UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 28, Page 1
April 22, 1993
Richard B. Murray to return as interim provost on July 1

     Richard B. Murray is putting back on a hat he took off two years ago.
Effective July 1, Murray will again join the University administration as
interim provost-a post he previously held from 1988-91, University
President David P. Roselle announced today.
     He will fill the post while a replacement is sought for R. Byron
Pipes, who is leaving the University to become president of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y.
     "I am pleased that Prof. Murray will once again share his valuable
skills and insights in this important administrative post," Roselle said.
"Dick's unflagging dedication to this University is highly valued."
     Murray said he looks "forward to working with President Roselle and
the University faculty during the coming year as a search is conducted for
the next provost."
     The provost is the executive officer of the University next in
authority to the president. As the University's chief academic officer, the
provost has responsibility for the University's 10 colleges.
     A member of the Delaware faculty since 1966, Murray is a professor of
physics and astronomy. In addition to serving as acting chairperson of the
physics department from 1975-76, he was associate provost for graduate
studies from 1979-88.
     After leaving the interim provost post in 1991, he spent a year on
sabbatical leave, working at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington,
D.C., and at Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford University in England, on
research into low-temperature photoluminescence of semiconductor
superlattices.
     In the fall, Murray returned to full-time teaching in physics at the
introductory and advanced undergraduate levels at the University, while
continuing his working relationship with the research group at the Naval
Research Laboratory.
     Currently, he serves on the boards of the Southeastern Universities
Research Association (SURA) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU),
and he also has been president the Board of Directors of the ORAU
Foundation since 1989.
     The author or co-author of more than 50 papers in professional
journals, Murray is a fellow of the American Physical Society and American
Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
Sigma Xi and the physics honor society Sigma Pi Sigma.
     A graduate of Emory University, he received his master's degree from
Ohio State University and his doctorate from the University of Tennessee.
While a student, he was an Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies
predoctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.