Ron McCoy named University architect

Ron McCoy, a Princeton graduate alumnus who has worked for the past 27 years as an architect and educator, has been selected as the new University architect. McCoy currently is the university architect at Arizona State University and a professor in its School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He will succeed Jon Hlafter, who retired after 40 years at Princeton. His appointment will be effective this summer. McCoy was invited by the president of Arizona State to create the Office of the University Architect in 2003. Since then, ASU has initiated construction on 6.4 million square feet of new facilities at a cost of $1.34 billion. This work includes the development of a new campus in collaboration with the city of Phoenix in addition to projects on its main campus in Tempe.