President of Rice to Head Columbia
The president of Rice University was named Monday to become Columbia University’s president.
“I am most honored to be invited to join this wonderful university. It is a very special place,” George Rupp said at a news conference in Columbia’s Low Memorial Library.
The 50-year-old Rupp, president at Rice since 1985, will succeed Michael I. Sovern on July 1 to become the Ivy League university’s 18th president. Sovern, Columbia’s president since 1980, plans to return to teaching at Columbia’s law school.
Rupp, a theology professor, previously had headed the Harvard Divinity School.
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