Meet the first black to be appointed as the president of the top U.S. University.
Darryll Pines has been named the new president of the University of Maryland. He makes history as the University’s first ever African-American to be named president of the prestigious institution since its establishment 164 years ago. Pines is expected to officially resume to duties as president of the University on July 1, 2020.
Darryll Pines, who before his new appointment was the Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering and the Nariman Farvardin Professor of Aerospace Engineering, will become the 34th president of the University of Maryland (UMD). Pines joined UMD in 1995 as an assistant professor, and served as the Chair of the Clark School’s Department of Aerospace Engineering between 2006 and 2009. Darryll Pines held positions at the Chevron Corporation, Space Tethers Inc. and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he worked on the Clementine Spacecraft program, which discovered water near the South Pole of the moon
