Duke University names new president

Duke University names new president Duke University names new president Vincent Price, executive of the University of Pennsylvania since 2009, has been chosen Duke University's tenth president, reported David Rubenstein, seat of the college's Board of Trustees, on Friday. College of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania DURHAM Duke University has reported that the executive of the University of Pennsylvania will turn into Duke's tenth president one year from now. Vincent Price, who has been executive at Penn since 2009, was chosen by Duke's Board of Trustees on Friday morning. He will succeed Richard H. Brodhead on July 1. Brodhead declared in April that he wanted to venture down following 13 years at Duke. Notwithstanding being the central scholarly officer at Penn, Price, 59, is the Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and teacher of political science in the School of Arts and Sciences.