Timothy White became Chancellor of University of California, Riverside in 2008 and was appointed to the Commission in 2010. Prior to joining UC Riverside, he served as President of the University of Idaho and Provost and Executive Vice President at Oregon State University. He previously held positions as Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Biodynamics at the University of California, Berkeley, and as Professor and Chair of the Department of Movement Science and Research Scientist in the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan. White received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and spent two years as a post-doctoral scholar in physiology at the University of Michigan before starting his academic career at Ann Arbor. He is internationally recognized for his work in muscle plasticity, injury and aging.