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U. of Akron president, formerly at UGA, to speak at Commencement

By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu

Luis M. Proenza, a former UGA faculty member who is now president of the University of Akron, will return to UGA to speak

Luis Proenza

at Commencement Aug. 10.
The exercises, at 9:30 a.m. in Stegeman Coliseum, will combine ceremonies for undergraduate, graduate and professional students who complete degree requirements at the end of summer semester.
Registrar Gary Moore estimates that about 2,230 undergraduate and professional students and 970 candidates for master’s and doctoral degrees will be eligible to participate in the ceremony. The exact number of eligible graduates won’t be known until final exams are over just before commencement.
Proenza was at UGA from 1971 until 1987. A neurobiologist with a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, he established and directed a vision research laboratory at UGA and was coordinator of the neurobiology faculty in the biological sciences division.
He also served as assistant to former UGA President Fred Davison and as the university’s government liaison for science and technology policy.
He left UGA to become vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Alaska. In 1994, he joined Purdue University as vice president for research and Graduate School dean.
In 1999 he became president of the University of Akron, which has 23,300 students, more than 4,400 faculty and staff members and $275 million in annual expenditures. He has helped start a $200 million campus improvement effort and focused on enrollment management and fund raising. During his first year, the university set a fund-raising record.

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