Former UC Davis Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Grey stepped in June 29 as the acting chancellor of UC Riverside.

UC President Robert Dynes made the appointment, saying the retired UC administrator would fill in while the university conducts a national search for a permanent successor to France Cordova. She left to become the president of Purdue University.

Grey recently served at UC Riverside as executive assistant to the chancellor for health affairs, acting as a consultant in the campus's planning for a School of Medicine.

Grey joined the UC Davis faculty in 1967 as an assistant professor of zoology and ultimately became a professor of cellular and molecular biology. He received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Academic Senate in 1978.

He was an assistant and associate dean in the College of Letters of Science before being named founding dean of the Division of Biological Sciences in 1985.

He was appointed interim provost

and executive vice chancellor in 1993, and received the post on a permanent basis in 1995. He stepped down in 2001.