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richard LARIVIERE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT • SECOND YEAR • IOWA, ‘72 Richard Lariviere is in his second year as president of the University of Oregon, the state’s flagship institution of higher education. He officially began his role as president of the Eugene university on July 1, 2009, following three years as executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of Kansas.

Lariviere succeeded Dave Frohnmayer, who had served as president of the state’s largest university since 1994. As the chief academic officer at Kansas, Lariviere had overseen the reorganization of the KU graduate school and the School of Fine Arts, as well expansion efforts to KU’s School of Pharmacy and student recruitment tools.

Prior to his tenure in Lawrence, Kan., Lariviere worked as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin from 1999 to 2006. During his tenure heading the nation’s largest college of liberal arts, the college’s rate of external research funding doubled, a $120 million capital campaign was completed, and more than 230 faculty members were hired.

Lariviere’s scholarly roots extend around the world. After earning his bachelor’s degree in the history of religions from the University of Iowa in 1972, Lariviere and his wife, Janis, traveled to India for the first time. Lariviere eventually built an impressive academic career around the country’s languages, histories, religions and culture.

In 1978, he earned his doctorate in Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania. While he has published articles and several books on Indian legal history, he has also tackled subjects ranging from religion in India to matrimonial remedies for women in classical Hindu law.

He reads eight languages and speaks French and Hindi. He has conducted research in London, Oxford, Calcutta, Poona Kathmandu, Tokyo, Beijing, Lahore, Munich, Colombo, and Madras, as well as a host of smaller cities in India.

Lariviere is a Fellow of the IC2 Institute, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, a life member of the American Oriental Society, and a founding member of the Society for Design and Process Science.

In addition, he has augmented his experience in higher education by consulting for American and Indian companies in information technology and Business Process Outsourcing. He has also served on corporate boards in the IT industry.

Lariviere’s wife, Jan Worcester Lariviere, has worked in science education at the University of Kansas and the University of Texas.

The couple has one daughter, Anne Elizabeth, who graduated from Barnard College and lives in New York City.

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ATHLETIC DIRECTOR • FIRST YEAR • WEST VIRGINIA, ‘91 University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere named Rob Mullens director of intercollegiate athletics on July 15, 2010. Mullens arrived from the University of Kentucky, where he served as deputy director of athletics and managed day-to-day operations of Kentucky’s 22-sport athletics department, with an annual operating budget of $79 million.

His background is in accounting and auditing, and he promoted sound fiscal management and self-sufficiency at the University of Kentucky. During his total of eight years at Kentucky, the athletic department’s operating budget expanded by nearly 70 percent.

Fundraising for the department hit record levels each of the past seven years prior to his departure.

Prior to being named deputy director of athletics at Kentucky, Mullens served as the university’s executive associate director of athletics from 2002 to 2006. He served at the University of Maryland from 1996 to 2002, starting as assistant director of athletics for business and ultimately as executive senior associate director of athletics and chief of staff.

The West Virginia native was senior athletics business manager at the University of Miami (Fla.) from 1994 to 1996, and prior to that he was an accountant/auditor at Ernst & Young in Raleigh, N.C.

“Much will be expected of Rob Mullens as the university’s new athletics director, and based on his track record I am confident that he will be very successful at the University of Oregon,” Lariviere said. “Rob has been asked to develop a clear vision to maintain and advance the UO’s competitive advantages in fundraising, facilities development and recruitment and retention of student-athletes and staff. He will insure that the athletics department remains financially self-sufficient, while at the same time promoting an environment that helps each student athlete to succeed in the classroom as well as the field of competition.

“This is a period of important growth and change for the athletics department. A new basketball arena will open within a year and additional improvements are on the way for other athletics facilities.

It will be Rob’s role to not only oversee and promote future advances for the department, but to nurture the individual programs that will fill those outstanding venues.”

Mullens (7/19/69) went to school at West Virginia University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in sport management. He and his wife, Jane, have two sons - Cooper and Tanner.

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Jim Bartko Exec. Sr. Assoc. AD 21st Year

Renee’ Baumgartner Exec. Sr. Assoc. AD/SWA 22nd Year

Gary Gray Sr. Assoc. AD 27th Year

Jamie Moffitt Exec. Sr. Assoc. AD First Year

Jeff Hawkins Sr. Assoc. AD 10th Year

Dave Williford Exec. Asst. AD 26th Year

Bob Beals Assoc. AD 13th Year

Tom Larson Sr. Assoc. AD/CFO 17th Year

Leanne Brooks Asst. AD 13th Year

Lorraine Davis Special Asst. to President & Provost 1st Year

Vin Lananna Assoc. AD Sixth Year

James Harris Asst. AD Fourth Year

Mike Duncan Sr. Assoc. AD Second Year

Herb Yamanaka Assoc. AD 51st Year

Mary Ellen Mansfield Asst. AD First Year

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Joe Giansante Sr. Assoc. AD Fourth Year

Bill Clever Exec. Asst. AD 12th Year

Mark Ruckwardt Asst. AD Seventh Year