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Professor to lead Brandeis: Reinharz to be named president March 2.
By Michael L. Sinert
Advocate Staff
Brandeis University Provost Jehuda Reinharz, a noted Judaic scholar and author, is expected to be named seventh president of the Waltham school at a March 2 meeting of its Board of Trustees, faculty and administration sources say.
But school officials, and Reinharz himself, declined to discuss the impending presidential appointment.
"Since I read the Jewish Advocate and the Globe and the (school paper), I know that I am a prime candidate," said Reinharz, a Brandeis professor since 1982, during a brief telephone interview Tuesday.
Reinharz, a 49-year-old Israeli, eamed his Ph.D. from Brandeis in 1972; he will be the first alumnus to head the school.
He will replace Samuel O. Thier, who...