UC Regents Name Chancellors at San Diego and Santa Cruz

Moving to fill what had threatened to become a leadership void, the University of California Board of Regents on Tuesday named new chancellors at two of UC’s nine campuses, UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz.

At UC San Diego, Robert C. Dynes, 53, a renowned physicist who is the senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, will succeed Richard C. Atkinson, who was named UC president in October.

At UC Santa Cruz, M.R.C. Greenwood, 53, now the dean of graduate studies at UC Davis, will succeed Karl S. Pister, who retires in June. Greenwood’s salary will be $173,200, while Dynes will make $186,800.

The naming of Dynes and Greenwood, who will assume their new duties July 1, appears to head off what some were beginning to see as a governance crisis at the 162,000-student university. Earlier this year, UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young announced that he will retire in June 1997.

Dynes holds a doctorate in physics from McMaster University in Canada. He came to UC San Diego in 1991 after 22 years as a research scientist for AT&T; Bell Laboratories.

Greenwood received her doctorate in physiology, developmental biology and neurosciences from Rockefeller University. She came to UC Davis in 1989 after serving as a professor and administrator at Columbia University and Vassar College.