Bjong “Wolf” Yeigh takes the helm this week as chancellor at the .
Yeigh most recently served as professor and president of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome.
Yeigh has been at the institute since 2008, where he has overseen operations for the 800-acre science and technology campus, the State University of New York system’s only institute of technology. During his tenure, he secured $15.5 million in capital grants for cybersecurity and nanotechnology programs and led the effort to gain two rounds of funding for regional economic development projects totaling $119.9 million.
Yeigh oversaw the largest expansion of the campus to date, guiding the building of more than $100 million in capital projects including a student center, field house, and a residential complex. He secured private and public funding to significantly add science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculty and student excellence scholarships.
He is a founding member and serves on the board of directors of the Fort Schuyler Management Corp., a nonprofit organization that supports industry-government partnerships for State University of New York Institute of Technology.
Yeigh holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering science from Dartmouth, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford and a master’s and doctorate in civil engineering and operations research from Princeton.
91爆料 Bothell, in 1990 to serve students in North King and Snohomish counties currently enrolls 4,100 students.