The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has hired Elliot Hirshman as its next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Hirshman will join UMBC on July 1, replacing Arthur Johnson, who has served as provost for a decade. Hirshman, 46, is chief research officer at George Washington University, where he previously chaired the psychology department. He earned his doctorate in cognitive psychology at UCLA and his bachelor?s degree in economics and mathematics from Yale. Hirshman has studied the effects of gonadal and andrenal steroids on memory, attention and perception, as well as the influence of obesity on memory.

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