. His wife, Glenn George, a professor of law at William and Mary, will return with him.

Mr. Nichol served as dean of the North Carolina law school from 1999 to 2005, before leaving to take the

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