Colorado State University and the Ohio State University will share a new vice president position in order to further energy research.
Ron Sega was appointed as Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and the Environment for both schools. The position will last three years.
“This unusual arrangement between our institutions not only breaks down walls that are within institutions of higher learning but between them,” said Tony Frank, president of Colorado State in a statement released today.
The aim of the partnership is to create an increased economic opportunity for both Colorado and Ohio through the combined resources of more than 500 faculty members dedicated to energy and the environment.
Sega is a former astronaut and under secretary of the U.S. Air Force who currently serves CSU as vice president for energy and the environment and also teaches systems engineering.
Among Sega’s new responsibilities will be to create strategic partnerships with organizations such as Battelle Memorial Institute, the National Renewal Energy Laboratory, state governments in Colorado and Ohio and with key industrial partners.
