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The Regents of the University of California

Regents Ex Officio

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California
President of the Board of Regents

John Garamendi
Lieutenant Governor of California

Karen Bass

Speaker of the Assembly

Jack O’Connell
State Superintendent of Public Instruction

David Shewmake
President of the Alumni Associations
of the University of California

Debbie Cole
Vice President of the Alumni Associations
of the University of California

Mark G. Yudof

President of the University

Appointed Regents

Jesse Bernal, Student
Richard C. Blum
William De La Peña
Russell S. Gould
Judith L. Hopkinson
John Hotchkis
Eddie Island
Odessa Johnson
Joanne Corday Kozberg
Sherry L. Lansing
Monica Lozano
Hadi Makarechian
George M. Marcus
Norman J. Pattiz
Bonnie Reiss
Fred Ruiz
Leslie Tang Schilling
Bruce D. Varner
Paul D. Wachter

Regents-Designate

Yolanda Nunn Gorman
Ronald W. Stovitz

Faculty Representatives to the Board of Regents

Mary Croughan
Henry Powell

Staff Representatives to the Board of Regents

Edward L. Abeyta
Bill Johansen

Appointed Officers of The Regents

Charles F. Robinson, General Counsel and
Vice President—Legal Affairs
Sheryl Vacca, Senior Vice President—Chief  
Compliance and Audit Officer
Diane M. Griffiths, Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Regents
Marie N. Berggren, Acting Treasurer of the Regents


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Office of the President

Mark G. Yudof
President of the University

Lawrence Pitts
Interim Provost and Executive Vice President—Academic Affairs

Bruce B. Darling
Executive Vice President—Laboratory Management

Katharine N. Lapp
Executive Vice President—Business Operations

Vacant
Executive Vice President—Chief Financial Officer

Sheryl Vacca
Senior Vice President—Chief Compliance and Audit Officer

Steven V.W. Beckwith
Vice President—Research and Graduate Studies

Marie N. Berggren
Vice President—Investments and Chief Investments Officer and Acting Treasurer
of the Regents

Anne Broome
Vice President—Financial Management

Daniel M. Dooley

Vice President—Agriculture and Natural Resources Interim Senior Vice President—External Relations

S. Robert Foley

Vice President—Laboratory Management

Patrick J. Lenz
Vice President—Budget

Charles F. Robinson
Vice President—Legal Affairs and General Counsel of the Regents

Judy K. Sakaki

Vice President—Student Affairs

John D. Stobo, M.D.

Senior Vice President—Health Sciences and Services


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University Chancellors

Robert J. Birgeneau
Chancellor at Berkeley

Larry N. Vanderhoef
Chancellor at Davis

Michael V. Drake
Chancellor at Irvine

Gene D. Block

Chancellor at Los Angeles

Steve Kang

Chancellor at Merced

Timothy P. White

Acting Chancellor at Riverside

Marye Anne Fox
Chancellor at San Diego

J. Michael Bishop

Chancellor at San Francisco

Henry T. Yang

Chancellor at Santa Barbara

George Blumenthal
Chancellor at Santa Cruz

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Administrative Officers - Santa Barbara Campus

Henry T. Yang
Chancellor

Todd G. Lee
Assistant Chancellor—Budget and Planning

Glenn Lucas
Executive Vice Chancellor

Arthur Gossard
Associate Vice Chancellor—
Academic Personnel

Maria Herrera-Sobek
Associate Vice Chancellor—
Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy

Thomas Putnam
Associate Vice Chancellor—
Information Technology and
Chief Information Officer

Ronald W. Tobin
Associate Vice Chancellor—
Academic Programs

Jody Kaufman
Executive Director—Academic Affairs

Vacant
Vice Chancellor—Administrative Services

Marc Fisher
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor–– Administrative Services and Campus Architecture

Ron Cortez
Associate Vice Chancellor––Administrative
Services

John M. Wiemann
Vice Chancellor—Institutional Advancement

Paul Desruisseaux
Associate Vice Chancellor—Public Affairs

Gary Greinke
Associate Vice Chancellor—Development

George Thurlow

Assistant Vice Chancellor—Alumni Affairs

Michael S. Witherell
Vice Chancellor—Research

Karen Hanson
Assistant Vice Chancellor—Research

Michael D. Young
Vice Chancellor—Student Affairs

Betty J. Huff
Assistant Vice Chancellor— Enrollment
Services and Management

Carolyn Buford

Executive Director and Associate Dean— Student Life and Academic Support Services

College of Letters and Science

David Marshall, Executive Dean
Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts

Carol Genetti
Associate Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts

W. Randall Garr
Associate Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts

Melvin Oliver
Dean, Social Sciences

Leila Rupp
Associate Dean, Social Sciences

Beth Schneider
Associate Dean, Social Sciences

Pierre Wiltzius
Dean, Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences

Bruce Luyendyk
Associate Dean, Mathematical, Life, and
Physical Sciences

Mary Nisbet
Acting Dean, Undergraduate Education

John Park
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education

Allan Stewart-Oaten
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies

College of Creative Studies

Bruce Tiffney
Dean

Harry Reese
Associate Dean

College of Engineering

Vacant, Dean

Kevin Almeroth
Associate Dean, Advancement and Planning

Glenn E. Beltz
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies

Frank Doyle

Associate Dean, Research

Gary Hansen
Associate Dean, Technology Management
Programs

Joy Williams
Assistant Dean, Administration

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

John Melack, Dean

Vacant, Associate Dean

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Jane Close Conoley
Dean


Academic Preparation
Claudia Martinez
, Director

Equal Opportunity
Ricardo Alcaino
, Director

Graduate Division
Gale Morrison
, Dean

Office of Admissions
Christine Van Gieson
, Director

Office of the Registrar
Virginia K. Johns
, Registrar

Office of Student Life
Yonie Harris
, Dean of Students

Summer Sessions, University Extended Learning Services
Loy Lytle
, Dean

UCSB Libraries
Brenda Johnson
, University Librarian

University Office of Education Abroad Program
Michael O’Connell
, Interim Director


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California Research Center

California NanoSystems Institute

David Awschalom, Acting Scientific Director
Fred Wudl, Acting Associate Director

Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense (CNID)

David D. Awschalom, Director


National Centers

Nanocomposite Materials
Daniel E. Morse, Director

Center for the Chemical Design of Materials
Nicola Spaldin, Director

Center for Nanotechnology in Society
Barbara Herr Harthorn, Director

Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
Daniel E. Morse, Director
Francis J. Doyle, Associate Director

International Center for Materials Research
Nicola Spaldin, Director

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

David J. Gross, Director

Materials Research Laboratory

Craig Hawker, Director

National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Mark Rodwell, Director

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Vacant, Director

Pacific-Southwest Regional Center of Excellence (RCE) for Biodefense and Emerging
Infectious Disease Research

Alan Barbour (UCI), Director
Peggy Cotter, Project Leader

Southern California Earthquake Center
Thomas H. Jordan (USC), Director


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Organized Research Units

Chicano Studies Institute
Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Director

Institute for Computational Earth System Science
David Siegel, Director

Institute for Crustal Studies

Douglas W. Burbank, Director

Institute for Quantum and Complex Dynamics
Mark Sherwin, Director

Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research
Sarah Fenstermaker, Director

Marine Science Institute

Steven D. Gaines, Director

Neuroscience Research Institute
Stuart Feinstein, Co-Director
Kenneth Kosik, Co-Director

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Multicampus Research

Intercampus Research Program on Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies (UC Mexicanistas)
Sara Poot-Hererra, Director

Subaltern-Popular Workshop Multicampus Research Group
Swati Chattopadhyay, Director

Transliteracies Project
Alan Liu, Director

UC Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA)
Kim Yasuda, Co-Director
Richard Hebdige, Co-Director
Holly Unruh, Associate Director

UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute (UC LMRI)
Russell W. Rumberger, Director


Affiliated Units

American Cultures and Global Contexts
Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Director

Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Leslie Wilson, Director

Brain Imaging Center

Scott Grafton, Director

Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and the New Media
Constance Penley, Co-Director
Ron Rice, Co-Director

Center for Advanced Nitride Electronics
Umesh Mishra, Director

Center for Bio-Image Informatics
B. S. Manjunath, Director

Center for Black Studies Research
Claudine Michel, Director

Center for Cold War Studies
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Director

Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation
Mustafa Khammash, Director

Center for Creativity and Innovation

Christopher Newfield, Director

Center for Education Research on Literacy and Inquiry in Networking Communities
Judith Green, Director

Center for Educational Change in Mathematics and Science

Julian Weissglass, Director

Center for Evolutionary Psychology

Leda Cosmides, Co-Director
John Tooby, Co-Director

Center for Global Studies
Richard Appelbaum, Co-Director
Barbara Herr-Harthorn, Co-Director

Center for Information Technology and Society

Jennifer Earl, Director

Center for Middle East Studies
Nancy Gallagher, Co-Director
Kathleen Moore, Co-Director

Center for Multifunctional Materials and Structures
Anthony Evans, Director

Center for New Racial Studies
Howard Winant, Director

Center for Nonlinear Sciences

Bjorn Birnir, Director

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
Guillermo Bazan, Director

Center for Portuguese Studies
Joao Camilo-dos-Santos, Director

Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director

Center for Research in Financial Mathematics and Statistics
Jean-Pierre Foque, Director

Center for Research on Women and Social Justice
Eileen Boris, Director

Center for Risk Studies and Safety

Theo Theofanous, Director

Center for School-Based Youth Development

Michael Furlong, Director

Center for Spatial Studies
Michael Goodchild, Director

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
Michael Goodchild, Co-Director
Richard Appelbaum, Co-Director

Center for Terahertz Science and Technology
Mark Sherwin, Director

Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music
Derek Katz, Co-Director
Eric Prieto, Co-Director

Center for the Advanced Studies of Individual Differences
Michael Gerber, Director

Center for the Study of the Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology of Aging

Joel Rothman, Director

Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration
Don Anderson, Director

Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy
Nelson Lichtenstein, Director

Center for Taiwan Studies

Kuo-ch’ing Tu, Director

Center on Police Practices and Community
Howard Giles, Director

Coastal Research Center
Russell Schmitt, Director

Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture

Yunte Huang, Director

Early Modern Center

Patricia Fumerton, Director

East Asia Center

Sabine Frühstück, Director

Ecoinformatics Center

O. J. Reichman, Director

Gevirtz Research Center

Vishna Herrity, Director

Health Data Research Facility
Ronald Williams

Information Sensing, Processing, and Networking Research Group
Jerry Gibson, Director

Institute for Multiscale Materials Studies
George Homsy, Director

Interdisciplinary Center for Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors
James Speck, Director

Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center

Richard Hebdige, Director
Holly Unruh, Associate Director

Koegel Autism Research Center
Robert Koegel

Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance
Finn Kydland, Director

Larry Hillbloom Center

Ken Kosik, Director

Marine Biotechnology Center
Daniel Morse, Director

MesoAmerican Research Center
Anabel Ford, Director

Michael D. Palm Center
Aaron Belkin, Director

Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge
Mark Meadow, Co-Director
Bruce Robertson, Co-Director

Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials
Glenn Fredrickson, Director

National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

Keith Clarke

Ocean and Coastal Policy Center

Michael McGinnis, Deputy Director

Ocean Physics Laboratory

Tommy Dickey

Optoelectronics Technology Center

Larry Coldren, Director

Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies
Mark Juergensmeyer, Director

Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior
James Blascovich, Co-Director
Andrew Beall, Co-Director

Research Unit on Spatial Cognition and Choice
Reginald Golledge

SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind
Michael Gazzaniga, Director

Solid State Lighting and Energy Center

Shuji Nakamura, Co-Director
Steven DenBaars, Co-Director

Social Science Survey Center/Benton Survey Research
Laboratory

Jon Sonstelie, Director

Transcriptions Project: The Cultures of Information
Alan Liu, Director

UCSB Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering
Dennis Clegg, Director

Vernon and Mary Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
Jennifer Thorsch, Executive Director

Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life
Wade Clark Roof, Director


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Natural Reserve System

Natural Reserve System
William W. Murdoch, Director
Susan L. Swarbrick, Associate Director

Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve
Andrew J. Brooks, Reserve Director
William Rice, Faculty Advisor

Coal Oil Point Reserve
Cristina Sandoval, Reserve Director
Carla D’ Antonio, Faculty Advisor

Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve
Don Canestro, Reserve Director
Steve Gaines, Faculty Advisor

Santa Cruz Island Reserve
Lyndal Laughrin, Reserve Director
Sally J. Holbrook, Faculty Advisor

Sedgwick Reserve

Kate McCurdy, Reserve Director
Joshua Schimel, Faculty Advisor

Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve
(includes Valentine Camp and Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory)
Daniel R. Dawson, Reserve Director
John M. Melack, Faculty Advisor


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