Radenka Maric
Radenka Marić | |
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Marić in 2023 | |
| 17th President of the University of Connecticut | |
| Assumed office February 1, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Andrew Agwunobi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1966 or 1967 (age 58–59) Derventa, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Education | University of Belgrade (BS) Kyoto University (MS, PhD) |
Radenka Marić (née Đekić; born 1966 or 1967) is an American engineer and academic who became the 17th president of the University of Connecticut (UConn) on September 28, 2022. She was the first internal candidate to be named president since Harry J. Hartley in 1990 and is the institution’s second female president. She had been interim president of the University of Connecticut since February 1, 2022, and previously was UConn's vice president for research and innovation.