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UW alumnus Dan Thoma named Grainger Institute director

Dan Thoma, who earned a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering in 1992 from UW-Madison, will become director of the Grainger Institute in June, the university said Monday. The institute, funded in 2014 with $25 million from the Grainger Foundation in Illinois, is an incubator for transdisciplinary research in the UW-Madison College of Engineering.