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Dartmouth’s New President First Asian To Lead Ivy League Institution

by Associated Press and Diverse Staff , March 3, 2009

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A Korean-born doctor and humanitarian known as a leader the global fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases will become the next president of Dartmouth College.

 

Dr. Jim Yong Kim's selection as the 17th president was announced by the elite university Monday in Hanover. Kim, 49, who is the first Asian selected to lead an Ivy League institution, will take over July 1 from James Wright, who previously announced his plans to step down.

 

Kim, a former director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department, is chairman of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also helped found Partners in Health, which supports health programs in developing communities worldwide.

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