Berdahl, an historian and a nationally recognized leader on issues facing higher education, became Berkeley's eighth chancellor in July 1997. Prior to his appointment, he was president of the University of Texas at Austin for four years. Berdahl's career includes academic and administrative positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Oregon and the University of Massachusetts.
At the University of Texas, Berdahl held the Regents Chair in Higher Education Leadership and the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History. His specialty is 19th century Prussian history. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow in 1975-76 and is a member of several boards and commissions including the American Council on Education's Commission on Women in Higher Education.
A native of Sioux Falls, S.D., he has a bachelor's degree from Augustana College, a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Vanderhoef took office in April 1994. Prior to his appointment, he was executive vice chancellor and provost for three years. Vanderhoef, whose research interests lie in the general area of plant growth and development, earned his B.S. and M.S. in biology from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He earned a Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from Purdue University and returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for one post-doctoral year of study in the biochemistry department.
In 1970, Vanderhoef was appointed assistant professor of biology at the University of Illinois and seven years later became professor and department head. In 1980, he was appointed provost of the University of Maryland at College Park.
Vanderhoef arrived at UC Davis in 1984 to become executive vice chancellor and the one-person governing board of the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Later he became acting vice chancellor for academic affairs and acting vice chancellor for research.
Cicerone, a nationally acclaimed atmospheric scientist, became chancellor in July 1998. He joined UC Irvine in 1989 as the Daniel G. Aldrich professor in the earth system science department and served as department chairman from 1989 to 1994.
In 1995, UC Irvine became the first public university with faculty receiving two Nobel Prizes in two different fields the same year, one in chemistry and one in physics. Both are disciplines in the School of Physical Sciences, which Cicerone had headed between 1994 and his appointment as chancellor.
Cicerone's research interests center on atmospheric chemistry and climate change. In fall 1997, he was one of six U.S. scientists to receive a prestigious United Nations award for research that seeks to protect the earth's fragile ozone layer. In the 1970s, he conducted research into ozone depletion by chlorine gas and found that rocket exhaust could damage the ozone layer by emitting hydrogen chloride into the stratosphere.
Before joining UC Irvine, Cicerone was a senior scientist and director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Co. From 1978 to 1981, he was a research chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
Cicerone received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Albert Carnesale, the former provost of Harvard University, became chancellor of UCLA in July 1997. An expert on U.S. foreign policy and international security, he is the former dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Carnesale joined Harvard as a professor of public policy in 1974, served as academic dean from 1981 to 1991, as dean from 1991 to 1995 and as provost from 1994 to 1997.
Carnesale began his career as a senior engineer at Martin Marietta Corp. in Baltimore, Md., and was a consultant to several U.S. government agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, the Energy, State and Defense departments and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He also served in the Science and Technology Bureau of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT).
A native of New York, he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cooper Union in New York. He earned a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from North Carolina State University, where he also taught and was head of the division of university studies and university coordinator for environmental studies.
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, a distinguished developmental psychologist and longtime University of California faculty member and administrator, was appointed the founding chancellor of UC Merced, effective August 1, 1999. Slated to open in 2005, the campus would be the United States' first new research university of the 21st century.
Before being named chancellor, Tomlinson-Keasey had served since 1997 as UC's first systemwide vice provost for academic initiatives, and was named by Atkinson to direct the planning efforts for UC Merced on April 1998. In that dual role, she had served both as the leader of new campus development prior to the forma appointment of a chancellor and as the individual responsible for directing the development of new academic programs throughout the UC system, including the use of new technologies for instruction, research and public service.
At UC Davis, Tomlinson-Keasey was vice provost for faculty relations from 1992-94, as dean of the college of letters and science from 1994-95, and as vice provost for academic planning and personnel from 1995-1997. She was a professor at UC Riverside from 1980 to 1992.
Tomlinson-Keasey earned her bachelor's degree in political science in 1964 from Pennsylvania State University, a master's degree in psychology in 1966 from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from UC Berkeley in 1970.
Orbach, an internationally recognized scientist and scholar, became chancellor in March 1992. He came to UC Riverside following a distinguished career spanning 29 years at UCLA, the last 10 of which were as provost of the College of Letters and Science.
Orbach joined the UCLA faculty as an associate professor in 1963 and became a full professor three years later. His research has spanned the breadth of solid state physics and includes ground breaking research into the emerging field of fractal studies. He has more than 225 scientific publications.
Orbach graduated with a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. He was awarded his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley and was received into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Orbach was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University and an assistant professor of applied physics at Harvard University.
Dynes, a researcher in semiconductors and solid state circuits, became the sixth chancellor of UC San Diego in July 1996. He had been senior vice chancellor for academic affairs — UCSD's top academic officer — since August 1995 and a UC professor of physics since 1991. In 1994, he was named chair of the physics department. He founded an interdisciplinary laboratory at UCSD where chemists, electrical engineers and industry researchers investigate metals, semiconductors and superconductors.
From 1968 until 1990, Dynes was a research scientist for AT&T Bell Laboratories. His positions at the laboratory included department head of semiconductor and material physics research and director of chemical physics research. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Canadian Institute for the Advanced Research. In 1990, he won the Fritz London Award in Low Temperature Physics.
A native of Canada and a naturalized U.S. citizen, Dynes has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Western Ontario and a master's degree and Ph.D. in physics from McMaster University.
Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, one of the world's foremost medical researchers and a leading advocate for science education and increased public investment in scientific research, became chancellor in July 1998.
At UC San Francisco, Bishop is a distinguished and popular teacher and adviser. He has twice received the campus' Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 1994 was appointed a university professor, the highest honor UC can bestow on a professor in recognition of superior scholarship and teaching.
Bishop shared the Nobel Prize in 1989 with UCSF professor Harold E. Varmus. They won the award in physiology or medicine for discovering that normal cells contain genes that can cause cancer if they malfunction. Their discovery is widely credited with sparking a revolution in cancer research.
Bishop earned his M.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard in 1962 and went on to serve in a number of research, teaching and clinical appointments. He joined UCSF in 1968 as an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology. Soon after, he became an associate professor and professor, and in 1982 was appointed a professor of biochemistry and biophysics. In addition, since 1990, he has been a non-resident fellow of The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, CA.
Yang became chancellor in June 1994, becoming UC Santa Barbara's fifth chancellor. He previously served as the dean of Purdue University's Schools of Engineering for 10 years.
Yang joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1969. He served as head of Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics for five years prior to his appointment as dean in 1984.
He received 11 outstanding undergraduate teaching awards, including one in 1994 which was his fourth such award since becoming dean. Among his numerous publications is a textbook on structural analysis that has been adopted by many universities and was published in Japanese in 1994. Yang earned a B.S. degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University, a master's degree from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. in engineering from Cornell University.
Greenwood took office in July 1996, becoming the first women to head the campus. Previously, she was dean of graduate studies, vice provost of academic outreach and a professor of nutrition and internal medicine at UC Davis, where she had been since 1989. From December 1993 to May 1995, she served as associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. During that time, she was on leave from the Davis campus to serve as an advisor to the Clinton administration on issues related to national budgetary priorities and federal investment in fundamental scientific research.
Greenwood is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has served as an officer in several scientific disciplinary societies and policy-making boards. Prior to joining UC Davis, she was chair of the biology department and a John Guy Vassar Professor of Natural Sciences at Vassar College.
Greenwood graduated summa cum laude from Vassar College with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1968. She earned her doctorate in physiology, developmental biology and neuroscience from Rockefeller University in 1973.