TAMUG Vice President & CEO Announced
New Vice President and CEO
Selected for A&M Galveston
 COLLEGE STATION, March 4, 2005 – Dr. R. Bowen
Loftin, executive director of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
Center at Old Dominion University, has been selected to fill the position of
vice president and CEO of Texas A&M University at Galveston, Texas A&M
Executive Vice President and Provost David B. Prior announced Friday.
Loftin’s appointment to head Texas A&M’s branch
campus at Galveston will be effective May 25, pending approval of the
chancellor and The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.
“I have every confidence in Dr. Loftin’s ability
to provide the leadership required to continue the growth in quality that the
Galveston campus has experienced over the last decade,” Prior said in making
the announcement.
Loftin holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in physics from
Rice University and a B.S. in physics from Texas A&M University. Before
joining Old Dominion, he served as chair of the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Houston and director of the NASA/University of Houston
Virtual Environments Research Institute.
Loftin succeeds
W. Michael Kemp, who left
Texas A&M-Galveston to head
Texas A&M University at
Qatar, the university’s branch campus in Doha, Qatar.
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