Nils Hasselmo, Swedish-American academic administrator, Died at 87

Nils Hasselmo was born on July 2, 1931, in Köla parish in Värmland County, Sweden and died on January 23, 2019.

He  was a Swedish teacher and later on the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997.

Nils went on to serve as the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006.

Hasselmo finished a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University in 1961.

Hasselmo passed away at 87 years old.