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Division<\/th>Chair name<\/th>Chair holder<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Campuswide<\/td>Presidential Chair<\/td>Magy Seif El-Nasr, Professor, Computational Media<\/td><\/tr>
Campuswide<\/td>Narinder Kapany Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development<\/td>Manel Camps, Director, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development<\/td><\/tr>
Arts<\/td>Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music<\/td>Dard Neuman, Associate Professor, Music<\/td><\/tr>
Arts<\/td>Kenneth R. Corday Family Presidential Chair in Writing for Television and Film<\/td>Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Professor, Film and Digital Media<\/td><\/tr>
Arts<\/td>Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History<\/td>Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture<\/td><\/tr>
Colleges<\/td>Robert Headley Presidential Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice<\/td>Sikina Jinnah, Professor, Environmental Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Engineering<\/td>Narinder Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics<\/td>Holger Schmidt, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Engineering<\/td>Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering I<\/td>Lise Getoor, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Engineering<\/td>Jack Baskin Chair in Engineering<\/td>Marco Rolandi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Engineering<\/td>Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering II<\/td>Shiva Abbaszadeh, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Engineering<\/td>Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software<\/td>James Davis, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Engineering<\/td>Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research<\/td>Heiner Litz, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department<\/td><\/tr>
Humanities<\/td>Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies<\/td>Nirvikar Singh, Distinguished Professor, Economics<\/td><\/tr>
Humanities<\/td>Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and 19th Century Literature Studies<\/td>Renee Fox, Co-Director, Dickens Project<\/td><\/tr>
Humanities<\/td>Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies<\/td>Anjali Arondekar, Professor, Feminist Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Humanities<\/td>Murray Baumgarten Chair in Jewish Studies<\/td>Nathaniel Deutsch, Director, Center for Jewish Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Humanities<\/td>Neufeld-Levin Holocaust Endowed Chair<\/td>Alma Heckman, Associate Professor, History<\/td><\/tr>
Library<\/td>Richard L. Press University Librarian Presidential Chair<\/td>Elizabeth Cowell, University Librarian<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics<\/td>Olena Morozova Vaske, Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair in Ocean Health<\/td>Donald Croll, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Henry Bachmann Endowed Chair in Astronomical Instrumentation<\/td>Bruce A. Macintosh, Director of UC Observatories<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Jean Langenheim Endowed Chair in Plant Ecology & Evolution<\/td>Jarmila Pitterman, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Faggin Family Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information<\/td>Anthony Aguirre, Professor, Physics<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Wilton W. Webster Jr. Natural Reserves Presidential Chair  <\/td>Gage Dayton, Administrative Director, Natural Reserves<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Presidential Chair in Science Communication<\/td>Erika Check Hayden, Director, Science Communication Program<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Robert L. Sinsheimer Endowed Chair <\/td>Susan Carpenter, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Vera Rubin Presidential Chair for Diversity in Astronomy<\/td>Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics<\/td><\/tr>
Sciences<\/td>Long Family Professorship in Experimental Physics<\/td>Bruce Schumm, Distinguished Professor, Physics<\/td><\/tr>
Social Sciences<\/td>Foundation Chair in Psychology<\/td>Barbara Rogoff, Distinguished Professor, Psychology<\/td><\/tr>
Social Sciences<\/td>Ruth and Alfred Heller Endowed Chair in Agroecology<\/td>Stacy Philpott, Professor, Environmental Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Social Sciences<\/td>Pepper-Giberson Endowed Chair in Environmental Studies<\/td>Madeleine Fairbairn, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Social Sciences<\/td>Olga T. Griswold Endowed Chair in Environmental Studies<\/td>Ravi Rajan, Professor, Environmental Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Social Sciences<\/td>Stephen R. Gliessman Presidential Chair in Water Resources and Food System Sustainability<\/td>J. Elliott Campbell, Professor, Environmental Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Social Sciences<\/td>Dorothy E. Everett Endowed Chair for Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship<\/td>Roberto de Roock, Director, Everett Program<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Division Chair name Chair holder Campuswide Presidential Chair Magy Seif El-Nasr, Professor, Computational Media Campuswide Narinder Kapany Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development Manel Camps, Director, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development Arts Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music Dard Neuman, Associate Professor, Music Arts Kenneth R. Corday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":4944,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4962","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4962\/revisions\/5888"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}