Birgeneau became the ninth chancellor of the 144-year-old Berkeley campus after serving as president of the University of Toronto and science school dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he spent 25 years on the faculty. “The chancellor has aimed high in his efforts to make UC Berkeley a truly global force in higher education and research, but he also has managed to preserve its historic standing in California as a beacon of hope and opportunity for all prospective students,” said Mark Yudof, president of the 10-campus University of California system. Yudof said a committee will conduct a nationwide search for a new chancellor of the 36,000-student campus. Birgeneau, a native of Toronto, said after he leaves the chancellor’s office he also hopes to “have one more truly significant physics/materials science experiment still to come in my academic career.” Asked what he could have done better, he said he wished he had more success in staving off the state budget cuts and convincing people in California to make education a higher priority.

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by Terence Chea, The Sacramento Bee.

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