Clemson University hires KU professor to lead biology department
Clemson University in South Carolina has hired away a professor in KU’s molecular biosciences department, according to this Clemson news release.
Robert Cohen, a professor of molecular biosciences at KU right now, will go to Clemson to become chairman of its biological sciences department. At Clemson, that’s in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences.
Cohen earned tenure at KU in 1996 and was promoted to full professor in 2005. Before that, according to the Clemson release, he was on the faculty at Columbia University in New York. He’ll start at Clemson on July 1.
A few facts about Clemson, since I went through the trouble of looking it up: It is not a member of the Association of American Universities as KU is, its endowment was less than half the size of KU’s as of 2012 at about $483 million and it ranked No. 68 in the most recent U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges” rankings to KU’s No. 106.
No word on the local campus blogging situation at Clemson, though if there are any blogs I’m sure their readers are not nearly as helpful as mine. You’re so helpful you didn’t even need me to butter you up like I just did there for you to send a KU news tip or two to merickson@ljworld.com.