Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., has named Monica Ponce de Leon dean of its School of Architecture, effective in January. She replaces Alejandro Zaera-Polo, who resigned last October in a dispute with the university over plagiarism issues, says Architectural Record (AR), sister publication of ENR, which adds that her appointment had been speculated “for months.”
Ponce de Leon was dean of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor since 2008 and also formed her own practice, MPdL Studio, in 2011.