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Davis, CA-based University of California, Davis has Appointed Viji Murali as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
UC Davis is a global community of individuals united to better humanity and our natural world while seeking solutions to some of our most pressing challenges. Located near the California state capital, UC Davis has more than 34,000 students, and the full-time equivalent of 4,100 faculty and other academics and 17,400 staff. The campus has an annual research budget of over $750 million, a comprehensive health system and about two dozen specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and 99 undergraduate majors in four colleges and six professional schools.
About the Person
Viji Murali, an IT veteran in higher education, has been named chief information officer and vice provost of Information and Educational Technology at the University of California, Davis. Murali is coming to UC Davis from Washington State University, where, since 2007, she has served as vice president for Information Services and CIO for the WSU system. She received a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from the Women's College at Osmania University, India (1975), and a master's in organic chemistry from Osmania's College of Science (1977). She worked for the University of Arizona for 11 years, first in the College of Education as a systems administrator; and then in the Centre for Computing and Information Technology as a programmer, a principal and project lead, computing manager and as director of systems management. From there she went to Western Michigan University, as vice president for Information Technology and CIO, 1999 to 2007, before joining WSU.
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