Kumble R. Subbaswamy, the dean of arts and sciences at Indiana University’s main campus in Bloomington, has been named the University of Kentucky’s new academic leader, making him the highest ranking minority in the university’s 140-year history.
On Dec. 21, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, long regarded as one of the nation’s top public research universities, announced that Subbaswamy was one of its three finalists for provost.