ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY

PRESIDENTS OF GEORGIA TECH

Isaac S. Hopkins 1888-1896 Lyman Hall 1896-1905 Kenneth G. Matheson 1906-1922 Marion L. Brittain 1922-1944 Colonel Blake R. Van Leer 1944-1956 Paul Weber Acting President 1956-1957 Edwin D. Harrison 1957-1969 Vernon Crawford Acting President 1969

Arthur G. Hansen 1969-1971 James E. Boyd Acting President 1971-1972 Joseph M. Pettit 1972-1986 Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Acting President 1986-1987 John Patrick Crecine 1987-1994 Michael E. Thomas Acting President 1994 G. Wayne Clough 1994-2008 Gary Schuster Interim President 2008-2009

Interim President Dr. Gary Schuster

A 14-year veteran of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Gary Schuster, who also serves as Tech's provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, was named the institution's interim president, effective July 1, 2008.

Schuster will serve as interim president until the Chancellor and Board of Regents select a new president. He took over leadership from G. Wayne Clough, who stepped down June 30, 2008 to become the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.

In addition to his current position as provost and executive vice president, Schuster also holds the position of professor and Vasser Woolley Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Previously, he served as dean of the College of Sciences.

Schuster holds a bachelor of science in chemistry from Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, NY (now Clarkson University) (1968) and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester, NY (1971). After 20 years in the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he became dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech in 1994. He was a National Institutes of Health Post Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University, a Fellow of the Sloan Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded the 2006 Charles Holmes Herty Medal recognizing his work and service contributions since his arrival at Georgia Tech.

Schuster is a nationally known scholar and researcher with an extensive list of published articles on topics ranging from biochemistry through physical chemistry as well as a number of scientific discoveries with commercial applications.