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BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg University officials say a 77-year-old political science professor collapsed at the start of her class and died.

A newspaper reports students in Gloria Cohen-Dion’s seminar on writing the Constitution called 911 and went looking for other faculty when it happened Monday night.

Political science department Chairman Harry “Neil” Strine IV says another professor carried her to a waiting ambulance gurney.

Philosophy professor Wendy Lynne Lee says Cohen-Dion had taught at the university for 20 years and had been planning on retiring, with plans to throw her attention on research and volunteer work raising awareness about sex trafficking.

The cause of death was not immediately known Tuesday.

Carnegie Mellon names new presidentPITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University has named a new president.The Pittsburgh school said Tuesday that Dr. Subra Suresh will assume the job on July 1, replacing current President Jared Cohon, who’s been president for 16 years.The 56-year-old Suresh is currently the director of the National Science Foundation, a federal government agency. Suresh was previously the dean of the school of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Carnegie Mellon says a 17-member search committee chose Suresh.Suresh says he’s honored to have the opportunity to lead Carnegie Mellon, which has become one of the world’s leading schools in robotics and computer engineering.

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