PrezBo today announced that Carlos Alonso, previously interim dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will be appointed as the permanent dean. Before taking on the interim dean position in Sept. 2010, Alonso was chair of Columbia's department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures.
Alonso, originally from Puerto Rico, has held positions all over the Ivy League. He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell, earned his doctorate from Yale, got a faculty position at Penn, and now, he's the big man at our grad school. Good stuff. Check out the full press release after the jump
