BLACKSBURG (WSLS 10) - Virginia Tech announced Wednesday Thanassis Rikakis, who was the vice provost for design, arts and technology at Carnegie Mellon University, will become Virginia Tech's executive vice president and provost, effective Aug. 16.
"I am thrilled to welcome Dr. Rikakis to the Virginia Tech community," said President Timothy D. Sands in a written statement, released on Wednesday.
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Rikakis will also become a tenured professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics in the College of Engineering and hold a joint appointment as a music professor in the School of Performing Arts in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
A member of the Arizona State University faculty from 2001 to 2012, Rikakis was named the founding director of the university's School of Arts, Media, and Engineering in 2003. Rikakis arrived at Carnegie Mellon in 2012.
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