The Desert Research Institute – the arm of the Nevada System of Higher Education that conducts environmental research – has a new interim president.
In a statement Monday, DRI said Robert Gagosian would serve as the group's interim president until the summer of 2017, or when the NSHE Board of Regents makes a permanent hire, whichever comes first.
Gagosian replaces Stephen Wells, who recently left to become president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
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Gagosian is the former president of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, and is president emeritus of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Gagosian's hire was approved unanimously by the Board of Regents.
