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Sonoran Hot Reads: Arizona announces two finalists for university president

The University of Arizona made one of its two important hires this past weekend when announcing that Dave Heeke would be the new athletic director. Well, the other position, university president, is down to two names. The Board of Regents announced that the new president will either be current ASU employee Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan or Texas Medical Center CEO and president Dr. Robert Clayton Robbins. Panchanathan is the executive vice president and chief research and innovation officer of ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise Development. The top candidate will be visiting campus on March 8th, so be on the lookout

- Heeke is set to make $500k his first year, then receive automatic raises of $75k in each of the next two years.