To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "President Michael J. Hogan" <presmike@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: presmike@uillinois.edu
 Subject: Vice President for Research appointment


Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students,

I'm pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Larry Schook as 
Vice President for Research, pending approval of the Board of Trustees 
at its September 9, 2011, meeting.

Dr. Schook has been serving in this role on an interim basis since 
March 2011.  An internal search was conducted and pending Board approval, 
effective September 16, 2011, Dr. Schook will assume the appointment on 
a permanent basis.  I'm grateful to members of the search committee, led 
by Dr. Skip Garcia, Vice President for Health Affairs, for their thorough 
and careful work on this important search.

I'm delighted that Dr. Schook will assume this appointment. His record 
of research is exemplary, with over 200 publications and over $25 million 
in externally sponsored research.  Over the past six months as the 
interim vice president for research, Dr. Schook has helped 
develop bold new initiatives to facilitate our research enterprise, 
foster cross-campus collaborations, develop plans to improve research 
administration, and forge strong new partnerships with the public and 
private sector. 

I hope you will join me in congratulating Dr. Schook on his permanent 
appointment as Vice President for Research.  I know that, like me, you 
will look forward to his leadership as we work together to advance our 
already outstanding research enterprise, technology transfer programs, 
and economic development initiatives across our campuses.

Sincerely,
Mike



Michael J. Hogan
President, University of Illinois 

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