Yale University named Maurie McInnis as its new president Wednesday, the first woman to be selected for the top position in a non-interim capacity since the Ivy League school was founded in 1701.

In this image provide by Yale University, Yale's new president Maurie McInnis poses in New Haven, Conn. McInnis, a longtime higher education leader and cultural historian, was named the 24th ...

and they are the reasons I am excited and eager to return to Yale and New Haven as the next president of our university,” she wrote. McInnis’ top priority upon assuming the Yale presidency ...

McInnis, an art historian, currently serves as president of Stony Brook University ... a surprise choice: The name did not appear on lists of expected appointees. McInnis immediately becomes a major ...

currently president of Stony Brook University and a Yale trustee, as its next president. McInnis, 58 years old, will take the helm of the New Haven, Conn., school in July. She will be the first ...

Yale University has named Maurie McInnis as its 24th president of the school starting July 1. She will be the first woman to hold the job in a non-interim basis. McInnis is currently the president ...