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University of Miami president named as new chancellor at UCLA

Dr Julio Frenk will become the seventh chancellor of UCLA when he takes over.
Dr Julio Frenk will become the seventh chancellor of UCLA when he takes over. Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP

The president of the University of Miami was chosen on Wednesday to become the next chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, where the retiring incumbent has faced widespread scrutiny over his handling of pro-Palestinian campus protests.

Dr Julio Frenk, a Mexico City-born global public health researcher, was selected by regents of the University of California system at a meeting on the UCLA campus, where there was a swarm of security officers.

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