Eric Kaler, a chemical engineer expert, is the sole candidate to replace outgoing University of Minnesota president Robert Bruininks, the Board of Regents said Friday.
Kaler, the provost of Stony Brook University, a member of the State University of New York system, was one of four candidates nominated by the search advisory committee.
Kaler graduated from California Institute of Technology in 1978 and received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1982. Prior to Stony Brook, Kaler taught at the University of Delaware, where he led the chemical engineering department and the College of Engineering.
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If hired, Kaler faces a host of problems, including the prospect of severely reduced state aid to Minnesota’s only research university.
Bruininks steps down June 2011.