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UC Santa Cruz's Denice Denton falls to death.(NEWSWATCH)(University of California )(Brief article)

Women in Higher Education

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In a suspected suicide, the chancellor of the University of California Santa Cruz fell to her death from the roof of a 42-floor San Francisco apartment building. Her body was found around 8 am on Saturday, June 24. She was 46.

Colleagues said she was facing multiple problems at Santa Cruz, including personal barbs and a physical attack for renovations to the president's residence, criticism for negotiating an employment package and a reportedly tumultuous personal life.

Dr. Denton had been a strong supporter of women--particularly those in science--from her days teaching electrical engineering in the 1980s and 1990s at the University of Wisconsin to those as the dean of the college of engineering at the University of Washington, to taking over as chancellor ...

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