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Press Release-Dynes Named UCSD Chancellor

Robert C. Dynes, a renowned physicist and an expert researcher in
semiconductors and solid state circuits, has been selected by the
University of California Board of Regents as the sixth chancellor to
head UC San Diego.

At a special meeting by teleconference today (Tuesday, April 9), the
Regents affirmed UC President Richard C. Atkinson's recommendation
that Dynes, 53, be named chancellor of the 17,264-student campus.
Dynes succeeds Atkinson, who was named UC president last October after
15 years as chancellor at UCSD.

Dynes, a professor of physics since 1991, had been senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs -- UCSD's top academic officer --
since last August. He will assume his new duties from interim
chancellor Marjorie C. Caserio on July 1. Dynes' salary, which was
approved by the Regents in open session, will be $186,800 annually.

"Bob Dynes brings to UCSD an excellent balance of teaching, scholarly
research as well as management experience in academia and private
industry. He is respected and admired throughout the UC system and the
nation and he will successfully lead the campus into the 21st
century," Atkinson said. "The board and I are very pleased that he has
accepted this appointment."

"The Board of Regents enthusiastically endorsed President Atkinson's
choice of Bob Dynes," said Clair W. Burgener, chairman of the Board of
Regents. "The San Diego campus and the UC system acquires a true
leader in Chancellor Dynes and we all look forward to his counsel and
guidance."

Dynes was chosen from among more than 100 candidates following a
national search by Atkinson with help from an advisory committee of
Regents, faculty, students, staff, and representatives from the UCSD
Alumni Association and the UCSD Foundation.

"I am flattered and honored to serve as chancellor of UC San Diego,"
Dynes said. "I can only hope that my tenure as chancellor of this
great university will reflect the quality and esteem of its faculty
and students. Working together, we will continue to build one of the
finest research universities in the world."

Dynes brings to the position an extensive record in scientific
research. A native of London, Ontario, Can., and a naturalized United
States citizen, Dynes holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and
physics from the University of Western Ontario, and a master's degree
and Ph.D. in physics from McMaster University.

From 1968 until 1990, he was a research scientist for AT&T Bell
Laboratories. His positions at the laboratory included department head
of semiconductor and material physics research and director of
chemical physics research.

In 1991, he joined the UCSD faculty as professor of physics and in
1994, he was named chair of the Department of Physics. Dynes founded
an interdisciplinary laboratory at UCSD where chemists, electrical
engineers and private industry researchers investigate the properties
of metals, semiconductors and superconductors.

In August 1995, Dynes was appointed senior vice chancellor for
academic affairs at UCSD.

Dynes is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1990, he was the winner of the Fritz
London Award in Low Temperature Physics and he is a fellow of the
American Physical Society and the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research.

Dynes is also a member of the UC President's Council on the National
Laboratories at Los Alamos, Lawrence-Livermore and Lawrence-Berkeley.
He chairs that group's science and technology panel. Additionally, he
chairs the National Research Council's study group on careers in
mathematics and physical sciences.

UCSD, which includes Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was formally
established in 1961. The campus, with an annual budget of nearly $1
billion, includes five undergraduate colleges, a medical school,
School of Engineering, Graduate School of International Relations and
Pacific Studies, nine libraries, Center for Magnetic Recording
Research, a research facility in molecular biology and a super
computer facility.

Last fall, the National Research Council, which ranks doctoral
research programs in the U.S., ranked UCSD 10th in the nation.
Fourteen of UCSD's doctoral programs were ranked in the top 10,
including oceanography and neurosciences which were ranked No. 1 -- an
unparalleled achievement for a comprehensive university that is only
30 years old.