Texas A&M University named Elsa Murano the next president of the College Station flagship.
Murano, A&M's dean of agriculture and a noted food safety expert, is the first female and first Hispanic to hold the president's post. The regents named Murano as the only finalist for the presidency in December after a yearlong search.Before serving as vice chancellor and dean of A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Murano was the first Hispanic to serve as undersecretary for food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a position she held from 2001-2004. Murano fled Cuba with her family as a child in the early 1960s. Born in Havana, she and her family lived in several Latin American countries before moving to Miami.