The Hastings press release is here. Professor Wu had been Dean at Wayne State, though left somewhat abruptly.
UPDATE: Did you know Professor Wu is also a "public intellectual"? I read it on Wikipedia, so it must be true!
HERE'S SOMETHING CURIOUS: Professor (soon-to-be Dean) Wu's entry appears to have been created and almost entirely written under three different accounts (Travling Gnome, lanmurdoch etc.) whose only contributions to Wikipedia are this entry. Ain't Wikipedia grand? At least Professor Wu's Wikipedes (sp?) seem to like him.
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…