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Purdue's Sands to become new Va Tech president

Purdue’s provost is leaving the university to become the next president of Virginia Tech.

The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors selected Tim Sands as the university’s next president at a meeting this afternoon.

His start date on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus is June 1st.

Virginia Tech is a land-grant institution with a student enrollment of more than 31,000.

Sands will replace current president Charles Steger, who will be stepping down after 14 years in the position.

Sands became Purdue provost in 2010 and before that spent more than four years as director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue.

He holds an endowed chair in engineering and served as acting president during the fall semester of 2012.