Jim Yong Kim Is New President

From The Daily Dartmouth:

Harvard University professor Jim Yong Kim, a former director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS division renowned for his research on drug-resistant tuberculosis, will become Dartmouth’s 17th president, College officials announced Monday.

Deeper in the story, there is this about the new president, who was born in Seoul in 1959, moved with his family to Dallas at 5 and then grew up in Iowa:

Although he said he had a “very American upbringing,” playing quarterback for his high school football team and becoming class valedictorian, Kim said he was always aware of his “ethnic and cultural differences.”