NEW YORK (AP) — A distinguished physicist has been named the new president of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
New York University President Dr. John Sexton said Wednesday that as president, Dr. Katepalli Sreenivasan (ka-teh-PAH-lee sree-nih-VAH-sehn) will oversee the school’s transition into NYU’s school of engineering set to be completed next year.
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NYU-Poly is an engineering and technology school affiliated with New York University based in downtown Brooklyn. It has been affiliated with NYU since 2008. NYU’s school of engineering closed in the 19070s.
Sexton says he hopes NYU-Poly under Sreenivasan will become “the center of the world for the applied sciences.” When the merger of the two institutions is complete in 2014, Sreenivasan will become Dean of Engineering at NYU.
Sreenivasan has been acting president of the school since last November.