The University of California Board of
Regents, acting on President Richard C.
Atkinson's recommendation, named
M.R.C. Greenwood chancellor of UC
Santa Cruz during a special meeting
today (Tuesday, April 9) by
teleconference.
The University of California Board of
Regents, acting on President Richard C.
Atkinson's recommendation, named
M.R.C. Greenwood chancellor of UC
Santa Cruz during a special meeting
today (Tuesday, April 9) by
teleconference.
A nationally respected scholar and dean of graduate studies and vice provost of academic outreach at UC Davis, Greenwood, 53, is the seventh chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, succeeding Karl S. Pister, who will retire in June. She was selected following a nationwide search by an advisory committee comprised of Regents, faculty, students, staff and representatives of the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association and UC Santa Cruz Foundation.
Greenwood's salary, which was approved in open session, will be $173,200. She will assume her new post on July 1.
"With her expertise and insight into the importance of federal funding of research and her skills as a campus leader and strategic thinker, M.R.C.Greenwood is uniquely well suited to lead the Santa Cruz campus," Atkinson said.
Clair Burgener, chairman of the Board of Regents, praised Greenwood's appointment saying, "She is highly intelligent, eminently accomplished in science, education, and administration and a keen judge of people."
Greenwood said, "The University of California at Santa Cruz is a jewel in the finest research university system in the world. I am greatly honored to be named its seventh chancellor. UCSC began with a recognition that a true education stimulates both the mind and the spirit. UCSC's distinctive blend of superb faculty, outstanding research opportunities, an unsurpassable physical setting and devoted attention to students and the learning environment make it unique. Our challenge, working together, will be to move into the next century with dedication to our innovative roots and with fresh approaches to the increasingly challenging times for public higher education. I eagerly anticipate working with the UCSC faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends."
From December 1993 to May 1995, Greenwood took a leave of absence from her duties at UC Davis to serve as associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In that position, she advised the Clinton administration on issues related to national budgetary priorities and federal investment in fundamental scientific research.
As dean of graduate studies at Davis since 1989, Greenwood was responsible for approximately 80 departmental and interdepartmental programs. She also participated in the development of training grants and had responsibility for the post-doctoral programs of the Davis campus.
Greenwood graduated summa cum laude from Vassar College with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1968. She received her doctorate in physiology, developmental biology and neurosciences from Rockefeller University in 1973.
She was an assistant professor of human genetics and development at Columbia University from 1976-78. From 1978-81, Greenwood was associate professor of biology at Vassar College, and she served as professor and chair of the biology department and as a John Guy Vassar Professor of Natural Sciences from 1986-89.
Greenwood joined UC Davis in 1989 as a professor of nutrition and internal medicine.
Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz has 10,117 students and is the home of the Lick Observatory and the site of several nationally renowned research centers, including the Institute of Marine Sciences and the Institute of Tectonics.
Santa Cruz students traditionally have an impressive record in the competitive Mellon and Fulbright Fellowship program, and UCSC has a high graduate and professional school acceptance rate. More than 90 percent of Santa Cruz's senior are accepted into one or more of their graduate school choices. The percentage of students that go on to earn doctorates and medical degrees is among the highest in the country.
Santa Cruz's faculty include 13 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; four Kellogg Fellows; one MacArthur Fellow; and one member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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