Donald Birx Named Vice President of Research

His appointment was announced August 17, 2006, by UH System Chancellor and UH President Jay Gogue. Donald J. Foss, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs for UHS and senior vice president for academic affairs and provost for UH, has served as interim since July 2006.

Birx is expected to assume this position in September 2006. The appointment was approved by the UH System Board of Regents at its meeting this morning. Birx has most immediately been the interim vice provost/president for research and professor of physics at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces, N.M. since 2004, while simultaneously serving as president and founder of PSI, a new corporate entity at NMSU for technology development and incubation, since 2002. He joined NMSU in 1996 as director of the Physical Science Laboratory, a 500-person, university-based applied R&D organization.