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Biochemist David Deamer Molecular biologist Harry Noller Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt when Nano meets Bio An interdisciplinary team develops tiny technology with big biomedical potential

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Review 2 schraub paul No matter how far Chancellor Acting Chancellor , appointed George R. Blumenthal after ’s death, you’ve wandered is committed to keeping UCSC Vice Chancellor, University Relations Donna Murphy on an upward trajectory. Associate Vice Chancellor, Communications Elizabeth Irwin When Nano

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18 jim mackenzie the Border R Former Alumni Association: 1156 High Street Anthropology grad student Chelsey Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 R First American woman to walk in space Ann Juarez is bringing closure to R alumni.ucsc.edu R B.S., Earth Sciences ’73 (Cowell College, UCSC) Voice: 831.459.2501 Mexican families whose loved ones Fax: 831.459.5795 perish crossing the U.S. border. R [email protected] R Life member, UCSC Alumni Association E-mail: [email protected] Web: review.ucsc.edu R 800-933-SLUG Being a UCSC Alumni Association member is the Produced by UC Santa Cruz Public Affairs Also in this issue “ 9/06(0607-046/83.4M) easiest way for me to stay connected to our alma mater Campus Update ...... 2 and my fellow grads from Cowell College. Flights of Fancy ...... 14 UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Vol. 44, No. 1 / September 2006 Listening for Silent Earthquakes ...... 16 Membership celebrates the achievements of our UC Santa Cruz is a series of administrative publications school, and helps me stay informed about campus published in September, November, March, and April Embedded ...... 20 by University Relations at the University of California, news, alumni achievements, and the impact of Santa Cruz. Periodicals postage paid at Santa Cruz, Paving the Road to Graduate School ...... 22 research in our community. Join me! CA 95060. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Alumni News ...... 24 UCUC SCSC ” University of California, Santa Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077. Alumni Notes ...... 26 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION London Photography, Debbie Rowe prisons and other controversial Another UCSC grad, features of the government’s CAMPUS UPDATE tt fi matt Dana Priest, receives counterterrorism campaign.” The prize includes a $10,000 Pulitzer Prize award. ana priest, who visited Priest is the fifth UCSC George Blumenthal named acting chancellor of UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz in graduate to receive a Pulitzer, over that period of D March to accept the following Hector Tobar (1992), time. Acting Chancellor outlines his priorities Division of Social paul schraub paul “George is Sciences’ first

respected through- On his fi rst day working in the Offi ce of the Chancellor in Distinguished jon kersey out the university, mid-July, George Blumenthal issued the following statement: Alumni Award, has and he has more even faculty members and 10 graduate teaching assistants received a 2006 than 30 years of who have demonstrated “exemplary and inspiring teaching” Pulitzer Prize. deep working Our primary mission as an institution is to serve the state Shave received top honors from UCSC’s Academic Senate. The Priest, who grad- knowledge of the of California through teaching, research, and public service. 2005–06 Excellence in Teaching Awards were presented by the late uated from UCSC Santa Cruz cam- Therefore, the priorities on which I will focus include: chancellor Denice D. Denton (fourth from right) and Committee on (Merrill College) in pus,” Dynes said. Teaching chair Charles McDowell (far left) at University Center at 1981 with a bache- Blumenthal, 60, R Recruiting and retaining the outstanding faculty, staff, and the end of the academic year. Also pictured are the faculty winners lor’s in politics, has been a mem- students that characterize our campus; (l–r): Ruth Hoffman, Kenneth Pedrotti, Hilde Schwartz, Ana Maria received journalism’s ber of the UCSC Seara, John Isbister, Dean Mathiowetz, and Martin Berger. highest honor in the R Building on our academic strengths as we refi ne and faculty since 1972. category of “beat implement our academic plan; He has chaired reporting.” Dana Priest lectured on “The CIA’s Secret War” the R Expanding graduate programs and enrollments, and Prestigious academies Science and Engineering at A Washington during her visit to UCSC in March. and considering the creation of additional professional schools; UCSC and is scientific codirec- Post reporter, Priest Department and select UCSC faculty tor of the California Institute was recognized Laurie Garrett (1996), Annie the Santa Cruz R Maintaining our distinction and achievements as an for Quantitative Biomedical “for her persistent, painstaking Wells (1997), and Martha Division of the outstanding undergraduate institution; wo ucsc faculty Research. reports on secret ‘black site’ Mendoza (2000). Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal Academic Senate. members were elected to Woosley, a theoretical astro- R Ensuring diversity among all segments of the university; In 2004–05 he T the National Academy of physicist, is a leading authority Appointee has been on served as chair of the UC sys- R Building positive relationships with the local community Sciences, and three are among on supernovae and gamma-ray Economics undergrad Bihar region of India. temwide Academic Senate, and and community leaders; and the new fellows of the American bursts, the most violent explo- Mishra’s work builds on UCSC faculty since 1972 he was faculty representative Academy of Arts and Sciences. sions in the universe. He directs wins scholarship to the legacy of his grandfather, c santa cruz professor to the Board of Regents for R Spreading the word about our campus’s distinctions to David Haussler (biomolecu- the UCSC-based Center for who opened a TB sanatorium George R. Blumenthal has the years 2003–05. various groups around the state and the country. lar engineering) and Stan Supernova Research, funded by fight TB in India in 1951. To date, the 100- been appointed the cam- “This appointment is Woosley (astronomy and astro- the Department of Energy. bed facility has treated more U George Blumenthal, Acting Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz pus’s acting chan- diffi cult because ) are among 72 new Berger was recognized for ike his grandfather, than 80,000 people. cellor, assuming UC Santa Cruz has been it has come members elected to the National his contributions to literary criti- Saurabh Mishra is a “In 1950, my grandfather the responsibilities on a positive trajectory, about through Academy of Sciences. cism. A UCSC founding faculty L visionary. Mishra, left the luxuries of the United of Denice Denton, moving upward among such a tragic tory, moving upward among and other large The three faculty members member, he is known for an in- a senior in economics, wants States for one of the poorest who died in June. the top tier of our circumstance,” the top tier of our nation’s uni- structures in the universe, and elected to the American terdisciplinary approach extend- to raise public awareness areas in India because he had Blumenthal is Blumenthal said. versities. I am determined to the structure of active galactic Academy of Arts and Sciences ing past academic boundaries. about tuberculosis this vision 50 expected to serve nation’s universities. “But I have enor- continue that momentum.” nuclei such as quasars. are Haussler, Harry Berger Jr. Widom has made contribu- (TB) and provide years ago of eradi- as acting chancel- I am determined to mous respect for Blumenthal received a (English literature/history of art tions in an area of math called treatment to at cating tuberculo- lor for much or all continue that momentum. the faculty, staff, B.S. degree from the University The new chancellor meets with staff and visual culture), and Harold random matrix theory. His work least 10,000 suffer- jennifer mcnulty sis,” said Mishra. of the 2006–07 —Acting Chancellor and students of of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and faculty (below); he has also met Widom (mathematics). with Craig Tracy of UC Davis ers in his native “But TB is still a academic year, UC George Blumenthal UC Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in physics from with members of the local community. Haussler, a Howard Hughes led to the discovery of a new India. problem. It is in- President Robert C. and I am honored UC San Diego. Medical Institute Investigator, di- class of functions called Tracy- With a $10,000 spiring to me to Dynes said. A national search to assume this responsibility. The research of rects the Center for Biomolecular Widom distributions. scholarship from see all his work for the late chancellor’s perma- “Over the past decade, UCSC Blumenthal, a theo- the Donald A. and to try to nent successor will be conducted has been on a positive trajec- retical astrophysicist, Honored: David Haussler, Stan Woosley, Harry Berger Jr., and Harold Widom Strauss Public complete his encompasses several Service Scholar- Saurabh Mishra vision.”

broad areas, includ- ann gibb ship Foundation, Each year, tim stephens More information about Acting Chancellor Blumenthal can be schraub paul

ing the nature of schiffrin victor Mishra is organizing a fund- the Strauss Scholarships fund found on his web page: chancellor.ucsc.edu. The page also the that raising drive that will help at least 14 public-service provides a link enabling members of the UCSC community to constitutes most of him launch a major public projects proposed by share an idea, concern, or suggestion with the acting chancellor. the mass in the uni- health campaign in the California college juniors.

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2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 3 program, which will also involve fessor of film and digital media. Still teaching, UCSC’s nologies. An important goal for UCSC creates new New deans lead three uc davis faculty in the Department of A highlight of the major is a me will be to better connect our / jim mackenzie jim mackenzie

major in computer Film and Digital Media in yearlong game design project in pioneers honored academic divisions programs to partners both inside donahue louise UCSC’s Arts Division. Students which students work in teams to and outside our local region who game design for their service higgins karen are able to enroll in the new develop and polish a substantial csc has appointed three share our interest in these soci- CSC has approved a major beginning this fall. video game. The campus is cre- radition was heralded new deans of academic etally important research areas.” new major in computer “Millions now play massively ating a new instructional labora- with fond recollections at a U divisions: Stephen Thorsett Van Den Abbeele comes to U game design, the first of multiplayer online games, tory for computer game design T May 19 Academic Senate (physical and biological sciences), the Humanities Division from its kind in the UC system. The which constitute a new cultural to support these projects. celebration honoring 22 cam- Georges Van Den Abbeele UC Davis, where he was a pro- new major, leading to a B.S. force—a new pus pioneers. (humanities), and Sheldon fessor of French and Italian and degree, provides students with medium. The pioneers—professors Kamieniecki (social sciences). held a number of significant New deans: Stephen Thorsett, Georges Van Den Abbeele, and Sheldon Kamieniecki a rigorous background in the Digital media who are still teaching today Thorsett, a professor of administrative appointments technical, artistic, and narrative courses will and who were hired before July astronomy and astrophysics, has overseeing academic departments um on learning for its own sake, ronmental policy, elections, elements of creating interactive provide stu- 1, 1970—recalled a smaller, served as physical and biological and directing local and regional whether through classroom voting behavior, and public computer games. dents with the stern michael mateas/andrew vibrant, and growing campus sciences’ acting dean since 2005. interdisciplinary research centers. teaching or scholarly inquiry,” opinion. “We are pleased to be able to tools they need community in which interests “Our students and faculty “UC Santa Cruz is a won- Van Den Abbeele said. “I look forward to helping offer this new degree program, to understand were wide and responsibilities already make important contri- drous exception in today’s high- Kamieniecki, who has been a raise even higher the national which provides a unique combi- this cultural wider. butions to environmental sci- er education—a distinguished professor of political science at stature of the departments, re- nation of technical and artistic transformation “In those days, the scien- ence, biomedical science, and the research university that consis- the University of Southern search centers, and programs of training,” said Ira Pohl, profes- in conjunction tists, the social scientists, the development of advanced tech- tently maintains a high premi- California, specializes in envi- the division,” said Kamieniecki. sor and chair of computer with its tech- humanists in the colleges talked science in the Baskin School nological and to each other and enjoyed each of Engineering. artistic possi- other’s company,” remembered NSF funds research duct a five-year study of infor- The Department of bilities,” said Trip and Grace are characters in Façade, a computer literature professor Murray the true American masters of mal science education with Computer Science will adminis- Warren Sack, game developed by Michael Mateas, who will be teaching Baumgarten, hired in 1966. UCSC receives gift of photography.” on ‘informal science Judith Lombana, vice president ter the new interdisciplinary assistant pro- students in UCSC’s new program. “It was a great combination Brett Weston photos The gift enhances the education’ of research and institutional acrossacross disciplines,disciplines, acrossacross inter-inter- university’s substantial hold- development at the Museum of nationalnational bboundaries,”oundaries,” hhee ssaid.aid. csc has received ings of contemporary pho- or many parents, taking Science & Industry (MOSI) in Study documents water consist of seabirds. waters documented in this EconomicsEconomics professorprofessor DavidDavid a donation of over tography and greatly expands the kids to the aquarium or Tampa, . Scientists have long known new study represent the lon- Kaun,Kaun, aalsolso hhiredired inin 1966,1966, U 200 photographs by its photographic collection F a hands-on science museum “There’s value in looking at marathon migrations that sooty shearwaters breed in gest animal migration routes recalledrecalled thatthat “we“we didn’tdidn’t justjust acclaimed American photogra- of the Central Coast’s dynas- combines fun and learning. real objects and living things,” of sooty shearwaters New Zealand and Chile and ever recorded using electronic speakspeak ttruthruth ttoo ppower,ower, wewe spokespoke pher Brett Weston (1911– tic Weston family. The “Museums make science accessi- says Ash. “It enhances the quali- migrate to feeding grounds in tracking technology: around toto eeachach oother.ther. WeWe saidsaid whatwhat 1993), valued at more than University Library’s Special ble and engaging,” says Doris ty of learning in ways we don’t very summer, millions the Northern Hemisphere. But 65,000 kilometers (39,000 wewe wantedwanted toto saysay withwith a littlelittle $1 million. The photographs Collections photo holdings Ash, an assistant professor of even understand.” A trained of sooty shearwaters the details of this remarkable miles). Taking advantage of bitbit ooff hhumor.”umor.” are a gift from Oklahoma were initiated at UCSC in education at UCSC. “Visitors biologist and former classroom E arrive off the coast of transequatorial migration are prevailing winds along differ- BaumgartenBaumgarten aandnd KKaunaun collector Christian Keesee, the late 1960s with the sometimes don’t recognize they’re teacher, Ash is especially inter- California, their huge flocks only now emerging from a ent parts of the migration werewere joinedjoined byby anthropologyanthropology who acquired the Brett donation of more than 800 ‘doing science,’ but they are.” ested in the impact of informal astonishing visitors who may study using electronic tracking route, the birds trace giant professorprofessor AdrienneAdrienne ZihlmanZihlman Weston archive in 1996 and project prints by Edward Called “informal science edu- science learning on “nontradi- have trouble grasping that the tags to follow individual birds. figure eights over the Pacific, (1967) and Earth sciences describes Weston as “one of Weston, Brett’s father. cation,” the learning that takes tional” visitors, including the dark swirling clouds over the The flights of sooty shear- said Scott Shaffer, a UCSC professorprofessor GaryGary GGriggsriggs (1968)(1968) place at aquaria, zoos, and natu- poor and those with limited or research biologist and first inin rreminiscingeminiscing withwith theirtheir fellowfellow ral history museums enriches no English skills. author of a paper describing pioneerspioneers aandnd ccolleaguesolleagues wwhoho classroom learning the findings. The paper was hadhad ggatheredathered atat UniversityUniversity and engages people Youngsters at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center published in Proceedings of the CenterCenter fforor a rreceptioneception afterafter in ways that have a chance for hands-on investigation of sea creatures.

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sygma In Memoriam support Hindi/Urdu ub language program click rachel photos: higher education nationally, she larly for women and minorities This past May, Denton won became an outspoken advocate who wanted to pursue careers in the Maria Mitchell Women in ul schra a consortium of donors schraub paul p for diversity in academia. engineering and science.” Science Award for her work has committed to funding “Denice was an accomplished “She led this campus with advancing opportunities in A Hindi/Urdu language and passionate scholar whose life clear statements of the impor- science for women and girls. courses at UCSC through and work demonstrated a deep tance of education in transform- A campus celebration of the spring of 2010. The combined Attending a donor recognition event were: (left photo, l–r) John Mock, lecturer commitment to public service ing lives and in creating oppor- late chancellor’s life was held gifts in support of the program in Hindi/Urdu; Kamil Hasan, UCSC Foundation trustee; and Gildas Hamel, and to improving opportunity tunities for all,” said Kliger. June 29 in the UCSC Music total $75,000 and will enable director of the Language Program; and (right photo) fellowship recipient Maia for the disadvantaged and under- “She, herself, had lived that Center Recital Hall. the university to provide courses Ramnath, left, with Anu Luther Maitra, president of the UCSC Foundation. represented,” said UC President experience, rising from modest At UCSC, a fund has been that would otherwise be elimi- Robert C. Dynes. means to achieve with distinc- established to honor Chancellor nated due to budget cuts. lished in 1999 to create an en- initially began in January, As he prepared to bestow the tion at every stage in her life.” Denton’s vision and priorities The gift was initiated by during resource for understand- and two UCSC students have President’s Medal during Denton’s Student leaders hailed for the campus. The Denice D. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs ing the region and its cultures. already benefited from the November 2005 investiture cere- Denton’s openness and advocacy. Denton Memorial Fund will Kamil and Talat Hasan, who “History, economics, literature, generosity of the donors. Maia mony at UCSC, Dynes called “She was at the forefront of the pay tribute to her achievements Woody Allen and his New put together a group of 15 do- music—all depend on knowl- Ramnath, a graduate student in Denton “a trailblazer in pursuit of UC Sweatshop Free Campaign, as a leader in science and engi- Orleans Jazz Band is one of the nors who have each committed edge of these languages,” he said. history, and Max Bruce, a 2005 equity and multiculturalism.” and showed her commitment to neering, her advocacy for diver- featured artists performing in $1,000 a year for the next five The addition of second-year graduate in philosophy, were Denice D. Denton, a trail- At UCSC, where she served diversity by providing funding sity, as well as her commitment the 2006–07 academic year as part of UCSC’s Arts & Lectures years to support the language Hindi/Urdu courses provides awarded fellowships to study the blazing engineer who broke for 16 months, Denton was for student-initiated outreach to community. program. For information classes. the essential language prepara- Urdu language at the American through numerous barriers in remembered by Campus Provost programs,” wrote representatives about the season’s many A&L Kamil Hasan noted that the tion necessary for UCSC stu- Institute of Indian Studies pro- her academic career to become and Executive Vice Chancellor of the UCSC Student Union To make a memorial gift, please offerings, please go to: Hindi/Urdu language program dents who plan to continue gram in India, after completing chancellor of the University David S. Kliger for her dedica- Assembly, Graduate Student use the enclosed envelope or go to: artslectures.ucsc.edu is the anchor for UCSC’s South their education in graduate pro- two years of Hindi/Urdu study of California, Santa Cruz, died tion “to opening doors for Association, and UC Student www.ucsc.edu/administration/ Asia initiative—a project estab- grams. Funding for the classes at UCSC. June 24 in San Francisco. countless young people, particu- Association. denice_denton Denton took the helm at Engineering undergrads UC Santa Cruz in February 2005 after serving nine years Two Antarctica sites shmuel thaler inspire high schoolers as the dean of the College of named in honor of Engineering at the University of he baskin school of Washington in Seattle—the first UCSC biologists daniel costa courtesy Engineering hosted about woman to hold the post at a T 100 students from San Jose osta spur and Terrie top research institution. It was area high schools for a week of Bluff, once nameless one of many “firsts” Denton campus tours and workshops Cfeatures of the austere y acquired throughout her career, last spring. Teams of undergrad- Antarctic landscape, have been oosley oosle and she became a powerful role uates organized and ran the named in honor of Daniel xxxx model and mentor for women workshops, which used fun and Costa and Terrie Williams, and minorities in science and challenging projects to convey UCSC professors of ecology higher education. rod searcy rod different aspects of engineering. and evolutionary biology. Both An accomplished electrical

The “nanomouse” workshop scientists have done extensive engineer who held three patents, elizabeth irwin involved a mobile robot the stu- field research on marine Costa Spur in Antarctica is named after UCSC professor Daniel Costa. Denton earned a Ph.D. and dents had to program to make mammals in Antarctica. three other engineering degrees its way through a maze. The The U.S. Board on Borchgrevink Coast. The spur bluff that rises to 1,000 meters from the Massachusetts Institute “clay building” workshop in- Geographic Names approved descends eastward to the Ross in height. It is located 1.5 of Technology. One of four volved constructing a tower out the names last year, but Costa Sea and marks the southern miles south-southeast of children raised by a single moth- of clay and toothpicks. The and Williams only recently extent of Mandible Cirque.” Ainley Peak, Kyle Hills on er in Texas, Denton discovered projects were designed to inspire found out about the honor Costa studied seals at .” her passion for science and math the students and get them inter- when they received official McMurdo Sound, South Williams was a U.S. during a high school summer ested in studying engineering letters and photos of the sites. Georgia, and Livingston Antarctic Program coprincipal program. That life-transforming and pursuing careers in science Costa Spur, Antarctica, Island for seven field seasons investigator of hunting behav- experience fueled her passion and technology. is officially described as a starting in 1978. ior of free-ranging Weddell for outreach programs and her “The kids absolutely loved “prominent spur located On the side of Mt. Terror seals in McMurdo Sound sea commitment to making similar it,” said Young Kim, undergrad- 4 miles southwest of Quetin overlooking a large penguin ice areas for several seasons opportunities available to others. uate outreach coordinator for Head, Daniell Peninsula, rookery, “Terrie Bluff is a rock between 1984 and 2002. As her accomplishments cata-

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6 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 7 when Nano meets Bio By Tim Stephens

An interdisciplinary team of UCSC scientists is developing a tiny tool to analyze disease organisms one molecule at a time. jim mackenzie

goal: to make a movie of the visited Deamer’s lab, where The optical analysis will ribosome in action as it researchers have pioneered the rely on fluorescence methods translates the genetic code development of “nanopore” that are commonly used in from messenger RNA devices for electrical sensing molecular biology and bio- and makes proteins. of single molecules. Soon, medical tests. To detect vi- “Studying ribosomes Schmidt and Deamer were ruses, for example, fluorescent is just one application making plans to combine tags can be attached to anti- for this device,” Noller their two devices. bodies that bind to specific says. “It has tremendous A nanopore is a tiny viral proteins. potential.” hole with dimensions on “What makes our ap- the order of nanometers (a proach a big deal is t the heart of the nanometer is one billionth of that it could be device is Schmidt’s a meter). The researchers plan done using a A invention, a new type The ‘Bio’ side of the team: to incorporate a nanopore little portable of “optical waveguide” that Biochemist David Deamer and into the waveguide, using it to machine, transmits light through a molecular biologist Harry Noller feed samples into the core one instead of hollow core that can be filled molecule or particle at a time sending the with liquid or gas. The optical can be integrated into a silicon for optical analysis. Schmidt’s sample to a fibers that have revolutionized chip along with electronics, group has already demonstrat- laboratory,” the telephone system, cable fiberoptic connections, and ed optical detection of single Deamer says. TV, and the Internet are solid- other components. A com- molecules using hollow-core Noller core waveguides that transmit pact, affordable device based waveguides on a chip. points out an- signals over long distances. on the hollow-core wave- “The nanopore will act other notewor- Guiding light waves through guide could perform optical as a smart gate for entry of thy aspect of The Technology: liquids and gases is a challenge analyses that currently require individual molecules into the the project—it A prototype of Schmidt’s because they lack crucial prop- expensive and bulky channel of the wave- highlights the dime-sized sensor device erties that make the solid core microscopes set up guide,” Schmidt kind of inter- integrates two fluid The ‘Nano’ side of the team: Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt and graduate students Mikhail Rudenko (left) and Dongliang Yin (right) in Schmidt’s optical lab of an optical fiber effective. on a laboratory says. disciplinary “But if you can guide light benchtop. As mole- interactions reservoirs, microfluidic n 2004, UCSC engineer teamed up with faculty in include David Deamer, the event of a pandemic. through water and air, all of Fabrication cules pass that UC Santa channels, and intersecting Holger Schmidt reported an other departments at UCSC professor of chemistry and “The idea is that you would the fields that rely on nonsolid of the wave- through the Cruz seems optical waveguides. I exciting advance in optical and won a $1.6 million grant biochemistry, and Harry be able to take a throat swab materials can take advantage guides is done nanopore, especially good technology. His team had found from the National Institutes of Noller, Sinsheimer Professor from a patient and detect the of integrated optics technol- at a facility at they produce at fostering. a way to build onto a silicon Health to develop new sensor of Molecular Biology. virus within 10 minutes instead ogy. Liquids and gases are the Brigham Young an electrical “This is the chip a mechanism for guiding technology for biomedical The new instrument could of hours,” Deamer says. natural environment for mol- University by signal that can sort of thing that people talk light through tiny volumes applications. prove valuable for basic research Initially, however, the ecules in biology and chemis- Schmidt’s longtime be captured and about all the time, but in most of liquid or gas. Schmidt, an “We aim to develop a new in molecular biology and bio- researchers will test the new sen- try,” Schmidt says. collaborator Aaron analyzed, giv- universities it never really hap- associate professor of electrical type of instrument that can chemistry, as well as for medical sor platform on ribosomes, the A major advantage of his Hawkins. The Target: The sensor ing the device pens,” says Noller. “I think engineering, knew that this do both electrical and optical diagnostic testing and other ap- complex biomolecular machines hollow-core waveguides is that will be used to study the the capacity for Santa Cruz may be a place technology held great potential sensing of single biomolecules, plications. Used to detect virus- that serve as the protein facto- they are made using the stan- hortly dynamics of the ribosome, both electri- that attracts creative people for a wide range of applications, with all the components of the es, for example, the instrument ries in all living cells. Noller, a dard silicon fabrication tech- after he had cal and optical who are interested in working a complex biomolecular including highly sensitive chem- sensor ultimately integrated could allow rapid diagnosis leading authority on ribosomes, nology used on an industrial S developed characterization with people in other disci- ical and biological sensors. onto a chip,” Schmidt says. of patients infected with a says he hopes the project will scale to make computer chips. the hollow-core machine that manufactures of single mole- plines. It’s an environment

Since then, Schmidt has Collaborators on the project new strain of the flu virus in help him realize a long-sought As a result, the waveguides waveguide, Schmidt proteins in living cells. cules. that’s very inspiring.” noller (bottom) harry and right), courtesy (top schraub paul photos:

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 9 By Scott Rappaport judith calson

An intrepid art professor uncovers the lost history of San Francisco’s Fillmore jazz era Jazz Detective By Scott Rappaport

ost people know San Francisco’s “This is the first time that later, the shop was empty, this history has seen the light with no sign of either Red or Fillmore District because of its of day,” observes Watts, who the photographs. Although M historic auditorium, immortalized spent more than a decade he feared that the collec- collecting and painstakingly tion was lost for good, Watts by legendary rock promoter Bill Graham in restoring more than 200 continued to inquire about the late 1960s. But long before the neigh- photos for the book. “Any the photos. Finally in 1996, physical trace of that commu- while doing additional borhood attracted bands like the Grateful nity is long gone.” research for the city’s redevel- Dead and Jefferson Airplane, the Fillmore The spark for the book opment agency, Watts asked was ignited in 1990 when a barber working across the was home to a booming jazz scene— Watts was working on a street from Red’s if he had a community so laden with clubs and photography project in the any idea where the price- Fillmore District—located less photos might be. “I was virtuoso players in the 1940s and ’50s, it between the city’s Haight thrilled by his response,” says became known as the Harlem of the West. District and Pacific Heights. Watts. “He told me they were As he explored the neighbor- in his back room.” With more than two- book Harlem of the West: The hood, Watts came upon It turned out that Red dozen venues located within San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era, Red Powell’s Shine Parlour, had suffered a fatal stroke one square mile, it was not coauthored by UC Santa Cruz across the street from the just a few weeks after Watts unusual to spot jazz greats associate professor of art Lewis Fillmore Auditorium. had visited. The landlord like Billie Holiday, John Watts, unearths the commu- “I wandered into Red’s had closed up the store Coltrane, or Dexter Gordon nity’s glorious past. Filled with shoeshine shop, and on the and took everything off the hanging out or taking the rare archival photographs of walls were all these great walls. But as he was prepar- stage to jam with local musi- such jazz legends as Dizzy photos of people like Martin ing to dump it all in the cians after returning from Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, trash, the barber —Reggie their gigs “for whites only” Johnny Mathis, and Charlie Duke Ellington, and Ray Pettus—had rescued all of in downtown Bay Area clubs. Parker—plus accounts from Charles,” recalls Watts. the photos and memorabilia The San Francisco neighborhood residents and “I asked Red if I could pho- from certain oblivion. Pettus Redevelopment Agency tore musicians who were there at tograph his wall. But he was kindly allowed Watts access down the neighborhood in the its peak—the book celebrates a having none of it—he basical- to the archive. mid-1960s—ostensibly to im- nearly forgotten chapter in jazz ly threw me out of his shop.” “There were a lot of snap- Associate professor of art Lewis Watts at an exhibit prove it—and the community and African American history When Watts returned shots and 8-by-10 glossy of his vintage jazz images in San Francisco literally vanished. But a new on the West Coast. to Red’s only a few months photos pinned on walls,” says

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 11 met when she was conduct- Jazz Detective continued ing research for a PBS docu- Images from Watts. “Some were framed mentary on the history of and mounted, but a lot more the Fillmore District. Pepin Harlem of were stuffed in Safeway bags had been employed by Bill and in boxes. Shoeshine par- Graham Presents as man- the West lors, barbershops, and beauty ager and historian of the parlors have traditionally Fillmore Auditorium in the been the historical archives mid-1980s. Since both Watts of the African American and Pepin were making plans community.” to create a book about the Watts arduously took Fillmore community, they

on the process of digitally decided to collaborate on Advertisement for restoring the images, many Harlem of the West. Louis Armstrong at of which were damaged “Elizabeth primarily han- the New Orleans and faded with marks and dled interviews and text, and Swing Club, 1950s waterstains, or had corners I handled obtaining, restor- Eartha Kitt with neighborhood children, 1950s ripped off. “The idea was ing, and curating the pho- to bring back the detail tos,” says Watts, who joined and represent the intent of the UC Santa Cruz faculty the photographs,” explains in 2001, halfway through the Charles Sullivan (left), one of the most active promoters of African American music west of the Mississippi. In the middle is Lionel Watts. “That was my 10-year project. Hampton wearing Wesley Johnson Sr.’s cowboy hat. responsibility to the original The book was published photographers.” in January by Chronicle Watts used the photo col- Books and celebrated with lection for his agency report an exhibition, reception, and on the Fillmore neighborhood concert in February at the and also curated an exhibi- San Francisco Performing tion of them that was dis- Arts Library & Museum. played outside the City Hall Performing at the event was R&B singer Ruth Brown at the Booker T. Washington Office of then–San Francisco the Fillmore Jazz Preservation Cocktail Lounge, circa 1950s mayor Willie Brown, and Big Band, a 20-piece orches- Billie Holiday, her beloved Chihuahua, and Dexter Gordon jamming at Bop City, 1950s later in the Arts Commission tra featuring many top Bay Wesley Johnson Sr. at the Club Flamingo, Patrons of the Texas Playhouse, early 1950s Gallery across the street. This Area jazz musicians under in the early 1950s generated even more photos the direction of UC Santa and memorabilia. Cruz director of jazz studies “When I first found Karlton Hester. Red’s photos, there were no Harlem of the West captures labels, no identification,” says a joyful and momentous Watts. “But as we exhibited era in the country’s African them in the community, American musical history. we built the history. People It serves as a reflection of a began sharing their stories, magical place at a remarkable and we ended up discovering time. And, as Watts optimis- Duke Ellington other photographers or their tically notes: “Knowledge of (front row, center) families, as well as their the past can hopefully lead to and friends in the photographs. a renaissance in the future.” Manor Plaza Hotel, By 1998, Watts had circa 1950s joined forces with coauthor John Handy, Pony Poindexter, John Coltrane, and Frank Fisher at Jimbo’s Bop City, 1950s Harlem of the West is available from Elizabeth Pepin, whom he Bay Tree Bookstore; see page 29.

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 13 jim mackenzie

FLIGHTS of FANCY

Retired mathematics professor ighty years ago, problem,” which vexed the in his garage, where perfection as a boy in Czecho- world’s greatest mathemati- was guaranteed. Gerhard Ringel gives his world-class E slovakia, Ringel loved cians for decades: the develop- These days, well into his butterflies and mathematics. ment of a mathematical theo- retirement, Ringel has slowed butterfly collection to UCSC Unfortunately, his teachers rem to prove that only four his pace, but he still participates didn’t share his passions, and colors are needed to create a in a weekly chess club. “Timed By Jennifer McNulty could easily have landed in World War II interrupted his map with no two adjacent chess,” interjects Haff. And yes, New York or Washington, D.C. studies. He was taken prisoner countries the same color. A he concedes humbly, his blue he treasures “He prepared his collection just as the war was ending and mathematical brainteaser of eyes twinkling, he’s better than inside each wooden with German precision, and be- spent four-and-a-half years in a monumental proportions, the most of his opponents. T case are dazzling: cause he reared so many of the Russian POW camp. Upon his four-color theorem was the Ringel says butterflies iridescent green, shimmering butterflies from the egg or cat- release in 1949, he returned to first to be proved using a com- brought joy and balance to his turquoise, velvety orange, and erpillar stage, they are perfect— the University of Bonn, where puter. Ringel brought the same life, a gift of nature that comple- sprays of teeny pink speckles no scales are lost, there are no he earned a doctorate in math- persistence and perfectionism mented his intellectual interests. compete for the eye. bird bites,” says Tonya Haff, ematics and joined the faculty. to his passion for butterflies. Now his gift will benefit stu- Case after case is filled with curator of the UCSC Museum His research was solitary, and Every chance they got, dents, researchers, and illustra- butterflies and moths of every of Natural History Collections, he longed for a colleague with Ringel and his wife, Isolde, tors for generations to come. shape and size from all over housed in the Environmental whom to exchange ideas. traveled the world the world. Each specimen is Studies Department. Twice he received invitations in pursuit of butter- perfect, mounted with precision The collection’s value to to work in the United States. flies—South America, by a world-class collector. scientists is enhanced by the The first time, he declined. Bali, Jamaica, Africa, Gerhard Ringel has collected data Ringel carefully recorded “I spoke Czech, German, and New Zealand. Their butterflies for most of his 86 regarding where and when Russian, but not English,” he architect literally years. The cases that still specimens were gathered. “It’s explains. A year later, when designed the Ringel fill cabinets of his Santa Cruz an amazing collection,” sighs an invitation came from Ted home around built-in home are the leftovers, Haff, who still marvels at the Youngs, a professor of mathe- butterfly-storage cabi- duplicates of specimens he treasures inside each case. matics at UC Santa Cruz, Ringel nets. And although donated to the UCSC Museum In fact, the museum had to accepted, eager to learn English Ringel caught many of Natural History Collections. order handcrafted cabinets to to facilitate collaboration. specimens in nets, he It was the logical home for a accommodate Ringel’s 5,000- Ringel is credited with preferred to hand-

museum-quality collection that specimen collection. advancing the famous “map raise them from eggs don fukuda

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 11 15 Listening for E a SILENT a r t h q u k e s By Tim Stephens Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula is pening in order to understand its implica- pretty impressive,” she says. beneath the ocean. But in Costa Rica, the known for good surf and beautiful tions for earthquake hazards.” Flanked by active tectonic margins on seismogenic zone runs right beneath the Schwartz’s team detected the Costa both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts, Costa Nicoya Peninsula. beaches. Among seismologists, Rican event in data from a limited array Rica is one of the most earthquake-prone “It’s a perfect opportunity to study the however, it is better known for of three GPS stations installed several and volcanically active countries in the seismogenic zone using a network of land- earthquakes. The peninsula lies years ago by Japanese researchers. Now, world. Just off the west coast is the Middle based instruments,” Schwartz says. directly over an active fault zone with funding from the National Science America Trench, where a section of the sea- Installing the instruments is a major that generated major earthquakes Foundation, Schwartz and her collabora- floor called the Cocos Plate dives beneath undertaking, however, especially in a tors are determined to learn more about Central America, generating powerful region where access is limited. Most of the in 1853, 1900, and 1950. The what’s going on beneath the Nicoya earthquakes and feeding a string of active roads on the Nicoya Peninsula are impass- next big one could hit any day. Peninsula. She is working with Timothy volcanoes. This type of boundary between able during the summer rainy season. Dixon of the University of Miami, Costa two converging plates of the Earth’s crust is And the instruments have to be anchored Or not. Rican scientists Marino Protti and Victor called a subduction zone—and such zones in solid bedrock, which means a lot of Susan Schwartz, director of the Keck Gonzales, and UCSC instrument digging. Starting last year, Schwartz Seismological Laboratory at UC Santa specialist Dan Sampson to establish and her team have been making Cruz, and her collaborators have detect- an extensive network of seismic and regular trips to the region, scouting ed a different kind of movement on the GPS monitoring stations in the area. locations and carefully installing Nicoya Peninsula—a slipping of the fault With this project, Schwartz susan schwartz courtesy GPS and seismic stations. that doesn’t generate seismic energy. It’s is continuing a long tradition of At the same time, they have been the same fault motion as an earthquake, UCSC involvement in earthquake trying to educate the population of but it happens so slowly that no ground- and volcano research in Costa Nicoya about earthquake hazards. shaking occurs. Rica. Protti, who earned his Ph.D. Protti, who has written a book Known as a “silent earthquake” or at UCSC, is one of three alumni about the peninsula, feels strongly “slow slip event,” this phenomenon was affiliated with the country’s geo- that the area is overdue for a major first observed in Japan and off the coast physical observatory, Observatorio earthquake. Nicoya is now being of Washington and southern Canada. Vulcanológico y Sismológico de heavily developed for tourism, how- It can only be detected with networks of Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional ever, and not everyone is receptive to (OVSICORI-UNA). The seismogenic zone Schwartz is studying runs beneath the his message, Schwartz says. modern instruments that use the Global Nicoya Peninsula, on Costa Rica’s west coast. Positioning System (GPS) to obtain high- Karen McNally, professor emeri- “He is really trying to raise are notorious for generating the most pow- ly accurate measurements of movements ta of Earth and planetary sciences, led the awareness of the risks, but it’s not some- erful and destructive earthquakes. of the Earth’s crust over time. team that helped establish OVSICORI- thing people like to hear about,” she says. The Cocos Plate and the Caribbean A slow slip event may reduce the risk UNA in the 1980s and worked to develop Ultimately, the information the re- Plate that overrides it are converging of a major earthquake by relieving stress the country’s program for the reduction of searchers gather from their network of steadily at about three inches per year, on a fault, or it may increase the risk by earthquake hazards. In 2004, she received monitoring stations will lead to better but the subducted slab of the Cocos does adding stress to an adjacent fault segment the University Medal from Universidad assessments of the region’s earthquake not go down smoothly. It scrapes against that remains locked up. It all depends Nacional for her contributions, and she hazards, as well as a better understanding the overriding plate, catching and lock- on the details of what’s going on deep continues to work with Costa Rican of subduction zones in general. ing up, pulling the edge of the Caribbean beneath the surface of the Earth. researchers to expand and improve the “We’ve known for a long time that Plate down with it. When the fault finally “Most subduction zones with good country’s seismographic network. when you look at how fast the plates are breaks, the upper plate springs back up. In networks of modern instrumentation Schwartz, who has been working in moving with respect to each other, versus an earthquake, this takes place in seconds have now observed this slow slip mode, Costa Rica since 1991, says McNally’s how much slip occurs in earthquakes, to minutes, whereas a slow slip event takes but we don’t really understand it at all efforts laid the groundwork for ongoing it doesn’t match up. There’s a very large jim mackenzie place over days or weeks. yet,” says Schwartz, a professor of Earth research by herself and other UCSC slip deficit,” Schwartz says. “But if we At most subduction zones, the part and planetary sciences. “We need to Prior to transport, professor of Earth and planetary sciences Susan Schwartz and colleague Dan Sampson faculty and students. “Costa Rica has find that there are a lot of these slow slip tremendous earthquake hazards, and of the plate boundary where earthquakes events, it may mean the next earthquake is know a lot more about where it’s hap- inspect and pack the GPS and seismographic monitoring instruments they will be installing in Costa Rica. UCSC’s involvement in the area is originate—the seismogenic zone—lies farther off than we had thought.”

16 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 17 jim mackenzie issues, says Juarez, but border communities face the stark realities every day. Even as Border Patrol officers scour the desert for bodies, volun- teers from churches and non- governmental organizations Death on the Border have organized to provide res- cue services to save those on A graduate student’s promising technique offers hope of closure for loved ones the brink of dehydration. “In the Southwest, you can’t turn your back on it,” says Juarez. According to the Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service By Jennifer McNulty to 10,000 since 1985. The Juarez has borrowed a tech- her work at the Binational (INS), border deaths increased remains of one out of three nique from archaeologists to Health Symposium in Salinas from 270 in 2001 to 463 in helsey Ann Juarez’s have never been identified. identify the “soil signatures” in 2004. Currently, the 2005, the highest number father was a young Authorities in border of individual regions. Just Mexican Consulate relies in a decade, despite tripling C man when he crossed towns are overwhelmed. as archaeologists are able to mostly on old photographs, the number of Border Patrol the border from Mexico into More than 450 people lost match ceramic shards to their sketches, and family descrip- agents under the Patriot Act the United States. He was their lives last year, and both place of origin by analyzing tions when contacting medi- of 2001. lucky: He survived. Today, Arizona and New Mexico the chemistry of soils, pottery, cal examiners in border states When U.S. authorities his daughter devotes herself declared states of emergency and glazes, Juarez hopes to on behalf of relatives search- cracked down on the Tijuana– to helping the families of and appealed for federal help match human remains to their ing for lost loved ones. San Diego border, they as- those who don’t. managing the remains of place of birth by examining Juarez credits her father, the sumed the harsh desert to the Juarez, a doctoral candi- those who don’t survive the teeth. Strontium, an element man who crossed the border east would provide a natural date in forensic anthropology crossing. One medical exam- similar to calcium, is absorbed in search of a better life 30 boundary. “They never imag- at UC Santa Cruz, is devel- iner had to buy a $150,000 by bones and teeth, providing years ago, with encouraging ined people would try to cross oping a method to help refrigerated trailer to store a “signature” of the soil where her schooling. Now a legal there, but they were wrong,” authorities identify the bodies until he could take a child spends his or her first citizen living in California’s says Juarez. During the 12- remains of those who perish DNA samples and compile a years. Central Valley, Juarez’s father is month period that ended in on the border, anonymous profile of each individual. By collaborating with den- a mechanic. “He and my mom October 2005, the vast major- and far from home. tal clinics that serve Mexican didn’t have any other kids,” she ity of deaths were concentrated Identifying the dead is a or Chelsey Juarez, immigrants in northern says. “They got divorced when in Arizona and Texas, where grim and largely thankless the tragedy of lost lives is California, Juarez has so far I was two years old.” Juarez 261 and 140 people died, task. Few migrants carry F compounded by the fact collected more than 50 do- wears the mantle of high- respectively, compared to only identification, and the num- that most families never learn nated teeth from volunteers. achieving only child with ease. 49 deaths in California and 13 ber who die is growing as the the fate of their loved ones. Patients provide essential After earning an under- in New Mexico. U.S. crackdown on illegal She wants to change that. biographical information, graduate degree from UC Critical of immi- immigration redirects the Most who cross the border including their age, sex, and Davis, Juarez spent a year gration policies she flow from San Diego east to are Mexican—56 percent, place of birth, and Juarez analyzing artifacts and slave Just as archaeologists believes have con- a deadly stretch of isolated compared to 24 percent from utilizes the latest technology remains recovered from a for- tributed to the rising desert. “U.S. immigration Central and South America. to analyze the isotope “signa- mer plantation in Louisiana. match ceramic shards death toll, Juarez is policies haven’t reduced the Mexicans who head for El tures” of each tooth. That The experience hooked Juarez Chelsey Juarez to their place of origin by now preparing for number of people trying to Norte come primarily from information is enabling her on forensic science—and law school. “As a enter the country illegally— the southern and central to build a database of soil brought her to UCSC to work analyzing soils, pottery, forensic scientist, they have just changed where agricultural states of Jalisco, profiles across Mexico. with Alison Galloway, one of entail analyzing nearly 300 specific regions to get the my job is to provide they try to cross,” says Juarez. Michoacan, Guanajuato, The amount of varia- the leading forensic anthro- teeth. “Border crossers are so word out on local television, and glazes, Juarez hopes justice to the de- Dehydration, heatstroke, Veracruz, and Oaxaca, where tion in soil makeup will pologists in the country. similar in sex and age that radio, and newspapers about ceased,” says Juarez. hypothermia, and snake bites job opportunities are scarce. determine just how fine- “This technique has never our biological profiles inevi- a death, eventually enabling to match human remains “But I’ve realized I claim the lives of many. No It turns out that variations grained her map will be. But been applied systematically tably describe a large number U.S. authorities to return to their place of birth need to expand into one knows exactly how many in the soil chemistry of those the results look promising to a forensic collection,” of people—we have hundreds remains to survivors. the world of policy have died trying to enter the states may shorten the path enough to have attracted says Galloway, who sees of males aged 20 to 40.” Northern Californians may by examining teeth. to make the kind of United States from Mexico, to identifying those who the attention of Mexican of- enormous potential in the With Juarez’s data, Mexican be removed by geography broader changes that but estimates range from 5,000 don’t survive. ficials when Juarez presented project, which ultimately will officials could work within from the crisis of border are needed.”

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 19 “The film is an attempt to break through the wall between the American public and the war in Iraq. It provides a hole in that Embedded wall, a look in to get a better sense of the war.” —Ian Olds

By Scott Rappaport to join a three- the begin- vision goggles from the sol- diers acted to see how scared day mission ning there diers and secured them to the we should be.” In the winter of 2004, UC with the Alpha would be no camera with pieces of wood Tragically, after surviv- Santa Cruz alumnus Ian Olds Company’s voiceovers and duct tape. Olds says they ing the Iraq experience, 2nd Platoon in the film, just kept shooting footage codirector Garrett Scott died and a film colleague flew to from the 82nd so it would because it was usually too unexpectedly of a heart the Middle East with the hope Airborne, after all be in the dangerous or hectic to review attack, two days before the explaining to soldiers’ own the tapes along the way. Independent Spirit Awards of shooting a behind-the- the battalion words. We “When I first got there, show in March. Olds reacted scenes documentary on the commander thought that I was very frightened,” notes by taking half the money that they if we could Olds. “My first day I was they were awarded at the Iraq War. Two months later, wanted to just reflect at the site of a car bomb; it ceremony and using it to they returned to the United make a movie the reality we was a very gruesome scene. create a grant in Scott’s name about a day saw without Another day, a mortar landed to support independent doc- States, armed with footage in the life of editorial- 100 feet from me. I went umentary filmmakers. Olds they would edit into an an American soldier. They izing, that would speak for over and saw how the shrap- then returned to Columbia ended up staying six weeks. itself.” nel tore into the walls and it University to successfully award-winning film that “It was strangely easy to The filmmakers shot 130 was terrifying to see the ‘kill complete his M.F.A. degree provides a rare glimpse into get access to the soldiers,” hours of footage and Olds radius’ of the shrapnel—that in film. recalls Olds. “There was no edited it down to a 79-minute kind of haunted me.” Olds is planning a trip to the days leading up to a censorship—nobody ever documentary. Because they “But it was also scary Afghanistan this fall to shoot violent insurrection in Falluja. JIM MACKENZIE looked at a single frame of couldn’t get insurance in a war how quickly we got used to a new documentary, and he is our footage. They felt they zone to rent gear, they pur- it,” Olds adds. “There was also working on a script for a had nothing to hide, and chased their own cameras. this weird adrenaline. It was feature film centered around Built around surprisingly candid Last spring, Olds and his codirector “To me, the world seemed like a dif- that the longer we stayed, the All the night vision footage almost dangerous because it a hotel for journalists in Iraq. interviews with soldiers from the Garrett Scott were honored with a 2006 ferent place—more so after the invasion more accurately we would was shot with a consumer made you act reckless. So we But it’s clear that Occupation: U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne squad, Independent Film Spirit Award in the than it did after September 11,” says represent them. It’s changed camera—they borrowed night would look at how the sol- Dreamland represents more Occupation: Dreamland captures the “Truer than Fiction” category at a Santa Olds. “It seemed like a world with new now. That was only nine than a turning point in his soldiers as they struggle to adhere to the Monica ceremony televised nationally kinds of wars and new sets of conse- months after the invasion. filmmaking career. army’s code of conduct—and simply the night before the Academy Awards. quences. There was also unprecedented There is much more control getty images “I didn’t know what to / survive—in an often ambiguous and Presented annually to an “emerging access because of the military’s embed- of information now by the expect when I went to Iraq,” always lethal environment. That the director of nonfiction features,” the ding program. But the media was not military.” reflects Olds. “I had never film was shot just before the city was award comes with an unrestricted grant taking advantage of it, and much of the At first, Olds and Scott winter kevin been in a war zone—I’d nev- nearly destroyed in one of the bloodiest of $25,000. reporting about the invasion was jingo- just hung out with the eight er even been to the Middle battles of the war, makes the docu- “The film is an attempt to break istic and simplistic.” squad members; but as the East. And when I got back, I mentary even more compelling. through the vast wall between the With only tape stock, body armor, filmmakers spent more time felt an overwhelming sense of Occupation: Dreamland was released American public and the war in Iraq,” and airplane tickets, the two filmmak- living with the soldiers, the futility for both the soldiers nationwide in 2005, screening in more says Olds, who received a bachelor’s ers flew to Jordan and drove 10 hours conversations became more and the Iraqi people. But I than 20 cities to critical acclaim; it is degree in film/video and anthropology to Baghdad, looking for contacts. “You intimate. “When you come also had more respect for the still being shown in selected theaters from UC Santa Cruz in 1998. “It pro- couldn’t call from the U.S. to arrange back from a mission, all the soldiers as individuals. I had today, as well as on the Sundance cable vides a hole in that wall, a look in to get embedding with the Army because we walls are down because you always thought of the mili- television channel, and a DVD was a better sense of the war.” would just be denied,” explains Olds. have shared an intense ex- tary as a machine, but I was released in March. New York Magazine Olds’s motivation for undertaking “But it’s a strange phenomenon. Once perience—maybe a firefight struck by the fact it was just a noted that the film “recalls Stanley the project was not only the U.S. inva- you’re there, it’s kind of like you be- or a bomb going off,” says Actors Willem Dafoe and Lili Taylor present Ian Olds (left) bunch of guys who were try- Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket—except sion of Iraq, but the rapidly changing long—why else would you be there?” Olds. “So they began to with a 2006 Independent Film Spirit Award, which includes ing to figure it out as they go with real kids.” face of war coverage. Olds and Scott eventually arranged trust us. We also agreed from an unrestricted grant of $25,000. along.”

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 21 ing several hours a week as paid assis- a full scholarship, but I dropped out tor Ranu Sinha, a doctoral candidate in tants to their faculty mentor. They par- because I felt alienated and isolated by psychology. “I don’t know if Alma and Paving the Road to Graduate School ticipate in skill-building workshops on this large private university,” she recalls. Ranu realize how much it means to me topics like library research and applying “Nothing in my upbringing prepared to have had the kind of guidance they’ve to graduate school, and many attend me to handle the university experience.” given me,” she says. “I want to continue academic conferences and professional Martínez relied heavily on input the cycle.” meetings with their mentors. Professors from Coppel when she designed the receive small stipends, and a current first Chicano dramatic literature course Professors are selective about whom Ph.D. student coordinates the program in the Theater Arts Department. they nominate for URAP and tend and serves as an influential role model. “The class was very successful, thanks to choose students who might other- Established in 2000 to help open the to Fernanda’s research,” says Martínez, wise fall through the cracks, explains academic “pipeline” to Latinos, URAP a veteran performer and scholar of El Hurtado. is available to students interested in Teatro Campesino who sought Coppel’s “Students get overlooked for varied careers in cross-border studies of the input regarding which plays and schol- reasons—maybe because they’re quiet, Americas. It is “suggested and recom- arly articles to include in the course. or they don’t know how good they are, mended but not required” that students Coppel, meanwhile, is finding her or they’re intimidated about talking to come from underrepresented back- voice as a playwright, embracing the their professors,” she says. The good grounds, says Hurtado. traditions of Teatro Campesino and news is that URAP provides the individ- A small program, URAP has served incorporating Spanish into her works. ual attention that builds confidence and only 67 students so far, and 13 are Yet Coppel describes feeling like an breeds success—and changes the face of pursuing advanced degrees. The pro- outsider in some classes. higher education. gram also appears to have a profound “As a person of color, a lot of times “Getting Latino students here is only impact on undergraduate success: what you say is invalidated because of half the job,” says Martínez. “Keeping URAP participants have a 100 percent the ways you choose to communicate them here and offering them an educa- graduation rate, compared to about it,” she says. “My form of communica- tion that reflects the diversity of the 65 percent of Latino students campus- tion is different because of the different state is a big challenge. URAP is a wide. “An unintended consequence experiences I have faced, being a first- positive force in the transformation of the contact with faculty and the generation Mexican immigrant.” of the academy, and it can be a catalyst coordinator is graduation,” says When the Theater Arts Department for even greater social change.” Hurtado. “Whatever hurdles students declined to produce Coppel’s play Strong are facing, they come talk with us.” Women Cry Poetry in part because it was Eccleston and Hurtado celebrate the conclusion “too culturally specific for their season,” of his undergraduate years. Fernanda Coppel says URAP has Martínez affirmed Coppel’s artistic vision Michael Eccleston meets with faculty mentor Aída been a lifeline as she’s struggled to and urged her to produce it herself in a Hurtado in UCSC’s Chicano/Latino Research Center. find her place in higher education. different campus venue. Coppel says she “didn’t feel smart “It was hard,” Coppel says of pro- enough to go to college,” but a cousin ducing Strong Women, a largely auto- urged her to apply, and URAP has biographical play that tells the story of By Jennifer McNulty cause of my commitment to my son,” That conversation with Hurtado sustained her. Dora, a performance poet in her 20s recalls Eccleston, who shares custody opened up a world of possibilities for “No one in my family has gone to who immigrated illegally to the United ichael Eccleston is going with his son’s mother, who lives 80 miles Eccleston, and exchanges like it are hap- graduate school,” says Coppel, who was States at the age of 11. Seeing her work to graduate school this fall. A away. “Talking with Aída, I realized I pening more often at UC Santa Cruz as born in Mexico. A junior majoring in performed on stage was “surreal,” recalls Mdevoted single father, Eccleston could do it because I’ll be in a position a result of the Chicano/Latino Research literature with a minor in theater arts, Coppel. earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology to relocate when he starts kindergarten. Center’s Undergraduate Research Coppel has embraced URAP’s goal of “It really is like putting yourself out from UC Santa Cruz in January and I’ll be done with course work at that Apprenticeship Program (URAP). earning a Ph.D. “I really see the need there,” says Coppel. “It’s a lot of hope. was prepared to put off graduate work point.” Under Hurtado’s direction, URAP for people of color in academia.” It’s a lot of faith. But Alma told me ‘You until his 2-year-old son is older. But In one frenzied week, Eccleston pairs undergraduates with faculty men- Alma Martínez is Coppel’s mentor. learned the secret to theater, which is psychology professor Aída Hurtado rec- wrote a statement of purpose, took tors who encourage students to “think An associate professor of theater arts producing your own work.’ It’s a bless- ognized Eccleston’s talent and encour- the Graduate Record Examinations beyond the B.A.” The program gives who specializes in Chicano and Latin ing that I’ve had to struggle. It builds aged him, pointing out the advantages (GRE), and applied to UCSC’s doctoral participants an insider’s view of aca- American theater, Martínez says URAP character.” of starting his Ph.D. while his little boy program in social psychology. Eccleston demic life with the aim of diversifying would’ve made a “world of difference” Those challenging experiences under- is in preschool. aced the exams, was accepted, and the next generation of professors. to her as an undergraduate at the score the value of URAP, says Coppel, “I really wanted to go to graduate received a generous fellowship to enroll Nominated by professors, students University of Southern California. “I who also benefited greatly from the school, but I didn’t think I could be- this fall. gain valuable research experience work- enrolled straight out of high school with support of current program coordina- jim mackenzie

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jim mackenzie Contact the Alumni Association ALUMNI NEWS support college funding UCSC Alumni Association Web: alumni.ucsc.edu University of California ormer UCSC Alumni E-mail: [email protected] Alumni Association Association president Ken 1156 High Street F Doctor graduated from Merrill Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 Toll free: (800) 933-SLUG Mark your calendar for reunion weekend 35 years ago, just three years after Councilors, 2006–07 the college was founded. His ex-

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John Gutierrez ’73 Assemblymember (Stevenson ’72, center) shared a laugh with (Stevenson ’69) and 4,000 full-text online journals and Valadez, who served as a resi- Rob Sawyer ’72 Stephanie Wood Coleman (Merrill ’70) while looking at photos of students and faculty from the 1960s. The fund’s goal is 100 tile giveto.ucsc.edu/tile_donors. magazines. Most provide coverage beginning in 1992 (or 1995 at the dent assistant, peer adviser, and role model at Merrill, was one Kresge latest) and offer access to the full Panda Kroll ’81 of 10 students (one per college) The Alumni Association wel- Now held during the academic text or text and graphics of covered Paul D. 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24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 25 of sociology at Essex County ing of his 2000 recording Lounging boys, Nicholas and Jacob, and enjoys teenage son. Drinkard lives in College in Newark, N.J., and presi- Around was released this year. running along the Chicago lake- Brooklyn with his wife and their LUMNI OTES dent and founder of ATIRA Corp., ’80 Cathy CALFO is campaign front; she completed the Chicago three daughters; he is senior vice A N a think tank that develops solutions manager for Democrat Phil Marathon in 2005. president at Cumberland Packing to African problems globally. Angelides who is running for gov- ’96 Erin BROWN writes that Corp. in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Cowell College ’83 Richard TURMAN is serv- Educators Association conference as Columbia University Graduate School After nearly 20 years as a master’s- ernor of California; she has helped UCSC was one of the best experi- the historical location of his novel. ing as deputy assistant director for Charter/Private/Independent School of Journalism and has been a freelancer level social worker, Andrea him run three campaigns for state ences of her life and advises students ’88 Danelle McDERMOTT works ’71 Donna FELDMANN Marbach budget at the U.S. Department Art Teacher of the Year; she is teach- for Wired News, the New York Times, BERNASCONI Moore is now treasurer and served as a top executive to enjoy it while they can because in the fi eld of fi nancial organizing in has two poems in a new poetry of Health and Human Services in ing ceramics and jewelry at Gateway and many other publications. raising her two sons and handling under Angelides in the treasurer’s the “real” world is just not as fun. San Francisco; she belongs to the anthology titled The Dire Elegies: Washington, D.C. High School in Aurora, Colo. Her ’96 Jennifer HENDERSON the administrative responsibilities offi ce. Lori PLAGER is the senior ’99 Brian CHERNICKY owns Bay Area chapter of the National 60 Poets on Endangered Species of ’84 Carlos PAGÁN earned a doc- husband, Michael SCHMALE Mayer is living in Fresno with her of her and her husband’s two Association of Professional North America (FootHills Publishing); torate in education from Columbia (Stevenson ’76), works for Quest true love of four years, Doug, and companies, Kollabra.com Organizers. she is the president of Just Poets, a University in 2005. and was honored twice in 2005 for their two mutts and pursuing an and ioSafe.com. very astronaut is impressed ’91 Matthew BOKOVOY’s literary organization in the Rochester, ’93 Carrie PAFF holds a master’s top sales and service. M.A. in English composition. ’01 Amy JENKINS by the view of Earth from book The San Diego World’s N.Y., area, where she lives. degree in educational theater from ’84 Shari ANDERSON Allison ’98 Andrea VAN NOTE King is Johnsonbaugh and space. For NASA astronaut jim mackenzie Fairs and Southwestern ’73 Scott CRASK recently celebrated New York University and is the was recognized as an Outstanding expanding her private practice in her husband, Brian E Memory, 1880–1940 Steven Hawley, though, the view cofounder of StageWrite, Building Research and Writing Attorney by career and educational counseling his ninth year of employment at JOHNSONBAUGH in the other direction was just as (University of New Mexico Buckelew Programs, which provides Literacy through Theatre. She was the National Association of Federal services and offering a 50 percent (Crown ’01), celebrated their impressive—an endless expanse Press, 2005) looks at how services and housing for adults with last seen as Emma in Betrayal at Defenders at the association’s confer- discount for UCSC alumni (visit fi rst wedding anniversary in two San Diego exposi- mental illness in San Rafael, Calif. the Aurora Theatre Company in ence in San Francisco in May; she careerful.com). October 2005. of stars shining clear and bright, tions displayed a portrait Kathryn SULLIVAN has been Berkeley, and other recent Bay Area has been with the Federal Defender’s ’01 Stefano BLOCH completed an ’03 Nathan CARDOZO without the twinkling distortions of the Indian and Hispanic elected to the position of vice chair credits include the world premiere Offi ce in Las Cruces, N.M., for the M.A. in urban planning at UCLA is in his fi rst year at UC of the atmosphere or the dim- Southwest for the American of the National Science Board, which of The Haunting of Winchester at past nine years, specializing in the in 2005 and is now bound for the Hastings law school. ming effects of light pollution. public and how these im- San Jose Rep, Becoming Memories appellate defense of indigent persons University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, provides oversight of, and establishes ’04 Jamie WINSLOW is “As an astronomer, I always ages had far-reaching effects policies for, the National Science (Shellie Award nomination for best charged with committing federal to pursue a Ph.D. in geography. working in Santa Rosa for liked to look at the stars, but on consumer society of the Foundation, as well as advising the supporting actress) and Picasso at the crimes. She lives with her husband, Canine Companions for 1930s and on San Diego’s most of the other president and Congress on policies Lapin Agile at Center REP, and the Greg ALLISON (Stevenson ’83), Crown College Independence, a national modern development. related to science and engineering world premiere of Charles Grodin’s and their son, Nathan, in Las Cruces. organization that trains liked to look at Earth, so there Bokovoy is an acquisitions research and education. Sullivan also The Right Kind of ’86 Richard ’72 Stephen VINCENT planned to assistance dogs for people was always a bit of a battle editor at the University of serves as science adviser to the Center of People at the Magic NUNES received a marry his good friend Alla Trufanova with disabilities. over which way we were going Oklahoma Press in Norman, Theatre. master’s degree in in May, and he was getting a delight- Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. We’d like to to point the shuttle,” said where he lives with his wife, ’74 Joel SCHAFFER, a commis- ’01 Jane public health from ful daughter and son in the deal; hear from you Hawley, who fl ew on fi ve space Tabetha. sioner with the Federal Mediation ROSENTHAL, a Harvard University they will continue to live in Boston. Merrill College ’93 Charlotte GULLICK’s shuttle missions and now serves and Conciliation Service, was student adviser and R Use the envelope in 2005; he is ’73 Bill ALLAYAUD got married ’75 Ronald WEITZER fi rst novel, By Way of Water, recently awarded his agency’s high- learning specialist at in the middle of the now chief adoles- last year to Jennifer Beckman, and is a professor of sociol- as director of astromaterials For profi les of Steven Hawley was published by Penguin est honor, the Directors Award, for New York Univer- magazine to send cent psychiatrist they had his fi rst child, Juliette; he ogy at George Washington research and exploration science and other UCSC alumni, go to: Putnam in 2002; she has assisting in the successful mediation sity, is pursuing a us your class note for Santa Clara is still state director of Sierra Club University and has pub- at NASA’s Johnson Space www.ucsc.edu/alumni_friends/ recently been named direc- of the 2002 West Coast port lockout Ph.D. in education. County. California. lished a new book, Race and tor of the Mendocino Coast or send e-mail to Center. profi les and the 2006 lockout of dancers of R ’88 Robin ’80 Gael GRAHAM is the author Policing in America: Confl ict Writers Conference. the Washington Ballet; he has also [email protected] DONOVAN’s new of Young Activists: American High and Reform (Cambridge ’94 Josh BOOK is the Stevenson book, Campfi re School Students in the Age of Protest been instrumental in the creation R or submit a note University Press, 2006), a com- director of licensing at Activision, RealOnlineMarketing.com and supervising animator for the new Cuisine: Gourmet (Northern Illinois University Press, of national mediation services in College via the web at parative analysis of the perceptions a video game company; she lives in MarketingSantaCruz.com, Internet show Tak and the Power of Juju at Hungary and Croatia. He and his Recipes for the 2006), a study of how the civil rights of and personal experiences with Studio City and just celebrated her marketing fi rms in San Diego and Nickelodeon Animation Studios. alumni.ucsc.edu Great Outdoors, movement, the Vietnam War, and wife, Donna, live with their son, ’68 Allan police offi cers of Latinos, African ninth year as a breast cancer survivor. Santa Cruz; he is also an instructor Ryan GABRIEL and his wife, (go to Class Notes) was published in the antiauthoritarian spirit that was Adam, in Orinda, Calif. HARRIS is wrap- Americans, and whites, along with a ’84 Sharon CARLSON is a Spanish- of Internet marketing for the Small Liliana, are pleased to announce May by Quirk so pervasive on college campuses in ’77 Michele GERARD, a psycholo- ping up his last discussion of police reform. He has language interpreter in Los Angeles. Business Administration’s SCORE the birth of their fi rst baby, Laura, Books (www. the 1960s infi ltrated American pub- gist with a practice in Boulder, yearyear with BayerBayer (Cutter/Miles)(Cutter/Miles) in also written several recent articles on ’85 Persis KARIM has edited an program. in February; both parents work for campfi re-cuisine.com); she is a San lic high schools and created student Colo., has completed a three-year Berkeley after 29 years in various the growing moral panic in America anthology about the experiences of the U.S. government in Bogota, Francisco–based freelance journalist activists. Graham is an associate pro- cutting-edge trauma program, fi nancial positions. over sex traffi cking and prostitution. Iranian women, titled Let Me Tell Colombia. specializing in the subjects of food, fessor of history at Western Carolina Porter College Somatic Experiencing; she has a ’69 Joan FITTING Scott assumed ’78 Joseph HOBBS, a professor You Where I’ve Been: New Writings ’97 Robin KRIEGER Mejia, a free- cooking, and travel. University. 21-year-old stepdaughter and an her duties as president of the UCSC of geography at the University of by Women of the Iranian Diaspora ’79 Suzanne OLMSTED was lance journalist, has won a Livingston ’89 Lisa LEVINE Whelan and her ’87 Todd SAED has been a “bit 11-year-old stepson. Alumni Council in July; her new Missouri at Columbia with expertise (University of Arkansas Press, 2006); awarded tenure and appointed as- Award for National Reporting for her husband, Bob Whelan, are proud marooned” in Asia for the past 10 ’81 After earning a master’s degree book, Skinning the Cat: A Baby in Southeast Asia, is traveling to she is an associate professor in the sociate professor at San Francisco Art story “Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime to announce the birth of their baby years and considers it a fair trade in public health from UC Berkeley, Boomer’s Guide to the New Retiree Vietnam this fall to establish research English Department at San Jose Institute; she will be taking a sabbati- Labs Be Trusted?” which aired on girl, Evie Levine Whelan, in January; for being less vulnerable to those Lisa GELLING worked for the Lifestyles, is due out this fall (bbotw. ties with universities and recruit State University, where her research cal in 2007, during which she will be CNN Reports. she reports that her three-year-old, in power in the U.S.; he is now a California Emerging Infections com). students. interests include comparative litera- a resident artist in Antwerp, Belgium. ’01 Mackenzie SANTIAGO is shap- Grady, is doing great and they’re all professor at Kookmin University in Program on numerous disease sur- ’73 Winton CASS’s book Fairbanks ’79 Ron KAPLAN’s recording ture and ethnic American literature. ’83 Michael DRINKARD’s novel, ing surfboards for M10 Surfboards in adjusting to the joys and exhaustion Korea. veillance projects funded by the U.S. Station was due out in June and is Saloon: The Ron Kaplan * Weber ’92 Erika ENGELMANN Erhart is Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead, was Santa Cruz and going back to school of having an infant in the house. ’89 Akil KHALFANI’s book The Centers for Disease Control and about his involvement with the CIA Iago Album received reviews in the executive director of New Trier High published by Harcourt in February; to train as an R.N. ’92 Daniel TERDIMAN is a Hidden Debate: The Truth Revealed Prevention. Since 2005 she has been as a special technician from 1955 to December 2005 JazzTimes and the School’s educational foundation and set during the Revolutionary War, ’02 Daniel STEINBOCK is pur- staff writer covering the culture of about the Battle over Affi rmative working on Kaua’i as a communi- 1985. March issue of DownBeat, as well manager of New Trier’s alumni rela- the book tells a story of the confl ict suing a Ph.D. in learning sciences technology for CNET News.com Action in South Africa and the United cable disease epidemiologist for the ’78 Linda GRAY Schmale was rec- as in the February/March issue of tions department. She lives in the from the perspectives of a Long and technology design at Stanford and living in San Francisco with his States was published by Routledge Hawaii State Department of Health. ognized at the 2005 Colorado Art JazzHot in Paris; a digital remaster- Chicago area, is married with two Island hemp farmer, his wife, and University. wife, Kathleen; he has an M.S. from in 2005; he is an assistant professor continued on page 28

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 27 Tom Lantos in his San Mateo offi ce; University in Russia on a Fulbright Kresge College she is also the Filipino community grant; interest in psychodrama there In Memoriam ’80 Seth SERXNER reports to all liaison for Lantos’s 12th District. is huge, and he has held many train- ’67 Tom CUTHBERTSON his friends from debate club that he ’02 Niketa CALAME graduated ings, lectures, and conference pre- (Cowell College), an avid bicyclist is still a master debater. with a master of fi ne arts from Actors sentations. He has been interviewed and author of the popular bicycle ’84 Martha GRAHAM is a freelance Studio Drama School at the New for newspapers, radio, and TV, most fi x-it manual Anybody’s Bike Book, writer and works in the Advertising School University in New York in recently for an article about his work who enjoyed Scottish country Department at the Santa Cruz 2005; visit www.niketacalame.com for in Ural Airlines Magazine. dancing and body surfi ng, died of Sentinel; she is married, has a daughter, performance updates. ’93 Miyoko CHU (grad. cert., cancer at his home in Santa Cruz in and lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains. science writing) is an ornithologist October 2005; he was 60. ’91 Andre DOUMITT has been College Eight and staff science writer at the Cornell ’69 Craig SCOTT (Stevenson named director of business develop- Laboratory of Ornithology; her fi rst College), who for the past few years ment for BAE Systems (formerly ’78 Joanne RATNER Foxxe is the book, Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons had been living in Helensburgh, British Aerospace) in charge of inte- president of the Northern California in the Lives of Migratory Birds, was Scotland, where he and his wife Chapter of Residential Specialists, a published in March by Walker & Co. For the SLUG in your life... apparel, books, and gifts grated navigation and fl ight control owned a bookshop, died of cancer in systems for military and civilian designation held by only 3 percent of Sharon HELSEL Ghamari-Tabrizi April; he was 57. customers in the U.S. and interna- realtors nationwide, she notes. (Ph.D., history of consciousness) ’75 Malcolm BROWN (College tional markets; he lives with his wife, ’85 Scott SHAFFER received his is the author of The Worlds of Eight), a career commercial fi sher- Isabel, and their two children in master’s degree in physical therapy Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science man, avid photographer, and resi- DIPLOMA Culver City, Calif. from Mt. Saint Mary’s College and of Thermonuclear War (Harvard dent of Anchorage, Alaska, died at ’92 Jered LAWSON and his wife, started his own business, North Bay University Press, 2006), in which home in January of natural causes; BOOKS FRAMES Nancy Vail, who works for the Physical Therapy, specializing in she provides a portrait of the famous he was 57. Clifford (Kip) GATES by Faculty and UCSC Center for Agroecology, are aquatic rehabilitation, in Santa Cruz. nuclear strategist in the context of (Oakes College), a graduate of Alumni as featured in the partners in Pie Ranch, an organic the dramatic shifts taking place in UCLA Law School, where he was military culture during the cold war. UCSC Review farm near the coast north of Santa College Nine editor of UCLA’s National Black Law Cruz; their aim is to make the farm a ’94 Kristal Brent ZOOK (Ph.D., Journal, died in July. model of sustainable agriculture and ’03 Tero ISOTALO is working on history of consciousness) has a new ’78 Colleen CROSBY (Kresge an educational center where urban an M.S. in nanoscience in Finland. book, Black Women’s Lives: Stories College), an early proponent of children can learn about the practice. of Pain and Power (Nation Books, organically grown, fair trade cof- ’95 Shelley BATES has published Graduate Studies 2006); she is a contributing writer fee, who founded the Santa Cruz seven novels since graduation, most for Essence magazine, a commentator Coffee Roasting Company and recently A Sounding Brass (Time ’72 David TRAXEL (M.A., ’74 for National Public Radio, and an testifi ed on behalf of coffee farmers Warner, 2006); her book Grounds Ph.D., history) is the author of adjunct professor at the Graduate before the House Subcommittee on to Believe won a 2005 RITA Award Crusader Nation: The United States in School of Journalism at Columbia. International Relations, died in April for best inspirational novel from the Peace and the Great War, 1898–1920 ’99 Shawn GOULD’s (grad. cert., after a lengthy illness; she was 55. Romance Writers of America. (Knopf 2006), which follows his science illustration) illustration of an ’79 Carlos (Carl) WALKER (M.A., ’99 Reyna GRANDE’s fi rst novel, book 1898: The Birth of the American ancient fi sh that walked on land, biology) died in Santa Cruz of com- Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria Century (Knopf 1998). Traxel teaches Tiktaalik roseae, originally done for the plications from diabetes in August; Books, 2006), taps into the hopes in the Humanities Department at National Geographic Society, has been he was 57. He and his wife, Jeannie and fears of children left behind in the University of the Sciences in published repeatedly, accompanying LOGAN (College Eight), have been their native countries when their Philadelphia. New York Times and AP stories about volunteers at the Seacliff State Beach parents come to the U.S. to work. ’75 Marc HOFSTADTER (Ph.D., the “missing link” fi sh fossil. Visitors Center. Carl is missed by literature), whose poems, transla- ’00 Aureliano DeSOTO (Ph.D., his many friends. Oakes College tions, and essays have appeared in history of consciousness) was ’83 Jeanne MORRISON (Crown over 40 magazines, has published a appointed assistant professor in College), a librarian and bagpipe GIFTS ’76 Kenneth COALE (also a Ph.D., new volume of poems, Shark’s Tooth. the College of Arts and Sciences at player, died in April 2005 of cancer; biology ’88), the director of Moss Hofstadter won the 2004 Whetstone Metropolitan State University in she was 57. Landing Marine Laboratories, has been Poetry Award and served as the Saint Paul, Minn., where he will ’86 Karl VEDDER (Cowell awarded a $20,000 California State librarian of the San Francisco develop and teach courses in ethnic College), a tennis player and an University Wang Family Excellence Municipal Railway from 1982 until and Chicano-Latino studies as well aspiring writer with a novel close to Award; he teaches chemical oceanog- his recent retirement. He lives in as advise students. completion, died in San Francisco in raphy and supervises the thesis research Rossmoor (Walnut Creek, Calif.) ’03 Andrew JOLIVÉTTE (M.A. May; he was 44. of eight CSU graduate students. with his partner, David Zurlin. and Ph.D., sociology) is the ’99 Patrick CAURANT (Stevenson ’82 Janice ROHN is vice president ’84 Doug EERNISSE (Ph.D., editor of a new book titled Cultural College), a middle school math and of user experience at World Savings biology) is a professor at Cal State Representation in Native America science teacher and a talented cyclist Bank, where she’s responsible for web- Fullerton, where he teaches marine (AltaMira Press, 2006), a collection who was preparing for a national site design and usability and online biology and evolution courses; he of essays on the contemporary expe- championship, died in July a week banking; she has been president of the was awarded a sabbatical fellowship riences of Native American activists, after he collided with a pickup truck Usability Professionals Association to be at the National Evolutionary academics, and community mem- while on a training ride; he was 28. and has given many keynote speeches Synthesis Center at Duke University. bers; Jolivétte is an assistant profes- and presentations at conferences. ’91 Eberhard SCHEIFFELE (grad. sor in the American Indian Studies cert., theater arts) is teaching psycho- Department at San Francisco State ’98 Christine PADILLA is a fi eld Serving the UC Santa Cruz campus community since 1965 831.459.4544 SHOP ONLINE: slugstore.ucsc.edu representative for U.S. Congressman drama at Ekaterinburg Liberal Arts University.

28 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2006 29 UCSC scholarships Changing the world, one student at a time

Matt Bromage, age 23 R B.S., Computer Engineering, UCSC, 2005 R Ph.D., Computer Engineering (anticipated 2008) R Developer, SEA-LABS Wireless Sensor Network Supported by: R UCSC Center for the Dynamics and Evolution of the Land-Sea Interface Graduate Fellowship R Friends of Long Marine Lab Research Award R Ferd Ruth Award, Myers Oceanographic and Marine Biology Trust

ndergraduate Matt Bromage developed U SEA-LABS, a device that tracks environmental changes that are killing the world’s coral reefs. Built at the request of UCSC biologist Donald Potts, Matt’s sensor enables scientists to monitor remote environments affordably, in real time. Student- support gifts from donors helped make Matt’s design and its real-world application possible. The financial support Matt received expanded his educational opportunities —giving him the time, confidence, and encouragement to innovate. Now the recipient of a UCSC graduate fellowship, Matt plans to launch two SEA-LABS prototypes off the coast of Hawaii as part of his Ph.D. focus. Future applications for his device could include early detection of tsunami-sized waves and afford- able habitat monitoring for developing nations.

Gifts that support UCSC students are gifts that change the world. The time to giveto.ucsc.edu is now. For more information, call Jennifer M. Wood at giveto.ucsc.edu (831) 459-2489, or e-mail [email protected].

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