LORMAN — Dr. Richard Green has been selected to serve as interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Alcorn State University. Green officially began his duties at the start of the 2009-2010 academic year.

Green served as interim vice president for academic affairs and acting president at Midland Lutheran College in Fremont, Neb. He served as dean of the college of arts and sciences at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and vice president for academic affairs at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

Green is a 1977 graduate of the Harvard University Institute for Educational Management. He earned his doctorate in inorganic chemistry from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Ky., in 1969; a master’s of science in physical chemistry from North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D. in 1963; and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. in 1961.