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including VIBRANT CAMPUS community | working hand in hand ENGINEERING OPPORTUNITIES | TYPE AND LITERATURE AND POETRY | STUDENT VOLUNTEER FIRST-PERSON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ Chancellor George Blumenthal

Vice Chancellor, University Relations Donna Murphy

UC SANTA CRUZ REVIEW Spring 2013 photo: jim mackenzie Editor Gwen Jourdonnais

Creative Director Lisa Nielsen

Art Director/Designer Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) From the Chancellor Associate Editor Dan White

Cover Photo Carolyn Lagattuta They are smart and hardworking. The admitted Tenacious, imaginative, freshman class for fall 2012 had an average high Photography school GPA of nearly 3.8. Carolyn Lagattuta conscientious—and bright! Jim MacKenzie Our students are also whimsical, fun, creative, Elena Zhukova When I walk around campus, I’m gratified and and innovative—think hipster glasses and flowered inspired by UCSC students. I see students en- velvet Doc Martens—in addition to being tutors, Contributors gaged in the full range of academic and creative mentors, and volunteers. Amy Ettinger Guy Lasnier (Merrill ’78) pursuits, as well as extracurricular activities. This They are active—and we’re ready for them, with Scott Rappaport issue of Review celebrates our students. more than 100 student organizations, 14 men’s Tim Stephens Peggy Townsend Who are today’s students? and women’s NCAA intercollegiate teams, and a Dan White To give you an idea, consider our most recent wide variety of athletic clubs, intramural leagues, and rec programs. Produced by applicant pool. More than 46,000 prospective UC Santa Cruz undergraduates—the most ever—applied for admis- Banana Slugs revel in our broad academic offer- Communications sion to UCSC for the fall 2013 quarter. ings and thrive in our interdisciplinary environment. & Marketing UCSC had the highest increase of freshman ap- Undergraduates choose from 60 majors, 37 1156 High Street minors, and 54 concentrations. Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 plications in the UC system and the second high- Voice: 831.459.2495 est increase in transfer applications. It’s our job to provide them with opportunities. Our Fax: 831.459.5795 Many UCSC students are first-generation. Almost growing popularity tells me we’re succeeding, of- E-mail: [email protected] fering an education that appeals to bright students Web: review.ucsc.edu half of the applications for fall came from students 4/13 (1213-410/60M) whose parents haven’t earned a degree from a with idealistic goals. UCSC students are tena- four-year university. cious, imaginative, conscientious, unlimited. They are actively making the world they want to live in. They are multicultural. The number of African They are preparing their wings to fly, and I never American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American tire of watching them soar. freshman applicants also increased.

Sincerely,

George Blumenthal Where’s Sammy? Congrats go out to Mark Clark, who was the first to write in with Sammy’s hid- ing spot in the fall ’12 issue! Clark graduated in the first class at Merrill, 1970, major- ing in politics under Terry UCREVIEW SANTA | review.ucsc.edu CRUZ | Spring 2013 Burke. He’s now retired after 32 years of federal civil ser- vice and lives in the Pacific Northwest. For the record, Sammy was peeking out from the bookshelf behind Professor Gail Hershatter on page 21. We received 32 Students have created clubs and responses to the Where’s activities from mock trial to tango— Every year, student interns and Sammy challenge. We’re offering social outlets while teaching volunteers do important work in the throwing down the valuable life lessons community that surrounds them gauntlet again! Can you find Sammy? He looks like the Sammy hanging out in the UC Santa Cruz logo, above right, and he’s hiding out in a new location in this issue. First person to tell us where he is gets a shout-out in the next issue. Go Banana Slugs!

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Senior engineering students create UCSC’s Cowell Press uses hands- A student writes about working with, design projects to address real-world on creativity to teach students the and learning from, animals in the Marine problems—some with sponsorships traditional arts of typography and Mammal Physiology Project from high-profile companies printing

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UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 1 Editor’s note: This second installment in our series of stories leading up to a celebration of UCSC’s 50th anniversary looks at the early architectural plans that were taking shape 50 years ago, in preparation for UCSC’s opening in 1965. To read a longer version of this story with more details about the plans, go to review.ucsc.edu.

UCSC became a daring experiment, not only in its The road to ’65 academic form but also in its 50 years ago: Countdown to UCSC’s 50th anniversary architectural design.

If things had gone differently, The master planners persuaded the there might have been a futuristic tower right Regents that the heart of the campus out of The Jetsons featured prominently on should be in the trees rather than in the campus. meadow, as early planners had proposed. They talked of using light colors and off- But thanks to two visionary UC admin- whites in densely forested areas with istrators, a modernist landscape architect, warmer earth tones on sunny hilltops. and an influential team of California And while the residential colleges would architects, some of the early campus be informal in style, the central campus architectural plans mercifully died a quick buildings would be more formal, “almost death. Instead, UCSC became a daring monumental.” experiment, not only in its academic form but also in its architectural design. Three of the architects went on to design buildings on campus. The first plan for Cowell UC President Clark Kerr and UCSC’s first College, by Theodore Bernardi, was rejected chancellor, Dean McHenry, championed a both by Kerr and the Regents, however. bold academic plan for UCSC: a cluster of 15-20 small, residential colleges allowing “It looked like a motel on Lake Tahoe students to mingle closely with their … ,” Kerr said in his oral history. The professors while enjoying the benefits of a architecture firm was sent back to design major research institution. They wanted the a cluster of inward-facing buildings around architecture of the new campus to reflect two courtyards,“one for men, the other those same ideals. for women,” reported McHenry in a 1963 Chancellor’s memo. In his oral history, Kerr likened his vision of the campus to an old fishing village in Construction of Stevenson, Crown, and An artist’s rendering of the proposed tower southern France, Aigues-Mortes, where Merrill Colleges followed. The Stevenson near Science Hill included in UCSC’s one step through an ancient wall took a architect, Joseph Esherick, skewed some of early architectural plans. visitor from a bustling town into the forest. the building footprints in order to preserve (Image courtesy of Frank Zwart) a number of massive redwoods, according The two men convinced the Regents to to Campus Architect Emeritus Frank Zwart hire a consortium of influential Northern (Cowell ’67). California designers to prepare a master plan to solidify their vision.

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 “best of” social media HOT dates

Commencement exercises Get social events.ucsc.edu/commencement June 14-16, 2013 Our nearly 32,000 Facebook friends share their memories, thoughts, rants, and compliments with Founders Celebration 2013 us. Check out some of the best comments from our ucsc.edu/founders Facebook page in the past few months. October 18, 2013 Founders Day Gala Dinner University of California, Santa Cruz Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz Founders Celebration 2013 Honorees see story, page 5 With finals a week away, we’d like to wish all our students the best of luck! Foundation Medal We’d also like to welcome them to their temporary new home (McHenry Library). Frank Gehry world-famous architect

Danielle Langman: I miss McHenry. Fiat Lux Award photo: vester dick Regardless of how many painful hours were spent slaving away on papers, it was Don & Diane Cooley, long-time The Regents Committee on always refreshing to look out the window UCSC supporters and advocates Grounds and Buildings met and see the beautiful redwood trees. on January 17, 1963, at First Alumni Achievement Award Congregational Church on Mad love out to our Banana Slug family Jock Reynolds High Street, where they ap- today! Do you have a UCSC love story? (Stevenson ’69, psychology), artist, proved the campus’s original Share it with us! Long Range Development Plan. director of the Yale University Art Gallery Dean McHenry, UCSC’s found- Colleen Jendreas: Met my husband on ing chancellor, is at the very move in day at College 8 in Sept. 2001. maitra lecture bottom right. Been married 5 years now with a 1 year December 5, 2013 old son. It was Slug love at first sight! Peter Sellars, renowned theater, opera, All four of the early colleges and festival director seemed to satisfy the ideals set The last time the San Francisco 49ers won the SuperBowl was 1994, which out by the founding architects. happens to be the same year Vincent However, neglected from the Vega wore a Banana Slugs shirt in the Alumni Weekend 2014 Long Range Development movie Pulp Fiction. Coincidence? Not April 25–27, 2014 Plan design was a giant tower likely. What were you doing in 1994? rising out of the redwoods near For more events, visit: Science Hill. Theda Weston: Freshman at Porter College and watched Pulp Fiction events.ucsc.edu Looking back, it was probably downtown! Go 49ers! a feature that was better left unbuilt. UCSC has lost a great friend. Do you — by Peggy Townsend have memories of Don Rothman, our beloved teacher of writing? Please feel free to share.

Deborah Baeza: When I arrived at UCSC, I liked to write. By the time I left, I LOVED it. RIP, Don Rothman.

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www.facebook.com/ucsantacruz UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 3 News and people of note This is UCSC Astronomer gets White House recognition President Barack Obama presented astronomer Sandra Faber with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony in February. Faber, a University Professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC and the interim director of UC Observatories, was hon- ored along with 11 other recipients of the National Medal of Science and 11 recipi- ents of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. These are the highest honors bestowed by the U.S. government upon scientists, en- gineers, and inventors. Chancellor George Blumenthal accompanied Faber to the ceremony. Faber was recognized “for leadership in numerous path-breaking studies of extra- galactic astronomy and galaxy formation, and for oversight of the construction of important instruments, including the Keck telescopes.” President Obama congratulates Sandra Faber after awarding her the National Medal of Science. Ph.D. in feminist studies launches The UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies The campus is now accepting applications for the Department officially celebrated the launch of its new Ph.D. program in feminist studies, which is long-awaited graduate program with a kick-off set to begin this fall. reception in October. Also newly launched are a doctoral program in Guests included Chancellor Blumenthal, professor Latin American and Latino studies, a master’s Kelly Weisberg, campus provost and executive vice program in theater arts, and a master’s program chancellor Alison Galloway, founding department in technology and information management. faculty member Bettina Aptheker, and former de- partment chair and professor emerita Angela Davis. Professor Bettina Find more UCSC news at news.ucsc.edu Have news delivered straight to your inbox! Aptheker Subscribe to the UCSC e-newsletter or news 4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 by subject at news.ucsc.edu/subscribe Architect Frank Gehry to be honored at 2013 Founders Celebration The iconic architect Frank Gehry—legend- ary for his designs for buildings including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles—will receive the Foundation Medal at UCSC’s Founders Celebration 2013. The award-winning architect is often described as one of the most important and influential architects of our time. Don and Diane Cooley, long-time support- Alec and Claudia Webster, trustees of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation ers and advocates of UCSC, will receive the Fiat Lux Award. Still, he saw an amazing opportunity. $5 million gift to If restored, the barn could be a way to The Alumni Achievement Award will go to give old barn new honor the history of UC Santa Cruz and Jock Reynolds (Stevenson ’69, psychology), the land itself, bring new focus to South artist and director of the Yale University Art purpose Campus, add momentum to adjacent Gallery. When Alec Webster started paying environmental and food sustainability These awards are part of the campus’s cel- attention to the old Cowell Ranch Hay programs, and become a catalyst for ebration of creativity, innovation, and the Barn, a century and a half of use, dis- others to invest in the university. arts at UCSC. The Founders Day Gala use, and the elements had taken a steep Webster and his wife Claudia knew Dinner will be October 18 at the Cocoanut toll. By the time he started really caring, they could make the difference, do Grove in Santa Cruz. it was clearly falling down. something that, if cared for, will stand The celebration continues with the Maitra for another 150 years. As trustees of the Lecture on December 5, to be delivered by Peter Sellars continued on page 38 renowned theater director . photos: white house: ryan k morris/national science & technology UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 5 medals foundation; hay barn: c. lagattuta; aptheker by melanie wylie Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Streamlining UCSC ranked Springs, New York. the search for 2nd for research Conceived as more than a museum, the institute will be designed to function as new antibiotics influence an intellectual hub for visiting faculty, Researchers at UCSC have developed a In a new analysis of the world’s top uni- UCSC faculty, and artists, scientists, and new strategy for finding novel antibiotic versities, UC Santa Cruz ranked second in humanists-in-residence, as well as pro- compounds, using a diagnostic panel of research influence as measured by the aver- vide space for site-specific installations, bacterial strains for screening chemical age number of times its faculty’s published seminars, events, and hands-on research. extracts from natural sources. work is cited by scholars around the world. Public health officials warn of a looming Published as part of the Times Higher antibiotic crisis due to the steady increase in Education World University Rankings antibiotic resistance and a dramatic decline 2012–13, the analysis, conducted by in the development of new antibiotics. Thomson Reuters, measured overall Most currently available antibiotics are de- research influence based on the average rived from natural compounds produced number of citations per paper, using a by microorganisms such as bacteria and database of more than 50 million cita- fungi. New antibiotics developed by drug tions to 6 million journal articles pub- companies are often synthetically tailored lished over five years, from 2006 to 2010. variations of existing classes of antibiotics. With a citation score of 99.9, UC Kapany To combat the problem of antibiotic re- Santa Cruz has the same score as the sistance, however, researchers desperately Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides boost for want to find antibiotics with completely and is surpassed only by Rice University, novel structures and modes of action. with a score of 100. entrepreneurship The new screening procedure, called program BioMAP (antibiotic mode of action pro- Coming to UCSC: Narinder Singh Kapany, a pioneering file), promises to streamline the discovery Institute of the fiber-optics researcher and entrepreneur, of new antibiotics from natural sources has made a gift of $500,000 to UCSC to by providing a low-cost, high-throughput Arts & Sciences establish an endowed chair in entrepre- platform for identifying compounds with neurship. novel antibiotic properties. UC Santa Cruz is developing an institute focusing on the relationship between the The Narinder Kapany Professorship in Above: Robotic equipment at the UCSC arts and sciences, a first of its kind at a Entrepreneurship is based initially at Chemical Screening Center was used to screen natural product extracts for novel research university. UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering in antibiotics. Right: John Weber. Far right: Its newly hired director is John Weber, support of the school’s leadership in the Narinder Kapany formerly Dayton Director of the Frances establishment of a comprehensive entre- Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art preneurship program for the campus. photos: seagrass students by c. lagattuta; researcher by e. zhukova; kapany by r.r.jones; rothman by jim mackenzie

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This is the second endowed chair funded allowing people to wash off the oil before by Kapany, who was a Regents Professor at it causes an itchy, blistering skin rash. UC Santa Cruz from 1977 to 1983 and cur- rently serves as a UC Santa Cruz Foundation Undergrads make trustee. In 1999, he endowed the Narinder In memoriam: Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics at seagrass findings the Baskin School of Engineering. Hannah Perlkin and Emily Tucker didn’t Don Rothman Never get have grand ambitions when they enrolled in the Marine Ecology Field Quarter course at Don Rothman, a leading voice for poison oak again? UC Santa Cruz last fall. writers and writing during a distin- guished 39-year career at UC Santa The last time Rebecca Braslau got a bad Then they began making some interest- Cruz, died in his sleep in November case of poison oak, she found herself pon- ing discoveries about Neptune grass, the at his Santa Cruz home. He was 67. dering the chemical structure of urushiol, iconic seagrass of the Mediterranean Sea, the toxic oil in poison oak and its relatives, and they weren’t the only ones excited by Rothman was also well known as a poison ivy and poison sumac (all species of their findings. champion of UCSC’s seventh col- Toxicodendron). Leading European seagrass researchers lege, Oakes, which he joined as a lecturer in 1973 when he was 28. “I thought, I’m a chemist. I should be able are also interested, and the U.S. National to do something about this,” said Braslau, Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a While Rothman is recognized a professor of chemistry and biochemistry grant enabling the students, both senior for his lasting imprint on Oakes at UCSC. marine biology majors, to continue their College, he is also well known for research in the Mediterranean and work developing writing courses that Now her lab has developed a spray that with European collaborators. Their re- helped students from all back- can be used to detect urushiol on clothes search may have implications for seagrass grounds and majors find their voice and equipment, and potentially on skin, restoration efforts. on campus and engage with the “This seagrass project is a good example wider world. of the value of field classes, the quality of Don Rothman’s family requests our undergraduates, and the emphasis that that remembrances be sent to: NSF places on fostering undergraduate The Dreamer’s Fund, which sup- research,” said Peter Raimondi, profes- ports UCSC’s undocumented sor and chair of ecology and evolutionary (AB-540) students, The Don biology. Rothman Endowed Award in the Above: Senior marine biology majors Writing Program, or Shakespeare Hannah Perlkin and Emily Tucker Santa Cruz. To make a donation Left: The leaves and other parts of online to any of these programs, poison oak contain urushiol (structure visit giving.ucsc.edu. shown in upper left), which causes al- lergic dermatitis in most people. Above: Don Rothman UCUC SantaSanta CruzCruz ReviewReview // SpringSpring 20132011 77 “UCSC provides students with real-time leadership experiences.” —Sayo Fujioka, director of Student Organization Advising and Resources Sit’s a lug’SLIFE

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Slug’SLIFE Students have created activities ranging from mock trial to tango—gaining social outlets while learning valuable life lessons as part of a vibrant campus community

Banana Slugs aren’t the type to be Students have begun theater compa- their fellow Slugs,” said Campus Provost satisfied with the status quo. nies, started glossy magazines, formed Alison Galloway. “It’s gratifying to see For example, when they felt there dance troupes and a cappella singing student-initiated, student-organized, and wasn’t enough being done on an en- groups, and initiated athletic teams and student-led groups being such a big part vironmental level, both on and off academic societies. of the community here.” campus, they started a fund to finance “UC Santa Cruz students are more than These groups provide not only en- students’ good ideas. When there just creative—they have a lot of drive and tertainment and social outlets, said wasn’t a dodgeball team, they created self-direction, whether they are show- Galloway, but real life lessons. one. When they wanted to tango or do ing off their artistic talents, reaching out “For example, you’d better hone your stand-up comedy, they formed those to communities off campus, or offering debating chops if you ever go up against

photos: student studying by e. zhukova; fencers by jim mackenzie groups, too. entertainment, inspiration, or support to the campus’s mock trial team,” she said,

UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 9 Students have begun “and you will tread more lightly on the Chris Silva, 21 (Stevenson ’13, human theater companies, started Earth if you’ve been involved with the biology), is currently the director of the Student Environmental Center, which UCSC Student Volunteer Center. He’s a glossy magazines, formed promotes student involvement in sustain- hard-working student, but he’s already a dance troupes and a ability through research and education.” leader, overseeing a staff of two—an op- cappella singing groups, Student-organized groups also teach erations director and a programs direc- and initiated athletic teams students how to lead, how to coordinate, tor—along with several interns. and academic societies. and how to live. “Volunteering provides opportunities to apply skills you use in classrooms while

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 giving you real-world experience dealing for a clinical setting, but you also need Another member of the UCSC commu- with people and real-life situations you the sympathy and empathy to provide ad- nity, Sayo Fujioka, is unusually quali- just don’t get in classrooms,” said Silva. equate care for someone in rehabilitation.” fied to talk about student leadership at UCSC. She started off as a UCSC Aside from being good for the soul, vol- The Volunteer Center works with a student, then went on to be a staff advi- unteering can help students demonstrate number of nonprofits and public ser- sor to campus organizations, and is cur- and build empathy. Silva hopes to be a vices in the Santa Cruz area, including rently director of Student Organization physician, in part because of a medical the Walnut Avenue Women’s Center Advising and Resources. “UCSC at- emergency in his family. “Part of being a and the Jesus, Mary and Joseph Home. tracts students with drive and initiative physician is the knowledge and skill sets to make the world better,” she said.

And the campus gives them valuable It’s not surprising that many UCSC Clockwise from left: Bike Library and Student opportunities. movers and shakers go on to big things Environmental Center; Acquire A Cappella; Student Volunteer Center leaders Chris Silva, “UCSC provides students with real- post-graduation. The current and past director, Will Brotherson, and Brenda Beltran; time leadership experiences,” Fujioka presidents of the United States Student Tangroupe, UCSC’s tango troupe; student said. For instance, SOAR, along with Association in Washington, D.C., are tabling for the Sustainability Office. Student Media/Cultural Arts and both graduates of UCSC and were Diversity, gives students a chance to leaders in the Student Union Assembly. oversee university programs and activi- Contact Dan White at [email protected]. ties in partnership with staff, faculty, and alumni mentors.

“These university mentors provide Go to: giving.ucsc.edu/students to see how you can trainings, retreats, advising, and sup- help support the student experience. port, but students are the ones who have the responsibility for the deci- sions and outcomes of their programs,”

photos: acquire a cappella by terry way; student volunteer center, tango by c. lagattuta Fujioka said.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 11 Every year, hundreds of UCSC student interns and volunteers do important work in the community that surrounds them WORKING

Above: Students working at NOAA Fisheries and Ecology DivisionHANDinHAND “UCSC is a real powerhouse in terms of An unsettling tremble runs through the Over the past four quarters, for example, Santa Cruz Wharf as a large truck passes, nearly 700 UCSC environmental stud- cognitive resources. It but UC Santa Cruz students Shyyon ies interns have contributed close to makes great sense to Kishani, 20, and Kevin Dang, 21, don’t 60,000 hours of work to nonprofits, bring that to bear on the even flinch. businesses, and government in the Santa community.” That’s because Kishani, a junior physical Cruz area. That number doesn’t include — Santa Cruz Wharf Manager science student from College Eight, and the numerous students who have given Jon Bombaci Dang, a senior economics and environ- hours and made donations to nonprofits mental studies major from College Nine, like Habitat for Humanity and Second have spent a lot of time on the wharf. Harvest Food Bank through the cam- In fact, they’ve been tasked with figur- pus’s Student Volunteer Center or par- ing out alternate ways to get rid of waste ticipated in other internship programs and used cooking grease from the wharf offered through different divisions. without using heavy vehicles like the one “UCSC is a real powerhouse in terms rumbling past, which can cause damage of cognitive resources,” says Santa Cruz to the 99-year-old structure. Wharf Manager Jon Bombaci (College Their efforts for the city—part of an Eight ’94, environmental studies) as he environmental studies internship—is just stands near a display for an innovative one example of the way UCSC students eco-tour led by another UCSC student. are reaching out to work in the commu- “It makes great sense to me to bring that nity that surrounds them. to bear on the community.”

Student installing signs for the Santa Cruz EcoTour 12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 by Peggy Townsend

HANDinTop: StudentsHAND restoring native plants at Younger Lagoon.

Chris Krohn, UCSC’s environmental Nowhere is that more evident than in the price of supermarket produce with studies internship coordinator, is driving a narrow lab at the NOAA Fisheries farmers’ market veggies, UCSC students his battered, green van to visit sites where Ecology Division, where four UCSC stu- are making a difference not only in their students are doing solar-energy audits for dents hunch over microscopes under the own lives but also in the lives of others. a company called Allterra and getting watchful eye of Cynthia Kern, a research Marissa Kotila, co-owner of Casalegno ready to build bike generators and install biologist with the National Marine Family Farm near Soquel, remembers solar tubes at the Natural Bridges Green Fisheries Service. one of the four interns who worked with Careers Center alternative school. The students are plucking caddisflies, them. Hands on the wheel, he reflects on the mayflies, and other insects out of hun- Deciding to grow their own heirloom to- beneficial relationship between students dreds of water samples taken after the mato seedlings and being unable to fin- and the community. Not only do local devastating 2009 Lockheed Martin fire ish a new greenhouse in time, the family agencies and businesses get the enthusi- in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Part of put the fragile sprouts in the attic of their asm and brain power of UCSC students, a study looking at the effects of fire on house. Each day, their UCSC intern he says, but the program’s young men salmon populations, their work is invalu- would climb into the rafters and pains- and women get an edge when it comes to able as far as getting research done in a takingly hand-water every plant. landing a job. timely fashion, Kern says. Says Kotila, “We harvested a beautiful “Their resume becomes filled, not with For Sebastian Krause (College Eight ’14, crop of tomatoes that year.” coffee shop and waitress jobs,” says Krohn marine biology), the work is another step (Merrill ’87, community studies), “but along his career path. Peggy Townsend is a freelance writer based in Santa Cruz. with National Oceanic and Atmospheric “I’ve always wanted to be a discoverer,” Administration, California Certified he says, “and this is an extension of that.” Organic Farmers, California State Parks, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and California From replanting an old Brussels sprouts Coastal Commission positions.” field with native species at UCSC’s Younger Lagoon Reserve, to comparing

UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 13 Senior engineering students create design projects to address real-world problems—some with sponsorships from high-profile companies Engineering

Opportunities

Above: Ceiling robot prototype in progress. Center: Phillip Wong, a member of the ceiling robot team. Right: John Branscum, Brendon Maher, and Eric Yu of the AEROBERRY propellor track- ing prototype, which will be able to fly in the air and record photos and/or video.

In good company 2013 senior engineering design corporate sponsors: • Applied Materials • Dell KACE • eBay • Echelon • Google • Netflix • Oracle • Raytheon • Xilinx • Yaskawa

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sionals into essential projects that address Industry leaders including Google, Imagine a robot that real-world concerns ranging from climate Netflix, Xilinx, and Oracle meet with travels on the ceiling and helps you out change and public safety to the secrets of students each week to check on their around the house. Try to picture an extraterrestrial soil. progress and offer tools to help them autonomous, mechanized lifeguard that High-profile Silicon Valley companies succeed. photos: carolyn lagattuta waits in the water, kicking into high gear are sponsoring 11 senior projects this For engineering seniors, the design proj- when someone starts drowning. year in the hopes of providing students ect is a transition from being a Banana These may sound like props in the lat- with immersive “real world” industry Slug to a contributing member of a team est J. J. Abrams movie, but engineering experience while giving self-motivated in a career in industry or research. students at UC Santa Cruz have turned Banana Slugs a toehold in the highly their collaborations with industry profes- competitive tech world.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 15 Above: Autonomous Lifeguard Group members David Goodman, Shehadeh Dajani, and Darrel Deo. Center: Carol Owens, team leader on the Google project. Right: Christopher McNamara of the Electric Bike project developing regenerative braking and battery capacity.

Carol Owens (Crown College) is team dustry programs and Baskin Professor of Budd and the rest of the team were noti- leader on a project sponsored by Google Computer Engineering. Some students fied in March that the cost of materials to build a mobile environmental sensing decide to delve into venture capital- for the project will be funded by the UC system that plots field-recorded data on ism and pursue challenges that are not Santa Cruz Foundation. Google Maps. funded by corporate sponsors. Students who are building a robotic life- It’s her first time working in a group, A team of six seniors fronted $3,000 guard are also willing to fund their own and she’s learning about the challenges of their own money to enter the NASA project. of reaching a consensus. She says she was Centennial Challenge, which helps The lifeguard robot the team is building drawn to the project because of its po- NASA advance its use of technology will be able to travel faster than a human tential to help in the real world. through the use of prize competitions. lifeguard’s average swim speed. “It has a positive impact on the environ- Geoffrey Budd (College Ten) and his “Coming from a beach town, we realized ment by helping environmental scientists colleagues are competing with 13 other the need for safety,” said team leader gather data and raising public awareness teams from around the world to build a Darrel Deo (Crown College). “Our life- about pollutants and greenhouse gases,” robot that can locate and retrieve extra- guard will not suffer from fatigue.” said Owens. terrestrial samples. Ethan Papp (Crown College, ’12) led a Finding the right project for students “If we are successful, not only will we team last year that built a prototype for involves a little “matchmaking,” said have learned a great deal about autono- a glass microphone. He’s back this year Patrick Mantey, who directs UCSC’s mous robot navigation and construction, as a teaching assistant for the corporate Center for Information Technology but we will also have brought a signifi- senior design courses. He said he learned and Research in the Interest of Society cant amount of attention to UCSC’s new about professionalism and high expecta- (CITRIS) and is associate dean of in- robotics engineering major, “ Budd said. tions during last year’s project.

16 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 “The partnerships with industry, and the participation of the industry engineers in guiding their projects, give our students the opportunity to understand how to work in the real world.” — Patrick Mantey, Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering

William McGrath of the OLED Applied Materials team, which is working on light sensors that will adjust for ambient lighting.

“We were expected to produce nothing short of ex- cellent quality work because it would be showcased and shared with a representative from Corning Incorporated, which was sponsoring our project,” he said. Last year’s corporate sponsors hired many of last year’s crew of engineering students. The high-profile companies know that UCSC engineering students are learning about the values of hard work and collabora- tion, said Mantey. “The partnerships with industry, and the participa- tion of the industry engineers in guiding their proj- ects, give our students the opportunity to understand how to work in the real world,” said Mantey. Amy Ettinger is a freelance writer based in Santa Cruz.

Left to right: Sina Kahnemouyi, Samir Mohammed, and Geoffrey Budd of the NASA team with the foundation of their prototype.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 17 TYPE and LITERATURE and POETRY

UCSC’s Cowell Press, a decades-old program, uses hands-on creativity to teach students the traditional arts of typography and printing

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 By Peggy Townsend

An hour away from According to a 2005 oral history, the alumni like Tom Killion, whose stun- Silicon Valley and a 10-minute walk Cowell Press had its start in the experi- ning Japanese-style woodcut prints from researchers studying cancer and mental teaching environment that was capture the beauty of California, and cosmology, UC Santa Cruz anthropol- early UC Santa Cruz. A student named Felicia Rice, owner of Moving Parts ogy major Ruebi Jimenez is toiling over a Peter Manston discovered an aban- Press, which prints limited-edition art- centuries-old art. doned platen press in an old Cowell ists’ books and prints. Peggy Gotthold, Ranch outbuilding and, in 1973, led a who founded the publishing company She runs her fingertips over lines of student-taught seminar on letterpress Foolscap Press, and woodcut artist raised metal letters as she ponders spac- printing. Aaron Johnson are also alumni. ing issues, typeface problems, and the slight menace of Today, UCSC the finger-snagging students from a Vandercook printing wide array of ma- press in front of her. She jors—from envi- doesn’t want to make a ronmental science mistake. to psychology to anthropology— “This makes me slow create whimsical down and be engaged posters, assemble with type and literature one-of-a-kind and poetry in a work- books, set words shop setting,” says to paper, and in- Jimenez, who is part of dulge in a kind of a decades-old program hands-on creativ- on campus: the Cowell ity they say they Press. “That’s why it is don’t find in lec- so attractive to me.” tures and labs. Taught by poet and “It harkens master printer Gary back to those Young, and housed in Left: A student works the old art of printing as he sets metal type in a wood form. Above: Ruebi Jimenez makes sure type is set tightly in the form. early days of what was once a two-car experimentation garage at the Cowell at UCSC,” says College Provost’s House, the Cowell The next year, respected San Francisco Young, who oversees the press with a Press feels like a step back in time. Old typographer Jack Stauffacher was poet’s eye and a craftsman’s skills—both letterpress machines sigh. Wooden type given a Regents professorship and necessary to keep the program and the drawers clack gently. A long blade cuts began to teach typography at Cowell thumping old presses running. thick paper with a hiss. College. Later, he was joined on campus by poet, printer, and former Young, who graduated from UCSC in “It’s one of the few places where you can 1973 and began teaching on campus in still use your hands,” says Young, as he sur- Dominican monk William Everson, who established the Lime Kiln Press. 2005, sees himself as a facilitator and en- veys a shoulder-to-shoulder mix of students thusiast for the creative appetites of those setting type, carving linoleum blocks, and Typography and printing as a creative photos by c. lagattuta in his class. He describes how students dis- working presses that look close to antiques. medium became part of the UCSC experience. cover a poem’s “heft” by setting it in type, “We’re using muscle memory as a tool for of their fascination with an old-fashioned aesthetic choices, and, in this world, we Since then, the press’s cramped work- art, of the life skills the class teaches. don’t get to do that too often.” space has turned out an array of famous

UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 19 “I’ve learned a lot of patience and gained more awareness of what I’m doing.” — student Megan Barrett

Clockwise from top left: A student carves a linoleum block for his project. Ruebi Jimenez preps one of the aging Vandercook Presses before making a proof of her fine-art poster; she says the class is a way to slow down in a world of multi-tasking. Ethan Snyderman sets type. Poet and Cowell Press instructor Gary Young says setting a poem in type gives it “heft. It becomes substantial.”

“Students pull proofs, redesign, pull “I’ve learned a lot of patience,” she says. “Beautiful,” he says of an accordion- proofs, redesign again,” he says as he “I’ve gained more awareness of what style, fine-art book being finished by stands in front of a bank of windows I’m doing. You have to take things recent graduate Nicole Albuquerque, that fills the room with light. “They more seriously because you recognize an environmental studies major from have to make choices. It is one of the that if you don’t do it right, you have Cowell College. fundamental questions of morality. to do it all over again.” Albuquerque smiles. “I didn’t know You make choices and the choices mat- As Barrett works, Young weaves his about the press until my senior year,” ter. You have to live with them.” way over the ink-stained concrete floor, she says. “But when I found it, it was That idea is one of the things that ap- pausing to troubleshoot a project that magical.” peals to Megan Barrett, a senior art isn’t printing clearly, to examine type Peggy Townsend is a freelance writer history major from Porter College. that may need to be rehabilitated at his based in Santa Cruz. own studio in Bonny Doon.

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 The world of words and tools come together at Cowell Press.

“We’re using muscle memory as a tool for aesthetic choices, and, in this world, we don’t get to do that too often.” — master printer Gary Young

Keep the presses rolling Cowell Press and the courses in the book glorious past and turn to the task of securing arts are supported entirely by donated funds. the same benefits for generations to come,” In a first step toward securing the future of said Crosby. the press, Cowell College is kicking off a Checks may be made out to the UC Santa fundraising effort to create an endowment. Cruz Foundation and sent with a note on Establishing an endowment requires initial the memo line saying “Cowell Press.” funding of $25,000. The ultimate goal is to Mail to Kathy Rouhier, University Relations, have an endowment of $1.5 million, which 1156 High St., Santa Cruz CA 95064. would provide adequate funds for the col- lege to keep the presses rolling, according to To give online, go to giving.ucsc.edu and Cowell College Provost Faye Crosby. search for “Cowell Press.” “Now, as UCSC approaches its 50th year of Alexis Kageyama, a sociology existence, is the time for us to celebrate our and psychology major at Cowell College, says the class is an outlet for her creativity. UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 21 DREAM JOB A Student writes about her experience caring for, and learning from , UCSC’s marine mammal “animal ambassadors”

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 Editor’s note: As part of the Student Issue, we asked a student to write a piece for By Maia Goguen us. We hope this first-person by Maia Goguen gives you an up-close look at what it’s (Crown ’13, ecology and like to be one of the student volunteers who work tirelessly, 365 days a year, caring for animals in the Marine Mammal Physiology Project. Volunteers gain a breadth of evolutionary biology) experience ranging from animal care and husbandry practices to data collection and hands-on animal training with a variety of marine mammals and exotic birds.

It’s 7:30 on a Saturday morning and I but I am a small part of the MMPP “table manners” or behavior, and train am having a stare-down with a sink full workforce. You know the saying, “It many husbandry behaviors, including of dead fish. takes a village to raise a child.” Then weighing, blood sampling, and exercise, Two years ago this would have seemed what does it take to raise nine exotic and research behaviors, including diving strange to me because, 1) I’m awake at animals? The MMPP community! and sitting under a metabolic dome for 7:30 on a Saturday morning, an event un- After finishing bucketing we move on oxygen consumption measurements. imaginable for most college students, and to other daily “chores” like checking The animals voluntarily perform all 2) I’m next to a sink full of dead fish. the temperature and water quality of research and husbandry behaviors. This, however, is not part of a strange the pools, scraping algae (and feces) off MMPP trainers also use these sessions dream, but rather a first step in “bucket- of pool walls, and cleaning everything, to teach volunteers about feeding, train- ing,” one of the many morning tasks vol- from bird food bowls to buckets filled ing, and research techniques. As an unteers perform at the Marine Mammal with fish juice. assistant trainer, I now get to feed and Physiology Project (MMPP), a UC Santa It is dirty and tiring work, but I would train these amazing animals! Cruz lab under the direction of marine choose all of it over cleaning my room I am constantly learning ways to im- DREAM JOB biologist Terrie Williams. any day. These tasks are essential for prove my communication and training It is dirty and tiring work, but I would choose all of it over cleaning my room any day.

The MMPP studies the physiological, the health of the animals, the primary abilities in different situations and with energetic, and biomechanical param- concern for everyone at the lab, and are different species, skills that are neces- eters of several marine mammal species, actually fun when you do them with sary for a career in animal care and and the sink full of fish will be breakfast friends. training. I have also been able to watch for the lab’s animal residents. MMPP is Throughout the day we also work to and participate in research sessions and home to Primo and Puka, two Atlantic keep the animals enriched, or mentally have had the opportunity to apply the bottlenose dolphins; Taylor, a Southern healthy, by picking out toys, introduc- training and research knowledge I have sea otter; and KE-18, a Hawaiian monk ing them to novel things, and being cre- gained while working with MMPP to seal. Three cockatoos, Junior, Mary, ative in our interactions with them. my own study on the metabolic rates and assimilation efficiency of cockatoos. and Wiki, and two cockatiels, Shadow Then comes everyone’s, especially and Savannah, live here, too. the animals’, favorite part—feeding! This applied research experience will “MMPP has also been my home, at least Feeding sessions use the animals’ daily help me with my” goal of going to gradu- 20 hours a week, for the past two years, food as a motivator to enforce good ate school to continue biological and conservation research. all photos by c. lagattuta

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UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 23 Student Maia Goguen works with one of the Marine Mammal Physiology Project’s Atlantic bottlenose dolphins as part of a volunteer position she’s held for two years.

MMPP has taught me the importance of teamwork, both with animals and other people. It is inspiring to see what we all can accomplish together! I would like to thank Professor Terrie Williams for this opportunity to learn and live my dreams. I would also like to thank Traci Kendall, Beau Richter, and Courtney Ribiero-French for their guidance, care, and patience. Lastly, I would like to thank the rest of my MMPP family: Hilary Mills, Donna Beckett, Bryan Tom, Breanna Deeper pools, deeper research Beck, Nick Alcaraz, Caitlin Carrington, Meagan The outdoor marine mammal research facilities at Long Marine Davis, Margaret Cummings, Noel Fong, Vicky Lab need to be rebuilt and improved—the pools and life support Karabanova, Hannah Blaisdell, Laura Francisco, system are nearly 35 years old. Plans are being developed and Kim Kendig, Travis Trihn, Aubrey Sanders, Melissa private funding sought for the project, which will allow important Sigala, Krista Rigsbee, Janelle Lundin, Victoria new study of seals, sea lions, dolphins, and sea otters. Among Hess, Danna Jackson-Molidor, Leann Castle, and improvements: making the pools deeper so marine animals have Amber Diluzio for all of their love and support for room to dive—and researchers can study how they do it. To learn the animals and each other. more, call (831) 459-4240, or write to [email protected].

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 Uncommonpeople

and Evolution, say the outreach needed to the country’s foremost cancer centers, MD Rachel Wheat convince people to fund a wildlife study not Anderson in Houston, Texas. and Yiwei Wang: only connects the public to research but But that’s exactly where Ledesma landed also makes science more transparent. last year as part of his applied physics Crowdsourcing About 30 unique visitors log onto the pair’s studies at UC Santa Cruz. for research website (www.ecologyalaska.com) daily to The 24-year-old Salinas resident, the son get front-row seats on scientific discovery, (Graduate Division, environmental studies) of agriculture laborers, arrived in Santa including the flight paths of four eagles Cruz from Hartnell Junior College with a The male bald eagle, 3C, left the Chilkat equipped with GPS tracking devices and $25,000 S-STEM scholarship from the River in Alaska and flew 500 miles south to photos from 30 cameras, which capture im- National Science Foundation, and a love Kitimat, B.C., where he haunted a rugged ages of grizzlies, mink, and marten that feed for physics and medicine. His professors at landscape of rocky shorelines and old- on the salmon. UCSC directed him toward medical phys- growth forests. With crucial help from UCSC Assistant ics, where he could combine both of his What was revolutionary about 3C’s trip Professor of Environmental Sciences Chris passions by working in radiation oncology. was not the distance or the destination, but Wilmers, the two women hope their very He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in that field. rather the way UC Santa Cruz environmen- public study will foster more interest in the Driven to succeed, Ledesma not only won tal studies grad students Rachel Wheat, 27, ecosystem they are studying. the MD Anderson research internship, but and Yiwei Wang, 30, were able to fund their “We want people to care about the science also did apprenticeships at the remote tracking of him as part of their research on we do,” says Wheat. sensing lab at the Naval Postgraduate the influence of salmon on the ecosystem School in Monterey, at the Project Morpheus land- ing simulator lab at NASA Johnson Space Center in Texas, and did calibration testing at UCSC’s Center for Adaptive Optics as part of his studies. “I think one of the most important qualities of Juan’s personality is his persis- tence and faith in his own ability to succeed,” says Dr. Adriane Steinacker, a UCSC physics lecturer and one of Ledesma’s advisors. One day, Ledesma says, he wants to be part of the group that stands up to announce: Rachel Wheat, left, and Yiwei Wang Juan Ledesma “Today we have beaten can- cer. Today cancer is history.” around the Chilkat in advance of a proposed But, just as importantly, he says, he wants sulfide mine there. Juan to inspire his siblings and a large circle Instead of applying for a more-traditional grant Ledesma: of cousins not only to graduate from high photo: rachel wheat & yiwei wang contributed by yiwei wang; juan ledesma by c. lagattuta from the National Science Foundation, which school but also go to college. funds less than 20 percent of the requests Persistence “I want to start a tradition so that, three gen- it receives, Wheat and Wang turned to the erations from now, none of my family will be crowdfunding website kickstarter.com. There, and faith working in the fields,” Ledesma says. over a six-week period, they persuaded 100 (College Ten ’13, applied physics) people to contribute a total of $10,124 to Had anyone looked across the wide field — by Peggy Townsend subsidize four months of what they hope will and seen Juan Ledesma transplanting Peggy Townsend is a freelance writer based become a larger study. broccoli seedlings, they might not have in Santa Cruz. The two, who published a February article suspected that, one day, the young man on crowdfunding in Trends in Ecology would be doing imaging research at one of UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 25 To get alumni news delivered to your inbox, subscribe to the UCSC Alumni Notes e-newsletter: news.ucsc.edu/newsletter We’d like to hear from you. R Send an e-mail to [email protected] R submit a note via the web at alumni.ucsc.edu (go to Alumni Notes) R and get social on Facebook: facebook.com/ucsantacruz

COWELL COLLEGE bluegrass band, Courthouse ’79 Susanne McLEAN has been about the connections between self-employed as the owner of faith and the environment. ’67 Peter MYERS, a writer/ Ramblers. two women’s clothing shops in She consults for the city of producer, was hired to write an ’73 Sharon REDFORD retired Washington, D.C., and Maryland Lincoln’s ReEnergize program, epic drama feature film about last June from teaching middle for 29 years. and is a 2013 Fellow in the the life of Leonardo da Vinci. school math and science. GreenFaith program, which He completed the screenplay in She will visit the Costa Rican ’81 Ellen MURTHA has taken a prepares religious leaders for 2012. Various film companies are rainforest and Italy this year. new pilot position as business environmental leadership. considering it for production, and ’74 Don WALLACE, film critic, services representative of the publishers have been considering journalist, and author of One Workforce Investment Board of ’93 Sameet KUMAR received a it for a book adaptation. Great Game, sold his memoir, Santa Cruz County. Contact her doctorate in clinical psychology at [email protected]. from the University of Miami in ’69 Margaret (WADE) Krausse Village Idiots: How a Ruin 2001. He has been been working retired in 2006, having taught They Couldn’t Afford on a Tiny ’82 Tammy PILISUK is married in psycho-oncology, specializing French language and literature French Island Too Far from and has worked in public health in end-of-life care, for the at Reed College, Oberlin, and Home Renovated the Lives of an for over 20 years. UCSC will past 11 years, and has written Linfield College. Since retiring, American Family, to Sourcebooks. always hold a special place in her several books about grief and she’s written short stories His agent is fellow UCSC grad heart. mindfulness meditation. and poetry for several years Laurie FOX (Porter ’75). ’87 Dinah SANDERS is a San in workshops. She lives with ’75 Suzanne PERRY has resumed Francisco-based author whose ’06 Tamar SBERLO is camp her husband, a photographer, writing novels after a nearly 20- first book—Discardia: More Life, director for Galileo Learning in Portland. Larry ROBINSON year hiatus, and has a growing Less Stuff—just sold its 3,000th summer camps. She has also has retired from his 25-year number of books on Amazon, copy and has recouped its costs. been teaching high school in the psychotherapy practice and from Smashwords, and other ebook She is now working on her next Oakland area for the last few years. 12 years on the Sebastopol, Calif., venues. Most recent is Scar books. ’08 Bryan RINKUS obtained city council. He serves on the Jewelry, a work of literary fiction ’88 Diana EICHER collaborated his MA in communication boards of Meridian University, about a family with secrets. with a Danish artist to organize at Gonzaga University in the Climate Protection Campaign, ’77 Robert J. LOMBARDI a print portfolio, “Where the Spokane, Wash. While at GU, and the Leadership Institute for works as a Motorcycle Safety Border of Water Meets the Air, he coordinated a partnership Ecology and the Economy, but Foundation instructor for the Dragonflies Gather.” The portfolio program for adults with most of his time is devoted to Harley Davidson versions of the includes works by 13 artists from developmental disabilities and an poetry and pottery. MSF training. He is member of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the after-school mentoring program ’70 Tom (Charles T.) HASKELL the Tea Party, the California Rifle U.S., and will be exhibited at the for at-risk youth through the (III) has retired from his full-time and Pistol Association, and the Museum of Printing History in Center for Community Action and position as associate director Madison Society. Gary STEVENS Houston, Texas, from February to Service Learning. Rinkus now after 31 years with Buena Vista recently purchased FB Publishing May 2013. In March 2012, she was works with accounts at digital University’s Council Bluffs, House, which has just published invited to Donghua University, advertising start-up PaperG in Iowa, site. He remains employed its first book and has three others in Shanghai, China, to have San Francisco. part-time as an adjunct faculty in various stages of completion. a one-person exhibition. She member teaching courses in He can be reached at gary@ coordinates the Printmaking and STEVENSON COLLEGE political science, geography, fbpublishinghouse.com. Papermaking Department at the history, and education. Betsy ’68 Allan M. HARRIS visited his ’78 Clare CAVANAGH is chair Minneapolis College of Art and Buchalter ADLER retired from 100th country and became eligible of the Department of Slavic Design. Adler & Colvin, the law firm to join the Travelers’ Century Club Languages and Literatures ’90 Betty SPINDLER is still she co-founded, in December after setting foot on Grand Turk and professor of Slavic and making ceramic art, and is 100 2012, after 30 years of practicing Island on December 21, 2012. comparative literature at percent Slug. philanthropy law. She is a ’69 Alan J. DeYOUNG has been Northwestern University. Her trustee and program officer of ’91 Sarah ALEXANDER, who appointed the new director most recent book, Lyric Poetry an independent foundation that has taught art history for 10 of the Institute of Educational and Modern Politics: Russia, focuses on young people under years at a small art college in Development at the Aga Khan Poland, and the West, received 18, and continues to be involved San Francisco, will travel to University, Pakistan. DeYoung the 2010 National Book Critics in the nonprofit sector. Paris with her husband for a holds a Ph.D. in anthropological Circle Award in Criticism. Jean six-month sabbatical from July- and sociological studies in ’72 Dan THOMPSON has ROSS recently moved to New December this year. She plans to education, as well as an MA in opened a new cupcake shop, York to take a position as the U.S. take art classes and survey and child development from Stanford Cutesy Cupcakes, in Scotts Program Officer for Transparent, document Paris by bike, and with University. Bonita BANDUCCI Valley with his wife, daughter, Effective, and Accountable her camera. is a lecturer teaching gender and granddaughter. Randy Government at the Ford and engineering in Santa LENT works as a computer Foundation. John KENNEDY ’92 Kim MORROW is in her third Clara University’s School of programmer for the Monterey was recently appointed to year as associate minister at Engineering Graduate Program County Office of Education, the Town of Davidson (North First-Plymouth United Church Core for Engineering and Society. supporting the financial system Carolina) Planning Board and to of Christ in Lincoln, Neb., where She will present a workshop and credentials. He also the Davidson Land Conservancy she directs a Sustainable Living for the Women in Engineering plays mandolin with the local Board of Directors. Ministry to raise consciousness

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 ProActive Network (WEPAN) 2013 ’85 Frieda WEISS received a the Sonoma County First Five in Vermont and New York State. National Conference. master’s degree in occupational Commission. She has been employed with ’70 Aleck DARR has retired after therapy in 1989. She has been ’72 Susan FISKE-KOEHLER has the NYS Dept. of Environmental working more than 30 years for practicing hand therapy for the relocated to Washington, D.C., Conservation for eight years, the state in various jobs including past 15 years and works at Sutter as the ED of Hopecam, a charity overseeing the water quality the maintenance of his office’s Medical Center, Santa Rosa. that uses technology to connect remediation of Onondaga Lake website. He supports UCSC ’87 Kyria BIANCHI Osborne is an children with cancer with their and its tributaries. She is married projects including the Dickens English teacher and professional friends and classrooms. Mike and has three adult children. Universe and the Stevenson editor in Fremont. WALLACE has published his first ’80 James BATEK began taking Writing Center. ’89 David GAK, a certified mystery novel, The McHenry feminizing hormones under ’73 Dennis HAGEN and ’75 Diane professional life coach, has Inheritance, on Amazon. Cindy doctor’s care and has chosen the Sipkin have retired and returned started publishing a free monthly (METZ) Zechenelly has moved name Ise Alexandra Batek. Visit to Santa Cruz after decades in series of coaching exercises and from California to Washington isebatek.com. Ted KRAYNICK Sacramento. activities at his website, www. state, where she is building her is serving on the Pension rightontargetlifecoaching.com. dream home with her husband Board of the Santa Clara Valley ’74 Christine BROWNE is Blaine and working to expand their Transportation Authority. author of some 40 nonfiction ’91 Dominique TAUZIN has been insurance business. Her son and ’85 Joy (ALBRIGHT) Souza is and fiction books under her practicing law for over 10 years daughter are in college nearby. professional name Dr. Angela and branched out on her own in using her experience with Dr. Ray Browne-Miller. She is also an 2010 exclusively in the area of ’73 Tom BELICK continues Collett and the UCSC Arboretum editor and ghostwriter. See www. estate planning. She continues to to work as a consulting civil/ as a water-wise landscape metaterraliterary.com and www. dabble in gardening, yoga, and environmental engineer, is designer and owner of Albright- drangela.com. Bob THOMAS playing piano—all hobbies she married and living in Palo Alto, Souza Garden Design. In 2012 she has published his ninth business took up when attending UCSC. and plays the clarinet in a Klezmer was honored to have photos of book and commutes between Her passion for these activities band. He keeps in touch with her designs included in the book Boston, Mumbai, Beijing, and is rubbing off on her kids. Crown people in the Palo Alto area Landscape Ideas You Can Use. London in his role as managing Roberto Carlos DELGADILLO and will be returning to campus ’86 Calvin HUI is working at director of Accenture’s Institute of the UC Davis Peter J. Shields for Alumni Weekend in April. Cetecom as a wi-fi certification for High Performance. He also Library, is the first UC librarian ’74 Sandy (GINSBURGH) Barnes engineer. He lives in Northern teaches part-time in Brandeis to win a Carnegie Corporation is a student at the University of California with his wife and son. University’s International of New York/New York Times I Washington and lives in Seattle Jody RAWLES is an associate Business School. Love My Librarian Award, which with her husband. She has four professor of psychiatry at UC ’75 Diane SIPKIN and ’73 Dennis recognizes 10 librarians for children and a granddaughter. Irvine and lives in Long Beach HAGEN have returned to Santa service to their communities, Julie PACKARD, executive with his wife and two daughters. Cruz after a 37-year absence. schools, and campuses. More director of the Monterey Bay ’91 Stephen MACKNIK, Ph.D., They spent almost four decades than 1,500 library patrons Aquarium, was selected as the has been selected to be featured in the Sacramento area. nationwide nominated a librarian. recipient of the 2012 Citizen on a new medical website, of the Year Award by the ’77 Mitch HALPERN is a new ’93 John SCHWEITZER has been Barrow50.org. He is a scientist at accepted into the registry of CFE Monterey Peninsula Chamber of the Barrow Neurological Institute grandparent and announces that Commerce. She helped found his daughter has just received Certified Financial Educators at St. Joseph’s Hospital and with the Heartland Institute of and leads the nation’s first major Medical Center in Phoenix. her master’s degree in social public aquarium dedicated to work. He still thinks of all the Financial Education, a nonprofit ’94 Erika (HERETH) Adams that teaches classes on financial interpreting a single region—the nice experiences from UCSC that Monterey Bay. recently relocated to Montreal, are with him today and wishes literacy in the workplace. where she is teaching in Print everyone from UCSC well. ’95 Tlaloc RIVAS was appointed ’75 Lori A. JOHNS has retired Media at Concordia University. from the CA Army National Guard Mitchell Lee MARKS received assistant professor of directing ’96 Lawrence RACHLEFF lives his Ph.D. in organizational at the University of Iowa. He and is working as a family nurse practitioner at a rural health in Santa Cruz with his wife psychology from the University became the first Chicano in U.S. and new baby and is the Apple of Michigan. He is a tenured academia to hold a tenure-track clinic in Brookings, Oregon. Her daughter also graduated computer department manager faculty member in the College position in the area of Theatre for ClickAway computers. of Business at San Francisco Directing at both the graduate from UCSC. Lorraine (CLARKE) State University and leads the and undergraduate levels in an Young is a professor of medicine ’97 L. Jan REID, the principal consulting firm JoiningForces. accredited theatre program. at UCLA Medical School and of Coast Economic Consulting org. He is the author of six books. runs the clinical section of in Santa Cruz, has worked for ’11 Forrest PHILLIPS is currently dermatology. She is married and several years as a ratepayer ’78 Rebecca ISAACS is an associate producer on the has three children. advocate in a variety of cases attorney and executive director cultural/political radio show In ’76 Mark DREESSEN is in Chicago. before the California Public of the Equality Federation, the Deep with Angie Coiro. Utilities Commission. national alliance of LGBT state- He and his wife have two grown based equality organizations sons and a daughter in college. ’98 Torin MONET is a principal CROWN COLLEGE that work on marriage, Gale WATKINS is in his 18th within the Management nondiscrimination, and safe ’70 Mary HOWLAND earned year as pastor of Westminster Consulting Group at CSC, schools policy change. her doctorate and is now Presbyterian Church in Phoenix, focused on improving strategic an instructor at UCSF in the Ariz. He has completed six alignment and reconfiguring ’79 Pamela REVLING has passed special education credential/ marathons and is training for the organization structure for the U.S. the 10-year survival mark after MA program. She taught special Big Sur marathon in April. federal government. Additionally, treatment for Stage III squamous education for 30 years. he is launching a personal and cell colorectal cancer back in ’78 Sana SIWOLOP is working as a journalist and teaching organizational growth-focused 2002-03. After 25 years as a ’71 Jeff MILLER is a retired nonprofit. licensed clinical social worker for pediatrician and health journalism in New York City. health and hospital systems in administrator and living in Valarie Ellis STEPHENSON the San Diego area, she received Santa Rosa with his wife. He obtained a B.S. in environmental a master’s degree in public health is traveling, doting on his engineering and sciences at the and health systems management grandchildren, and volunteering University at Buffalo in 2002. from San Diego State University. at a local school-based health Seven years later, she earned her clinic as well as serving on professional engineering license continued on page 30

UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 27 continued from page 29 com, a freelance journalist, and ’75 Ira HEILVEIL was awarded is JD/MBA from Columbia writing a book about real life the 2013 Distinguished University and is now an attorney X-Men and his own unexpected Humanitarian Contribution award with Jones Day in Japan. ’12 Russell PETERSEN is the lead personal journey into the from the California Psychological ’86 JANA MARCUS’s book product development engineer paranormal. He blogs at www. Association for his work creating at Elemental LED in Emeryville, Transfigurations was included MichaelStraus.org. Pacific Child, a company that in the top 10 of the 2013 Over Calif., and hoping to move to provides behavioral treatment to Berkeley in the coming year. ’90 Allison CLAIRE was the Rainbow Project book list, appointed a United States children with autism throughout sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Magistrate Judge for the Eastern the U.S., as well as his efforts Bisexual, and Transgender Round MERRILL COLLEGE District of California in 2012. starting a nonprofit school Table of the American Library for children with autism in ’70 Karlene FAITH is professor Before taking the bench, Allison Association. Heather CLINE has Armenia, and his involvement emerita at Simon Fraser enjoyed a career at the Office retired from a career in biotech with Safe Water International. University in British Columbia of the Federal Defender in and is now tutoring and teaching Susan YANOW is a consultant to and lives in the West End of Sacramento. She lives with her underserved kids in Vallejo. She organizations working to advance Vancouver, where she writes wife and teenaged triplets in the lost her cousin and fellow Banana access to abortion as well as and goes to concerts, political Sacramento area. Slug, Jeff ESSEX (Porter ’82), an serving on the boards of the rallies, and human rights events. inspiration, this year. ’91 Charles HARDER is a ACLU of MA, NARAL ProChoice She has four children and seven partner at Wolf Rifkin law firm MA, the Cambridge Commission ’89 Eric GROSS is the director of grandchildren living in the U.S. in West LA, where he practices on the Status of Women, and academic equity and categorical ’71 Chris VORSTER is still entertainment and intellectual Chennai Children. She lives in programs for Santa Cruz City teaching elementary school in property litigation for several Cambridge, Mass. Schools and is a founding Gold Beach, Ore. It is his 24th year celebrities. He is also the editor member of the UCSC Education ’76 Robert BOVILL has just there. One way he is applying of the law treatise Entertainment Department Alumni Association, completed his soon-to-be his Merrill College days is in the Litigation, and was recently which connects alumni in the published novel The House organic garden they have built at named one of the “Top 100 teaching profession. For more of Pearl and is beginning school. He fondly remembers his Power Lawyers in America” by info, contact Ann Pham, Education work on a graphic novel. He time spent in the garden on the the Hollywood Reporter. Jennifer Department manager, at akpham@ encourages people to friend him hill below the college. (MERRILL) Wall just celebrated ucsc.edu. Aaron LEVENTMAN her 17th harvest as Winemaker on Facebook. Lynda MATUSEK premiered his play Almost Adults ’72 Greg LEHMAN lives and for Barefoot, making Bubbly, Still, has retired from teaching at at the Manhattan Repertory teaches high school in Pacific and Refresh wines. She is looking University of Kentucky and is Theatre in New York City in 2011. Grove, where he is still playing forward to the upcoming release now working as a stagehand He continues to act in productions tennis. of a sixth Barefoot Bubbly type and lighting designer, as well as in the Bay Area and Santa Fe, was ’74 Katherine (JAYE) McHale and Barefoot Impression. volunteering, dancing the tango, a producer of the Bioneers Moving received her masters degree in and working in national parks ’95 Abra BRAYMAN is the Image Film Festival in Marin from art history from Hunter College in across the country. inaugural winner of Hot Set, a 2007-11, and was a curator for 2012. She had an article published production design challenge ’77 Laura MARELLO has Fabulous Thursdays, a GLBT film in Master Drawings in 2012; she show on the SyFy Channel. published her second novel series in Santa Fe. presented at the College Art Tenants of the Hotel Biron. ’91 Julia DVORIN just published Association’s national conference ’00 Jennifer SMYTHE is an Debora GILLMAN continues to her first novel,Ice Will Reveal. in February; and another attorney in San Francisco enjoy writing and illustrating her Andrew EHRNSTEIN is an presentation based on her thesis focusing on U.S. employment children’s books as well as holding energy consultant at SolarCity research will be presented at the and family-based immigration. art workshops for children. View in Littleton, Colo., where he and American Society of Eighteenth- She has begun presenting to the her work at deboragillman.com. his family relocated in 2012. Century Studies national UCSC international student body BJ GLOWACKI has been showing He is enjoying gaming with his conference in April. upon graduation about their his artwork in San Diego and is post-grad immigration options. children. ’77 Olga NÁJERA-RAMÍREZ working on publishing a book ’96 Renee SANCHEZ, Esq., was is a professor of anthropology ’06 Caroline MCCORMICK is of his work. Rebecca MORGAN recently named the newest (and at UCSC, where she specializes attending Georgetown University started a program, Books for youngest) partner at the law in documenting and critically School of Medicine and living Treats, that enables individuals firm of Wohlner Kaplon Phillips examining expressive cultural in Washington, D.C., with her and communities to give books Young & Cutler. She will continue forms practiced by Mexicans husband Reese ORNELLAS at Halloween instead of candy. to practice traditional union- living in the United States and (Kresge ’05) Learn about it at booksfortreats. side labor law, representing Mexico. She recently completed org. John YEWELL is finishing the International Brotherhood a documentary and, in 2011, was his master of fine arts at San PORTER COLLEGE of Teamsters and various other awarded the Américo Paredes Francisco State, living in San labor unions in California, Prize by the American Folklore ’71 Maria von Brincken, Rafael, and completing his first Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii. She Society. Scott TENNEY is an principal in Maria von Brincken novel. Landscape Garden Design, had also volunteers for the National elementary school teacher in ’78 Ted BARONE is the principal five landscape projects published Lawyers Guild. Santa Cruz. He raises money for of Albany High School and just in the 2012 book Landscape Ideas student scholarships for a school received his Ed.D. from UC ’97 Christopher J. BOGHOSIAN You Can Use. in Kathmandu. Berkeley. is living in his hometown of Los Angeles, working as an ’89 Michael STRAUS would ’73 Jim HULL has published his ’79 Jill KOENIGSDORF just independent filmmaker. Connect shyly admit having grown up novel The Vampire in Free Fall as published a novel, Phoebe & The with him at cjboghosian.com. surrounded by cows, but later an audiobook online. Ghost of Chagall. Marisa J. FUENTES completed helped launch his family’s ’74 Eric HAMBURG just ’80 Thom ZAJAC has her Ph.D. in African American pioneering Straus Family published a new book Give Peace inexplicably completed his 28th studies at UC Berkeley in 2007 Creamery organic dairy. Later, A Chance: Preventing Mass year of publishing the Santa Cruz and is currently an assistant his Straus Communications Violence, which he coauthored Comic News, a now-monthly rag professor in women’s and gender PR agency was one of the first with David Hamburg. Dency that satirizes the news with the studies and history at Rutgers to specialize in organic and NELSON recently received aid of America’s leading editorial University-New Brunswick. She environmental causes. He is now the Franklin J. Schaffner cartoonists. Someone’s got to do resides in Harlem, New York. a senior editor for the eco-travel Achievement Award from the it, right? www.thecomicnews. website GreenTravelerGuides. Directors Guild of America. com. Scott JONES received

28 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 ’98 Tanya HAMPTON Strauss is ’75 Jim CURL has produced to deepen their knowledge and with sci-fi and paranormal living in Walnut Creek with her special events since leaving experience with international twists. She has written short husband and two children. UCSC, except for the six years he affairs and U.S. foreign policy stories and full-length novels ’99 Jessica (MIKELS) Appelgren learned and then practiced law. through interactions with high- since 2005 (www.niafoxx.com). recently assumed the role of ’77 Jeff MILLER is a real estate profile leaders from government She is the proud mother of VP, communications, at Saatchi broker, selling for 26 years, and the private sector, both from three spectacular children and & Saatchi S, a sustainability practicing in the Palm Springs the U.S. and abroad. hopelessly in love with the man consultancy and communications area. He lives with his partner of ’01 Valentin MACIAS Jr. who continues to inspire her. agency. She lives in Oakland 18 years and their three pooches has been an instructor of ’97 April ECONOMIDES moved with her husband Christopher in Rancho Mirage, Calif. composition and academic back to Long Beach, Calif., in 2010 Appelgren and their son Desmond. ’79 Neal ARONSON, son of Elliot presentation at the Sungkyun to help “green” her hometown The Appelgrens are also expecting Aronson (emeritus professor of Language Institute, after living in San Francisco, a second child in April. psychology), brother of fellow Sungkyunkwan University, in Berkeley, D.C., and Portland. ’00 Carl SCHMITZ is the Visual alumni Hal, Julie, and Joshua, the Republic of Korea for over A green business consultant, Resources and Art Research has been retired for several six years. He’s lived in Korea she founded Green Octopus Librarian for the Richard years now after a career in home since 2003 and has traveled Consulting in 2003 and attained an Diebenkorn Foundation, where remodeling and cabinet work. all over the world, especially MBA in sustainable management he is working on publication After 10 years he joined the Santa Asia. He has presented at in 2009. She speaks around of Diebenkorn’s catalogue Cruz City Fire Department, where the International KOTESOL the U.S. and Canada about the raisonné. He has also compiled he worked for 20 years. In his Conference in Seoul, Korea, and business case for bicycling and the catalogue bibliography for retirement, he has been spending is studying for an MLIS through how to create bicycle-friendly an exhibition to be held at San many happy hours in his the University of Alabama. business districts, after starting Francisco’s de Young Museum woodworking studio, teaching He married a lovely Korean the nation’s first few programs. this summer. himself to make furniture. woman and has two boys. Scott She also recently assumed the role YUNDT is the staff attorney at of general manager of the city’s ’07 Jeremy LOCURTO is in ’80 Patricia BEDFORD lives in Tri-Valley Communities Against upcoming bike share program. London working for Samsung New Hampshire with her partner a Radioactive Environment in ’00 Nancy GUTIERREZ, former Electronics, where he works Vivian, their son Christopher Livermore, Calif. He is married in business development on (10), 2 dogs, 7 chickens, and 2 principal of the Clyde L. Fischer to Kenda BURKE (Cowell ’02), Middle School in San Jose, Calif., Samsung’s ebooks platform. rabbits. She is finishing up a long who is a chiropractor at Awaken career in higher education and and a current student in the first ’08 Ryan ANDREWS and Chiropractic in Oakland, Calif. cohort of the Harvard Graduate Francisco NUNEZ (’07) received launching a teaching career in They have an adorable one-and- women’s studies. School of Education’s Doctor of their second Emmy award for a-half-year-old named Cyrus. Education Leadership Program, Team Technical Remote for ESPN’s ’81 Lynn GARRETT is planning ’05 Katie MOURNING has taken has begun a yearlong residency Winter X Games 2012. They both a move to the mountains in a month-long, cross country working with New York City work at Cameron Pace Group in Panama with her partner, author road trip, recorded an album and Department of Education. Burbank. Claire FRYER-Bohbot George Prue. She has had a toured as a folk duo for a couple has recently published a short private practice as a spiritual ’02 Niketa CALAME was in a of years, attended and worked production of The Color Purple story “I never wanted a Mexican healer/psychic/masseuse/ at the Berkeley Psychic Institute baby” in the literary journal hypnotherapist, and a teacher for at Celebration Theater in Los for a couple years, and took a Angeles. She was also selected Trajectory. Laura ’Lily’ KELLY is those skills for more than 20 years. year-long naturalist training at the the interim director for Global to be an advocate at Call to ’87 Sheila WALTERS was Wilderness Awareness School, Congress in Washington, D.C., Green USA’s New York City office recently appointed as in Washington state. She lives in and the Coalition for Resource for the American Diabetes administrative law judge, Placerville, Calif., and is having a Association in March, and will Recovery. Prior to joining Global Office of Disability Adjudication baby boy in May. Green USA, she contributed to be one of the few attending and Review, Social Security the Special Administration various environmental and social Administration. Now in stewardship projects with both for- OAKES COLLEGE Conference with the Obama Springfield, Mo. Administration. and non-profit agencies, including ’79 Paul GLICKMAN is managing the Environmental Defense Fund, ’89 Beth LILACH is the senior ’04 Christina OSUMI-CABAYA director of education and editor for Investigative & Projects Natural Resources Defense at NPR station KPCC in Los will be celebrating three years of Council, the Majora Carter Group, community affairs at the marriage, a total of 11 years with Holocaust Memorial and Angeles. He lives in Sherman and the Earth Institute. Oaks with his wife Janetta, a Walter. They’ve been taking short Tolerance Center on Long trips, with her mother in tow, and ’12 Matthew PRESCOTT Island. She curated her center’s nurse practitioner, and their sons, returned to LA after graduation Jonah, 17, and Caleb, 15. trying for their first child together. Holocaust museum, and Lately, she’s been reminiscing and is working in post-production ’80 Diana BERMUDEZ and her oversees special exhibits and about her good ol’ Slug days. on feature-length films and archives. Under her leadership, family of four, including a high primetime network television. the center has evolved into the school sophomore and UCSC ’10 Jessica CARSTEN is happy preeminent genocide and social junior, recently had a fabulous to announce that there is a UCSC Alumni Chapter in Washington, KRESGE COLLEGE justice education resource center tour of Vietnam. She was a on Long Island and provides freshman at UCSC in spring l975 D.C. She recently joined the ’74 Bethany HAMPTON professional development courses when the Vietnam War ended. UC Washington, D.C., Alumni received a Ph.D. in counseling Advisory Board to represent UC to the military, law enforcement, ’84 Gregory FRANK moved with psychology from the University Santa Cruz, and with the help of physicians, attorneys, and his wife and daughter (Eliana and of Texas at Austin. She is in fellow alumni, she looks forward community leaders. Talia) to Austin, Tex., after living in independent clinical practice to hosting exciting events and the Bay Area for almost 30 years. in Dallas, applying cognitive ’95 Jason PORTER has sold his connecting with more alums in He has taken on the business behavior therapy to depressed debut novel, Why Are You So 2013. and anxious adults. She lives Sad?, and expects an early 2014 development role at XBiotech, a in Dallas with her husband, release. private biotech company that has and they have two daughters ’98 Christopher BROUGHTON a drug in clinical development in college. She makes it back has been selected as a term for chronic, sterile inflammation. to the Bay Area as often as she member of the Council on Foreign They love Austin and are enjoying can to enjoy the Jazz Festival in Relations. The Term Member their adventure. Monterey and sample tastes in Program provides promising ’95 Nia FOXX is a published continued on page 32 the wine country. young leaders with an opportunity author of interracial romance UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 29 continued from page 31 ’88 Mysti (RUBERT) Berry’s Schools in Lafayette, Calif. She Award for contributions as a short story “Inside Job” is plans to return to school to get writer and activist. included in the Sisters in Crime her teacher’s credential in the COLLEGE EIGHT ’98 L. Jan REID, the principal anthology Fish Nets, due out this coming year. of Coast Economic Consulting ’75 Gary WESLEY has been a spring. Her story “Something ’12 Nicol GAFFNEY has taken in Santa Cruz, has worked for California attorney since 1978 Shiny,” which first appeared in his passion for culture and several years as a ratepayer and is based in Mountain View. issue 4 of Switchback, is included teaching to southern Ecuador advocate in a variety of cases ’77 Susan BOK heads up transit in the Public Safety Writers and is working as a professor for before the California Public planning for the Los Angeles Association anthology Felons, WorldTeach, a Harvard-affiliated Utilities Commission. Debra Ann Department of Transportation Flames, and Ambulance Rides, program that brings native FISCHER was inducted into the and previously worked on to be published in summer 2013. English speakers to communities American Academy of Arts and developing new mass transit ’89 Tiffany Kay BUCZEK has that request them. Sciences in October. projects in Los Angeles, dragging just had her first novel,The ’01 Matthew HUBER, a that city of car addicts into the Accidental Cougar, published GRADUATE STUDIES professor of earth, planetary and 21st century. She is married to under the pen name Tiffany atmospheric sciences at Purdue ’73 James R. HEIN has just Kent Stewart and lives in an N. York. She lives in Southern University, was named director started his 40th year with the iconic 1950s ranch-style pool California and often misses the of the Purdue Climate Change USGS. He continues research home in the iconic San Fernando beauty of UCSC, as well as the Research Center. Valley. She has three children, Banana Slugs! Visit her at www. on deep-ocean mineral deposits four grandchildren, and one tiffanynyorkauthor.com. with the Pacific Coastal and ’03 Valentin MACIAS Jr. has been Marine Science Center in an instructor of composition and brand new great grandchild. ’95 Inemesit WILLIAMS Santa Cruz, and participates academic presentation at the ’81 Jim PRICE works for Aon transitioned to the field of in numerous international Sungkyun Language Institute, Global Risk Consulting in San international higher education activities related to deep-ocean Sungkyunkwan University, in Francisco and lives with his at San Jose State and CSU Long minerals, including talks at the Republic of Korea for over six wife Pam in Sonoma. Jim is Beach after five-plus years in the UN, briefings to members years. He’s lived in Korea since a founding member of the the corporate biopharmaceutical of Congress, and to resource 2003 and has traveled all over the Medicare Advocacy Recovery industry. More than seven years managers of all Pacific Island world, especially Asia. He has Coalition (“MARC”), an advocacy later, she continues that journey Nations. He will be president of presented at the International group working to reform the as a temporary science educator the International Marine Minerals KOTESOL Conference in Seoul, Medicare Secondary Payer Act. and volunteer in Shanghai’s Society in 2013-14, and he has Korea, and is studying for an expat K-12 education community. ’82 Thomas WITTMAN became been chief scientific advisor MLIS through the University of She will start a Ph.D. program an organic farmer at Molino to the Department of State Alabama. He married a lovely in Comparative International Creek Farming Collective, then delegation to the International Korean woman and has two boys. Education in fall 2014. returned to UCSC to work at Seabed Authority for the past the Apprenticeship Program ’01 Chandra Mikelle seven years. at the Center for Agroecology HENDERSON will begin a Ph.D. IN MEMORIAM ’78 Julie PACKARD, executive and Sustainable Food Systems. program in general psychology ’77 Ron FINK (Porter) passed director of the Monterey Bay Now he has a wildlife control at Grand Canyon University in way in 2011. He was a composer Aquarium, was selected as the business, Gophers Limited, that mid 2013. and publisher of children’s recipient of the 2012 Citizen musicals performed in gives people alternatives to using ’09 Alexandra HOLMQVIST of the Year Award by the classrooms all over the world. poisons for pest animal control. married the love of her life and, Monterey Peninsula Chamber of His wife, Kathy EBERHARDT ’85 Daniel Weiss is still the chief since graduating from UCSC, Commerce. She helped found Fink (Porter ’77) became a of staff for U.S. Congressman received her masters of science and leads the nation’s first major grandmother in September. Her George Miller (D-Calif.). Over in community development from public aquarium dedicated to grandson, Levi, was born to Anna the last several years his office UC Davis. She is now working interpreting a single region—the (FINK) Pow (Porter ’04). has had a string of interns at an urban planning consulting Monterey Bay. from UCSC, and they have all firm in Sacramento. ’87 Chuck L. PETERSON been terrific. William PRATT ’85 Linda BERGTHOLD has (Cowell) died May 25, 2012. is a member of the Workforce had several careers and is Chuck was well-known to the Investment Board of Ventura COLLEGE NINE now combining several of her UCSC computer subculture of the County, and member of the ’07 Omar PADILLA has been favorites—writing, health policy, 1980s as author of “tforum” and board of the Southern California selected for the 2012-13 Sally and political advocacy. She blogs the popular “mtrek” real-time Biomedical Council. He rows with Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar for Huffington Post and several multiplayer game, both of which Lake Casitas Rowing Club, his award. He is a graduate student other online clients and consults to ran on the campus network. oldest son is attending Rochester at CSU Los Angeles, studying employers about health benefits After graduation he worked Institute of Technology, and his Chicano studies, and plans to and the new Affordable Care Act. as a software engineer and youngest son recently shared pursue a doctoral degree in an ’88 Joost HILTERMANN was entrepreneur. He was 47. a first place award in sales interdisciplinary field. appointed chief operating officer ’88 Kimberly (DAVIS) Marks presentation. ’08 Anne HOPKINS recently of the International Crisis Group, Wolfe (Cowell) died January 4, ’87 Carrie KAHN was joined Snell & Wilmer law firm as a conflict-prevention organization 2013, after a seven-year battle appointed NPR’s Mexico City an associate in its Orange County headquartered in Brussels, in with breast cancer. An avid correspondent, covering Mexico, office. She focuses her practice January. cyclist, she placed 14th in the Central America, and the in labor and employment law. ’95 Maria OCHOA was invited Olympic trials and was invited Carribean, in 2012. The whole ’09 Nathan ZARU has focused to participate in the 42nd Annual to join the prestigious Women’s family, husband, two kids, and on technology marketing and Community of Writers held in Olympic Developmental Team. the dog, moved to Mexico City. is a marketing consultant. He Lake Tahoe during summer She earned a degree in biology She’ll be covering everything also helped found two SAAS 2012. While there she presented from UCSC, and subsequently from the drug war to politics and companies, one of which is with excerpts from her forthcoming graduated from UC Hastings economics, and hopefully some his good college friend and memoir Adventures of a Brown College of the Law in 1995. Her fun. A great opportunity for a former freshman year roommate. Biscuit: How Reading and practice focused on patent and UCSC biology major! Brenda Mae BARNHART is a Writing Changed my Life. In trademark litigation, business full-time art teacher at her old the fall, she was awarded the transactions, and estate elementary school, the Meher Alameda County Supervisors planning. She was 47.

30 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 Alumni News Banana Slugs in high places

The National Oceanic responsible for mon- In memoriam: and Atmospheric itoring the nation’s Administration climate, weather, (NOAA) has appointed oceans, fisheries, Detective alumna Kathryn and coasts. Sullivan (Earth sci- Joost Hiltermann, Elizabeth ences ’73) to serve as who received his Butler acting administrator for Ph.D. in sociology NOAA. She replaces from UC Santa Jane Lubchenco, who Kathryn Sullivan Joost Hiltermann Cruz in 1988, has announced last year her been named chief intention to step down operating officer at the end of February as NOAA adminis- of the International Crisis Group based in trator and under secretary of commerce for Brussels. oceans and atmosphere. As the number two executive for the inde- Since 2011, Sullivan has served as assistant pendent, nonprofit, non-governmental orga- secretary of commerce for environmental nization, Hiltermann is responsible for the observation and prediction and as deputy ad- oversight and management of its programs ministrator for NOAA. She will continue to and operations around the world. He also serve in these roles in addition to her new po- leads the organization’s strategic planning Elizabeth Butler sition as acting administrator. NOAA is part process. of the U.S. Department of Commerce and is Detective Elizabeth Butler (Kresge ’96, community stud- ies), a member of the Santa Cruz police force, was killed in the Success in Tinseltown line of duty on February 26. sc sentinel sc She was 38. UC Santa Cruz alumnus Rick Butler and fellow Santa Cruz Carter won an Oscar this year police detective Sgt. Loran for production design on Steven “Butch” Baker were shot when Speilberg’s acclaimed film,Lincoln . they went to question a suspect This marks the second academy in an alleged sexual assault. award for the former UCSC art They were the first Santa Cruz major (Kresge ’74). police officers killed in the line Carter previously won an Oscar of duty. for his art direction on James Thousands mourned the two Cameron’s Avatar. As a production fallen officers at a memorial in designer, Carter helps create movie San Jose on March 7. dr. sullivan photo courtesy of noaa;butler courtesy atmospheres and “worlds” that ful- fill the director’s artistic vision and For more alumni In Memoriam serve the story, whether he’s bring- notices, see page 32. ing dinosaurs to life in Jurassic Park or evoking the 19th century envi- ronment of Lincoln. Banana Slugs have made Another UCSC alum was also back- waves in Hollywood recently, stage at this year’s Oscars ceremony. including with alumnus Dency Nelson (Porter ’74, theatre arts) has been Grammys, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Teen Rick Carter’s Oscar win for production design on the Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards, and a a stage manager for the past 25 years, working acclaimed historical drama behind the scenes at the Academy Awards, the host of other major awards shows. Lincoln.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 31 Alumni Profiles

M. Sanjayan: Scientist of the world

As a hard-working Ph.D. student at UC Along the way, Sanjayan, who was born in These days, Sanjayan continues to embark on Santa Cruz, M. Sanjayan (biology Ph.D., Sri Lanka, was hailed as an advocate for di- broadcasting adventures across the globe— ’97) never expected to be a spokesperson, versity—in all its forms—in a Time magazine he recently reported on Kenyan conservation a TV personality, or a guest on the Late article entitled “Changing the White Face advocates removing part of the tusks of live Show with David Letterman.

of the Green Movement.” elephants to make them less attractive to photo: ami vitale But he found himself calming his nerves in While he’s very happy to be an example for poachers—while maintaining strong creden- the green room at the Ed Sullivan Theater, others, he says the picture is “changing, but tials in the scientific community. where he and the actor Jack Black waited bloody slowly.” “I am a scientist. I have a science back- their turns on the hot seat with Letterman. UCSC played a decisive role in his present ground. I teach. I still read science papers Sanjayan admits to a case of nerves—”The career. Though he admits that he is “not and occasionally publish,” he said. “This show could have gone sideways,” he said. one of those people who loves being on gives me the confidence to be in front of “At one point I forgot my mother’s name.” television,” he comes across as confident the camera.” In the end, the show went just fine. and very much in the know—two traits he at- He needs that confidence to address com- Sanjayan, lead scientist for the Nature tributes in large part to his graduate school plex topics in ways that a lay audience can Conservancy—one of the most influential experience here. understand, and he needs that grounding conservation groups in the country—even “While I was at UCSC I didn’t think much to change minds about essential issues in- drew a chuckle from the host and a couple about conservation,” he said. “I mostly cluding climate change. of good-sized laughs from the audience thought about taking on difficult questions.” “It has to have this personal relevance to when he said that this generation “does not But his studies made him feel qualified to what impacts people’s lives today,” he said. want to be remembered as a bunch of los- speak up. Extreme weather events, lack of snowfall, ers” who failed to save their own planet. “My mentor Michael Soulé (now professor drought, and mega-fires have all done their Besides, he’s growing accustomed to emeritus of environmental studies) told me part to change thinking, as did the devas- surreal situations. His high-profile career that my job as a graduate student was to tation of Hurricane Sandy. In that storm’s keeps him traveling across the globe al- train myself as a critical thinker. The time aftermath, he said, “you had some major most constantly and places him squarely to save something would come later, he people taking stances and saying what ev- in the public eye, whether he’s reporting told me,” Sanjayan said. “At the same time, eryone else was merely thinking.” on Bangladeshi tigers, global warming, he was very clear, in his graduate semi- strange weather, extinctions, rising sea nars, that you could not lead a narrow life. levels, or mega-fires. Even though you’re trained as a scientist, Contact Dan White at [email protected]. it doesn’t exempt you from participating in public life.”

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“We saw a need to move local politics and environmental the initiative forward,” said issues. Rhodes. 1 At KUSP radio, she started work- So far, donors have raised ing in development, and later she $250,000 toward the $1 worked in UCSC’s University million goal for this endow- Relations office. She met her ment campaign, dubbed husband through mutual friends. “Training Environmental Rhodes and Weiner left Santa Problem Solvers.” Cruz in 1988, when Robert Karen Holl, professor and took a job at UC San Francisco. chair of the Environmental Rhodes answered a classified Studies Department, ad for an editorial director at UC 2 praised Rhodes and Berkeley, where she works today. Weiner for supporting But the two of them remain (TOP) FOUNDERS UCSC hands-on learning closely connected to UC Santa CELEBRATION PHOTOS: courses in general as well 1. Ruth Appleby and Ted Goldstein Cruz through their giving. as the Natural History Field 2. Emcee Doug Ley, Chancellor For Rhodes and Weiner, giv- George Blumenthal, and UC Santa Quarter. Cruz Foundation Board President ing comes naturally; it’s simply Holl said these generous Ken Doctor 3. Foundation Medal Karen Rhodes a matter of giving back. But winner Martin Rees 4. Foundation

alumni gifts will help ensure photo: peg skorpinski there’s also a sense of urgency. Medal winner Gordon Moore 5. that environmental studies Karen Rhodes (Cowell ’77, his- Chancellor Blumenthal 6. Fiat Lux professors can conduct small As the state contribution to the Award winners George Ow Jr. tory) fits the profile of the versa- field courses that teach critical UC system has dwindled “it’s & Gail Michaelis-Ow 7. Alumni tile and determined Banana Slug. Achievement Award winner thinking skills to future genera- even more important for alumni Over the years, she’s been a stu- Shannon Brownlee 8. Faculty tions of UCSC students. and friends to contribute,” dent, public information officer, Research Lecturer awardee Gail Rhodes said. Hershatter. development staff member, and For Rhodes, it’s a question of pay- Rhodes has provided for UCSC (BELOW) SCHOLARSHIP an Alumni Councilor. ing it forward. She found herself BENEFIT DINNER PHOTOS: referring back to her UCSC expe- in her estate planning. She be- But one thing hasn’t changed 9. Zach Friend and Hilary Bryant 10. rience throughout her working life. lieves it’s important to set up the Edison Jensen 11. Autumn Johnson throughout the years: She and fewest possible restrictions on 12. Kevin Beggs, president, “I draw on my UC education all her husband, fellow Slug Robert using the funds. Lionsgate Television Group 13. Weiner (College Eight ’83, en- the time to keep myself honest Paul Simpson, Alison Galloway, and vironmental studies), have been and aligned with my core values,” “I’ve always wanted to leave a Keith Curry 14. Angela Chesnut, Chinsu & Randall Grahm consistent, reliable donors to said Rhodes. She added that legacy with my estate and to do Photos by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz, providing valu- UCSC was a great place to be something with my assets that is able support for Cowell College, for students who felt comfortable going to have a lasting impact,” the History Department, College with professors, lecturers, books, said Rhodes. “I want to focus on Eight, Environmental Studies, and fellow students “pushing us giving to UCSC in a way that’s as and scholarships. to think for ourselves.” unfettered as possible.” Last year, the couple joined Such skills came in handy when Gifts of all sizes have an impact, she said. with other Banana Slugs to Rhodes started out as a jour- 14 start the Environmental Studies nalist. Soon after graduation, “There’s an important and cata- Experiential Learning Endowment, she started a news program lytic role that can be played in which helps fund experiential at KZSC. Instead of going to development even if it’s not in a learning courses that build on broadcasting school, she learned big way.” classroom studies, while training through experience. “We taught — by Amy Ettinger students to address 21st century ourselves how to do radio news environmental challenges. reporting,” Rhodes said. Amy Ettinger is a freelance writer based in Santa Cruz. She began freelancing for alter- native weeklies in town, covering 13

34 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 C ELEBR Some 350 people gathered at Santa Cruz’s Cocoanut Grove ball- room in October to fete the honor- ees of the annual Founders Celebration gala dinner and awards ceremony. The night 4 also was a chance to highlight 5 some of UCSC’s accomplish- ments, including being ranked seventh in the world among the 100 best universities less than 50 years old. ATION S 6

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UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 35 The historic Hay Barn was built in the late 1860s.

continued from page 5 Helen and Will Webster Foundation— years earlier. He enrolled at UCSC as a were restored and put to use—including named after Webster’s parents—they an- re-entry undergraduate. A year after he the old cookhouse, which became an

nounced a gift in March of $5 million. stopped working at the university, he Admissions Office, and the Cowell fam- all photos by c. lagattuta It will be used to restore the Hay Barn became an alum (College Eight ’02, en- ily house, which first served as a provost as the centerpiece of a revived campus vironmental studies). residence and later other uses. The Hay entrance and home for UCSC’s innova- As a student of environmental studies, Barn was among those ignored. tive sustainability programs, and to fund the barn began to show up more often “If you don’t preserve it, everyone for- programs centered there. in Webster’s line of sight—it’s near the gets,” Webster says. “If these buildings They had grown to love the barn and its campus farm. He studied agroecology disappear the connection to the land and heritage. Its hand-hewn beams, mortise and soil conservation and was inspired its history will be lost.” and tenon joinery, determination to stay by the work being done to research sus- He hopes many others will step forward, standing—all spoke of timeless prin- tainability practices and train farmers in whether it is to help with the Hay Barn ciples. them. and other projects in the historic district, A former UCSC staff member, Webster The Websters’ philanthropy at UCSC or one of the many other areas where worked on campus for 14 years. But he began in 2006. One of their first gifts private support is also needed to turn used the west entrance to get to Science was $30 to Friends of the Farm and things. Hill, not the main entrance that would Garden. They’ve supported a variety “It’s a good time to get out there and do have taken him by the Hay Barn each of programs, from scholarships to the something different,” Webster says. day. As a designer and machinist for Grateful Dead Archive, but most signifi- precision instrumentation developed cantly those associated with food sus- Meanwhile, he and Claudia and the in the Santa Cruz Institute of Particle tainability and environmental studies. scores of others on campus and in the community who have come together to Physics, his work contributed to ground- The barn is part of the 32-acre Cowell breaking science here and far, including bring this project to the fore are looking Lime Works Historic District, which forward to seeing the Hay Barn standing Switzerland, where it helped CERN hunt is listed on the National Register of for the Higgs boson. tall in 2015, which is also when the uni- Historic Places. The property had been versity will celebrate its 50th anniversary. In his late 40s, he decided to go back to in service as a cattle ranch and quarry as school and complete his degree, which well as a lime works. As part of the new For more information about the Hay Barn he started at UC Santa Barbara many university, several of the old buildings restoration, visit review.ucsc.edu.

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