On July 1, he will take the handoff from Interim Provost David Minter as the successor to David Auston, who served as Rice provost from 1994 until becoming president of Case Western Reserve University last July. Gene Levy is ideally suited for Rice as we enter another century. He has been a very effective proponent of both undergraduate and graduate education at Arizona and has had outstanding results.
Rice is a gemstone of a university.
It has a wonderful student body, a wonderful faculty, a terrific reputation. I am pumped about the opportunity to work with these individuals to achieve what they and I believe is the best for the future of Rice and its value to surrounding society. They go hand in hand. In fact, I would go further to say that to continue to be what Rice has been in the past to undergraduates, we must expand our vision in research and graduate education. The world is changing, and, increasingly, exposure to outstanding research and graduate students is what the best undergraduates want and need.