William Kirwan Named 12th President of Ohio State

WILLIAM E. KIRWAN NAMED 12TH PRESIDENT OF OHIO STATE

COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees today (1/5)
appointed William E. Kirwan as the 12th president of the university.
Kirwan was the unanimous choice of the 17-member search committee chaired
by Board Chair Alex Shumate, and his nomination was unanimously confirmed
by the university trustees meeting in special session today.  He succeeds
E. Gordon Gee, who resigned to become president of Brown University.

Kirwan, 59, has been president of the University of Maryland, College Park
since 1989 and has served as a professor and administrator there for 34 years.