Alexander Cartwright | |
|---|---|
| President of the University of Central Florida | |
| Assumed office April 13, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Thad Seymour (acting) |
| Chancellor of the University of Missouri | |
| In office 2017–2020 | |
| Preceded by | Garnett Stokes (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Mun Choi |
| Personal details | |
| Education | University of Iowa (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Nonlinear Optical Properties of Hetero N-I-P-I Device Structures (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Smirl |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Electrical engineering Computer engineering |
| Institutions | |
Alexander Nevin Cartwright is a US academic and President of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Before his nomination to UCF, he was the chancellor of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri,[1] and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the State University of New York.[2] On March 20, 2020, Cartwright was nominated by a unanimous vote of the UCF Board of Trustees to become President-Elect of UCF,[3] and was then confirmed by the Florida Board of Governors on March 25, 2020.[4] He became the acting President of UCF on April 13, 2020, succeeding Interim President Thad Seymour.