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May 4, 2010 8:26:15 AM

The Division I Board of Directors elected three new members at its spring meeting last week.

They are Lee Todd of Kentucky, Nathan Hatch of Wake Forest and Stedman Upham of Tulsa. The three begin their terms with the August meeting.

Todd became president at Kentucky in 2001 after serving as senior vice president of IBM's Lotus Development Corp. An engineer by training, Todd graduated from Kentucky in 1968. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received six patents for communications technology. He taught at Kentucky for many years.

Wake Forest named Nathan Hatch president in 2005. He had most recently served as provost at Notre Dame, where he was also a history professor. He graduated from Wheaton (Illinois) and received his master's and doctoral degrees from Washington U. in St. Louis. He held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. At Notre Dame, he served as associate dean and vice president for graduate studies and research, among other positions.

Upham became president at Tulsa in 2004 after serving as president and CEO of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He received his doctoral degree in anthropology from Arizona State and held research, teaching and administrative positions at New Mexico State and Oregon.