Santa Ono, a Canadian-born immunologist and former University of Michigan president, just got the green light to be the University of Florida’s next president
Ono is set to replace Kent Fuchs, who became the school’s interim president last summer after ex-U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse stepped down.

Santa Ono, president of the University of British Columbia, listens in a panel discussion during the Emerging Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016.
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