Chancellor

Personal

Date and Place of Birth: September 5, 1939; Liberal, Kansas
Married: A. Kathleen Archer, June 11, 1961
Children: Erin K. (b.1963) and Joel M. (b. 1967)
Email: rdgrey@ucdavis.edu

Education

Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis 1966
B.A., Phillips University, 1961

Administrative Positions, University of California, Davis

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, 1995-2001
Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, 1993-1995
Dean, Biological Sciences, 1985-1993
Chair, Department of Zoology, 1979-1983
Associate Dean, College of Letters and Science, 1976
Vice Chair, Department of Zoology, 1974-1979
Assistant Dean, College of Letters and Science (student advising), 1970-71

University of California Administrative Experience

Special Assistant to the Provost, University of California System, 2007.
Executive Assistant to the Chancellor (for Health Sciences), UC Riverside, 2005-2006.
Special Assistant to the Provost, UC Santa Cruz, 2003

Research and Professional Experience

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Emeritus, UC Davis, 2002-present
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis, 1993-2002
Professor of Zoology, UC Davis, 1978-1993
Visiting Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Michigan, 1976
Associate Professor of Zoology, University of California Davis, 1972-78
Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of California, Davis, 1967-72
Assistant Professor of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, 1965-66
Postdoctoral Trainee, NIH, Physiology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1963
Predoctoral Trainee, NIH, Washington University, 1962-65

Honors

Distinguished Alumnus Award, Phillips University
Who's Who in America, 1988
American Men and Women of Science, 1985
Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence, 1979
Distinguished Teaching Award, Davis Division of the Academic Senate, 1977

Consulting and Professional Activities

Consultant, University of California, Santa Cruz: Academic Organization and Administration, 2003
Consultant, UC Davis Health System (with Joe Tupin, M.D.): Leadership and Administration of the UC Davis Health System in the Decade Ahead, 2002-03
Consultant, UC Davis Health System (with David Wisner, M.D.): "The Futures of the UC Davis Health System," 2001-02
Consultant--Organization of the Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1999
Chair, Blue Ribbon Panel on Organization of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California, Riverside, 1996
Member, Review Team for the College of Veterinary Medicine and Natural Sciences, Colorado State University, 1999
Consultant, Reorganization of the Biological Sciences, Colorado State University, 1997
Visiting Advisory Board-Biological Sciences, Cornell University 1989-93
AAAS/NSF Revision of Science Curricula in American Research Universities, 1994
Jackson State University, Graduate School, 1985
University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Biology, 1983
North Carolina State University, Department of Zoology, 1983
University of California, Irvine, Center for Pathobiology, 1980

National Organization Activities

Executive Committee, Council on Academic Affairs, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) 1995-99
NASULGC's Council on Academic Affairs' Representative, Kellogg Commission on the Future of the Land Grant Universities, 2000-02
Association of American Universities Provosts' Council:  Program Planning Committee, 2001

Professional Society Memberships (inactive)

Society for Developmental Biology
American Society for Cell Biology
Sigma Xi
Phi Sigma Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Editorial and Reviewing Activities (inactive)

Reviewer: Developmental Biology, Journal of Cell Biology, Gamete Research, Journal of Experimental Zoology, Science
Editorial Consultant:  Oxford University Press, Wadsworth Publishers, Sinauer and Associates

Public Service

Member, The MET School Advisory Board, Sacramento, CA, 2003-2004
Fellow, California Council on Science and Technology, 1998-
Advisory Board, Davis Science Center 1990-92
Chair, Committee to Design a model Science Curriculum for the Davis Public Schools, 1983-84
Member, Fundraising Committee, Florence Moog Endowed Scholarships, Washington University, 1982-84
Member, Rotary Club of Davis
Charter Member, Science Alliance, Northern California

Teaching

Washington University

Introductory Biology; Biology for Honors Students (1966-67)

UC Davis

Undergraduate
-Biological Sciences 1 [Principles of Biology (course for majors)]
-Biological Sciences 10 [General Biology (course for non-majors)]
-Zoology 100 (Embryology)
-Zoology 101 (Developmental Biology Laboratory)
-Zoology 103 (Cell Differentiation)
-Molecular and Cellular Biology 150 (Embryology)

Graduate
-Zoology 225 (Biology of Fertilization)
-Zoology 269 (Research Conference in Developmental Biology)
-Zoology 292 (Seminar in Developmental Biology)

Professional
-Biological Sciences 310 (Effective Teaching of College Biology)

Student Research Training

Postdoctoral and Research Associates
-David Gardiner, Michele Charbonneau

Ph.D. Students
-David R. Burgess (Boston College)
-Carolyn Chambers (Xavier University)
-Thomas S. LeCount (deceased)
-John Stewart-Savage (University of New Orleans)

University Service

University of California Systemwide (partial list)
-Executive Budget Committee 1998-2001
-Chair, Search Committee for Associate Vice President, Information Technology
-Member, Search Committees for Provost and Senior Vice President-Academic Affairs, Senior Vice President-University Relations
-Convener, University of California Council of Vice Chancellors, 1994-95
-Chair, President's Systemwide Committee to Review the Instructional Improvement Program, 1979-80

UC Davis (partial list)
-Chair, Academic Planning Council, 1998-2001
-Chair, Biological Council 1985-93
-Member, Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors, 1985-2001
-Member, Undergraduate Education Workgroup, 1985-93
-Member, Bodega Marine Laboratory Workgroup, 1985-92
-Chair, Division of Biological Sciences Administrative Council, 1988-93
-Co-chair, Steering Committee to Organize a Graduate Program in Cell and Developmental Biology 1979-83
-Member, Academic Senate Library Committee, 1979-81
-Member, Representative Assembly of the Faculty, College of Letters and Science, 1979-80
-Chair, Special Academic Senate Committee to Investigate Matter Pertaining to the Biological Sciences/Health Sciences Library, 1976-78
-Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Teaching, 1973-74; member 1974-76
-Chair, Committee to Evaluate Advising in the College of Letter and Science, 1970-71
-Chair, Committee on Advising and Counseling, Division of Biological Sciences, 1970-74

Publications (partial list)

Moog, F., H. R. Vire and R. D. Grey (1966) The multiple forms of alkaline phosphatase in the small intestine of the young mouse. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 113: 336-349.

Grey, R. D. and F. Moog (1966) Elevation of alkaline Phosphatase activity in the intestine of the chick embryo by actinomycin D. Nature 211:418-419.

Moog, F. and R. D. Grey (1966) A system regulating alkaline phosphatase activity in the duodenum of the chick embryo and mouse. Biologia Neonatorum 9:10-23.

Moog, F. and R.D. Grey (1967) Spatial and temporal differentiation of alkaline phosphatase on the intestinal villi of the mouse. J. Cell Biol. 32: C1-C6.

Moog, F. and R.D. Grey (1968) Alkaline phosphatase isozyme in the duodenum of the mouse: Attainment of pattern of spatial distribution in normal development and under the influence of cortisone or actinomycin D. Dev. Biol. 18: 481-514.

Grey, R.D. and P.B. Armstrong (Eds.) (1970) Readings in Embryology, 89 pp. MSS educational Publishing Company, New York.

Grey, R.D. and T.S. LeCount (1970) Distribution of leucyl naphthylamidase and alkaline phosphatase on the villi of the chick duodenum. J. Histochem. and Cytochem. 18: 416-423.

Grey, R.D. (1972) Morphogenesis of intestinal villi. I. Scanning electron microscopy of the duodenal epithelium of the developing chick embryo. J. Morphol. 137: 193-214.

Grey, R.D., D.P. Wolf and J.L. Hedrick (1974) Formation and structure of the fertilization envelope in Xenopus laevis. Dev. Biol. 36: 44-61.

Burgess, D.R. and R.D. Grey (1974) Alterations in the morphology of developing microvilli elicited by cytochalasin B. Studies of embryonic chick intestine in organ culture. J. Cell. Biol. 62: 66-574.

Grey, R.D., P.K. Working and J.L. Hedrick (1976) Evidence hat the fertilization envelope blocks sperm entry in eggs of Xenopus laevis: Interaction of sperm with isolated envelopes. Dev. Biol. 54: 52-60.

Chambers, C. and R.D. Grey (1979) Development of the structural components of the brush border in absorptive cells of the chick intestine. Cell and Tissue Research 204: 387-405.

Grey, R.D., M.J. Bastiani, D.J. Webb and E.R. Schertel (1982) An electrical block is required to prevent polyspermy in eggs fertilized by natural mating of Xenopus laevis. Dev. Biol. :475-484.

Grey, R.D., P.B. Armstrong, C.A. Erickson and A.C. Lopo (1982) A Laboratory Text for Developmental Biology, vi + 170 pp. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. Dubuque, Iowa

Gardiner, D.M. and R.D. Grey (1983) Membrane junctions in Xenopus eggs: their distribution suggests a role in calcium regulation. J. Cell Biol. 96: 1159-1163.

Nuccitelli, R. and R.D. Grey (1984) Controversy over the fast, partial temporary block to polyspermy in sea urchins: a re-evaluation. Dev. Biol. 103: 1-17.

Stewart-Savage, J., R.D. Grey and R.P. Elinson. (1991) Polarity of the surface and cortex of the amphibian egg from fertilization to first cleavage. J. Electron Microscopy Technique 17: 369-383.