UCSC Review Winter 1997

Faculty members fill two new UCSC chairs

Four members of ucsc's faculty have been named to fill two recently created endowed chairs.

Murray Baumgarten, a professor of English and comparative literature, and Peter Kenez, a professor of history, were named cochairs of the Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies--established by a gift from Anne Neufeld Levin.

Dan Doak and Daniel Press, both assistant professors of environmental studies, have been appointed cochairs of the Pepper- Giberson Chair in Environmental Studies-- created by a gift from Alan G. and Margaret S. Lyons Giberson.