Appointment News

Michael Bishop, the longtime chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco who won the Nobel Prize in 1989, said Friday that he’ll leave his post in June to return to teaching, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Read more.
Meanwhile, Paul E. Stanton Jr., president of East Tennessee State University, has changed his mind about retiring, the Associated Press reports. Stanton, who was planning to retire in March 2009 now says he’ll stay on to help steer the university through these troubled economic times.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking will step down from his post as Cambridge University’s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics when he turns 67 next year.
Paul Sarvela, dean of the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale’s College of Applied Sciences and Arts, will become the SIU’s next vice president for academic affairs, the Southern Illinoisan reports. See a university press release for details.