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Q&A with Tod Laursen

(10/06/10 8:00am)

Tod Laursen, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, announced May 3 that he will leave Duke to become the president of Khalifa University of Science, Research and Technology, a young university in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Laursen has been at Duke for 18 years and previously served as senior associate dean for education for the Pratt School of Engineering. The Chronicle’s Taylor Doherty sat down with Laursen May 28 to discuss Khalifa.