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May 31, 2001 To: Campus Colleagues From: M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor Re: College Provosts Appointed Campus Provost John Simpson and I are delighted to announce appointments for three Provost positions and one Associate Provost position. Effective July 1 of this year, Professor Joel Ferguson will become Crown College Provost; Associate Professor Margo Hendricks will become Stevenson College Provost; Professor David Evan Jones will become Porter College Provost; and Lecturer Conn Hallinan will become Kresge College Associate Provost. We also want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate the following for their excellent service as provosts and to wish them well in their new endeavors: Professor Kathy Foley, Provost of Porter College since 1989; Associate Professor Judith Habicht-Mauche, Provost of Crown College since 1998; Professor Tyler Stovall, Provost of Stevenson College since 1998; and Professor Paul Skenazy, Provost of Kresge College since 1996. F. Joel Ferguson earned a B.S. degree 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 accepted a position at UC Santa Cruz 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. Professor 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 joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty in 1990 after a year-long fellowship at Stanford Humanities Institute. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at UC Riverside. Currently an Associate Professor of Literature, she includes in her research and teaching areas Renaissance English literature, Shakespeare, drama and performance, gender studies, and race theories. Associate Professor Hendricks currently serves as Director, Office of International Education. Her previous service includes Faculty Academic Preceptor at Cowell College, Chair, System-wide Committee on Education Abroad. She is a recipient of two Re-entry Teacher of the Year Awards. David Evan Jones is currently Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz, where he served as Chair of the Music Department from 1995 to 1998. 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. Professor Jones earned his Ph.D. in composition at UC San Diego. He served as Composer-in-Residence at the University of York, England, and as Assistant and Associate Professor at Dartmouth College. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the New Hampshire Arts Council. He has received first prize in several international composition competitions, and his articles and compositions have been widely published, with his compositions available on compact disks from Wergo Records, Centaur Records, Contemporary Recording Studios, Musical Heritage, and Composers' Recordings, Inc. Conn Hallinan received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1975 from Berkeley. He came to UC Santa Cruz 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 UC Santa Cruz on-campus and off-campus news media internship programs. In 2000, one of his recent students, Martha Mendoza received a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism.
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