"Congratulations to Mikel Livingston, our editor-in-chief for 2009. about 4 hours ago from web"

The news advisor of the Exponent just posted on his Twitter that the new EIC of the paper, succeeding senior Andrea Thomas, will be junior Mikel Livingston. Livingston (whom I worked with back in the day) has been involved with the paper ever since he came to Purdue six semesters ago. He assumes his position in January.