Robert Sinclair will take over Sept. 1 as the director of the Bing overseas Studies Program, which includes centers in 11 locations.
Robert Sinclair, the Charles M. Pigott Professor in the School of Engineering, has been named director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP). Sinclair will begin Sept. Sinclair succeeds Norman Naimark, the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies, who has served as director since 2005. During his tenure, Naimark oversaw the opening of campuses in Madrid and Cape Town. As BOSP director, Sinclair, who joined the Stanford faculty in 1977, takes on responsibility for a program that now includes centers in Australia, Beijing, Berlin, Cape Town, Florence, Kyoto, Madrid, Moscow, Oxford, Paris and Santiago. Stanford's overseas program, now in its 52nd year, sends about 50 percent of each graduating class abroad. Besides the centers, BOSP also includes consortium programs in Barcelona and Kyoto, Asia Internships and the Community Health Program in Oaxaca.
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