Former NASA researcher
G.P. "Bud" Peterson
/ Courtesy: CU-Boulder
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Georgia Board of Regents has named University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson as the next president of Georgia Tech.
The board voted unanimously to hire Peterson at a specially called meeting Wednesday. The 55-year-old Peterson was the only finalist from a national search to replace longtime President G. Wayne Clough, who left in June to lead the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., after serving since 1994.
Peterson, who has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, is a former NASA researcher who headed the flagship campus of the University of Colorado system since 2006.
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