Alan Gilbert Merten (December 27, 1941 – May 21, 2020) was the fifth president of

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Personal life

Merten was married to Sally Merten, and they had two children and four grandsons. Merten died on May 21, 2020 at a nursing home in Naples, Florida after a battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Education

Merten received an undergraduate degree in

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at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a masters in Computer science from

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, and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career

Merten began his academic career as an engineering professor at the University of Michigan. Later he deaned the College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. Next he served as the dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Merten joined

as president in 1996 and retired on June 30, 2012.

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