Newswire: Stanford University/SLAC - Chi-Chang Kao named SLAC director

Chi-Chang Kao, an associate laboratory director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been named as the lab's fifth director, Stanford University President John Hennessy announced today. Kao will succeed Persis S. Drell, who announced her intention to step down from the position late last year. He will formally assume his position as director on Nov. 1, 2012.