"With my institution and teaching load, I don't have postdocs and grad students," says Terry McGlynn, a tropical biologist at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund raising.
Studies have shown that exercising for as little as ten minutes before handling a task can improve performance by increasing the flow of blood to the brain.
The region, which was the target of a recent NASA mission that intentionally crashed an unmanned spacecraft to look for frozen water, could be ideal for a future human outpost.