Marye
Anne Fox To Be
Inaugurated March 3, 2005
As Chancellor
By
Pat Jacoby I February
28, 2005
The
traditional pomp of an
academic inauguration,
with its procession of
dignitaries in rainbow-hued
institutional robes, its
inspirational music and
scholarly remarks, will
take place at RIMAC Arena
on Thursday when Marye
Anne Fox is installed
as seventh chancellor
of the 25,000-student
campus.
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Inauguration Ceremony
RIMAC Arena
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12:00 p.m. |
Inaugural Lunch
ALL CEREMONY ATTENDEES INVITED TO ATTEND
RIMAC Field
Event will be held inside in the event of rain |
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4:30 p.m. |
The 2005
Kyoto Laureates Symposium
Basic Science Presentation Price Center Theatre |
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The
event begins at 10 a.m.
and will be followed by
a buffet lunch on RIMAC
Field, to which all attendees
are invited.
The
theme for the inauguration
is Together We Achieve
the Extraordinary,
reflecting the spirit
and energy of UCSD and
the campus tradition of
teamwork. Individual flags
given to attendees and
banners lining the concourse
entry to the Arena will
expand the theme. Ellen
Revelle, widow of Roger
Revelle, considered the
"father" of UCSD, will
serve as honorary chair
of the event.
Ralph Cicerone, chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, and recently elected president of the National Academy of Sciences, will give the inaugural address. Robert C. Dynes, president of the University of California, will conduct the ceremony of investiture.
The inauguration will open with an academic procession of nearly 70 members of the Platform Party consisting of inaugural speakers, Regents, former Regents, officers of the Regents, former presidents, vice presidents, laboratory directors, chancellors, former UCSD chancellors, UCSD vice chancellors, deans and provosts, inaugural marshals and select others.
Academic attire will be worn by these platform participants as well as other delegates representing institutions of higher learning, learned societies, educational organizations and UC faculty.
Processional music will be performed by the La Jolla Symphony, led by Harvey Sollberger, conductor and professor, Department of Music. The UCSD Gospel Choir, directed by Kenneth Anderson, will offer several selections.
Gerald Parsky, chairman of the Board of Regents, will give the official welcome. Slated to present official greetings from their constituencies are: Jenn Pae, president of UCSD Associated Students; Kristopher Kohler, president, UCSD Graduate Student Association; Henry DeVries, president, UCSD Alumni Association Board; Jacque Fowler, chair, UCSD Staff Association; Donald Tuzin, chair, San Diego Division of the Academic Senate; Steven Weber, president, San Diego State University; Jerome Katzin, UC San Diego Foundation, and Parsky, representing the Board of Regents.
During
the buffet luncheon on
the field following the
inaugural ceremony, gifts
will be presented to Chancellor
Fox from student and staff
groups.
The inauguration events will continue at 4:30 p.m.when Alfred Knudson Jr., M.D., Ph.D., will give the 2005 Kyoto Laureate Symposium basic sciences address in the Price Center Theatre. A noted geneticist, Knudson's research provided the momentum for dramatic progress in the study of cancer genetics.
Fox, a nationally known chemist and academic leader, was named as UCSD Chancellor in April, 2004, by the UC Board of Regents. She previously was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998. Before going to North Carolina, Fox spent 22 years at the University Texas, where she advanced from assistant professor of organic chemistry to vice president for research and held the Waggoner Regents Chair in chemistry.
Fox earned a bachelor's degree in science from Notre Dame College, a master's degree in science form Cleveland State University and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. She has held over 50 endowed lectureships at universities around the world and received numerous awards, including the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award for 2005 from the American Chemical Society in recognition of outstanding public service.
She also has been honored with numerous teaching awards as well as the Monie Ferst Award, a national award recognizing outstanding mentoring of graduate students.
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