Embry-Riddle Names Irwin Price Chancellor of Daytona Beach Campus
 Daytona Beach, Fla., Jan. 11, 2002 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is pleased to announce that Irwin Price, Ph.D., has been selected as the chancellor of the university's Daytona Beach, Fla., campus and is onboard for the Spring 2002 semester. As chancellor, Price is the chief operating officer of the residential campus, managing all facets of student life, academics, flight-education activities, business functions, and the physical plant.
Formerly, Price was executive dean of the Virginia campus of George Washington University (GWU) at Ashburn, where he supervised the offering of more than a dozen graduate degree programs in technology and management enrolling more than 1,000 students and was responsible for the research performance of 10 state-of-the-art laboratories. Strategically located in the Northern Virginia technology corridor, GWU's Virginia campus focuses on high-performance computing, information technology, Internet technologies, and transportation technologies.
"Irwin Price is a proven leader," said Barry A. Benedict, Embry-Riddle's chief academic officer and senior vice president. "We are pleased to attract someone with his experience and credentials. We all look forward to working with him to advance Embry-Riddle and maintain its leadership role in aviation and aerospace."
Price previously served as associate vice president for GWU's Office of External Programs and as dean of the Metropolitan College at Boston University, where he was a professor of applied science.
As a former researcher with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Noise Abatement, Price explored the economic impact of airport noise on U.S. residents. His subsequent doctoral dissertation was titled "The Social Cost of Airport Noise as Measured by Rental Changes: The Case for Logan Airport." While at GWU, Price worked with National Transportation Safety Board officials to create a facility at the Virginia campus to house an international academy for transportation safety. He also established a partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration to train aviation-safety executives from many nations.
In other experience, Price was an engineer at Combustion Engineering Corp. and an engineering consultant to Factory Insurance Association on safety and fire protection for major industrial facilities.
Price holds a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University, an M.B.A. with a major in international business from San Francisco State College (now California State University at San Francisco), and a bachelor of mechanical engineering from New York University.
Price replaces Thomas J. Connolly, interim chancellor at Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach campus, who has taken a sabbatical to serve as a visiting international professor of aviation psychology at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. Formerly dean of aviation and chairman of the aeronautical science department at Embry-Riddle, Connolly will hold an endowed chair in aviation upon his return.
Embry-Riddle, the world's largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, meets the needs of students and industry through its educational, training, research, and consulting activities. Embry-Riddle educates 24,000 students annually through the master's level at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., at more than 150 teaching centers in the United States and Europe, and through distance learning.
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