University of Arkansas's vice-chancellor or research and innovation will depart this winter to be replaced by John English, dean of the College of Engineering.
Daniel Sui (pictured left) has taken a new role with Virginia Tech as vice-president for research and innovation and will resign as University of Arkansas’s vice-chancellor with the same remit on November 1.
He will be replaced at Arkansas by John English (pictured right), who has been dean of the institution’s College of Engineering since 2013. An interim appointment is expected for English’s current role.
Sui joined the university in late 2018 and also conducts research as a distinguished professor of geography, an appointment set to continue after he has left Arkansas’s Office of Research and Innovation.
Sui is credited for spearheading faculty research and integrating innovation with academic programs to the effect that research expenditures hit a new high of around $180m in 2019.
He also helped draft a new $195m innovation and research facility – the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research – to…
