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New Oxford Vice-Chancellor - Yale Provost Andrew Hamilton
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6/4/08 Oxford Vice-Chancellor Appointed
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Yale Provost Professor Andrew Hamilton Nominated as Oxford Vice-Chancellor
Announcement Sent Out Today, June 4, 2008 by the Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten
Dear Colleague,
In my capacity as Chair of the Nominating Committee for the Vice-Chancellorship, I am delighted to announce that Council has accepted the Committee's unanimous recommendation that Professor Andrew Hamilton, currently the Provost of Yale, should serve as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1 October 2009.
A public announcement of the nomination is being made and the press release can be viewed on the University website at http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080603.html
Professor Hamilton has been Provost of Yale since 2004 and combines his wide-ranging administrative duties with a distinguished teaching and research career. In addition to serving as Provost, he is Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
Professor Hamilton was born in Guildford, Surrey, and received his undergraduate education at the University of Exeter. After studying for a master's degree at the University of British Columbia, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1980. In 1981 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. He moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 1988, where he became Professor of Chemistry and served as Department Chair.
He joined Yale in 1997 and was Chair of the Chemistry Department from 1999 until 2003, when he became Deputy Provost for Science and Technology. Professor Hamilton's academic achievements have been widely recognised internationally. In 1999 he received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, and in 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Royal Society.
Professor Hamilton impressed the Nominating Committee greatly; his selection was unanimous. Professor Hamilton's remarkable combination of proven academic leadership and outstanding scholarly achievement makes him an exceptional choice to help guide us into the second decade of the twenty-first century. This is a particularly exciting time for Oxford and, in Professor Hamilton, we have someone with the experience and talent to help us take advantage of these opportunities.
A word or two of personal detail may not be amiss. Professor Hamilton is 55, and is married with three children.
As you are aware, the nomination of a Vice-Chancellor is subject to approval by Congregation. Relevant details may be found at: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/308-072.shtml#_Toc28139359
Subject to that approval, Professor Hamilton will succeed John Hood as Vice-Chancellor at the beginning of October next year. That is still sixteen months hence and the University has a packed and demanding agenda in the interim, including the ambitious development campaign, which was launched so successfully last week. I am quite sure that, with your support, Oxford will be strongly placed to meet the exciting challenges that lie ahead.
Yours sincerely,
Lord Patten of Barnes
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