According to The Capital Times, Carolyn “Biddy’ Martin is the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Martin is currently the provost at Cornell University, a position she has held since 2000. Martin earned her doctorate in German literature from UW before and joined the faculity at Cornell in 1985. She is the first chancellor from outside the UW system since Donna Shalala in 1988.

For more information on the new UW chancellor, check out this previous Dane101 article.