December 3, 2004: Headlines: COS - Peru: University Administration: Lansing State Journal: Peter McPherson will promote study-abroad programs for American students - all from his new home in the suburbs of the nation's capital
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December 3, 2004: Headlines: COS - Peru: University Administration: Lansing State Journal: Peter McPherson will promote study-abroad programs for American students - all from his new home in the suburbs of the nation's capital
Peter McPherson will promote study-abroad programs for American students - all from his new home in the suburbs of the nation's capital
Peter McPherson will promote study-abroad programs for American students - all from his new home in the suburbs of the nation's capital
Despite move, McPherson to keep MSU ties
President trying to secure nuclear research facility
Associated Press
EAST LANSING - Outgoing Michigan State University President Peter McPherson will continue trying to land a billion-dollar nuclear research facility for the school while volunteering on agriculture projects.
He also will promote study-abroad programs for American students - all from his new home in the suburbs of the nation's capital. McPherson, 64, is stepping down at the end of the year, after 11 years as head of the school.
McPherson says that he and his wife, Joanne, are moving to Arlington, Va.
He will continue as a $143,650-a-year consultant for the university, trying to win a $1 billion federal nuclear research facility called the Rare Isotope Accelerator for the East Lansing campus and helping the move of a portion of the College of Human Medicine to Grand Rapids.
McPherson spent six months in Iraq in 2003 as financial coordinator for the U.S. Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, creating a new currency and establishing a central bank after the U.S. invasion.
Some have speculated that he could be a contender for a position in the new Bush administration.
Terry Denbow, university spokesman, said the only thing McPherson won't do is retire. "The word 'retire' is an oxymoron in any biography of Peter McPherson,'' he said.
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