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The University of British Columbia Okanagan has a new deputy vice-chancellor and principal.
Lesley Cormack will assume the role on July 1, 2020, school president Santa Ono announced today.
I am pleased to announce that Professor Lesley Cormack has been appointed as the new Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal, UBC Okanagan. Professor Cormack joins UBC from the University of Alberta, where she has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts. pic.twitter.com/xkr8A1nJxh
— Santa J. Ono (@ubcprez) February 14, 2020
“I am very pleased to welcome Professor Cormack to the UBC family and to this important position at our Okanagan campus,” Ono said.
“With her strong academic background, proven leadership and outstanding experience, I have no doubt that she will bring thoughtful and dynamic direction to UBCO.”
Cormack joins UBCO from the University of Alberta, where she served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts since 2010.
Before that, she was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University for four years.
Lesley Cormack will assume top post at @ubcokanagan this summer as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal https://t.co/mp4M4L70oa pic.twitter.com/RLmaaZLPZf
— UBC Okanagan News (@ubconews) February 14, 2020
“UBC Okanagan has built a well-earned reputation as an innovative research university with an entrepreneurial spirit and I can’t wait to contribute to its success,” said Cormack.
“I’m looking forward to spending some time to get to know the campus—its students, faculty and staff—and its community partners who play a crucial role in the success of any post-secondary institution.”
She’s a historian of early modern science and specializes in geography and mathematics in 16th-century England.
She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1988.
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