1. Santa Jeremy Ono is a Canadian-American immunologist and academic administrator who has been serving as the 15th president of the University of Michigan since October 2022.
33 Facts About Santa Ono
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Previously a faculty member at University College London, Santa Ono contributed to the field of gene regulation in the immune system and to the understanding of inflammation in the eye.
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Santa Ono was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where his father worked as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia from 1961 to 1964.
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Santa Ono was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Towson, Maryland, where his father worked as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania from 1964 to 1969 and at Johns Hopkins University from 1969 to 2011, respectively.
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Santa Ono received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in biological science from the University of Chicago in 1984 and a Doctor of Philosophy in experimental medicine from McGill University in Canada in 1991.
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Santa Ono completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University supported by the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation.
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Santa Ono's research reported that immune-related genes are more active in insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, which could affect diabetes risk.
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Santa Ono's lab showed that specific DNA elements and transcription factors are key in regulating these immune genes.
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From 2006 to 2010, Santa Ono served as senior vice provost for undergraduate education and academic affairs at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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In June 2010, Santa Ono was named senior vice president for academic affairs and university provost at the University of Cincinnati, with oversight of budgets, personnel, and planning.
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In 2012, Santa Ono was named the 28th president of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, becoming the first Asian-American president of that university.
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On June 15,2016, Santa Ono was named the 15th president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia in Canada, effective August 15.
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Santa Ono was re-appointed for a second five-year term on August 11,2020.
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In February 2017, Santa Ono reinstated John Furlong as keynote speaker for a university fundraiser despite allegations of Furlong's abuse of Indigenous children during his time as a teacher in a remote community.
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The documents showed that the Santa Ono administration followed Amazon's directive to keep $3 million in funding confidential.
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However, the university administration, under the Santa Ono presidency, responded and emphasized freedom of expression rather than condemning the harassment against the professor, affirming its "commitment to freedom of expression and academic freedom".
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Santa Ono inaccurately claimed equal community support for an anti-trans speaker event, leading to the Vancouver Pride Society's decision in July 2019 to ban UBC's participation in the Vancouver Pride parade.
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On July 13,2022, Santa Ono was named as the 15th president of the University of Michigan, with his term beginning on October 13,2022.
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Santa Ono became the first Asian American to lead the university.
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Santa Ono further withheld hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation from strikers, directed leadership to hire other students as strikebreakers, and caused administrators to invent the final grades of students they had not taught.
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On October 10,2023, Santa Ono condemned "Hamas terrorists" through a university statement.
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Santa Ono responded with an additional statement to the university community on the same day, reaffirming his stance.
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On January 23,2017, Santa Ono was appointed chief advisor of the British Columbia Innovation Network and a member of the British Columbia Technology Council.
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Santa Ono has been a member of the Faculty of 1000 since 2003.
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Santa Ono wrote articles on research and innovation, college rankings, healthcare, STEM education, diversity, social media, and more.
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Santa Ono spoke and wrote about the issue of mental health in adolescents and young adults, advocating for increased funding to identify at-risk youth and support early mental health interventions.
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Santa Ono received an honorary doctorate degree from Chiba University in Japan in 2016 and an honorary doctor of divinity from the Vancouver School of Theology of the University of British Columbia in 2020.
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Santa Ono was elected as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2017.
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Santa Ono was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.
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Santa Ono was named after Santaro, a Japanese folk story character.
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Santa Ono, a practicing Anglican, is a member of the Anglican Communion Science Commission and served as a lay Eucharistic minister.
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Santa Ono met Gwendolyn "Wendy" Yip at McGill University in 1985; Yip was in her undergraduate senior year when Santa Ono came to the university to complete his PhD work.
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Santa Ono's father is Gar Lam Yip, a Chinese-Canadian professor of electrical and computer engineering at McGill University, and her mother is Alice Chan-Yip, a Chinese-Canadian pediatrician based in Montreal and former board member with the Montreal Chinese Hospital.