Gregory P. Crawford is the 22nd president of Miami University. A native of Elyria, Ohio, he and his wife, Dr. Renate Crawford, came to Miami in July 2016. Since arriving at Miami, President Crawford has emphasized diversity and inclusion, student engagement, collaboration, and interdisciplinary study across all of Miami's campuses and colleges. President Crawford is a member of the Board of Directors at Cintrifuse, the incubator and accelerator dedicated to creating a more substantial technology presence in Greater Cincinnati. He currently serves as chair of the President's Council for the Inter-University Council of Ohio (IUC), the association representing Ohio's 14 public universities. In addition, he has actively engaged federal, state, and local policymakers and stakeholders to advance higher education in Ohio and beyond. Before joining the Miami community, President Crawford was vice president and associate provost at the University of Notre Dame. He joined Notre Dame's faculty in 2008, serving as the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science. He previously served as the dean of engineering at Brown University, where he joined the physics and engineering faculty in 1996. President Crawford earned bachelor's (mathematics and physics), master's (physics), and doctorate (chemical physics) degrees from Kent State University. He completed two postdoctoral fellowships and was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center before joining the faculty at Brown. His work includes over 400 research and education publications, review articles and book chapters, and 21 U.S. patents and patent applications.