The University of Maryland has announced that Wallace D. Loh, the provost at the University of Iowa, will become its new president.
The university named its new president in an e-mail on Monday night, according to The Washington Post. Loh will take office on Nov. 1 and replaces President C.D. (Dan) Mote Jr., who is retiring after 12 years.
Loh is a lawyer and professor of law whose teaching and research has focused on criminal law and law and social science. He received a law degree at Yale University and a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
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