“We are a young campus doing incredibly noble work ... dedicated to our diverse student population for great outcomes”, says new Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor Hal Stern. His academic colleagues call him, “brilliant, personable, humble and honest” and he loves sports :) Listen to this wide-ranging interview about his life, his statistics expertise and COVID-19. After teaching at Harvard and Iowa State, Professor Stern found a home at UCI in 2002 and has never looked back..