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Developmental Psychology at UCSC: How We Grow and Learn Also: UCSC’s first professional school, the new field of bioinformatics, helping teachers teach writing, inaugurating our 7th chancellor CONTENTS

UC Santa Cruz Features Engineering expansion Review / Summer 1997 UCSC’s new School of Engineering will be named Chancellor in honor of Jack Baskin, M.R.C. Greenwood Living and Learning...... 6 whose $5 million gift—the Director of Public Information largest in campus history— Elizabeth Irwin is providing a big boost to the establishment of Editor The Sequence Master...... 14 the first professional Jim Burns school at Santa Cruz. 2 Art Director/Designer Jim MacKenzie Write On! ...... 18 Associate Editors Pulitzer, part deux Mary Ann Dewey Jeanne Lance Her dramatic photograph M.R.C. Greenwood’s Inauguration .....22 of a rescue earned Annie Writers Wells (College Eight ’81) Robert Irion a Pulitzer Prize this Willow Liroff spring, the second year Marina Malikoff Departments in a row that a graduate Barbara McKenna of UCSC has received Jennifer McNulty journalism’s most Doreen Schack prestigious award. Francine Tyler 3 From the Chancellor...... 1 Cover photography James Anthony How we grow and learn Office of University Advancement Campus Update ...... 2 Employing an innovative Carriage House University of California approach to the study 1156 High Street of human development, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 UCSC psychologists are Alumni News ...... 24 providing many insights voice: 408.459.2501 into the way we learn fax: 408.459.3412 and grow—research that e-mail: [email protected] is helping transform ucsc web: http://www.ucsc.edu Alumni Notes...... 26 their field. 6 Produced by UCSC Public Information and Publications. Printed on recycled paper; recyclable. 6/97(97-117/63.5M) Alumni Profile...... 27 The seventh chancellor UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Vol. 34, No. 4 / Spring 1997 In a public ceremony held UC Santa Cruz is a series of admini- in UCSC’s East Field strative publications published quarter- On the cover House on May 23, the ly by University Advancement at UC Associate professor of psychology Maureen Callanan president of the University Santa Cruz. Periodicals postage paid (center rear) and postdoctoral researcher Kevin of California, Richard at Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Postmaster: C. Atkinson, invested Send address changes to the University Crowley are conducting research at the Children’s of California, Santa Cruz, University Discovery Museum in San Jose in partnership with M.R.C. Greenwood Advancement, 1156 High Street, Santa Sally Osberg, executive director of the museum. as the campus’s Cruz, CA 95064-1077. Also shown are Justin Dean and Angelica Patino. seventh chancellor. 22 FROM THE CHANCELLOR By M.R.C. Greenwood

elebrate UC Santa Cruz was the This publication features examples campus’s theme for a myriad of of the campus’s progress toward achiev- CCpublic events held in May. In ing these priorities. The progress is addition to presenting concerts, indeed laudable, and it demonstrates lectures, performances, film screenings, that UC Santa Cruz is at the leading and exhibitions, we honored the edge in many ways. Yet we can— investiture of the co-holders of the and will—do even more to serve our Neufeld-Levin Holocaust Endowed students and our extended commu- Chair; announced the naming of our nity. We recently established the first professional school, the Jack Millennium Committee, a task force Baskin School of Engineering; and comprising faculty, staff, and students officially dedicated our stunning Music of diverse backgrounds and perspec- don harris Center and adjacent Kretschmer tives from across the campus, and Plaza. Another highlight, and certainly We recently established the including the president of the UC a personal pinnacle, was the campus’s Santa Cruz Foundation. With input inauguration celebration. Millennium Committee that will from other members of the extended These special occasions provided campus community, the committee an excellent showcase of the campus develop a renewed consensus will develop a renewed consensus of for our local community and for our values, priorities, and opportuni- visitors from around the state and the of our values, priorities, and ties for excellence that will guide us country—and they underscored that into the new century. the true distinctions of UC Santa opportunities for excellence. In closing, I want to thank every- Cruz are the accomplishments of the one who helped make my first year as faculty, students, and alumni, and the meeting of the year in late May, I was chancellor both exciting and reward- generous service and contributions gratified to report significant progress. ing. At this threshold of my second of our friends and benefactors. These working priorities include year here, I reiterate my commitment Literally hundreds of campus members increasing the effective presentation of to work together as we continue to worked to make these recent events the UC Santa Cruz story, both inside build the legend of UC Santa Cruz. so successful—and I am pleased to and outside the university; continually Fiat Slug! extend my personal and most heartfelt strengthening the quality and effective- thanks to each of them. ness of teaching, research, and manage- At the meeting of the UCSC ment; building internal and external Academic Senate last October, I posed partnerships; and increasing assets M.R.C. Greenwood four priorities, and at the final senate and resources. Chancellor

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 1 CCAMPUSAMPUS UUPDAPDATETE UCSC launches the Jack Baskin School of Engineering School will focus on the school’s planners envision future programs in at least three other areas

of growing importance: software or schiffrin

high-tech needs of the vict engineering, engineering manage- region and the state ment, and molecular biotechnology engineering. ith its distinctive new Ultimately, plans call for the School of Engineering, School of Engineering to grow to finalized on May 15 before about 90 faculty, 500 graduate stu- Wthe UC Board of Regents, dents, and 1,200 undergraduates— UCSC is poised to assume a critical significant expansions from the role in training the skilled engineer- current totals of 24 faculty, 160 ing workforce that will drive the graduate students, and 320 under- economies of Silicon Valley, the graduates. Monterey Bay region, and the state “The new School of Engineer- in the 21st century. ing at UC Santa Cruz is both Chancellor Greenwood, with donor Jack Baskin Instruction will begin in timely and advantageous to the September for freshmen in electrical state,” said UC President Richard ed UCSC’s plans to the Board of Regent’s gift will fund engineering, the first of several new C. Atkinson. “The campus has Regents on May 15 and accepted degree programs that will join exist- carefully planned the school and its Baskin’s gift at a news conference a engineering scholarships ing strong departments in computer programs to place UCSC on the day later in San Jose. engineering and computer science cutting edge of intellectual devel- “The Jack Baskin School of avid S. Lee, chairman of to comprise UCSC’s first profes- opments and the application Engineering will foster innovative CMC Industries of Santa Clara sional school. Studies have shown of new knowledge, as well as to and entrepreneurial research, both Dand a member of the Board of that California will need increasing address clear societal needs.” by the faculty members we will Regents, has pledged $100,000 to numbers of proficient engineers in UCSC’s expansion of its engi- recruit and by the students we will establish an endowed scholarship these fields to remain at the van- neering programs also received educate,” Greenwood said. fund for the new Jack Baskin guard of the high-technology global a huge boost in May with the Added Patrick Mantey, dean School of Engineering. marketplace. announcement of a $5 million gift designate of the School of Engi- Annual income from the Regent Faculty hiring is also under way from Santa Cruz philanthropist and neering: “We are fulfilling our David S. Lee Scholarship Fund in the key discipline of applied retired developer and engineer Jack dream that UCSC can become a will support one or more under- and engineering mathematics, the Baskin (see story, below). much more important player in graduate students in the School of second of the new programs. The Chancellor Greenwood present- the regional economy.” Engineering starting in fall 1998. “As the closest UC campus to Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz can play a Philanthropist donates $5 million for new engineering school key role in helping us fill the short- age of trained engineers from insti- rominent Santa Cruz permanent endowment to pro- Jack Baskin, Inc., said his gift tutions in the Bay Area,” Lee said. community philanthropist vide future income for the School reflects his conviction that Lee said he will augment the P Jack Baskin, a retired devel- of Engineering. engineering is a critical discipline fund with future donations. He also oper and engineer, announced “Jack Baskin’s generous gift for the future well-being of the plans to contribute digital commu- on May 16 that he will support establishes a new benchmark region and the state. nications equipment to the campus. UCSC’s new School of Engineer- for philanthropic contributions On a more personal level, “I greatly appreciate Regent ing with a gift of $5 million—by to UC Santa Cruz and in Baskin noted, “Engineering was a Lee’s generosity,” said Chancellor far the largest private donation in the Central Coast area,” said stepping-stone for me. By fund- Greenwood. “His wonderful gift the 32-year history of the campus. Chancellor Greenwood. “It ing the School of Engineering, I sets an example of the kind of com- In recognition of Baskin’s gift, speaks to a wonderful partnership am paying back to the university, munity partnership that UC Santa UCSC will name its first profes- between an institution and an the community, and the country Cruz needs now to realize the full sional school the Jack Baskin individual who has dreamed of the great opportunities that were promise of the Jack Baskin School School of Engineering. making new futures possible for given to me. As young engineers of Engineering.” Baskin’s donation will help the young people of this region, graduate from UCSC, I will be Two of Lee’s three children are UCSC attract topflight faculty the state, and beyond.” delighted to know that they are alumni of UCSC: Eric Chih-Yen members, offer scholarships, pur- Baskin, founder of the con- on the road to success, just as Lee, B.A. in psychology in 1988; chase equipment, and establish a struction and housing company I was.” and Gloria Chih-Ping Lee, B.A. in economics in 1990.

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 UCSC ranks 15th in national survey of research universities

n a comprehensive new analysis of more than 200 top Iuniversities, UCSC ranks 15th in the nation among public campuses in the quality of its research pro- ductivity. The study and rankings are detailed in a just-published book that chronicles the rise of a new generation of postwar research universities in the United States. The book, The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), makes the case that some of this country’s newer research cam- puses are challenging many of the so-called “elite” universities in the quality of their research activities. The authors, historians Hugh UCSC graduate Annie Wells wins a Pulitzer Prize for rescue photo Davis Graham of Vanderbilt University and Nancy Diamond For the second consecutive year, a UCSC alumna has snared a Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s of the University of Maryland, most prestigious honor. This year’s recipient is Santa Rosa Press Democrat photographer assessed the performance of 203 Annie Wells (College Eight ’81), who won the prize for spot news photography. The Pulitzer research universities from 1945 to Prize Board at Columbia University lauded Wells for her “dramatic photograph of a local 1990. For the study, they measured per capita faculty research produc- firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters.” Newspapers across the country print- tivity—the creation of new knowl- ed the photo (above) in February 1996 as seasonal floods swept through California’s Sonoma County. Wells’s edge—in everything from medical interest in photography began at UCSC in 1979 when she designed her own major in science news writing science to the classics. and photojournalism. Last year, alumna Laurie Garrett, a reporter for Newsday, received a Pulitzer for “Although there are fewer sur- explanatory journalism in recognition of her series of articles about the 1995 ebola outbreak in Africa. prises among the private universi- ties, in the public system some dramatic rising stars are found,” Giving something than any class to date.” more than $265,000. The associa- Graham says. UCSC is one such “This donation sets a new stan- tion’s goal is to build the fund campus. back to UCSC dard for alumni and demonstrates to a permanent endowment of The campus’s overall ranking of the level of their commitment to $1 million, added Aldrich. 15th in the nation among public n honor of its 20-year UC Santa Cruz,” Chancellor Class gifts to provide current campuses includes a No. 1 ranking reunion, UCSC’s class of ’77 Greenwood said. “I’m hopeful that scholarships or build endowments in the survey’s Social Science Ihas donated $35,055 toward a other classes will be inspired to give have been a tradition since UCSC Index and No. 8 in the Arts and scholarship program for students so generously, because the need has began hosting 20-year reunions five Humanities Index. with financial need. It is the never been greater.” years ago. largest gift ever made by a UCSC The $35,000 gift

alumni class. adds to the UCSC eg pio Other accolades gr Steve Jung, president-elect Alumni Association UCSC has scored well of the Alumni Association, Scholarship Fund, in several other recent surveys: presented the check to Chancellor which provides sup- R In a survey published by Greenwood at the class’s 20-year port to students who Yahoo! Internet Life that assessed reunion dinner in April, during the have financial need, the computer environment annual Banana Slug Spring Fair. said Daniel G. Aldrich of 300 campuses, UCSC was “We wanted to honor our time III, assistant chancellor ranked No. 56 in the country. at UCSC by helping to ensure that for University R In Hispanic Outlook in Higher others have the chance to benefit Advancement. The Education, UCSC finished 53rd from a similar experience,” said fund awarded eight nationally in the number of Jung. “We’re proud that the $2,500 scholarships undergraduate degrees it confers class of ’77 has earned its place this past academic year. Steven Jung, president-elect of the UCSC Alumni Association, on Hispanic students. in UCSC history as having done The gift brings the presents Chancellor Greenwood with a larger-than-life more for student scholarships scholarship fund to donation from his UCSC graduating class.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 3 Key UCSC contributors Santa ole Cruz vid alexander

1 helen c to Hubble mission da Watsonville February mission to A upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope had a distinctly blue- and-gold flair: UCSC alumnus Steven Hawley was one of seven astronauts aboard the space Monterey shuttle Discovery, while professor Bay Pacific of astronomy and astrophysics Arts dean Edward Houghton gives Chancellor Ocean Castroville Harland Epps helped design one Greenwood a baton to strike the first official 101 of the telescope’s sophisticated downbeat, dedicating the new Music Center. new instruments. Marina Discovery lifted off for mission Salinas $1 million campaign to UC MBEST STS-82 from Cape Canaveral, CENTER Florida, in the predawn hours of support music program February 11. During five space FORMER walks, astronauts replaced two of n conjunction with the Seaside FORT ORD Monterey Hubble’s observing instruments I dedication of UCSC’s new and upgraded its sensors and Music Center in May, Chancellor

Carmel electronics. Greenwood announced the For Hawley, it was his fourth launching of the UCSC Music N shuttle mission and his first since Campaign—a fund-raising program April 1990, when he and fellow to broaden the scope and outreach UCSC graduate Kathryn Sullivan of the campus’s Music Department. Monterey Bay Research Crescent deployed the Hubble Space The campaign will support efforts Teaching and Research Institutions Telescope in orbit. Hawley earned to recruit top high school seniors

MBEST Center his Ph.D. in astronomy and astro- through four-year merit-based physics from UCSC in 1977. scholarships, as well as fund instru- Fort Ord Natural Reserve Epps is one of 18 astronomers ment and equipment purchases and on the science team for the Near other program needs. Regents approve plan industry, and commercial and Infrared Camera and Multi-Object The campaign has raised mixed uses. Development is Spectrometer (NICMOS), a $545,000—just over half its goal of for MBEST Center expected to last for 15 years. powerful new observing tool that $1 million, which is expected to be Future phases of develop- promises unprecedented views of reached by June 30, 1998. he UC Board of Regents ment would occur on 357 acres the universe. Sensitive to infrared To date, the lead supporters of voted in March to approve of adjacent UC-owned land. (“heat”) radiation rather than visi- the campaign are Ernest T. “Bud” T the initial stages of the mas- The MBEST site also encom- ble light, NICMOS searches for Kretschmer and Jean Kretschmer, ter plan for the UC Monterey passes 605 acres of unique mari- newborn solar systems around rela- Harold “Hal” Hyde and Persis Bay Education, Science, and time chaparral—called the Fort tively nearby stars, peers into the “Perky” Hyde, the late Siegfried Technology (MBEST) Center, a Ord Natural Reserve and pro- dust-shrouded cores of galaxies, Puknat, alumna Lisa Eltinge, and regional economic development tected as part of UC’s Natural and looks back in time to the E-mu Systems. initiative based at the former Fort Reserve System. primeval stages of galaxy formation. Ord military reservation. On the developable land, Epps joined the UCSC faculty UCSC, lead campus for MBEST planners envision a re- in 1989 after 24 years on the Shakespeare Santa the center, will now begin work- search and technology park that astronomy faculty at UCLA. ing on development activities will draw upon the strengths Cruz’s 16th season that will create a community of of nearly two dozen Monterey Astronaut Steven Hawley (Ph.D., 1977) forward-thinking researchers and Bay research and educational hakespeare Santa Cruz’s educators on site. institutions (see map, above). S16th season is scheduled to take The Regents ratified phases Planners envision four areas place on campus from July 17 one through three of the master of activity that would form the through August 31. This summer’s plan, which calls for new construc- core of development: environ- festival will feature Shakespeare’s tion on 127 acres of UC-owned mental science, technology, and As You Like It and Richard III. land within the city of Marina. instrumentation, especially Also scheduled is The Forest, Projections indicate that this coastal applications; biotechnol- written by Alexander Ostrovsky. development could create between ogy, emphasizing agricultural Tickets are available through 3,000 and 4,000 jobs. The proper- and marine applications; infor- BASS’s South Bay Arts Line at ty will provide room for about mation science and technology; (408) 998-8885, or from the UCSC

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4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 Defining Germany’s GPA option is approved In memoriam place in the new Europe by Academic Senate

s one of Europe’s most impor- y a two-to-one margin, A tant powers, Germany has the Bmembers of UCSC’s Academic economic, military, and political Senate have approved a committee influence to be a major player on proposal that will permit new the world scene, yet the country’s students—beginning this coming “burdened history” limits its ability to fall—to request letter grades for act. Unification in 1989 removed the all classes and accumulate a grade- physical scars of the Cold War, but point average. the question remains: Can Germany Continuing students will be reconcile its past with its future? eligible to request letter grades for all Fascinated by Germany’s postwar classes beginning this fall, but will

emergence as a powerful nation and not be eligible to acquire a GPA, vices o ser

the tension generated by collective says registrar Cecilia Rodriguez. t memory, Andrei S. Markovits and ho

Simon Reich examine the ways in ucsc p which history’s shadow haunts Alumnus verifies an UCSC honored Kenneth Thimann by renaming its first biological sciences research Germany’s future, in their new book facility, Natural Sciences 1, for him in 1972. The German Predicament: Memory ancient collision and Power in the New Europe. Kenneth V. Thimann, whose John L. Halverson, a founding The authors consider the dilemma aleobiologist Richard Norris, career as one of the world’s lead- faculty member of Stevenson facing Germany and weigh contrast- P who earned his B.S. with honors ing botanists spanned more than College and a professor of litera- ing views of its fate: that Germany from UCSC’s Earth Sciences 50 years at Harvard University ture, died in Santa Cruz in has been tamed by the Holocaust Department in 1982, made a big and UCSC, where he served as March after several months of and has no drive to expand; or that splash in the news in February by founding provost of Crown illness. He was 69. Germans have suppressed rather leading a team that investigated the College, died in January at Halverson taught at than obliterated their predatory ways biggest splash of all: the purported the age of 92. Thimann died Princeton University and was and that its democracy, which was impact of a large meteorite in the peacefully at his home at The twice a Fulbright lecturer in Sri imposed by the Allies, is fragile. Caribbean 65 million years ago. Quadrangle, Haverford, PA. Lanka. He came to UCSC in “Both views are real, and that’s Norris, now an associate scientist A pioneering researcher in 1966 and remained until his where the tension lies,” Markovits, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic the field of plant physiology, retirement in 1993. a UCSC politics professor, said. “For Institution, was co-chief scientist of Thimann was best known for Halverson was a principal the Germans, they’re damned if they an Ocean Drilling Program expedi- describing the functions of hor- architect of Stevenson’s core do and damned if they don’t. If tion that probed into the seafloor off mones in the control and devel- course. His academic interests they’re going to live up to their role as the South Carolina coast. The team opment of plants. He also was were wide-ranging and covered a major power, they will be called on found bands of sediment that, in highly regarded for his research such areas as the literature of to act, but then they are subjected to Norris’s words, provide “proof posi- on the biosynthesis of pigments ancient Greek, medieval, and greater scrutiny than any other nation tive of the impact.” The layers in- responsible for the colors of modern English eras; Buddhism; because of their history. And if they cluded what appear to be vaporized flowers and fruits and the action Christianity; linguistics; psychol- do nothing, they’ll be accused of not remains of the meteorite itself, in of various zones of the light ogy; and Paleolithic art. pulling their weight as the wealthiest, addition to evidence that most life spectrum on photosynthesis. most powerful nation in Europe.” in the ocean was wiped out. Thimann received the presti- Siegfried B. Puknat, professor gious Balzan Prize in 1982, and emeritus of German and com- his honors included membership parative literature, died in March One of the oldest student-directed organizations on campus, Grupo Folklórico Los in the National Academy of in San Francisco at age 83. Mejícas de UC Santa Cruz, celebrated its 25th anniversary this spring. Sciences, the American Academy Puknat came to UCSC in of Arts and Sciences, and the 1964 as the first full-time faculty American Philosophical Society. member hired—and only the Thimann joined the faculty third academic employee after of Harvard University in 1935. Dean McHenry and Page Smith. In 1965 he came to UCSC at He helped shape the campus in the urging of founding chancel- its formative years as author of lor Dean McHenry to become the original preliminary bylaws professor of biology and the first for the Santa Cruz Division provost of Crown. of the Academic Senate, Among Thimann’s most founding chair of the Literature noteworthy contributions to the Department, an early provost campus was his nurturing of the of Cowell College, and chair UCSC Arboretum into a world- of the building committee for class collection of plants. College 4 (Merrill College). vid alexander da

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 5 L IVING & james anthony

At the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose, a UCSC researcher records the interactions between a father and son to determine how parents help their children develop “scientific literacy.”

6 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 L EARNING

Psychologists at Santa Cruz are taking a ‘sociocultural’ approach to the study of human development and, in the process, are reshaping the underlying principles of their field.

By Jennifer McNulty

he wonders and complexity of human development unfold like the pages of a Tfamily photo album. Infants coo, tod- dlers take their first wobbly steps, kids start school, teens battle to establish their independence, and adults juggle work and family responsibilities as their own parents grow old. Within the field of psychology, developmentalists have the fascinating task of demystifying the cogni- tive, social, and emotional growth that takes place at each stage of life. They strive for insights that will help children become active learners who enjoy a well-defined sense of themselves and a close con- nection to friends and family. It is work that helps parents and educators understand what’s happen- ing with kids, and it helps all of us recognize the common ground that unites us. R

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 7 evelopmental psychology Gault Elementary School in Santa Cruz, says tals of the field, says Professor Barbara at UCSC was born in working with Associate Professor Margarita Rogoff, a leading scholar who joined the 1987 when Professor Azmitia has prompted substantial changes at faculty in 1992 and is now UC Santa Cruz Catherine Cooper was her school. Azmitia began a major study Foundation Professor of Psychology. Over hired to build the pro- of childhood friendship at Gault and also the past century, the leading developmental Dgram. In only 10 years, Cooper has created helped Stefanki-Iglesias by running parent theorists fashioned goals of healthy develop- a working group with a reputation for excel- focus groups soon after the new principal ment that tended to reflect their own values lence that complements strong sibling pro- arrived at Gault three years ago. “We’ve and life experience, says Rogoff. grams in social and cognitive psychology. done major restructuring as a direct result “But people growing up in different At UCSC, developmental psychologists of Margarita’s work,” says Stefanki-Iglesias. communities may have different priorities,” explore language and communication, “It’s valuable, hands-on research, and we she says. “Literacy is important, but is being learning, personality, friendship, and cultur- really listen to it. She’s exceptional.” able to take multiple-choice tests important? al issues across the life span. And they are Professor Roland Tharp, another mem- It depends. The field is going beyond working to create a more inclusive view ber of the developmental program who is assuming that universal models of develop- of human development, recognizing that well known for his research on improving mental goals fit all children.” psychology’s focus on middle-class, education for Native Hawaiian and Native As senior members of UCSC’s develop- European American families has mental psychology program, Cooper ignored too many people for too long. and Rogoff are involved in numerous The theme that underscores the “People growing up in different research projects, and each has made direction of developmental psychology major contributions that have helped at UCSC is that children are seen as communities may have different shape the field. Rogoff’s 1990 book navigators, making their way through Apprenticeship in Thinking is widely the rich and varied contexts of their priorities. The field is going recognized as a landmark in the field of daily lives. They learn to participate in cognitive development. For years, she the realms of family, school, and com- has studied Mayan Indian communi- munity—and in today’s increasingly beyond assuming that universal ties in Guatemala and middle-class diverse world, many speak one language European American families in the at home and another at school. models of developmental goals fit United States to gain insights into the Several faculty members are explor- culturally specific ways that children’s ing human development by conducting all children.”—Barbara Rogoff learning is encouraged by parents and research in partnership with museums, caregivers. That work has revealed academic outreach programs, day care important similarities as well as differ- centers, as well as schools, religious institu- American children, is currently directing a ences that have deepened our appreciation tions, and community groups. Develop- five-year, $20 million national research of the role of culture in development. mentalists today believe that a big part effort funded by the U.S. Department of Rogoff’s ongoing research projects with an of what we learn as we grow up is how to Education. The UCSC-based Center for innovative school in Utah and with the operate in these different spheres. “These Research on Education, Diversity & Exploratorium in San Francisco are explor- resources offer real pathways to kids, and Excellence (CREDE) is bringing together ing the different concepts of learning being our faculty are beginning to map these researchers from around the country to focus developed by U.S. institutions. worlds for scholars, policy makers, and on five factors that affect the success of Cooper’s work traces how children and practitioners,” says Cooper. students: race, geography, poverty, limited teenagers forge their own identities by inte- Schools are an especially important arena English proficiency, and cultural back- grating their cultural and family traditions for research, and UCSC researchers have ground. CREDE’s goal is to identify strate- with those of their schools, communities, earned high marks for collaboration in gies that work for all kids and to influence and work. Her research with schools focuses their ongoing school-based projects. “Our policy from the local to the national level, on efforts to reduce dropout rates. She stud- rapport with schools is good because we says Tharp. Four other UCSC developmen- ies a variety of cultural and ethnic groups, in- treat teachers as partners,” says Cooper. “We tal faculty members are conducting research cluding African American, Latino, European don’t walk in and say ‘We want to get data under the auspices of the center. American, Japanese American, and Japanese from your class.’ We ask, ‘What questions UCSC’s commitment to a “sociocultural” youth, to illuminate cultural similarities and do you want us to include in this study?’” approach to developmental psychology is differences and contribute insights that will . jones . r Cathy Stefanki-Iglesias, principal of helping to reshape some of the fundamen- help policy makers seal leaks in the “academ- r

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 Because children develop in a variety of social spheres, psychologists at UCSC study children at home, at school, and in the community. Professors Barbara Rogoff (left) and Catherine Cooper visit youngsters at UCSC’s Child Care Services. ic pipeline” from kindergarten to college. Junior faculty have earned tenure and taken Those Darn Questions These issues, which she investigates with on leadership roles in the program, and the colleagues, students, and community first generation of doctorates and postdoctor- Why is the sky blue? Where do babies partners, form the core themes of her next al trainees are landing teaching and research come from? Why do we have to die? book, “The Weaving of Maturity: Cultural positions around the country. Showcased be- Any parent knows that children ask Perspectives on Adolescence.” Her role in low are several outstanding research projects the darnedest questions, but can parental bringing diversity to the center of UCSC’s that Cooper and Rogoff expect will further responses encourage scientific thinking program has attracted national attention. enhance UCSC’s standing in the world of in children as young as four? Yes, says Cooper says she is “gratified beyond developmental psychology and the program’s Associate Professor Maureen Callanan. words” by the maturation of the program: contributions to children’s well-being. In partnership with the San Jose . jones .r 29 years and counting... r UC Santa Cruz is chosen to carry on landmark study chronicling the lives of 100 individuals

I magine having the most we are—you really have to follow private details of your psychologi- people from early childhood into cal makeup documented on a adulthood,” says Gjerde. “This regular basis for nearly 30 years. study is unparalleled and provides That’s the case for about 100 a rich research and training young adults who have participat- resource for our students.” The ed with their families since the project has been funded by the age of three in one of psychology’s National Institute of Mental most highly regarded longitudinal Health every year for more than studies of human development. 25 years and has generated more Begun in 1968 at UC Berkeley than 100 research papers, some of by Jack and Jeanne Block, the which are classics in their fields. “Block Study” has generated some The Blocks designed the proj- of the richest data in the field of ect in part to explore two themes developmental psychology. After of personality: ego-control and intense competition with other ego-resiliency. Ego-control mea- research universities, Jack Block, sures the degree to which an indi- professor emeritus of psychology vidual has the ability to delay grat- at UC Berkeley, recently chose ification in service of future goals. UCSC to carry on his life’s work Undercontrollers act spontaneous- in part because of contributions ly; overcontrollers are more likely made by Santa Cruz faculty, some to plan for the long term. of whom have ties to the project Ego-resiliency, in contrast, dating back more than 25 years. refers to the ability to moderate “We can’t call them kids any- one’s typical level of control to more, because they’re all in their accommodate new circumstances. 30s now,” says UCSC associate For example, a college student professor of psychology Per who parties all quarter but been gathered about each person. time and search for antecedents of Gjerde, who became involved manages to buckle down and The latest assessment began this later life outcomes. In a now-clas- with the study in 1978 and is cram in preparation for finals is a spring and is the first to be initiat- sic study with the Blocks, Gjerde directing it at UCSC. Colleagues “resilient undercontroller,” show- ed under the auspices of UCSC. was able to go back and compare David Harrington and Avril ing the ability to change when It is expected to take 12 months children from families that stayed Thorne have also been involved push comes to shove. to complete. together with children whose with the project for a long time. Participants have been evaluat- One of the greatest values of parents later divorced. “If you’re interested in how life ed eight times over the years, and in-depth longitudinal studies is “Until then, studies had unfolds—how we become who vast amounts of information have that researchers can look back in shown how tough divorce is on

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 Children’s Discovery Museum and a give the ‘right’ answers, the way they answer mother water the garden two days later, the team of UCSC researchers, Callanan and can encourage children to wonder about youngster announced: “Now I know why postdoctoral researcher Kevin Crowley are and investigate the world around them,” you’re watering the plants. Otherwise, they’d observing spontaneous interactions between says Callanan. die like the plants at the museum.” parents and kids to see how parents help In one example of how youngsters inte- The development of scientific reasoning their children develop “scientific literacy.” grate scientific information into their lives, is a gradual process, says Crowley. “Change The museum setting, brimming with a five-year-old boy was captivated by an doesn’t necessarily happen instantly,” he hands-on exhibits, is rich with examples of exhibit that used time-lapse photography to says. “It’s not like a staircase where you go children exploring unfamiliar subjects. demonstrate how plants grow and then die from one level to another. It’s more like “Even though parents may not always when they’re not watered. Watching his overlapping waves, with good ideas and bad

boys, in particular, who express a and how of these memories don’t lot of anger and aggression,” says tend to change much across time, Gjerde. “But our study showed but the meanings of these events that up to eight years before the do tend to change over the life divorce, boys in these families span, as does their prominence in were antagonistic, difficult, and the grand life story.” Thorne is impulsive.” exploring how personality and Suddenly, researchers had intervening life events influence reason to consider the impact of the selection and interpretation of raising a difficult child on divorce personal memories. She is eager rates. “Raising a difficult child to reassess Block participants at puts pressure on parents and may age 30 to see if their childhood itself contribute to divorce,” says memories have taken on new Gjerde. “So it may not be divorce meanings. “The way people inter- alone as much as the circum- pret past events has direct bearing stances prior to divorce that on current and future develop- affected these boys.” ment,” says Thorne. “Past events In a series of studies on the cannot be changed, but their development of gender differ- meanings can.” ences in depression, Gjerde found Associate Professor Harrington that young adults who described is using the Block data to study themselves as depressed had the development of creativity exhibited clear antecedents for from early childhood to adult- the malady during their preschool hood. years. In boys, the characteristics This assessment is being con- include a lot of anger and inter- ducted by mail, in part because personal antagonism. In girls, the doing assessments has become early signs are not as strong, but something of a “logistical night- the signals appear to include shy- mare,” says Gjerde. For the last ness, kindness, and relatively high one, when the participants were intelligence, raising the possibility 23, researchers flew in partici- that smart adolescent girls may be pants from Spain, Japan, the East at risk for sadness. Coast—even a warship stationed Associate Professor Thorne is near Libya. But Gjerde hopes to Pictured in the Block Study archives are (l–r) developmental psycholo- tapping the Block data to extend conduct in-person assessments gists Avril Thorne, Per Gjerde, and David Harrington, surrounded by her longitudinal research on per- again within five years. the voluminous amount of data collected since the study’s inception sonality and personal memories. “We must see them in person in 1968. On the back cabinet is the “M&M machine,” an ingenious “Most personal memories are not again,” says Gjerde, conveying a as plastic as people think,” says parent’s affection. “They have tool used by researchers to measure children’s impulsive behavior. Thorne. “Many long-term per- taught us so much about the rich- After manipulating six candies through the mazelike contraption, sonal memories are told again and ness of human experience and the the children were asked to decide if they wanted to eat the candy now again, especially stories about complexity of human develop- or come back two days later for three times as many M&Ms. trouble. The who, what, when, ment. We can’t stop now.”

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 11 ideas washing over each other.” One consistent but unset- tling finding is that parents are roughly four times more likely to explain exhibits to boys than girls, regardless of the age of the child. “It’s depressing, but it mirrors classroom studies that show that teachers often pay more attention to boys,” says Callanan, who is encouraged by the eagerness of museum staff to modify exhibits based on her research. “What we’re doing is a real partnership with the museum,” she says. “We’re not only doing our scientific work, but we’re able to help make the museum better, too.”

Playground Promises and Self-Esteem

For children and adolescents, school is a place to learn, and it’s often the hub of their social lives, too. Intrigued by how children manage friendships and how social issues affect self-esteem, Associate Professor Margarita Azmitia and her student researchers are conducting an among girls during the transition friendships, sometimes thinking dancers, and musicians. in-depth study of more than 250 from elementary to junior high about them almost to the exclu- In a decade-long study of fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth school. “More than 90 percent sion of everything else.” artistically talented adolescents, graders in Santa Cruz County. of the students had positive Harrington has found that “At one time or another, we self-esteem, and there was no Heeding the Muse being struck by the muse at a have all worried about whether evidence that girls had lower self- young age can play a strong we belong,” says Azmitia, who esteem than boys,” says Azmitia. One of the cartoons on role in boosting self-esteem uses a combination of observa- The bad news, however, is Associate Professor David and building relationships— tional studies, questionnaires, that the 10 percent who had Harrington’s office door shows it can even help motivate kids and interviews to gather data. low self-esteem “seemed to be a man saying to a woman at a to stay in school. Issues of trust and loyalty are going through a very difficult cocktail party: “I’m a writer, but To examine the role of emerging as key sources of time,” says Azmitia. “They not, thank heavens, the kind creativity in development, conflict, and the older students didn’t think school had much who has to write every day or he Harrington has teamed up with appear better able to resolve purpose, and they had trouble gets depressed.” the California State Summer conflicts without ending friend- keeping friends and working Despite stereotypes of the School for the Arts, an annual ships. Unlike some studies, through problems. The girls, tormented artist, creative ex- month-long residential summer Azmitia’s has not detected a especially, had trouble moving pression can be a source of real arts program for 450 high widespread drop in self-esteem beyond problems in their comfort for writers, painters, school students who are active

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 R Competence, including compelling new evidence that Speaking of Gender the development of skills and important aspects of language one’s imagination. are learned gradually. In a typi- If parents want to help their R Emotional self-regulation, cal study, Akhtar uses sentence children escape the trap of gen- or what some students describe structure from three different der-stereotyped communication as a form of self-therapy. languages—English, Japanese, patterns, one of the best things R Social connection, or an and Irish—to see when they can do is encourage boys opportunity to be with people preschoolers demonstrate an and girls to play together, says and make them happy. understanding of standard Associate Professor Campbell R Transcendent values, or an English word order. Unlike in Leaper. appreciation for beauty, truth, Japanese and Irish, English Leaper, who studies the role honesty, and justice. speakers rely on the subject- of language in the construction There are costs associated verb-object sentence structure of gender, has found that differ- with a high level of creative to interpret meaning—who is ent activities foster different activity, however. A big source doing what to whom. Akhtar styles of communication. of tension for adolescents can be uses made-up verbs and novel For example, playing army the sheer number of hours spent actions that children wouldn’t tends to elicit “task-oriented” pursuing one’s art, which leaves have a name for to ensure that talk as participants plot strategy less time for friends and school, the children have no previous and discuss how to “get the says Harrington, who adds that understanding of a word’s cor- job done.” competition among creative rect usage or meaning. Sample By contrast, playing with Researchers work in a number adolescents can be unsettling, sentences look like this: dolls or toy dishes involves of K–12 schools in the region, and the way in which artistic Big Bird dacking grapes. storytelling and more “collabo- rative” communication, says including Gault Elementary talent makes individuals stand (English: subject-verb-object) out also can be stressful. Big Bird the grapes tamming. Leaper. “Traditionally, girls get School in Santa Cruz, where (Japanese: subject-object-verb) a lot of opportunity to practice the principal, Cathy Stefanki- Language Development Gopping Big Bird the grapes. intimacy-related skills, and Iglesias (left), welcomed (Irish: verb-subject-object) boys get a lot of practice with Although all of the children work-related skills,” says Leaper. Margarita Azmitia’s study of Is Hard Work showed a preference for standard Both types of activities childhood friendship. Nameera Akhtar’s work on lan- English word order, the two- are important, but the prob-

. jones guage acquisition in early child- and three-year-olds were much lems arise when activities are .r r hood is shaking up the worlds more likely to use Akhtar’s segregated by gender. To the in theater, music, dance, creative of developmental psychology “weird word order” than were extent that boys and girls writing, film and video, visual and linguistics. the four-year-olds, who consis- choose different activities as arts, and animation. Akhtar, an assistant professor tently “corrected” Akhtar’s use children, they develop different Every year since 1987, of psychology who joined the of non-English structures. The communication styles, says Harrington has used question- faculty in 1995, studies how results indicate that the younger Leaper. “By the time we’re naires, interviews, observation, children learn new words and children were still in the process adults, everyone is reaching and follow-up studies to develop learn to speak grammatically. of learning conventional English for the latest pop psychology a rich psychological portrait of Her work began with a hunch word order. book about why women the participants. Creativity, he that conventional linguistic By documenting the way and men can’t talk to each says, helps adolescents in several theories about language acquisi- children’s language abilities other,” he says. areas, including development of: tion were wrong. Those theories progress over time, Akhtar’s Minimizing gender segrega- R Self-identity, or the sense postulate that children have an research is poking holes in tion will help boys and girls that “This is me, and I’m not innate ability to use language linguistic theory—and taking a develop similar styles. “If boys the same as everybody else.” that is suddenly “triggered,” little heat off parents. “Children and girls don’t play together as R Self-esteem, or the knowl- the way the flick of a switch are actively engaged in learning children, how can we expect edge that there’s “something turns on a light. language,” says Akhtar. “They’re men and women to get along special about me to be proud of Akhtar’s hunch was a good not waiting for someone to in the workplace or in love and happy about.” one, and her work is providing teach them.” relationships?” asks Leaper.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 13 The sequence master

n the 1840s, prospectors scoured I California’s hills to stake their claims in a frantic search for gold. Today, another Gold

Rush is sweeping the country, but the stakes are far

higher. The quarry of this high-tech pursuit, more

precious than any mineral, is the genetic gold buried

within our cells: DNA, the blueprint for life.

Researchers stand on the threshold of decoding

the complex instructions in the strands of our DNA.

Spelled out bit by bit, these instructions tell a body

how to develop from conception to death and how to

function from day to day. They also may contain

errors, triggering disease. Charting this genetic land-

scape, our “genome,” is the goal of the Human

Genome Project, which will wind up next decade.

A map of this landscape could have profound

benefits for human health. Genetic screens may pro- . jones .r r

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 Sequences of letters from human vide early warnings for a host at the forefront of bioinformat- DNA illuminate computer scientist of inherited diseases. More tan- ics. Their work spans four David Haussler, leader of a UCSC talizing still, researchers hope UCSC departments: computer group applying powerful computa- to design new drugs by study- science, computer engineering, tional techniques to dig through mountains of biological data. ing disease-causing genes and chemistry and biochemistry, the cellular gears they drive. and biology. Both graduate Biologists also plan to compare students and undergraduates our DNA to the genomes of play important roles. other organisms, which should All point to Haussler as the unearth the evolutionary roots reason for the team’s success. of life. “David is a first-rate computer To realize those visions, scientist, but he also listens researchers will need smart carefully to biologists to learn tools to cope with the stagger- what we know and what we ing size of biological databases. need,” says Harry Noller, direc- The human genome alone tor of UCSC’s Center for the holds 3 billion units of raw Molecular Biology of RNA. genetic data—mountains of “His group has developed some information that conceal life’s terrific computational ap- key genes and their functions. proaches in a very short time.” Some of the nation’s top com- Geneticist Sean Eddy of puter wizards have allied with Washington University, biologists to create automated another leader in the field, says ways of mining those nuggets. Haussler’s signal achievement is Their hot new science is called bringing “rigorous mathemati- bioinformatics. cal formalism” to bear on “This field represents the biological data analysis. “The convergence of two great tech- ideas he’s contributing are very nologies of the last half of this powerful and are grounded century: the computer revolu- in serious computer science tion and biotechnology,” says and statistics. He’s a brilliant David Haussler, professor of scientist, and he takes the computer science at UCSC. biology very seriously.” “Everyone from pharmaceutical To see why the statistical companies to molecular biolo- power of bioinformatics is a gists is screaming for bioinfor- boon for biologists, one need matics. It truly has the potential only ponder the volume of data to revolutionize medicine and they face. The human genome’s the life sciences.” billions of units act as “let- A tall and eloquent man ters”—four different chemical Computer scientist David Haussler with a fondness for suspenders, building blocks that interlock Haussler leads a young group along the DNA molecule. leads a pioneering UCSC group in the booming field of bioinformatics

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 15 where they begin and end.” logical data. The group now uses vices o ser

t Creating those programs is HMMs to create libraries of the ho where Haussler’s group excels. “words,” or genes, that a genome ucsc p His team’s most potent method likes to say—and to expose has an intriguing name: hidden subtly different words that may Markov models, or HMMs, represent new genes. named for a turn-of-the-centu- One notable program that ry Russian mathematician. relies on HMMs is “Genie,” a Since the mid-1960s, re- gene finder devised with re- searchers have used HMMs to searchers at Lawrence Berkeley reveal patterns within human National Laboratory. UCSC speech. In essence, HMMs graduate student David Kulp, provide statistical models of Genie’s main brain, explains different ways to pronounce a that it almost always pinpoints word. “If someone comes along the most probable genes in a with a new accent, you’ll recog- novel sequence of DNA better nize the word because the than any other program. model gives you Genie may help grant the a picture of the wishes of biologists such as variability,” says UCSC’s Manuel Ares and John Computer engineer Richard Kimmen Sjölander, Tamkun, who study yeast and Hughey, flanked by undergrad- a graduate student fruit flies, respectively. Yeast and uate David Dahle (left) and under Haussler. flies may seem like lowly lab postdoctoral researcher Jeff DNA, like critters. However, they serve as Hirschberg, holds a prototype speech, also obeys valuable models for many hu- chip for his “Kestrel” pro- rules of “grammar.” man processes, because all living grammable array. Kestrel will Only certain pat- things—from primitive bacteria boost the speed of searching terns of letters lead to people—share much of the through biological databases to viable genes; same basic genetic machinery. by a factor of 100 or more. special letters tell Ares and Tamkun hope to em- The team used computer- the cell when to ploy bioinformatics to compare . jones .r aided design to cram efficient r start and stop the and contrast the well-studied processors into chips just a cent of the human genome con- protein assembly line. In 1992, genes and proteins in their few millimeters square (see tains genes. Most sequences of Haussler’s group proposed that organisms with unknown enlargement, above). DNA letters, biologists believe, one could apply HMMs to bio- genes arising from the encode nothing at Those letters spell out about all or serve some 100,000 recipes, or genes, that unknown purpose. each cell follows to make its And within most rich broth of proteins. Those genes, the instruc- proteins, in turn, perform the tions may start and elemental work of life. stop dozens of To scan 3 billion letters at a times, interrupted pace of 10 per second would by more apparently take nearly a decade. Indeed, useless DNA. just finding and defining a sin- “Genes don’t gle gene used to take years in raise red flags and the lab. Now, computers can say, ‘Here I am!’” help identify new genes in a Haussler says. “You vid kulp matter of days. need intelligent tesy of da our However, only about 3 per- programs to locate c

16 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 Human Genome Project. One also must know the Take the design proteins for specific Markov models (see main shape of the protein that a gene tasks, such as jamming the article). The team trained its works of a nasty virus. It’s a intelligent programs to recog- encodes to grasp the gene’s role protein mightily complex problem, but nize familiar patterns within in the cell. Haussler’s group has challenge a recent contest revealed solid the protein chains, as well made inroads into this “protein progress toward solving it. as subtle variations lurking folding problem,” an urgent A Santa Cruz team ranked The international contest, within those patterns. issue in pharmaceutical research among the world’s best called CASP2, drew 76 teams “Life tends to constrain itself (see sidebar, right). Haussler to certain configurations,” says at a recent contest to predict of researchers. Each team start- collaborates with UCSC bio- ed with the same raw data— graduate student Christian chemists Anthony Fink and how proteins fold protein chains, spelled out as Barrett. “Our models reveal the Lydia Gregoret, who probe the long strings of letters—and statistical relatedness among details of how proteins fold. Next time you cook tried to predict how the chains proteins. They aren’t scattered In particular, bioinformatics fettuccine, grab a handful and would fold up. Independently, over infinite possibilities.” may help them unravel the hurl it at a wall. The work mystery of certain proteins that The resulting yielded several probable match- clump into lesions, triggering mess will give you some idea of what es, which the Alzheimer’s and other devastat- a folded protein team submitted ing diseases. looks like. It’s a to the contest. These colleagues point out, drippy tangle of The results, and Haussler concurs, that ribbons and announced in bioinformatics is no panacea. loops, seemingly December, Lab research by biologists and without order. placed UCSC chemists will always be essential That meta- on the top tier— to test the predictions of com- phor goes soft even among puters and to see how genes and when one consid- competitors who drugs work in living things. But ers real proteins. have studied all agree that computational Their shapes, it protein predic- tools will grow more critical as turns out, are Computer tion far longer than David the torrent of biological data anything but scientist Kevin random. Of the Karplus (left) and Haussler’s group swells. 100,000 flavors graduate students Kimmen has existed. “I can’t think of anything of protein in a Sjölander (center) and Endocrin- more rewarding than exploring human body, Christian Barrett made a ologist Olivier the human genome and trying each has a dis- splash at a recent protein Lichtarge of UC to decipher its messages,” tinct shape, and it structure prediction contest. San Francisco For the protein shown, their Haussler says. “It’s exciting to be always crumples analyzed the prediction matched the one of the pioneers in this area, into its own contest. By the real structure within the setting the stage for the work of unique pattern. blue sections. Researchers simplest statisti- generations to come.” For decades, from the European cal measure, he —Robert Irion researchers have Bioinformatics Institute says, “UCSC . jones

hungered to learn collaborated on the work. .r predicted five r how proteins folds extremely FACING PAGE: This display shows turn these tricks, biochemists solved each pro- accurately, more than any how the “Genie” computer pro- because a protein’s convoluted tein’s shape exactly with tradi- other team.” However, no gram forages through biological form dictates its precise func- tional and time-consuming lab team predicted an accurate sequences for genes. At top, the tion in the cell. techniques. model of an entire protein at purple bar shows the location of a Bioinformatics offers a UCSC computer scientists the atomic level, the precision gene, correctly predicted by Genie potentially powerful approach: spent long nights last summer needed for useful drug design. (blue) but missed by competing predicting, with computers, comparing the new sequences That may change at CASP3, programs. At bottom, Genie sifts how proteins fold. Such knowl- to their huge library of known set for 1998. for key strings within a sequence edge might help chemists protein shapes using hidden —Robert Irion of DNA letters.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 17 Write On!

Walk into Suzanne Brady’s fourth-grade

classroom at Monte Vista School in Monterey

and it may take a moment to pick her out of the

group. “I used to have the children sit in straight

ABOVE: Don Rothman, founder and director of the Central California Writing Project. rows, and I was at the front,” says Brady, FACING PAGE: 20 years of thinking about, talking about, and practicing writing.

who has been teaching since the late 1950s. Coauthor of the book Mindful of Others: Teaching Children to Teach, Brady dramatical- ly altered her teaching style in 1977, inspired by her experience at a UCSC summer insti- “Now it’s hard to find me in the classroom. tute on teaching writing. “I learned so much that summer that I knew there was no way I could go back and teach the way I had I’m no longer the authority. Now we have 29 before,” she says. The institute Brady attended was the first offered by the campus’s Central California Writing Project (CCWP), which celebrates teachers, and I just happen to be the tallest.” its 20th anniversary this summer. Like its

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 Helping teachers teach writing

Photos by Roger Bunch

sister programs at seven other UC campus- Monterey, and San Benito Counties have lecturer in writing at UCSC. “When people es, CCWP exists to improve the teaching of participated in CCWP programs. Many, write about ideas that are significant to writing in California’s schools. like Brady, found that the experience them, they want to share their work, and The project offers a range of programs, sparked major transformations, both profes- through sharing they become active partici- from the five-week invitational institute— sionally and personally. pants in society.” offered in both English and Spanish—to a It’s CCWP’s philosophy—that writing is CCWP doesn’t promote any particular myriad of other workshops and retreats. a process, not just an end product—that formula for writing, Rothman explains. Funding is provided by UCSC’s Humanities sets the program apart. “When people learn Instead, teachers learn to help students tap Division, UC’s Office of the President, and to write well they’re not just learning a skill, into their thoughts and feelings, bring them the California and National Writing Projects. they’re learning how to claim their voice out on paper, and revise them. In the past two decades, well over a and articulate it,” says Don Rothman, An important tool in this process is the thousand teachers from Santa Cruz, CCWP founder and director and a senior writing response group, in which writers

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 19 read their work to classmates and a discus- In their own words ... sion of the work follows. “The aim isn’t to get everyone to agree with what a person When children find their own voices, their writing writes but, rather, to collaborate and pro- becomes vibrant. The following examples were created by voke dialogue,” Rothman says. “Dialogue fifth and sixth graders taught by CCWP-trained teachers: becomes a way of learning. If people can figure out how to sustain dialogue they can Her horse was a mare think together and reach solutions to diffi- cult problems.” And grandma had spiky, bright pink hair. ombs “A lot of us learned to teach writing in a bonnie c very traditional way,” says Sylvia Mendez, My cerebrum is the biggest part of my brain, and it helps a bilingual resource teacher at Starlight me to figure out things such as math, puzzles, and spelling. Elementary School in Watsonville. “We’d And the cerebrum helps me make decisions like last say, ‘Let’s diagram sentences; let’s do a three- paragraph essay on what you did this sum- night I had a choice of steak or spaghetti. And when I went mer.’ But we learn a very different approach to the Fair, I decided to go the haunted house instead of the at the Writing Project.” high slide. Mendez has cofacilitated three CCWP institutes in English and will cofacilitate this Mi Mariposa My Butterfly summer’s Spanish-language institute. After her first institute in 1982, she changed her Mi mariposa My butterfly approach dramatically. “I learned the impor- es hermosa is beautiful tance of providing a lot of prewriting stimu- lus for younger children—a field trip, a y generosa. and generous. math concept, some kind of firsthand expe- Tiene alas, She has wings rience,” she says. “If I just assigned a specific topic, children ended up writing what they alas grandes large wings thought I wanted to hear. When they were como el arcoiris. like a rainbow. allowed to write from their own feelings and experiences, I saw such a powerful change.” Buela, buela que Fly, fly, fly “Once children experience the pleasure buela, por el bosque. for the forest of communicating their own ideas they get excited about writing,” Rothman adds. Se para en los Stop in the trees “Once they want to write, then they will arboles, come. and eat. want to learn how to write well.” Lucía Villarreal, who teaches first grade Mi mariposa tiene My butterfly has children, at Mintie White School in Watsonville, hijos, buela con ellos she flies with them remembers the excitement in her classroom y buelan a mi casa. and they fly to my house. when her students focused their writing on the Gulf War. The activity became a high- I plan to write my new story ‘Anna’s Tutor’ to be as long light of the week—sparking intense class- room debates and a letter-writing campaign. as it possibly can, even if it means I’ll have to write during Tim Willis, a history teacher at Anzar High the summer. School in Castroville, talks about two proj- ects he and several other teachers collaborat-

Children’s writing excerpted, with permission, from Mindful of Others: Teaching Children to Teach, by Suzanne ed on in the mid-1980s that inspired both Brady and Suzie Jacobs (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994) and from student anthologies compiled by Jeff Arnett. them and their students. The first involved

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 correspondence between area high school students and students in Nicaragua. The UCSC writers reach out to K–12 second centered on a writing project by several high school classes who sent a collec- long with its programs for educators, especially important for the younger tion of their work to the Soviet Union. The CCWP also supports three programs students who also speak Spanish as a first collection was displayed in Leningrad in a A that put UCSC writing students in language. “These young students may be public exhibition. “The effort and creativity contact with K–12 students throughout the first in their family with an opportu- the kids invested in those projects was the Monterey Bay region. The university nity to go to college, and it helps them students not only serve as writing tutors and their parents to hear from students remarkable,” Willis says. but as mentors to the younger children. who are already at UCSC who have come The inspiration and enthusiasm of “The experience puts the university into from similar situations,” Parmeter says. Villarreal and Willis are typical of teachers the mental landscapes of the younger Another program began four years ago who have participated in a CCWP institute. children and gives them some firsthand when UCSC writing lecturer Jeff Arnett knowledge of what life in college might teamed up with fifth- and sixth-grade Ideas that are born in the small UCSC con- be like for them,” says Don Rothman, teachers at Westlake School in Santa Cruz. ference room during the summer take on mo- CCWP founder and director. Each year, Arnett’s students become mentum when teachers bring their new- mentors to some 100 Westlake students. found expertise back to their students, During the course, each of Arnett’s stu- dents authors an illustrated story (many of their colleagues, and their personal lives. which have been donated to the Westlake “Many institute participants emerge library), while the Westlake students’ as leaders in their profession,” notes work is published in an anthology. CCWP workshop coordinator Robin “My students feel like they’re making a difference and the Westlake students get a Drury. “CCWP teachers bring what firsthand view of the university,” Arnett they’ve learned back to their own says. “It’s a great cross-fertilization.” schools, presenting workshops and Roz Spafford, also a UCSC writing modeling for others. They also serve in lecturer, oversees the Writing and Reading Action Plan (WRAP). Now in noticeably large numbers on county its 10th year, WRAP pairs UCSC writing curriculum councils, statewide textbook Sarah-Hope Parmeter (center), Deb Bell, and a students with approximately 40 teenage student at Ohlone Elementary School committees, and as supervisors in UCSC’s mothers annually from Watsonville and credential program.” Several teachers were Santa Cruz high schools. One of three programs was launched “Trying to be a mother at 15 or 16 inspired to write books, and Willis even de- nine years ago by Sarah-Hope Parmeter, is extremely demanding,” Spafford says. cided to run for the Santa Cruz City School a writing instructor at UCSC, and Deb “It can be hard to think beyond the Board following an institute he attended. Bell, a fifth-grade teacher at Ohlone immediate demands of life as a new (He was elected in November 1994.) Elementary School in Watsonville. The parent. The writing that they do helps collaboration began during a CCWP them to think about their lives in fresh When people talk about CCWP, the summer institute, Parmeter recalls. ways. They can express their feelings, discussion invariably turns to Rothman “Deb saw UCSC as a wonderful resource and in that expression comes a desire who, as one teacher says, “has truly touched that was so close to her students and yet for change and stability.” many lives.” seemed so inaccessible,” Parmeter says. As with students in the other two To bridge the gap, Parmeter and Bell programs, WRAP participants also visit David Schumaker, director of the developed a program that involves weekly the campus. The young women get a Central Coast Consortium for Professional correspondence between university and glimpse of college life and learn about Development and a former middle school elementary students, visits by each group the support services on campus for principal, explains it this way: “Don is one of of students to the other’s school, and a students with families. They also midyear potluck for all students and fam- meet with campus representatives the most inspiring, easy-to-work-with peo- ilies. This past year the program moved to and UCSC students. ple, and at the same time, one of the most Alianza School (also in Watsonville), The visit caps an experience that can demanding. He encourages you so that even where Parmeter is now working with be life-changing, Spafford says. “These though you’re always going uphill you’re feel- fifth-grade teacher Diane Bloch. young women get a vision in their In any given quarter, at least half the mind of what it could be like to go to ing good about it. He is a remarkable model UCSC students in Parmeter’s writing college. Their experience plants a seed of the kind of teacher we all aspire to be.” course are native Spanish speakers. The of belief that maybe one day they can —Barbara McKenna mentorship these students provide is come here too.” —Barbara McKenna

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 21 UCSC Celebrates the Inauguration eger y pfl micke eger eger y pfl y pfl micke micke

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Left: The chancellor’s son, James Greenwood, gives the benediction to close the inaugural ceremony. Below: Members of the public were invited to tour the campus on the morning of the inauguration. John Deck (right) leads a tour of the Geographic Information Systems Laboratory. vices o ser t ho ucsc p

Above: The traditional academic procession, with 160 UCSC faculty and staff participating, opens the inaugural ceremony. Right: Some of the delegates from sister institutions are shown. don harris

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UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 23 ALUMNI NEWS

fman New benefit worth Alumni Association

Councilors, 1997–98 elena dor cost of association ...... membership Cowell Stephen Klein, SC Extension has President-Elect announced a new benefit Michael Twombly UC available only to members of the Stevenson Alumni Association: a discount of Diana Reece,Vice President $35 on any class offered through for Programs UCSC Extension. With classes Heather Urquhart ranging from Web Design to Crown Effective Business Writing to Michael Brown The One Minute Drawing Class, Linda Wilshusen, Vice President UCSC Extension offers an aston- for Finance Sierra Thai-Binh (Merrill ’96) talks with prospective students at a college fair in San ishing diversity of programs for Merrill Francisco. “Everyone should do it at least once,” she says. professional development and Alan Acosta personal growth. Ricky Bluthenthal, Past President Alumni join with fairs than the handful of UCSC Peter Kozelka is one alumnus Porter staff counselors can possibly attend. who is finding extension’s programs Daren Lewis Admissions to reach “Finding volunteers to assist with helpful. Kozelka graduated from Linda Ziskin these college fairs is our top priori- UCSC last June with a Ph.D. in out to new students ty,” said Heidi Rentería, outreach chemistry and in-depth technical Kresge volunteer coordinator for the expertise in water quality. But he Pamela Baer Jim Eicher eliving her days at ucsc— Office of Admissions. had a difficult time finding a job Rand to a rapt audience, no As well as extending UCSC’s outside the university setting. Oakes less—is not something that Gayle outreach, Rentería believes alumni “Extension classes have really G. Chris Brown,Vice President Michaelson (Kresge ’94) gets to are especially qualified to spread the broadened my understanding of for Membership do often, especially now that she word about the high-quality educa- the environmental field,” he said. Renée Martinez juggles a busy schedule working tional experience that UCSC has to “I’m learning how the business College Eight as a counselor and pursuing her offer. world works while taking classes Joanne Foxxe master’s degree at Pepperdine Sierra Thai-Binh (Merrill ’96) with precisely the circle of people Robert Weiner, Vice President University. would agree. “I felt I was really who can give me job leads.” for Administration But last fall, when the able to give them an idea of what Alumni Association members At Large Admissions Outreach Volunteer UCSC was like,” said Thai-Binh, formerly received a 20 percent Mark Adams Program was launched with the help adding that she was particularly discount on a limited number of Carol Bradshaw of the Alumni Office, Michaelson impressed with the quality of the extension courses that didn’t have Aimee Dudovitz and over 60 other alumni volunteers students she met. “The kids were enrollment restrictions. The new Doug Foster had plenty of opportunities to really together,” she said. “They voucher, available to each Alumni Steven Jung, President share their UCSC experiences sounded like they were ready for Association member once a year, John Laird with prospective students and Eric Thomas the future.” has no restrictions on its use. Kathryn Tobisch their parents throughout the state. What questions are asked most The new $35 extension class “I’m proud of the accomplish- frequently by prospective students discount is equivalent to the cost Ex Officio ments that I had at UCSC,” said and their parents? “The parents ask of an annual Alumni Association Carolyn Christopherson, Michaelson, who volunteered at about the academics, and the kids membership. Annual members Executive Director several college fairs at southern Michael Cowan, Past Chair, ask about the social life,” said who take advantage of the dis- Academic Senate California high schools and col- Michaelson. count will essentially get their Sara Dozier, Chair, leges. “I feel I got the best educa- Alumni interested in participat- Alumni Association membership Student Union Assembly tion possible.” ing in UCSC recruiting efforts are for free. Kathleen Flint, President, Each fall, UCSC is invited to encouraged to contact Rentería To take advantage of this new Graduate Student Association participate in more than 300 col- in the Admissions Office at benefit or for more information, M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor lege fairs for high school and com- (408) 459-5518 or via e-mail call the Alumni Office at (800) munity college students—more at [email protected]. 933-SLUG or (408) 459-2530.

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 Jessica Vodak reaches out to alumni in don harris The University of California Alumni Associations support of UCSC present the fourth annual

he chose Santa Cruz in Spart because she heard about ALUMNI CAREER CONFERENCE frequent deer sightings on campus. But she’s stayed because “at UCSC & JOB FAIR you are taught to think on your own and come up with your own ☛ Keynote speech by Jack Canfield, coauthor ideas. It’s very self-motivating.” Today, Jessica Vodak is a senior of the New York Times #1 best-seller Chicken Soup for the Soul Jessica Vodak, who just completed her and the recent Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work anthropology major at Merrill who junior year, has raised $115,000 for UCSC loves UCSC and the job that helps since 1995—much of it from alumni. ☛ Workshops with top career professionals keep her here: program supervisor “I love talking to alumni,” she says. ☛ Networking luncheon with alumni in your job field for the campus’s Annual Fund. The UCSC Annual Fund is nating about half of the $800,000 ☛ Job Fair one of the university’s major fund- they raised in 1996–97 (parents of raising programs, and it has current students donated much of Saturday, September 20, 1997 provided Vodak with a job and a the rest). 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. challenge. Student callers like Vodak started as a caller her Westin Bonaventure Hotel Vodak are Annual Fund representa- freshman year and was promoted Downtown Los Angeles tives who ask for donations that to lead caller as a sophomore and support educational excellence at program supervisor as a junior. She UC Santa Cruz. spent the last academic year help- cost (includes lunch): “It’s a really hard job, so I wasn’t ing fellow callers understand the $60 Alumni Association members* that great when I first started,” complexities of UCSC’s financial $75 Nonmembers Vodak said. But she stuck with it. situation. As one of the smaller UC *Add $15 for registration after September 5 “I learned how to overcome objec- campuses, UCSC depends heavily tions and have a good conversation on the Annual Fund to sustain its For more information, with people.” The people she quality programs. “If your belief call the UCSC Alumni Association: phoned made her job even easier. in the program is high enough, if (800) 933-slug “I love talking to alumni and par- you know how badly we need the ents,” she said. “I learned what the money,” Vodak said, “it really school used to be like, what to do comes across and helps you get for my major, what classes to take. support for the school.” The Annual Fund is a really good The Annual Fund raises money way for alumni to communicate for library books, computer labs, or schiffrin vict with current students.” Alumni scholarship funds, and other pro- have responded generously to grams. Donors are given the option Vodak and her fellow callers, do- of donating to any area on campus, and callers like Vodak see firsthand Announcing the Alumni the difference these donations can make. “It’s really a rewarding job Association’s World being able to look around and say Wide Web site: ‘I helped do that. I helped raise that money.’” http://www2.ucsc.edu/alumni And she certainly has helped R Up-to-date information raise a lot of money. Since joining Twelve students received College Service Awards from the Alumni on alumni events the program in 1995, Vodak has R Association in 1996–97. The $500 awards ($250 when shared between two Services available to alumni raised more than $115,000 recipients at the same college) acknowledge outstanding student contribu- R Volunteer opportunities through her efforts for UCSC. tions toward invigorating life in the colleges. This past year’s recipients are R Links to regional chapter Caller fund-raising is challenging, (l–r), top row: Jennifer Ebrahimi (Stevenson), Alex Palomino (Merrill), Jason Web pages but the callers are up to the task. Cupp (College Eight), and Shawntaviya Holmes (Oakes); bottom row: Julene R Taylor (Kresge), Raymond Emanuel (Crown), Maria Vargas (College Eight), Information about As Vodak emphatically said, membership Roz Helfand (Porter), and Elizabeth Phan (Kresge). Not shown are Megan “If you can do that, you can do Fowler (Cowell), Wendy Leung (Stevenson), and Leigh Murrell (Cowell). anything.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 25 ALUMNI NOTES

Cowell College Stevenson College Matthew GREEN is a legisla- ’82 John STERITZ is living tive assistant for Congressman north of Houston with his wife ’68 Paul MARKOWITZ was ’72 Connie MICHALAK Sam Farr in Washington, D.C. and two children, exploring for recently reelected to the board Holmes is living in Austin, Tex.; ’93 Steffen ECKART received oil in Venezuela, and trying to of directors of the California her twin sons graduated as vale- his M.A. in teaching English learn Spanish. Teachers Association. dictorian and salutatorian of to speakers of other languages ’85 Frank SOUZA is controller ’76 Joshua MILLER is a pro- their class and are currently on from the Monterey Institute for GST–Call America Business fessor of government and law at the dean’s list at Texas A&M of International Studies; he is Communications in San Luis Lafayette College in Easton, University. now living with his wife in Obispo, Calif. Penn.; he plans to marry Diane ’75 Celia WINKLER has been Kanagawa, Japan. ’86 Jan WILLIAMSON “has Weger in August 1997 after a appointed assistant professor in put her art degree to good use two-week rafting trip in the the Sociology Department at Crown College spending most of her time fill- Grand Canyon. the University of Montana. ing out sweepstakes entry order ’78 Herbert ROSENBLOOM ’76 Lee Palmer WANDEL will ’70 Norma MARASCHIN forms, confident she’ll be a is still teaching math at the San be at the Institute for Advanced received a Ph.D. in chemistry million dollar winner before Fernando High magnet, and he Study in Princeton, N.J., during from MIT in 1974; she is now the end of the millennium.” is in Who’s Who Among American the 1997–98 academic year. director of research and devel- ’89 Scott SEIWERT is the Teachers. ’86 Stacy HANDELMAN is opment at Quantum Chemical 1996 grand prize winner of the ’80 Kurt TOELKEN is living teaching a kindergarten/first- Corporation. Suzanne Pharmacia Biotech & Science near Frankfurt, Germany, on a grade multiage class in Seattle; RAMPTON has left the firm Magazine Prize for Young three-year assignment for the she just bought a large catama- she founded to become senior Scientists. His winning essay firm EDS. ran and plans on sailing the vice president and director of was on RNA editing in ’85 Li Chiao-Ping (Nancy world on it one day. account planning at Campbell- trypanosomes, microscopic LEE) just received tenure at ’87 Catherine ELLIS, who is Ewald Advertising in Los organisms that lead to tropical the University of Wisconsin– working on a doctorate in cul- Angeles. diseases in humans and cattle. Madison and has been promot- tural anthropology at Columbia ’71 Janet GLASGOW ’91 Mabel Ann LEW graduated ed to associate professor in the University, was a visiting scholar Mulshine is married, has two from University of the Pacific’s dance program. She has received at the Rand Corporation this boys and the usual school and pharmacy program in May 1996 fellowships for choreography year, and she was recently community involvements, and and is now working as a pharma- from the Wisconsin Arts Board married. works in the field of environ- cist. She and Chris LAWTON and Scripps ADF Humphrey- ’89 After receiving a J.D. from mental management. “Life is (Crown ’90) are planning to get Weidman-Limon. Thomas Cooley Law School fun when children think about married in July 1997. ’87 Danielle HERRMANN is in January 1996, Yvette UCSC,” she writes. the manager of Student Services SPRAGUE Willson is working ’72 Tobeylynn BIRCH Merrill College at the Stanford University as a staff attorney for Legal Aid donated a videotape titled School of Engineering in of Central Michigan; she is First Steps in Library Research: ’71 Ken DOCTOR has been Engineering–Economic Systems married to Thomas WILLSON The Presearch, which she named vice president/editorial and Operations Research, and (College Eight ’88), who is produced for the American of Knight-Ridder New Media, she is raising a son. finishing his Ph.D. in soil Library Association, to the which oversees 34 Knight- ’89 John APPLING has spent microbiology at Michigan State UCSC Alumni Association Ridder Internet products, the last two years as a Peace University. authors’ library. Birch is director including Mercury Center, Corps volunteer in Vladivostok, ’91 Lisa SONIN Larsen was of Library and Information Philadelphia Online, and Russia. married in June 1996 and is Services at the Los Angeles (Miami) Herald Link, along ’90 Nicole SWENSON is leav- pursuing a doctoral degree in campus of the California School with online directories, enter- ing her position at the Overseas psychology at John F. Kennedy of Professional Psychology. tainment guides, and house- Marketing Division of Toyota University. ’79 Chris METZLER is on hunting Web sites. Motor Corporation’s Tokyo ’92 Pablo GONZALEZ sabbatical leave from his posi- ’76 Fred DAVIDSON was re- headquarters to pursue graduate received his M.S. in mechanical tion as professor of geology and cently named the deputy gener- studies at the University of engineering from UC Davis in oceanography at Mira Costa al counsel to a presidential com- Pennsylvania’s Wharton School 1996 and is now working in the College in San Diego County. of Business. robotics field in Silicon Valley. continued on page 28

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 ang Abroad Program, Yang toured

aning y many of the great museums of l Europe and realized that art— not science—was her true love. After returning to UCSC to complete work on her bachelor’s degree, Yang studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting in Beijing. In Beijing, Yang embraced her Chinese heritage. After return- ing to California in 1989, she yearned to hear her father’s stories about his childhood—stories she had been unwilling to listen to during her own. “When I was grow- ing up, I wasn’t ready to listen, I didn’t want to Belle Yang and a painting from her first book, Baba: A Return to China hear, I didn’t want to be Chinese,” says Yang. “When I came back from China I was An odyssey homeward 30 and had made enough mistakes to be sympathetic to Alumna Belle Yang (B.A. biology, other people—noodle makers, my own parents. I had farmers, peasants—those who absorbed enough of College Eight ’82) has written and died without a voice.” the Chinese symbols, illustrated two books that describe Yang retells their stories in the imagery. I had Baba: A Return to China Upon eaten food grown on the China of her father’s youth. My Father’s Shoulders (1994) and the Chinese soil. I had The Odyssey of a Manchurian become Chinese.” (1996). She is working on the Ironically, writing he act of painting final book in the trilogy, “On that depict everyday life in the about her father’s past has made and writing often opens a Old Granddaddy Hill,” which shadow of the Japanese occupa- Yang feel more a part of her T window to another place will offer readers a deeper look tion, the Russian onslaught, and adopted country. “People say ‘go and time. For Belle Yang, they into old China through the eyes the Chinese civil war. In the out and vote’ because that’s how transport her back to the China of Yang’s great-grandfather. second book, she describes her you participate in America, but of her father’s childhood. In two The two published books father’s 3,000-mile journey on there are other ways, too,” says books filled with vibrant stories have received critical praise. The foot across China to flee the Yang, whose parents lived in and fanciful artwork, Yang has Los Angeles Times, for example, approach of communist forces. Taiwan and Japan before immi- given vivid new life to the coun- called her first book “a captivat- Both books are illustrated grating to America when she try her father remembers. ing memoir ... lavishly illustrated with Yang’s own whimsical was seven years old. “I’m fascinated with the old and lovingly narrated.” Author block prints and watercolor “I feel that by writing I’m world that’s lost,” says Yang, 37, Amy Tan, in an introduction to paintings: colorful, animated participating in a democracy. whose father fled China in 1947 Baba, said Yang “has created a works described by one critic I’m saying something that may during the communist takeover. world we can lose ourselves in, as “sparkling.” change someone’s viewpoint; “I write to take revenge for my and when we emerge we are all Yang was a UC Santa Cruz giving my voice to my father— father, for the opportunities he the better for it.” biology major when she took her to a whole lot of others—and lost to time and war. But the In Baba (“father” in Chinese), first step toward writing the through that process becoming greater passion is to tell the story Yang animates the characters of Baba books. During a year spent more American myself.” of old China, about the lives of her father’s boyhood in stories in Scotland in the Education —Francine Tyler

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 27 continued from page 26 ing overland from South Africa ’82 Alan SCHROEDER’s book ’82 Panda KROLL and Kevin mission examining ways to to France; he will be returning Minty: A Story of Young Harriet VOLKAN (Kresge ’81), who protect the nation’s critical to the U.S. in December 1997 Tubman has won this year’s met at Kresge, are moving from infrastructures from physical and can be contacted at Coretta Scott King Award for Santa Cruz to Boston, where and cyber threats. fi[email protected]. Elizabeth Illustration; it also received the they will celebrate their 10th ’78 Jean SCHMIDT Anthony WATSON is in the Ph.D. Christopher Award, which is anniversary and begin graduate is an elementary school princi- program in art history at the given to work that affirms the programs. Kroll will enter law pal in Redwood City, Calif., and City University of New York’s highest values of the human school at Boston University to she and her husband are raising Graduate School and University spirit. pursue her interests in applying three children. Peter BURKETT Center. ’84 Susan Laura GENTZ the Internet to online dispute is a commercial fisherman, a ’92 Dmitria SOKOLOW has Gillespie has recently completed resolution and new problems sheep farmer, and the father of moved to Billings, Mont., to a master’s in counseling psychol- in intellectual property law; four children. live with her fiancé, Eric ogy at the California Institute of Volkan will pursue a master’s ’80 Michael JURGENS has WAGER (Merrill ’92), who is Integral Studies, and she mar- degree in public health with pursued a career in the building a paramedic. She is pursuing a ried Constantine Gillespie in an emphasis in biostatistics at industry as a general contractor. teaching credential at Rocky May 1996. Harvard’s School of Public “Would like to hear from col- Mountain College. ’85 After receiving an M.A. in Health. lege buddies—it’s been a while,” ’93 Ana Silvia TURCIOS is secondary education in 1995, ’87 Eloise (Latimah) SHIM is he writes. working toward an M.S. and an Tracy PHILLIPS is teaching art a computer consultant in the ’85 Alice LEARY Inoue is a M.F.C.C. at CSU Los Angeles, and language arts in a middle Washington, D.C., metropoli- news anchor for Japan TV News and she is working for UC school, and she was recently tan area, and when she’s not in and host of a sports show on Cooperative Extension in L.A. married. front of a computer, she is writ- the Fuji Channel in Honolulu, ’96 Carlos ARTETA is pursu- ’88 Joe COLLETTI is selling ing a screenplay and teaching. Hawaii. ing a Ph.D. in economics at UC computers by day and singing ’88 Kathleen “Kat” ’89 Dale BOUTIETTE has Berkeley. and acting by night. McDIVITT is co-owner joined the San Francisco law ’89 Miriam SALZER and and marketing manager of firm of Kaufman & Logan, Porter College David DUNN (Kresge ’89) an Internet training and specializing in environmental have a son, Reuben, born in Webmaster certification compa- insurance coverage and business ’74 Teresa McNEIL MacLean’s November 1996. ny called The Chapel Hill litigation; he received his J.D. drawings and paintings of land- ’90 After receiving a master’s in Group in Chapel Hill, N.C. from University of San Fran- scapes were shown at the Side social work from San Diego ’89 Christine GUERRE Grant cisco School of Law in 1995. Street Café in Los Olivos, Calif., State University in 1994, Ché has been accepted as a predoc- ’90 Carolyn (Kit) CHERRY in January and at The Roasted LE SEUR works with abused toral intern in counseling continues to work in the Bean in Santa Ynez, Calif., in children and reunites families psychology at the University of Minneapolis public schools; she February. as a social worker for Child Texas at Austin, and she and is now coordinating a program ’75 Gene KRAHAM is a family Protective Services in San her partner, Melonie MILLER for students with severe emo- practice physician’s assistant in a Diego. (Kresge ’89), are moving to tional/behavioral disorders. rural health clinic in a town of ’93 Mark MACH is in the life- Austin this summer. Mike Pamela LERI is the vice presi- 1,000 in southwest Oklahoma; span developmental psychology HONSBERGER is living in dent of Global Management he has five children. master’s program at CSU San Leucadia, Calif., and has started Development and Training ’77 Rebecca MORGAN was Bernardino. Surf City Stock Footage, a for Training Management quoted in an article in the ’94 Christina HOPKINS company specializing in surfing Corporation of Princeton, N.J.; Orange County Register titled planned to complete a J.D. at footage for broadcast advertis- she is also working on a novel “Get a Grip: Seven Authors McGeorge School of Law in ing. After receiving a master’s and recently received a grant Pinpoint Bad Habits Worth May 1997. in English from Old Dominion from the Lannan Foundation to Changing.” She is the author of University and a J.D. from support her residency at the two books, titled Professional Kresge College Temple University, Jonathan Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. Selling and Calming Upset David WEISS is now working Walter LEVISON is a consult- Customers. ’74 Sara GRISHAM in the Appellate Department at ing forester to PG&E, and he ’79 Patty CASON is working McCarthy is a principal consul- Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, teaches African drumming. as a family nurse practitioner in tant to the California State Coleman & Goggin in ’91 Daniel “Jack” FITCH is Mill Valley, Calif.; she has two Senate Health and Human Philadelphia. spending his sixth year of self- children, Noah and Mikaila. Services Committee. imposed retirement/exile, travel-

28 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 ’90 Susanna VILLAREJO ’82 Sharon GRAYER Wolf ’91 Elyssa ELDRIDGE is liv- ’91 David SONNENFELD is Majernik is attending graduate has a Ph.D. in chemistry from ing with her husband in Tempe, assistant professor of sociology school to obtain a California the Weizmann Institute of Ariz., and is a buyer/planner for at Washington State University, CLAD teaching credential and Science in Israel. Three-Five Systems, a company where he continues his research she hopes to start teaching in ’83 Annamarie MELODIA has that manufactures liquid crystal on industry, environment, and fall of 1997; she has remarried been appointed assistant vice display modules. Emma Stacy social movements in Southeast and has a son, Zachary. chancellor for undergraduate JOHNSON is working for the Asia and the Pacific Northwest. ’92 Jonathan BENAK is an education and director of the Service Employees International ’92 Alan HOLYOAK has been EMT living in Jackson Hole, Office of Campus Interrelations Union doing research to orga- appointed associate dean of Wyo., where, for the last five at Indiana University–Purdue nize workers in agencies that academic affairs at Manchester years, he has been a river guide University Indianapolis; she serve people with mental illness- College in North Manchester, during the summer and a works directly under vice chan- es or who are developmentally Ind., where he has been on the snowboard instructor in the cellor for undergraduate educa- delayed. She lives with her girl- faculty for the past five years. winter. Richard HALL is area tion J. Herman Blake, former friend, Stephanie, who is an or- He will maintain his appoint- manager for Integrated Health UCSC professor of sociology ganizer with the SEIU. ment as assistant professor of Services/Symphony Home Care and founding provost of Oakes ’92 Ross SMITH has been biology and will continue to and is living in the Napa Valley College. busy implementing integrated teach. with his wife Rachel Leach. ’92 Sasha DICKINSON Keller pest management and sustain- ’94 Sue GOETINCK, a writer ’93 Stephanie CREVIER Iles is pursuing her master’s in U.S. able practices in Central Valley for the Dallas Morning News, and her husband, David, had history at the University of agriculture for over four years; has received a William Harvey their first child, Nicholas, in Colorado, Boulder, focusing he also makes wine and is Award for excellence in newspa- December 1996, and now she is on labor history. Catherine engaged to be married. per writing on the subject of a stay-at-home mom. PFISTER is pursuing her mas- ’96 Wendy Nadine SZETO high blood pressure. Her article, ter’s in social work at San Fran- expected to complete a master’s titled “Scientists Search for Oakes College cisco State University; her e-mail in accounting at the University Genetic Causes Behind address is pfi[email protected]. of Southern California in May Hypertension,” appeared in ’74 Dana PIERCE-Hedge lob- and go to work for Arthur An- the Dallas Morning News on bies for public health bills for College Eight dersen as an auditor/accountant. September 4, 1995. the California Department of Health Services; she is chair- ’76 Laura RICE Beauchesne is Graduate Studies In Memoriam person of the Sacramento Urban an attorney specializing in tech- Indian Health Project; and she nology law matters; she has ’74 Richard ZWEIGENHAFT Mary CALDWELL (Crown teaches Native American studies worked for Merrill Lynch in is Charles A. Dana Professor of ’72) died from a recurrence of at CSU Sacramento. New York City for the last five Psychology at Guilford College breast cancer on December 3, ’78 Rebeca RANGEL offers years. John GROENINGS in Greensboro, N.C., and 1996. Lucinda MELCHIOR workshops and seminars is with Coldwell Banker in author of Blacks in the White Desmond (Merrill ’81) died on self-esteem and cultural Sarasota, Fla. Establishment? A Study of Race after a long struggle with breast diversity through her firm ’78 Hope BARR Smith is and Class in America (Yale cancer at her home in Walnut Unlimited Woman Consultants living and teaching in Big Sky University Press, 1991); he has Creek, Calif., on December 7, in San Jose. Country with her husband, two coauthored, with UCSC’s Bill 1996. She is survived by her ’79 Breton CARR and his wife, daughters, two dogs, and two Domhoff, an article titled husband of seven years, Nadezhda Tselikova, have a cats. “It really is the last best “Sophisticated Conservatives Gregory M. Desmond. David baby girl, born in December place,” she writes. and Integration of Prep Schools: ORMOND (Cowell ’85) died 1996, weighing 3.5 kg., with ’83 William STANDLEY is liv- The Creation, Funding, and of a heart attack on December her father’s eyes, her mother’s ing in the small coastal town of Evolution of the ‘A Better 18, 1996, in Phoenix, Ariz.; he lips, and Zhirinovsky’s nose. Cayucos, Calif., and operating Chance’ Program,” which was 50. David Ormond was a ’80 Sharron BASSANO, an his own consulting firm doing appeared in the journal Research school psychologist at the ESL instructor and program wildlife research and creating in Public Policy, vol. 5, 1997. Phoenix Day School for the coordinator at UC Santa Cruz World Wide Web sites for the ’86 Lisa LOWE is a professor Deaf and a board member of Extension, was a plenary speak- Internet. of comparative literature at UC the unit providing psychological er at the Thirty-First Annual ’90 Aaron PERLMUTTER is San Diego, and she recently services for the hearing impaired TESOL (Teachers of English to in the first year of internal med- published Immigrant Acts: On at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Speakers of Other Languages) icine training at the University Asian American Cultural Politics Phoenix. Convention in Orlando, Fla. of Hawaii. (Duke University Press, 1996).

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1997 29 The people who helped launch biotechnology, the Internet, and the wetsuit may also have launched your career.

It’s a little blurb, often overlooked in a news article. But its significance is profound: “Discovered at UC . . .” is said about hundreds of breakthroughs from the discovery of Vitamin E to the first atom smasher. And with each new achievement, the whole world benefits.

UC MEANS BUSINESS Over the years, UC researchers have pioneered innovations in every field, spawning new companies, new jobs, even entire new industries. The discov- ery of gene-splicing alone launched the $8 billion biotechnology industry, which employs over 7,000 Californians. The creation of the wetsuit led to a $100 million annual business. And the invention of the nicotine patch resulted in a new product that helps smokers kick the habit. The list In fact, for every $1 California invests in UC, the uni- goes on. versity raises another $3 from the federal government and the private sector. A 300 percent return. But per- AN ACADEMIC TREASURY haps the greatest payback on California’s investment UC students and faculty, collectively regarded as an comes from its most valuable resource: UC graduates. “idea bank,” attract millions of dollars in funding They go on to become engineers, scientists, doctors, each year. For example, the university annually earns artists, writers, and founders of their own companies. more than $60 million in royalties and licensing fees Their intelligence, skills, and imagination activate from its inventions, more than any other university in fresh ideas and new enterprises, creating a wealth of the nation. jobs for Californians. Just possibly yours.

UC Santa Cruz: Solving the riddles of cancer An intriguing substance harbored within the tissues of a tropical marine animal may be a potent weapon in the fight against cancer. But less than a thimbleful of the material exists, and no one can relocate the Davis obscure animal from which it came. So researchers in the laboratory of UCSC chemist Joseph Konopelski are trying to make the Berkeley substance from scratch, work that has drawn the attention—and support—of the American Cancer Society. San Francisco Santa Cruz Santa Barbara UCLA It may just be California’s Riverside Irvine most valuable resource. San Diego UC

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