From your first link:
"It has been an incredible privilege and an honor to serve this President and my fellow Americans . . ."
""I am extremely excited to be going back home to Texas and to once again be part of the Texas A&M family. I am very much looking forward to the opportunities that lie ahead, and to working with the faculty, staff, students, and many stakeholders within Texas, to ensure that our research, teaching, and extension programs in the agricultural and life sciences are second to none, in total fulfillment of the university's mission as a land-grant university."
Sounds about right to me. Hope it turns out to be so.
According to whitehouse.gov: From 1995 until assuming her current post, Elsa Murano held several positions with Texas A&M University. Most recently, she served as the director of the university's Center for Food Safety within the Institute of Food Science and Engineering. She held the position of the Center for Food Safety's associate director from 1995 to 1997. Elsa served as a professor-in-charge of research programs at the Linear Accelerator Facility at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa from 1992 to 1995. She is a graduate of Florida International University. Elsa also holds a M.S. degree in anaerobic microbiology and a Ph.D. in food science and technology, both from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
...and for icing on the cake, the lefty groups really, really hate her:
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/foodsafety/food_irrad/articles.cfm?ID=4905