Boston University's New President Is Called Consensus Builder

The man chosen Saturday to be the next president of Boston University, Robert A. Brown, comes from a humble background in San Antonio, where he was raised by a single mother and became the first in his family to go to college.As provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown has overseen many endeavors that are anything but humble, from a $300 million genomics collaboration with Harvard University to the costly and architecturally bold Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, to dramatic forays into new disciplines such as computational biology and biological engineering.

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