WIYN 3.5m Observatory

New WIYN Board President, Dr. John Salzer

Dr. Charles Bailyn, who has led the WIYN Board as its President since 2005, is stepping down from the office of President in order to fulfill other duties at his home institution of Yale. Bailyn has been appointed the inaugural Dean of Faculty for the new Yale-NUS College in Singapore and will be very busy with this initiative. Though he is leaving the Presidency, Bailyn will continue to serve on the WIYN Board as a Yale University delegate. On behalf of the entire WIYN Consortium, we would like to thank Dr. Bailyn for his dedication and service in his time as President, and are pleased that he will be continuing to serve on the Board.

We are excited to announce that Bailyn will be succeeded by Dr. John Salzer of Indiana University as its President. Dr. Salzer is currently Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Indiana, and has recently been actively involved in WIYN both as a WIYN Board member and as Director of the WIYN 0.9m Consortium. We look forward to his leadership of WIYN, Inc. in the coming years!