{"57913":{"#nid":"57913","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Balfour Welcomes Former Colleague Bud Peterson as Tech\u0027s New President","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson, chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, was named recently as the eleventh president of Georgia Tech by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.\u0026nbsp;College of Architecture dean Alan Balfour was dean at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., when Peterson was provost there.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022[Peterson] is a man of great enthusiasm with a strong moral character,\u0022 Balfour said. \u0022Georgia Tech has found a leader exactly appropriate to its future.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUniversity System Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. said that Peterson\u0027s appointment \u0022provides the high caliber leadership that will allow Tech to continue to build and expand upon its national and international reputation.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeterson will assume his new post on April 1, 2009, according to Board of Regents Chair Richard Tucker. He replaces G. Wayne Clough, who stepped down on June 30 to become the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dr. Peterson\u0027s credentials are excellent and we were very impressed with what he has achieved in his time at the University of Colorado,\u0022 said Tucker. \u0022His leadership experience and his outstanding engineering credentials are a good fit with Georgia Tech.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am honored by the opportunity to serve as President of the Georgia Institute of Technology,\u0022 said Peterson. \u0022As an engineer, this is, of course, a great professional fulfillment. But as someone who has spent a majority of his career as an educator, it also presents an opportunity to continue to have an impact on higher education nationally. Georgia Tech is at the forefront of innovation and discovery in a time in our nation\u0027s history where both are great necessities, and I am privileged to be a part of these efforts. Val and I are looking forward to meeting and getting to know the entire Georgia Tech community.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeterson\u0027s academic career has been spent at three institutions, not counting a one-year assignment with the National Science Foundation in 1993-94. He worked for 19 years at Texas A\u0026amp;M, where he served as head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for three years (1993-96) and executive associate dean of engineering for four years (1996-2000). Peterson also had the title of associate vice chancellor for the Texas A\u0026amp;M University System from 1996-2000.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was recruited to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, as provost in July 2000. Peterson served in this capacity until 2006 when he accepted the position of chancellor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeterson is widely published in the field of phase change heat transfer and is a fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He was recently appointed to the National Science Board.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarly in his career, Peterson taught mathematics and science in several Kansas high schools. Later, he went on to work as a research scientist for the NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston, and in the private sector for Black \u0026amp; Veatch Consulting Engineers in Kansas City, Missouri.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeterson earned bachelor of science degrees in mechanical engineering and mathematics from Kansas State University, Manhattan. He earned a master of science degree in engineering from Kansas State University and a PhD in the same discipline from Texas A\u0026amp;M University, College Station. He was a \u0022walk on\u0022 receiver on the Kansas State football team, who earned a scholarship and started at the position for three varsity seasons. He and his wife, Val, have four grown children.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPeterson named eleventh president of Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2009-03-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:43","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57914":{"id":"57914","type":"image","title":"Alan Balfour with Bud and Val Peterson","body":null,"created":"1449176194","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:34","changed":"1475894510","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:50","alt":"Alan Balfour with Bud and Val Peterson","file":{"fid":"190722","name":"toi77869.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/toi77869_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/toi77869_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35193,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/toi77869_0.jpg?itok=YnBz6JDu"}}},"media_ids":["57914"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1166","name":"alan balfour"},{"id":"1167","name":"architecture grad schools"},{"id":"291","name":"Bud Peterson"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"638","name":"georgia tech architecture"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=tw117\u0022\u003EContact Teri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-2156\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}