June 4, 2001 Appointments There will be new provosts at Crown, Stevenson, Porter, and Kresge Colleges beginning July 1 Joel Ferguson, Crown College Joel Ferguson earned a B.S. at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the UCSC faculty in 1986 and has served as professor and chair of the Computer Engineering Department and associate dean of Undergraduate Affairs of the School of Engineering. Ferguson is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award. His current research interests involve strategies and algorithms for the design, test, and failure analysis of modern computer chips. Margo Hendricks, Stevenson College Margo Hendricks earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at UC Riverside and joined the UCSC faculty in 1990 after a yearlong fellowship at Stanford Humanities Institute. Hendricks is an associate professor of literature and serves as director of the Office of International Education. She has been a faculty academic preceptor at Cowell College and served as chair of the Systemwide Committee on Education Abroad. She is a recipient of two Re-entry Teacher of the Year Awards. Her research and teaching areas include Renaissance English literature, Shakespeare, drama and performance, gender studies, and race theories. David Evan Jones, Porter College David Evan Jones earned his Ph.D. in composition at UC San Diego. He joined the faculty at UCSC in 1988 and served as chair of the Music Department from 1995 to 1998. A professor of music, Jones is a composer of vocal, instrumental, and computer music. He has divided his recent work among chamber operas, compositions influenced by traditional Bulgarian dance music, and a computer-assisted approach to composition. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the New Hampshire Arts Council. Conn Hallinan, Kresge College Conn Hallinan received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1975 from UC Berkeley. He came to UCSC in 1981 and has been teaching journalism here since that time. He also has been a working journalist and currently writes a column for the San Francisco Examiner. In addition to teaching, he oversees all of the UCSC on-campus and off-campus news media internship programs.