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University of Cincinnati president Santa J. Ono was named the new president of the University of British Columbia on Monday.

The University of B.C.’s announcement Monday morning, comes after a long search following the sudden resignation of former president Dr. Arvind Gupta last summer. Gupta was supposed to serve a five-year term, but only stayed one after rifts with the university’s board of governors.

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In Cincinnati, speculation had been growing about the possible departure of Ono.

He is well known for his avid use of Twitter, with more than 72,000 followers. The website Cincinnati Vs Everyone was the first to post that Ono had recently started following more than 25 University of B.C.-related Twitter accounts.

Ono was born in Vancouver when his father, Takashi Ono, did a short stint as a mathematics professor at UBC in the early 1960s. He grew up around academia, attending high school in Maryland when his father, who was born in Japan, moved to Johns Hopkins University after a stint at the University of Pennsylvania.