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Education
Bachelor of Arts in Political
Science and Japanese from
Brigham Young University
and a Juris Doctorate from
Harvard Law School
California Native
>1977-1978
Law clerk to the late
Supreme Court Chief
Justice William H.
Rehnquist.
>1978-1998
Fuyo Professor of Japa
nese Law at Columbia
University Law School.
>1998-2004
Dean of the George
Washington University
Law School
> 2004-2011
Professor and president
at University of Utah law
>2011-2015
President at University
of Washington
Board of Regents tabs Washington president to lead Texas A&M
By Sam Scott
he Texas A&M president’s office will
soon have a permanent occupant.
The Board of Regents named its
sole finalist for the position Tuesday: Michael
K. Young, the president of the University of
Washington, where he has served since July
2011.
Due to Texas law, Young can’t be appoint
ed until 21 days after he is named as a finalist
by the Board of Regents.
Sharp said Young is considered to be one
'of the top university presidents in the country.
“I think he is the person to take us to the
next level academically, and he’s also a person
that recognizes and values the tradition and
spirit of this place and is somebody that wants
to grow old as an Aggie,” Sharp said. “I think
he’s really going to be a great Aggie.”
Jim Woosley, speaker of the faculty senate,
said Young exemplifies what the faculty wants
in a president at Texas A&M and they are ex
cited to welcome the new president to campus.
“We welcome such a prime academic with
the expertise and experience that he shows in
his resume and is so well krrown and well re
spected, not only in Seattle or Washington,
but nationally and internationally,” Woosley
said. “We are very much looking forward to
Dr. Young.”
Before becoming the president at the Uni
versity of Washington, Young was president
and distinguished professor of law at the Uni
versity of Utah from 2004 to 2011, where he
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Editorial: The choice
of Michael Young runs
contrary to A&M's
reputation for promoting
from within - a good sign
for the university's future.
TECHNOLOGY
BASKETBALL
Globe’s biggest physics project
back on line with an A&M touch
Jason
Gilmore, an
A&M faculty
member who
works with
a student
team on
the upgrade
project,
takes a
measurement
on one of the
trigger panels
that is identical
|k| to the ones
' on the actual
CMS detector
in Switzerland.
Tanner Garza —THE BATTALION
By Katie Fuller
Texas A&M will leave its signa
ture on the largest particle phys
ics project in history after a battery
of upgrades renews the search for
answers to the univeise.
The Large Hadron Collider —
the world’s largest particle accel
erator -— is undergoing upgrades to
increase its energy and sensing ca
pabilities. Texas A&M faculty and
students are taking part in the effort
to ready the machine for March,
when it is expected to come back
online after two years.
The LHC earned worldwide
fame for its discovery of the Higgs-
Boson last year, a subatomic par
ticle that gives matter mass. The
two years of upgrades have sought
to increase the accelerator’s energy
and ability to process the massive
amount of data generated by sub
atomic collisions.
“The LHC will start running in
the spring,” said Alexei Safonov, as
sociate physics professor and team
leader of the A&M faculty working
with the LHC. “What is happen
ing right now is various checks to
electrical connections, tuning ele
ments, magnets should be working
properly. It is a 27-kilometer-long
tunnel; everything should be work
ing better than a Swiss watch.”
A&M students are part of what
allows this project to run like a
Swiss watch. Jason Gilmore is an
A&M faculty member who works
with a student team on the upgrade
project. These students are work
ing with the Compact Muon So
lenoid, a 14,000-ton section of the
LHC that analyzes data about what
is happening in the ring.
“Here at A&M we mostly build
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Cody Franklin —THE BATTALION
Junior
Danuel
House
goes for
the layup
in the
Aggies'
last win
against
Vanderbilt.
Six-game run at stake
at streaking Ole Miss
By Seth Stroupe
The six-game win streak will
meet its biggest challenge
Wednesday.
The Texas A&M’s men’s bas
ketball team will meet Ole Miss at
6 p.m. Wednesday in Oxford in a
matchup between two of the hot
test teams in the SEC.
The Aggies (15-5, 6-2 SEC)
have rattled off six consecutive vic
tories to take sole possession of sec
ond place in the conference stand
ings after losing to No. 1 Kentucky
in double overtime in Jan. 10. Still,
that hasn’t been enough to gener
ate any breathing room for the
Aggies. Six teams sit a single game
back of A&M in the standings —
Ole Miss is one of them.
Being the team that everyone
else is chasing is a new role for
the Aggies, but it’s one that junior
guard Alex Caruso said the squad
is embracing.
“I’d rather be the team every
one’s looking to beat than be the
team that needs to beat some
body,” Caruso said. “It’s a blessing
in disguise. We’re in second place,
but we’re only one game away,
two games away from being the
eighth or ninth place team.”
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