NEWARK, Del. (AP) - Stony Brook University provost and senior vice president for academic affairs Dennis Assanis has been named president of the University of Delaware.
University trustees unanimously approved the appointment Wednesday following the unanimous recommendation of a 15-member search committee.
Assanis succeeds Patrick Harker, who resigned earlier this year to become president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Before serving in his current post at Stony Brook University in 2011, Assanis spent 17 years at the University of Michigan, where he was a professor of engineering and chair of the department of mechanical engineering. He began his academic career at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Assanis has a bachelor's degree in marine engineering from Newcastle University and three master's degrees and a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
