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R E V I E W AS A NEW MILLENNIUM Dawns UC Santa Cruz is Artistic Expression uniquely poised to Biotechnology Communications make a difference Environment Frontiers of Space Global Economics K-12 Education Race Relations CONTENTS

UC Santa Cruz Features A plant for the ages Review Botanists wanting to study the world’s most primitive Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood As a New Millennium Dawns 6 living flowering plant, Amborella trichopoda, Vice Chancellor, University Relations contact Brett Hall, manager Ronald P. Suduiko of the UCSC Arboretum, Departments Director, Public Affairs which is the only place in the Elizabeth Irwin U.S. that can provide

Editor tim stephens specimen material. 3 From the Chancellor 1 Jim Burns Millennium ready Art Director/Designer Computer engineers Jim MacKenzie J. J. García-Luna and Campus Update 2 Associate Editors Anujan Varma are two of Mary Ann Dewey the many UCSC scholars Jeanne Lance making significant contribu- Alumni News 24 Writers tions to the fields that will Barbara McKenna shape society’s development Jennifer McNulty in the early years of Doreen Schack

Alumni Notes 26 jones r. r. the new millennium. Tim Stephens 6 Francine Tyler A special spring fair Karin Wanless The Y2K edition of the Office of University Relations Alumni Profile 27 campus’s annual open Carriage House house, the Banana Slug University of California Spring Fair, will draw 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 thousands of prospective and current students, voice: 831.459.2501 their families, and fax: 831.459.5795 e-mail: [email protected] alumni to UCSC web: review.ucsc.edu shmuel thaler on April 15. 24 Produced by UCSC Public Information Her road to success and Publications. Printed on recycled paper; recyclable. 2/00(00-045/60.3M) UC Santa Cruz alumna Camryn Manheim is riding UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Vol. 37, No. 3 / Winter 2000 high as the Emmy Award– UC Santa Cruz is a series of admini- winning actress on the strative publications published quarterly by University Relations at UC Santa Cruz. hit TV series The Practice Periodicals postage paid at Santa Cruz, CA and as the author of her 95060. Postmaster: Send address changes much-publicized auto- to the University of California, Santa Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, biographical book, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077. james sorensen Wake Up, I’m Fat! 27 FROM THE CHANCELLOR By M.R.C. Greenwood

or people around the world, time survey measuring the quality of the arrival of Year 2000 on undergraduate instruction, published January 1 represented a milestone in 1995 by U.S. News & World Report, FFin human history. As chancellor of which ranked UCSC 13th among U.S. UC Santa Cruz, it provided me universities. with a special opportunity to reflect on But the more revealing answer to the state of the campus, its people, and my Year 2000 question is found by its programs as we move from one taking a closer look at the UCSC millennium to the next. people behind these impressive More specifically, this transition statistics—and at the important prompted me to reflect on one simple contributions they are making in a but important question: To what large number of academic fields. extent is our campus, through its In this issue of the Review, we focus teaching, research, and public service, don harris on some of the fields that, in the early prepared to help society tackle the years of the new millennium, will tremendous challenges it will face in The fields to which UCSC makes challenge our resolve and stimulate the early years of the new millennium? our imagination: the environment, One way for campuses like ours to biotechnology, race relations, K–12 answer that question is by participating significant contributions are education, communications, global in cross-institutional measurements economics, artistic expression, and that gauge quality. By these statistical the frontiers of space. assessments alone, it’s clear that diverse indeed. But the people In the process, we turn the spotlight UCSC—in its relatively short 35-year on only a few of the many UCSC history—has become a campus of great behind those achievements have scholars whose work is helping shape distinction. In the most recent survey these critical areas of inquiry. to come to my attention, a 1999 The fields to which UCSC makes assessment of Association of American much in common. Their scholarship significant contributions are diverse Universities schools, UCSC is ranked indeed. But the people behind those 15th for the rate at which recipients of achievements have much in common. its bachelor’s degrees go on to achieve is innovative, collaborative, and Their scholarship is innovative, doctorates. collaborative, and distinguished by Numerous other statistical com- distinguished by the difference the difference it will make in our parisons also speak to UCSC’s quality: knowledge and quality of life. The 1997 analysis of more than 200 top American universities that ranked it will make in our knowledge UCSC 11th in the nation among public campuses in the overall quality M.R.C. Greenwood of its research productivity; or the one- and quality of life. Chancellor

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 1 CCAMPUSAMPUS UUPDATEPDATE

ning committee that will develop Adaptive optics center a framework for the academic ac-

lynette cook lynette will be based at UCSC © tivities associated with the center. Plans for the new UCSC facility have progressed since csc has been selected to the idea was first proposed by lead a multi-institutional members of the Millennium Upartnership to advance Committee. Since then, a task the field of adaptive optics, force has assessed UCSC activi- which promises to revolutionize ties in the region with an eye astronomy and vision science. toward building on strengths and The National Science Astronomer Steven Vogt and his collaborators, including alumnus Geoffrey Marcy, satisfying unmet needs. Foundation’s governing body, have discovered six new planets outside our solar system. In addition, the researchers have A regional center would aug- the National Science Board, has uncovered evidence suggesting that two previously discovered planets (depicted in the ment and enhance the offerings approved a proposal to establish illustrations, above) have companions orbiting the same star. of the main campus by provid- a Center for Adaptive Optics ing research, teaching, and at UCSC. The multi-institu- Astronomers discover both funding and telescope community service opportuni- tional center will coordinate the time, and by the National ties for UCSC faculty, students, efforts of researchers across the six new planets Science Foundation. and staff, while also raising country involved in the field of The six new planets increase UCSC’s profile in the region. adaptive optics. he world’s most prolific by about 25 percent the number A site analysis is under way. The Center for Adaptive team of planet hunters of known “extrasolar” planets, “In Silicon Valley, what we Optics is one of five National T has found six new planets giving astronomers a substantial have to offer complements Science Foundation science and orbiting nearby stars, bringing amount of additional informa- alliances and affiliations that technology centers approved the total number of planets tion about planetary systems, will be valuable for faculty, this past year. NSF guidelines astronomers have detected Vogt said. One of the planets, researchers, and students,” said allow for commitments of up outside the solar system to 29. HD 192263, was also recently Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. to $20 million over five years. The researchers also found detected by Nuno Santos and evidence suggesting that two collaborators in Geneva, previously discovered planets Switzerland, who reported it have additional companions, said while Vogt and his colleagues

Steven Vogt, UCSC professor of were preparing their paper. barbara mckenna astronomy and astrophysics. Vogt and his colleagues, UCSC alumnus Geoffrey Marcy, Plans moving ahead on now of UC Berkeley, Paul Butler of the Department of Terrestrial UCSC regional center Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, s the academic planning D.C., and Kevin Apps of the process gets under way to University of Sussex, England, Aestablish a UCSC regional made the discoveries using the center in the Santa Clara Valley, “HIRES” spectrometer on the faculty and administrators are Keck I Telescope in Hawaii. working together to embrace the Town and Gown Chancellor Greenwood and representatives from the city Their findings will be published opportunities and address the of Santa Cruz came together in November to dedicate the University in the Astrophysical Journal. challenges that face the campus Town Center, above. The new five-story building is located in the heart The researchers have been as it seeks to become the “UC of of downtown Santa Cruz on the site of the former Ford’s Department using the facilities at the W. M. Silicon Valley.” Store, which was destroyed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The Keck Observatory for the past During an Academic Senate new building provides space for UCSC programs as well as for private three years to conduct a survey forum on the regional center in retailers and other businesses. Those from UCSC using the building of 500 nearby sunlike stars in November, Executive Vice include UCSC Extension. The top two floors provide 54 residential search of planets. The project is Chancellor and Campus Provost apartments for regularly enrolled UCSC students and students in exten- supported by the NASA Origins John Simpson announced the sion’s English Language International Program. Program, which has provided formation of an academic plan-

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 Primitive flowering tim stephens covello & covello plants live at UCSC

t the international Botanical Congress in A St. Louis last summer, a team of researchers presented genetic evidence that the most primitive living flowering plant is an obscure species called Amborella trichopoda. For botanists wanting to study Pedro Castillo Amborella, there is only one place in the U.S. that can UCSC historian provide specimen material: appointed to NEH the UCSC Arboretum. Amborella, a small shrub with tiny greenish-yellow flow- ucsc historian is one of ers and red fruit, grows in the Arboretum manager Brett Hall, with one of the Amborella plants five people to be named by wild only on the South Pacific APresident Clinton to serve island of New Caledonia. Caledonia in 1975 when they director Ray Collett’s guid- on the 26-member board of the Virginia and Todd Keeler- were students at UCSC and, ance, shipped back some National Endowment for the Wolf traveled to New under founding Arboretum samples of Amborella. Humanities. Pedro Castillo, an associate professor of history, was select- Alumna named state’s ed to serve on the National

Council on the Humanities, the branson decou professor of year advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities ulie glass, a mathematics (NEH). The national council instructor at California State advises NEH Chairman JUniversity, Hayward, who William Ferris on policies and received her master’s degree and programs and grant allocations. Ph.D. in mathematics from Members serve six-year terms. UCSC, has been named the 1999 Castillo is well prepared for California Professor of the Year his new duties, having served as by the Carnegie Foundation for a member of the California the Advancement of Teaching. Council for the Humanities. Glass, 32, has been an assis- Among his priorities as a coun- tant professor at CSU Hayward cil member will be to support since 1994. She hosts a cable research in nontraditional sub- television program devoted to ject areas examining such issues college algebra, has authored as race, class, and gender. math-oriented children’s books, Castillo is cofounder and and is cofounder of a math and a former director of UCSC’s science day camp for school-age Chicano/Latino Research Since 1971, Slide Collections in the University Library has been the girls. She teaches two courses at Center. His teaching and home of the archive of photographer Branson DeCou. But, because CSU Hayward: introduction to research focus on the history and DeCou produced mainly lantern slides, the delicate and dated format of proofs and math for business politics of Mexican Americans in the slides (imprinted on glass and twice as big as 35-mm slides) made and social scientists. the United States. them impractical for general use. Now, the DeCou slides are going from Glass has appeared on two His most recent book is The obsolete to cutting edge in one fell swoop, thanks to a grant from a New programs on the university’s American Nation, a textbook on York foundation. The $14,000 grant comes from the Gladys Krieble television station: Math on TV, a American history that has been Delmas Foundation and will fund the purchase of a state-of-the-art slide video course to help high school adopted by a number of school scanner and the scanning, researching, and cataloguing of 1,000 of the students prepare for math place- districts for their junior high 10,000 DeCou slides in the collection. The slides are ones that portray ment exams; and College Algebra, school curricula. life in Italy, a special area of interest for the Delmas Foundation. a course offered for credit.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 3 Electrical engineer Ali Akbar Khan Houghton, dean of the Arts receives $625,000 Division. “Khansahib is not

Packard fellowship accepts UCSC post knight lawson only an outstanding musician and dedicated teacher but or the sixth consecutive arod master Ali Akbar also the heir and principal year, a UCSC researcher has Khan, considered to exemplar of a long and distin- F garnered one of the nation’s Sbe one of the world’s guished musical tradition. He most prestigious honors for greatest living musicians, has will be a remarkable resource young faculty members: a David been named distinguished for our students and for our and Lucile Packard Fellowship adjunct professor of music expanding programs in the for Science and Engineering, at UC Santa Cruz. arts and cultures of India.” worth a total of $625,000. A “national living treasure” “This is a very unique Ali Shakouri, an assistant of India, Khan is regarded as collaboration between the professor of electrical engineer- the most accomplished inter- university and my college,” ing in the Jack Baskin School preter of Indian classical music Khan said. “I’m very happy of Engineering, will receive alive today. Khan accepted Ali Akbar Khan we will be working together. $125,000 per year for the next his UCSC appointment in In my family, the knowledge five years to support his pioneer- September. His first formal “We feel very privileged to and tradition of this music ing research on semiconductor activity with UCSC was a pub- have the opportunity of col- is very important, and I want physics and optical communica- lic concert in the Music Center laborating with such an extra- to be able to pass that on to tion systems. The Packard Recital Hall in October. ordinary artist,” said Edward future generations.” Foundation awards these fellow- ships to young scientists and engineers who show exceptional Marine center prepares Academic Senate promise and creativity. Shakouri’s research on the for March opening tim stephens debates ‘narratives’ electrical, optical, and thermal properties of semiconductors has he seymour center at eeting in December, many potential applications, Long Marine Laboratory is UCSC’s Academic Senate such as improving the perfor- Tbuzzing with activity as the Mpostponed a vote on the mance of electronic devices, in- new public education center campus’s traditional Narrative creasing the speed of fiber-optic prepares for its grand opening in Evaluation System (NES). networks, and developing novel March. The installation of Students Birru Morgan and The senate, voting 80–79, devices with new functions and aquariums and exhibits is under F. Blaine Rhobotham examine fish moved the matter to its applications. way, staff have moved into the skulls in the center’s teaching lab. Committee on Educational The Packard Fellowship office space, and marine biology Policy (CEP) and Graduate program is intended to provide classes are using the facility’s new stone contribution from Council for consideration. support for unusually creative teaching laboratory. H. Boyd Seymour Jr. of San The meeting was prompted science and engineering The Seymour Center will Francisco. Seymour’s gift of by a petition signed by more researchers early in their careers. enable Long Marine Lab to $2 million honors his father, than 170 members of the sen- greatly expand its popular public Harry Boyd Seymour, and his ate who recommended that the Ali Shakouri education programs. With ex- grandfather, Arthur McArthur NES be replaced by the con- hibits focusing on the work of Seymour. Numerous other ventional UC grading system. researchers at the Institute of individuals and foundations “The Narrative Evaluation Marine Sciences, which operates made significant gifts. System has an honorable histo- Long Marine Lab, the center The exhibits and aquariums ry, but times have changed and will give schoolchildren and the at the Seymour Center will a new approach to grading is general public a unique view have a very different look required,” the petitioners said. into the workings of a world- and feel from those at other The discussion over NES class marine research laboratory. public aquariums, such as the continued in January, as several “This is a very exciting time Monterey Bay Aquarium. The campus forums on the matter now that all the pieces are start- emphasis will be on scientists were scheduled to take place. ing to come together,” said and how they study the ocean, George Brown, CEP chair, Seymour Center director Julie Heffington said. The exhibit said a report on his committee’s Barrett Heffington. space will look something like a evaluation of the 35-year-old Private donations funded research laboratory, and interac- tradition would be forthcom- nearly all of the project’s $6.25 tive stations will provide “hands- ing at the February 23 meeting

victor schiffrin victor million cost, including a corner- on” experiences. of the senate.

4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 UCSC leads effort to to students who would other- to sponsor similar programs, wise have no access to them. but UCSC has emerged as the In Memoriam offer AP courses online The UCSC-based distance systemwide leader.” learning project began in fall UC President Richard C. n an effort to reach out to 1998 with a pilot effort that Atkinson provides $400,000 a California high school students reached 64 students in 14 year in ongoing support, and Iwho can’t take advanced schools. In fall 1999, the program the state legislature recently ap- services ucsc photo placement courses at their own expanded to about 200 students proved an additional $3 million school, UC Santa Cruz is leading in seven counties: San Diego, for the one-time development of a systemwide effort to make Imperial, Merced, Fresno, Santa additional courses and $1 mil- AP courses available online to Cruz, Mariposa, and Santa Clara. lion in ongoing funds for imple- students around the state. Francisco Hernandez, vice mentation and dissemination on Dozens of public high chancellor for student affairs at a broader scale. schools in the state offer no UCSC, came up with the idea The project has the potential advanced placement (AP) of using the Internet to help fill to reach thousands of students courses at all, and many offer the gap in course offerings at around the state who would oth- four or fewer AP courses, schools around the state. “This erwise lack the opportunity to according to Elaine Wheeler, is an efficient and cost-effective take AP classes. Those courses project director of UC’s College way to deliver AP and college can boost a student’s grade-point Prep Initiative (UCCP). The prep classes,” said Hernandez, average and enhance his or her David Huffman goal of the program is to make who continues to lead the proj- application when applying to the AP course materials available ect. “Other campuses are eager University of California. David A. Huffman, the founding faculty member of UCSC’s Computer Science Department Alumni Association challenging, mentor to junior and a pioneer in the field, died faculty, undergraduates, and at a Santa Cruz hospital in names award winners graduate students. October after a ten-month battle Nicolette Czarrunchick, with cancer. He was 74. biology professor, of julie freitas courtesy who won the Outstanding Huffman is probably best the department assistant Staff Award and has worked known for the development A for women’s studies, for the Women’s Studies of the Huffman Coding and an alumnus who was an Department as manager Procedure, the result of a term environmental biologist for 15 years, was praised for paper he wrote while a graduate defending the human rights her “unfailing empathy, student at the Massachusetts Terence Freitas of indigenous people in enthusiasm, and expertise.” Institute of Technology. Colombia have won the top Terence Unity Freitas, a “Huffman Codes” are used awards given annually by 1997 B.A. recipient in in nearly every application that don harris UCSC’s Alumni Association. biology and environmental involves the compression and Barry Bowman, Nicolette studies, won the Alumni transmission of digital data, Czarrunchick, and Terence Achievement Award for his such as fax machines, modems, Unity Freitas, the first person work with the U’wa people of computer networks, and high- to receive an association award Colombia. Freitas was a key definition television. posthumously, were nominat- activist who tried to halt the In 1967, he came to ed by students, alumni, facul- plans of Shell Oil Company UCSC as the founding faculty ty, and staff; the three were and Occidental Petroleum member of the Computer Nicolette Czarrunchick selected by the UCSC Alumni to drill in U’wa territory. He Science Department. He played Association Council. helped establish the U’wa a major role in the development At press time, they were Defense Working Group, a of the department’s academic don harris scheduled to be honored at coalition of several environ- programs and the hiring of its a luncheon on campus on mental organizations. faculty, and served as chair from February 5. Last winter, while work- 1970 to 1973. Barry Bowman, a biology ing with the U’wa to set up He retired in 1994, but re- professor, won the Distin- a culturally appropriate mained active until recently as guished Teaching Award. school, Freitas and two other an emeritus professor, teaching Current and former students Americans were kidnapped information theory and signal and colleagues characterized and killed by Colombia’s analysis courses. Bowman as a supportive, yet Barry Bowman largest rebel group. A memorial service for David Huffman took place on campus in October.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 5 AS A NEW MILLENN

Global Economics

Frontiers of Space

Environment Artistic Expression

6 UC Santa Cruz Review Winter 2000 IUM Dawns, UC SANTA CRUZ SCHOLARS are making major contributions to fields that will influence the development of society in the next 1,000 years . . . areas of inquiry that, for the common Biotechnology good, will require individual imagina- tion and collective commitment . . . scholarship that will be tied to our economic vitality, the fight against Race Relations 21st-century disease, or the sustain- ability of our planet’s ecosystems . . . research that will enable us to more Communications easily communicate with others, or understand ourselves. The pages that follow spotlight eight such fields— K-12 Education and a few of the many UCSC people whose ideas and expertise make us optimistic about the new millennium. deep space, deep time Frontiers of Space

r. williams and the hubble deep field team and nasa

Astronomer Sandra Faber stands before

the Hubble Deep Field, an image taken

in 1995 that focused on a tiny, random

patch of sky and revealed the most distant

galaxies ever seen. The faintest objects

show us galaxies as they were long ago—

some 12 billion years back in time.

r. r. jones

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 team of astronomers The project, called the Deep into a rainbow of colors. From the combination of Hubble at UC Santa Cruz has Extragalactic Evolutionary the spectrum, astronomers can images and Keck spectra, the embarked on a journey Probe, or DEEP, was conceived determine critical information researchers can also determine back in time to map the almost ten years ago by Faber about a galaxy, including its a galaxy’s brightness, its radius A universe as it was billions and two of her colleagues, pro- distance and internal dynamics. (how big it is), and its internal of years ago. Using the unique fessors of astronomy and astro- DEIMOS will be able to velocity or rotation speed. capabilities of the Hubble Space physics David Koo and Garth gather spectra seven times faster “Those three parameters are Telescope and the W. M. Keck Illingworth. Collaborators than the Keck Observatory’s the Holy Grail—they can tell Observatory in Hawaii, the include other researchers at current instruments, which the you all you need to know about researchers have begun the most UCSC and experts at several researchers have used to survey a galaxy,” Faber says. comprehensive survey of distant other universities, including about 1,000 galaxies so far. According to Koo, the galaxies ever attempted. UC Berkeley, the California Just as important as the ability to derive the masses of The heart of the project is a Institute of Technology, and the spectra obtained at Keck are distant galaxies from these para- survey of around 50,000 faint University of Hawaii. images of the distant galaxies meters distinguishes the DEEP galaxies. Light from these re- The DEEP project’s find- captured by the Hubble Space project from other galaxy sur- mote galaxies has taken billions ings will help answer funda- Telescope. “In the study of dis- veys. “The mass measurements of years to reach earth, enabling mental questions about the tant galaxies, the Hubble and provide a very important link to astronomers to study the uni- origins of the universe and its Keck Telescopes complement theoretical models of galaxy for- verse when it was about half its ultimate destiny. each other, like yin and yang,” mation and evolution,” he says. current age, long before earth “We’re interested in not Faber says. The bulk of the DEEP sur- and the rest of the solar system only the properties of the indi- “The Hubble has unparal- vey is concerned with a popula- came into being. vidual galaxies, but also how leled resolution because it orbits tion of galaxies with redshifts “We will be able to compare they relate to one another, above earth’s atmosphere, so it around 1, representing the uni- distant galaxies with local galax- whether they are grouped into gives us beautiful images that verse when it was about half its ies to understand how they little villages of galaxies or big show what the galaxies look current age, or about 6–7 billion formed and evolved over time,” cities,” Koo says. “From the like—their shape and size,” she years ago. On a smaller scale, says Sandra Faber, University way galaxies are distributed and explains. Faber and her colleagues have Professor of Astronomy and their motions we can get clues But the Hubble is not an extended their observations even Astrophysics. to the geometry of the universe, especially large telescope, so it further to include some of the whether the expansion of the does not collect enough light most distant galaxies known, at universe is accelerating, and from these distant galaxies for redshifts of 2.5 and beyond. “From the way galaxies are dis- how it will change over time.” spectroscopic studies. The twin These galaxies represent the uni- The bulk of the DEEP Keck Telescopes, which are the verse more than 10 billion years project’s observations will be largest optical telescopes in the ago, at about 10 to 15 percent of tributed and their motions we can obtained with the ultra-efficient world, have the light-gathering its current age. DEIMOS spectrograph, cur- capacity needed for detailed “The morphology of these get clues to the geometry of the rently under construction at spectroscopic analysis of light very distant galaxies is pecu- UCSC under Faber’s direction from distant, faint galaxies. liar—they look like blobs, not and scheduled to begin opera- Astronomers determine the like the nice spirals and elliptical universe, whether the expansion tion on the Keck II Telescope distance to a galaxy from its galaxies we see nearby,” Faber late this year. A spectrograph “redshift,” a measure of how says. “At a redshift of 1, howev- of the universe is accelerating, separates the light from a dis- much the light from a distant er, the galaxies are looking much tant object into a spectrum of object has been shifted to longer more normal. So a major ques- different wavelengths, much (“redder”) wavelengths by the tion we hope to answer is, how and how it will change over time.” like a prism breaks up sunlight expansion of the universe. From did this transition happen?” —Tim Stephens —David Koo

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 9 Environment integrating science and policy

IMS director

Gary Griggs,

fisheries

sociologist

Carrie Pomeroy,

and marine

biologist

Peter Raimondi

r. r. jones “The goal of our research is to be

more inclusive—to understand

not only ocean systems but also

our role in protecting them.”

—Gary Griggs

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 n the California This applied work is in people who make the policies agement,” says Pomeroy, an coast near San Diego, keeping with the vision of Gary they hope to influence. IMS assistant research scientist. large intake pipes suck Griggs, director of UCSC’s Marc Mangel, a professor of Pomeroy works hard to vast amounts of seawater Institute of Marine Sciences environmental studies who spe- maintain the trust of the fishing O into the San Onofre (IMS). cializes in population biology, industry as she explores ques- nuclear power plant each day. “The goal of our research has witnessed a shift over the tions like whether fishermen The water provides vital cooling is to be more inclusive—to years in the way that fishery reg- congregate on the edges of for the plant, but huge numbers understand not only ocean ulations are interpreted. Until marine reserves, where logic of larval fish are sacrificed in the systems but also our role in recently, Congress pushed for suggests fish populations might process. protecting them,” says Griggs. the “maximum yield,” encour- be higher. “While perfectly Enter UC Santa Cruz biolo- Indeed, Griggs’s leadership aging the fishing industry to legal, and actually pretty smart, gist Peter Raimondi. A member reflects the growing integration harvest the highest yields possi- that activity could have unin- of the scientific advisory panel of scientific research and policy ble. Recently, however, the fo- tended consequences, which is of the California Coastal making that is taking place as cus has shifted toward sustain- why it’s so critical to study how Commission, Raimondi helped both sides attempt to span a gap ability, a trickier concept that people interact with the marine evaluate environmental damage that has at times had devastating seeks to balance human de- environment,” says Pomeroy. caused by the plant. Thanks in environmental consequences. mands with harvests that will “There’s a growing recognition part to his work, a wetland will A generation ago, for exam- preserve fish populations and that the people element is rele- be restored and the largest ple, abalone were plentiful in maintain biological diversity. vant to resource management.” artificial kelp reef ever built for California, but insufficient It’s a change Mangel attrib- By training the next genera- biological restoration is being oversight allowed unregulated utes to greater environmental tion of marine biologists, IMS constructed about 15 miles harvests of the seafood delicacy, awareness generally and also to scientists like Pomeroy are north of San Onofre. These and the abalone population increased interaction between making a lasting contribution sites will provide life-sustaining crashed. By the time limits were scientists and policy makers. to the union of science and habitat for fish, eggs, and larvae put in place, regulators had no Mangel sums up the belief of policy. Through their work, to help replace those that are choice but to ban all commer- many when he says, “Scientists IMS researchers are serving as being lost. cial harvesting. shouldn’t make policy, but they role models for students, many “It won’t restore the fish in Such mistakes are clearly should frame the context in of whom have a growing inter- the immediate vicinity of the avoidable, and Griggs has spent which policy discussions take est in work that has applied plant,” says Raimondi, an asso- years shoring up relationships place.” significance. ciate professor of biology. “But to facilitate better communica- For Carrie Pomeroy, that has “I feel that I have a social it will help make up for some of tion. During his tenure, he has meant broadening the horizons responsibility to do this kind of the loss.” established partnerships with of marine science research. A work,” says assistant professor Problem solving. It is numerous state and federal fisheries sociologist, she stresses of biology Mark Carr, who becoming an ever larger portion agencies, including the the need to understand more serves on a panel that is helping of the work being done by National Marine Fisheries than just biology when drafting design a marine reserve in the UCSC’s marine scientists. Service, the U.S. Geological marine resource regulations. Channel Islands off the coast of Many, including Raimondi, feel Survey, and the California “Policy makers are responsi- southern California. “It’s really compelled to “give back” to Department of Fish and Game. ble for protecting ocean re- pretty simple: Are we going to society by sharing their exper- Those collaborations offer sources, but to be able to make start making decisions based on tise with government agencies, researchers the benefits of work- effective policy, we need to scientific knowledge, or not? In policy-making boards, environ- ing across institutional bound- understand the way people the end, politics may override mental organizations, and aries, and they give UCSC affect—and are affected by— science. But I have to try.” nonprofit groups. scientists a direct link to the those resources and their man- —Jennifer McNulty

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 11 helping teachers make the grade

K-12 Education At Starlight Elementary School:

(front row, l–r) students James

Manville, Darlene Mijarez,

and Kimber Lee Manville;

(back row, l–r) Lucia Villarreal,

Alexander Marshall, Noni Reis,

and Joyce Justus

“As a teacher, I feel like I’m an

intellectual, a literacy strategist, r. r. jones a social worker, a counselor, a

secretary, a big brother, and

a psychologist. It’s the most

challenging, stimulating job

I could ever see myself doing.”

—Alexander Marshall

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 econd-grade teacher ing job I could ever see myself principal Noni Mendoza Reis. named Distinguished Teacher Alexander Marshall never doing.” The “professional develop- of the Year by the California went to med school. But UCSC’s Education ment school” (PDS) collabora- Association for Bilingual his colleagues at Starlight Department shares resources tion creates an environment Education last year. She has S Elementary School have with K–12 schools throughout that encourages excellence. For nothing but praise for the op- taken a cue from doctors and the region to help give teachers new teachers, the challenges are portunities she has had through created an environment that’s as consistent access to the tools and numerous: lesson planning, the PDS program. close to a medical residency as a inspiration they need to perform classroom management, work- “I have a lot to share, but new teacher will get. Fresh out at their highest levels. At ing with parents, motivating I’m also learning from others,” of UCSC’s graduate education Starlight, that effort goes even children, and developing the explains Villarreal. For example, program, Marshall is part of a further: Every teacher gets one skills and confidence to lead the with Marshall’s input, she re- revolutionary approach to K–12 afternoon every three weeks to class effectively. For experienced tooled her end-of-the-year unit education that provides unusual- work outside the classroom with teachers, PDS gives them the on play and recreation, taking ly high levels of professional peers at his or her grade level. In opportunity to share their ex- an approach that was designed support to teachers throughout these meetings, teachers assess pertise and to continue learning to stimulate “enduring under- their careers. how students are progressing, about teaching—powerful expe- standings.” To that end, Starlight be- share effective teaching prac- riences that help them avoid the She talked with her students came a “professional develop- tices, and develop curriculum. common pitfalls of burnout, about how people and animals ment school” five years ago in Teachers also have many option- boredom, and isolation. play; how play helps us rest, partnership with UCSC. In this al opportunities for professional The program builds a sorely learn, and work; and how play unique school, located in growth, including peer coach- needed bridge between novice can be challenging, too. They Watsonville in southern Santa ing, observation, and study and experienced teachers, and read about how baseball helped Cruz County, teachers at every groups. Finally, the entire staff it facilitates communication sustain Japanese Americans stage of their careers are encour- attends three focused daylong between school personnel and who were imprisoned during aged to participate in weekly enrichment programs together. UCSC faculty, graduate World War II, and they ex- enrichment activities, to collab- “Traditionally, teachers are students, and researchers. The plored the ways in which play orate with one another, to proprietary about materials university is among the many can be free or expensive. “The utilize cutting-edge educational they’ve developed, but not here,” beneficiaries: About 80 UCSC unit gave students a real depth research, and, simply, to excel. says Lucia Villarreal, the first- students, including many in the of understanding,” she recalls. Unlike at many schools, grade teacher who supervised teacher-credentialing program, Villarreal, like Marshall, has where professional development Marshall last year. “We’re all gain valuable classroom experi- found that brainstorming with occurs sporadically, career learners, and we’re all teachers.” ence at Starlight each year. her peers in a supportive setting growth is an integral part of Like a lot of students in “The professional develop- gets the creative juices flowing. being on the Starlight faculty. schools in California, Starlight’s ment model gives us a direct link “Half the ideas I have I’ve Marshall began tapping the students have special needs. to schools,” says Joyce Justus, borrowed, and the other half school’s unique resources when Most of them are native Spanish chair of the UCSC Education I’ve stolen,” Villarreal says with he was a student teacher there speakers, and 80 percent of them Department. “We need immedi- a smile. “People don’t see this last year. come from families living below ate feedback on what we are because each teacher modifies “I had no idea how difficult the poverty line. Teachers and doing right in our teacher educa- material her own way. As educa- this job is,” says Marshall, who administrators teamed up with tion program, what needs im- tors, we need to learn from is now teaching second grade. UCSC to help accomplish their provement, and what new needs other professions. Doctors aren’t “I was very naive. As a teacher, I goal of providing equitable are emerging in the schools that starting from scratch. Attorneys feel like I’m an intellectual, a schooling for Starlight’s students. we should be preparing for. It is don’t invent the law. But there’s literacy strategist, a social work- “My mission is to ensure that that continuing interaction that this idea that teachers are sup- er, a counselor, a secretary, a big all students have well-qualified, makes the difference.” posed to invent everything by brother, and a psychologist. It’s competent teachers leading rig- Villarreal, who has taught themselves. That’s crazy.” the most challenging, stimulat- orous academic programs,” says for more than 20 years, was —Jennifer McNulty

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 13 engineering a better Internet Communications

“We will migrate from the

workstations of today to a smart

card that we will put in a

variety of devices, and the user

environment will come to us, photo by r. r. jones; internet graphic courtesy of stephen g. eick, visual insights wherever we happen to be.”

Computer engineers —J. J. García-Luna

J. J. García-Luna

and Anujan Varma

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 low connections, puter screens. The Internet is collaborations over the Internet. video over the Internet. interrupted service, and basically a diverse family of García-Luna envisions a fu- Making all this possible will assorted computer glitch- interconnected computer net- ture in which the Internet will be a massive technological es are all too familiar to works. Varma, who teaches an essentially replace the personal infrastructure operating behind S anyone who surfs the introductory course on the engi- computer. All of the computing the scenes. The Internet back- Internet from home. Yet tech- neering behind the Internet, de- power, data-storage capacity, bone will provide transmission nological progress has been so scribes it in terms of two simple and communications links one services, while data processing rapid in the past decade that processes: Transmission, mostly might want will be available and storage will be provided by the idea of depending on the over optical fiber, moves infor- over the Internet, and people “server farms,” buildings full of Internet for telephone service, mation from one place to anoth- will be able to access these supercomputers connected to television broadcasts, and a er; and routing or switching gets resources from any number of the Internet. multitude of other services things to the right place. devices, most of them wireless. “The issues we face today does not seem so far-fetched. Varma’s specialty is high- Instead of a personal computer, are how to manage this new According to Anujan Varma, speed switching—how to move says García-Luna, people will world,” García-Luna says. a professor of computer engi- packets of data rapidly from one have an assortment of handy One of the biggest concerns is neering in UCSC’s Jack Baskin transmission line to another. devices that connect to the security for computer networks School of Engineering, the “It’s a question of how to Internet—at their desks, on the and wireless communications, technology already exists for the engineer the switches to support walls of classrooms and confer- says García-Luna, who is devel- Internet to support a wide range higher speeds,” Varma says. ence rooms, in their cars, and oping secure protocols for wire- of communications services at “We don’t need fundamentally throughout their houses. less devices in a project spon- high levels of performance and new technology, just a lot of “We will migrate from the sored by the Defense Advanced reliability. The infrastructure engineering work to make workstations of today to a Research Projects Agency. needed to bring that perfor- things faster and cheaper.” smart card that we will put in a Another major challenge is mance and reliability into peo- Although private industry is variety of devices, and the user how to handle multimedia— ple’s homes hasn’t been built yet, the driving force behind most environment will come to us, combinations of data, graphics, but it’s coming, Varma says. of the changes in communica- wherever we happen to be,” audio, video, and so forth. Real- Telecommunications and tions, researchers like Varma García-Luna says. time transmission of multime- networking companies are in- and his colleagues in the School Already, companies offer dia over the Internet will require vesting billions of dollars to im- of Engineering are important “smart” cell phones that can not only high-speed connec- prove their networks, replacing players in this ongoing high- receive e-mail and provide tions but also new transmission old copper wires with high-speed tech revolution, as consultants limited access to the World protocols and standards. Varma, fiber-optic cables and upgrading to and collaborators with indus- Wide Web. García-Luna expects García-Luna, and other UCSC other key components. try and also as the educators of to see a proliferation of such researchers are involved in sever- Eventually, Varma predicts, tele- the high-tech workforce. “Internet-to-go” devices tailored al projects relating to multime- phone networks and the Internet Professor of computer engi- to serve a variety of specialized dia communications. will merge into one entity. neering J. J. García-Luna, for ex- purposes. Maybe we’ll have “We already have a lot of the “Sooner or later, we will be ample, is involved in a variety of little portable screens on our pieces we need to make these using the same network for projects designed to address the kitchen counters for displaying things happen,” Varma says. both voice and data communi- challenges raised by the explosive recipes and cooking videos “For the past 20 years, the work cation,” he says. growth of the Internet. His culled from an Internet data- has been on developing the un- Most people who use the Computer Communications base. And that futuristic fantasy derlying technologies, but the Internet remain blissfully igno- Research Group is developing of the fifties, the videophone, challenge for the next 20 years rant of the complex physical new ways to create wireless may finally become as pervasive is to make the best use of that infrastructure that brings Web networks and to support video- as the telephone through real- technology.” pages and e-mail to their com- conferencing and multimedia time transmission of audio and —Tim Stephens

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 15 seeking social justice Race Relations

Oakes College

provost

David Anthony

counsels student

Arinn Filer r. r. jones

16 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 n the last part of the the connection between the end ting back on his teaching and 20th century the world has of the Cold War in 1989 and his research project—a biogra- “Here we are at the dawn of witnessed extraordinary the current economic and social phy on African American Max advances in such areas as upheaval in Africa. Yergan, a Christian missionary I medicine, science, and com- But, despite his expertise, and leader in communist and the next millennium and still— munication. Unfortunately, there is one question on racism African American movements those advances have not benefit- that perpetually stumps who later became an archcon- ed all members of society equally. Anthony: “How do I explain servative activist. with all the history we have to Poverty levels for minority it to my kids?” But becoming provost also children in the U.S. have risen “Here we are at the dawn of meant Anthony could help stu- learn from, with all the struggles over the last several decades; the next millennium and still— dents in new ways: as an adviser, incarceration rates continue to with all the history we have to as someone who can fund a be disproportionately high for learn from, with all the struggles project, or as a guide through we’ve been through—people get some minority groups as well; we’ve been through—people get the sometimes complex land- hate crimes occur in the U.S. pulled over, beaten, and even scape of academia. “There’s a pulled over, beaten, and even and abroad with alarming regu- starve to death, just because of saying: If you don’t know where larity; and debt to former colo- the color of their skin.” you’re going, any road will take nial powers is causing devastat- There is, of course, no satis- you,” he says. “As teachers and starve to death, just because ing poverty in many Third fying answer to his question. administrators, we always hope World countries. That is why, as both an educator that we’re helping students find of the color of their skin.” “Most people have no idea of and civil rights activist, Anthony direction.” the forces arrayed against whole is interested not only in under- They don’t give Oscars for sectors of society,” says David standing the forces of racism, powerful teaching, or shares of —David Anthony Anthony, an associate professor but in addressing them. His stock for graduating one’s stu- of history. “The race you are conviction led him to a career in dents. For Anthony, the rewards born into clearly affects the teaching, and it was also behind of the job come from engaging trajectory of your life.” his decision, in 1995, to accept in his dual passions of teaching A specialist in African and the position of provost of and working for social justice. African American history, UCSC’s Oakes College. “It’s encouraging to see, especial- Anthony has spent a lifetime “I went into this business to ly at Oakes, how many students teaching, researching, writing open doors. Whether it’s teach- who ‘make it’ after graduation about, and living with racism. ing a roomful of students or are involved in the process of He can easily explain the paral- speaking with a troubled indi- effecting social change,” he says. lels between the post–Civil War vidual in my office or finding the As a historian, with the per- Reconstruction Era and the funds for diversity program- spective of centuries in mind, 1960s Civil Rights Movement. ming, education is a powerful Anthony knows that creating a He can describe the link way to address social ills, to more egalitarian world can’t be between cutbacks in social create social justice,” he says. accomplished in a single life- services and the rise in crime in Anthony had mixed feelings time. But it hasn’t stopped him communities from Compton to about taking on the administra- from trying. Somalia. And he can illustrate tive post at Oakes. It meant cut- —Barbara McKenna

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 17 understanding the foundations of life Biotechnology

Molecular biologists

Andrew Chisholm

and Yishi Jin r. r. jones “We know from comparing

the gene sequences of organisms

ranging from yeast to humans

that genes with fundamental

roles have stayed much the same

throughout evolution.”

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 —Manuel Ares oon, perhaps as studying model systems is likely “We know a lot from study- are hiring researchers to study early as spring 2000, the to be relevant to humans.” ing the human brain directly, gene function in model organ- gene-mappers heading up One popular model system is but we don’t know how its isms, because it allows them to the nationwide Human the roundworm Caenorhabditis structure develops and how all identify a potential drug target S Genome Project expect to elegans. An almost-microscopic, the neural connections are in a simple system before they have a rough draft of the entire soil-dwelling nematode worm, C. made,” Jin says. decide to spend millions of human genetic code. Over the elegans feeds on bacteria and lives Jin has been identifying genes dollars developing a drug for next few years, they will fill in in most temperate regions of the involved in creating the worm’s humans,” Chisholm says. the remaining gaps to obtain the world. Molecular biologists tend relatively simple neural circuitry, According to Ares, another complete DNA code containing to call it simply “the worm.” and so far all of the genes she likely application of biotechnol- all of the estimated 80,000 to As a system for studying the has found in the worm have ogy in medicine is pharmacoge- 100,000 genes of Homo sapiens. genetics of animal development, turned out to have matching nomics: using genetics to assess Having the complete code the worm offers many superla- genes in humans, as well as in how a patient will respond to for the human genome will tive features. It is the first multi- other organisms such as mice potential drug treatments. make it much easier for medical cellular animal for which the and the fruit fly Drosophila. Although more than 99 percent researchers to identify genes that complete genome has been “The real power of the of human DNA sequences are cause or contribute to diseases. sequenced. The developmental worm is that you can do a the same throughout the popu- But having a gene’s DNA code steps leading from a single genetic analysis—for example, lation, there are significant dif- and understanding how it works embryonic worm cell to the 959 you can knock out a gene to ferences between individuals. are two entirely different matters. cells that make up an adult find out what its biological Some of those differences affect Surprisingly, one of the worm have been traced and function is—and then you can how people metabolize drugs. most productive approaches to described cell by cell. And bio- take that knowledge back into “People vary in how they understanding human genes technology enables researchers to human systems where you respond to a particular drug involves fundamental research manipulate the worm’s genes wouldn’t be able to do that kind and whether they experience on simpler organisms such as in ways that shed light on the of experiment,” Chisholm says. side effects,” Ares says. “Using baker’s yeast, fruit flies, a tiny functions of specific genes. UCSC biologists are also genetic profiling, doctors will roundworm, and mice. At Assistant professor of biology studying the genes that regulate be able to prescribe individually UCSC, molecular biologists Andrew Chisholm uses the worm development in Drosophila and tailored drug treatments.” studying these organisms are to study the molecular signals mice. Assistant professor of biol- But researchers must synthe- helping lay the groundwork for that pass between cells in a devel- ogy Lindsay Hinck, for example, size the information obtained the medical advances promised oping animal. These signals is studying the molecular signals from research on different by the Human Genome Project. orchestrate an orderly pattern that guide the growth of neu- organisms to make these appli- “We know from comparing of development. Chisholm’s rons and the formation of neural cations a reality. the gene sequences of organisms colleague, assistant professor of connections in the mouse brain. “It will be eons before we ranging from yeast to humans biology Yishi Jin, focuses on As for how all this funda- have for humans the kind of that genes with fundamental the development of the worm’s mental genetic research will ulti- detailed knowledge we have of roles have stayed much the same nervous system, which consists mately be applied in medicine, the worm, but we should be throughout evolution,” says of about 300 interconnected Chisholm noted that it is al- able to take what we learn professor of biology Manuel nerve cells. The human brain, ready having a major impact in from the worm and apply it Ares. “As a result, what we learn in contrast, contains at least one the area of drug development. to humans,” Ares says. about gene functions from trillion nerve cells. “Pharmaceutical companies —Tim Stephens

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 19 is the mouse mightier than the pen? Artistic Expression

Artist

Anna Sprent

with her

installation,

Test r. r. jones

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 uring her junior That charge is often directed At UCSC, high-end com- year, art student Anna at composer and UCSC music puter labs and technology turn “We’ve always regarded art as Sprent created a piece professor David Cope, the the phenomenal into the called Test. Covering a inventor of Experiments in achievable: A film and digital D large section of a studio Musical Intelligence (“Emmy”), media professor produces a clip this incredibly deep and profound wall, the work portrayed a futur- a computer program that cre- of himself in a snowstorm—one istic landscape of computer parts ates original music in the style that he shot in the heat of the expression of humanity. The fact and scrap metal on one side that of other composers. Emmy’s summer. A theater arts staff merged into an encroaching compositions have been technician uses digital-mixing mound of nature—dirt, plants, released on three CDs (on the software and hardware to create that computer-generated art and straw formed into female Centaur label) and performed the screech and clang of a car forms—on the other. around the world. crash, an effect that is so realis- Sprent, a member of Cope says that the myriad tic it makes audiences jump in can be so moving disturbs a lot UCSC’s class of 2000, has objections he hears from critics momentary panic. Art students grown up in a world where of programs such as Emmy and mount a gallery show in which of people. It challenges our chess programs outwit chess Aaron (a robot that paints origi- motion sensors activate various champions, lovers meet inside nal art) boil down to one word: film clips; the images change in electronic chat rooms, and intent. “No matter what critics response to the movements of fundamental belief of art as a geneticists decipher DNA to tell me, the subtext is the same. the viewer, creating a kind of clone living creatures. Emmy can create beautiful interactive dance. sacrosanct human activity.” As computers have become things, but it doesn’t intend for As these kinds of computer- more powerful and applications them to be beautiful. Therefore, assisted creations proliferate, more sophisticated, their very many feel that they’re not to the sometimes rocky marriage —David Cope existence is challenging human- be taken as seriously as human of art and technology will only ity’s fundamental understand- creations, which have intent. demand greater scrutiny, espe- ing of itself in a way that hasn’t “We’ve always regarded art as cially by the newest generation happened since Darwin drew a this incredibly deep and pro- of artists—among them Anna new family tree for the human found expression of humanity,” Sprent. species. he says. “The fact that computer- Although she rarely pushes In the art world, the new generated art can be so moving the “on” key to a computer her- technology has sparked pas- disturbs a lot of people. It chal- self, Sprent isn’t bothered by sionate debate over the dilem- lenges our fundamental belief of artists who do. “There’s nothing ma that Sprent and other artists art as a sacrosanct human activi- wrong with bringing computers must confront on a regular ty. It challenges our definition of into the creative process,” she basis these days: What is the what it means to be human.” says. “I’ve seen fantastic high- role of the computer in artistic Even as debate rages about tech pieces, and I’ve seen ineffec- expression? The most frequent- the role computers should play tive ones. Ultimately, what mat- ly voiced concern is that com- in the process of creation, new ters is that the artist is passionate puters are elbowing in on the and extraordinary examples of about what he or she is doing.” actual act of creation. computer-assisted art continue —Barbara McKenna to surface—in arenas ranging from home studios to metro- politan museums and commu- nity stages to the big screen.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 21 Global Economics

“Countries that previously had no access to international finan- cial markets now have access to capital they’ve never had, and they also have access to trouble they’ve never had.”

—Michael

r. r. jones

Economist

Michael Dooley balancing opportunity and accountability

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 or most people, Like dropping a large tems,” says Dooley. “You just it will get no more assistance, the global economy is a boulder into a small pond, this don’t let your banks go, because says Dooley. blur. Front-page headlines change has generated tsunami- if you do, all hell breaks loose.” What remains to be seen, may herald the most dra- sized effects that have washed In the U.S., the Federal however, is whether the recent F matic moments, but these over the world’s financial Reserve System and the Federal series of high-profile “bailouts” snapshots do little to fill in the markets, says Dooley. Deposit Insurance Corporation that began with Mexico in 1994 big picture for the nonexperts “Countries that previously regulate the activities of the has sent an irreversible signal to among us. had no access to international nation’s banks. In developing developing nations that it’s okay For UCSC economics pro- financial markets now have countries, the absence of such a to take excessive risks because fessor Michael Dooley, however, access to capital they’ve never system, coupled with corruption the international community the picture is in sharp focus. had,” he says, “and they also and high levels of risktaking, has will always be there to patch Before coming to UCSC in have access to trouble they’ve left many governments unable things up. 1992, Dooley spent more than never had.” to cope with the consequences, “There’s no question that the 20 years studying and dealing The recent Asian economic as recent history has shown. market’s perception of risk after with financial crises, first at the crisis, and the Mexican econom- Unlike the “old days,” Mexico changed dramatically,” Federal Reserve in Washington, ic crisis of 1994, can be traced when government overspending says Dooley. “But there’s also a D.C., and then as an assistant quite directly to this liberaliza- was the culprit, countries today growing recognition that govern- director of the research depart- tion of capital markets. The are getting into trouble when ments have to monitor and ment of the International current challenge, according to their banks make bad loans. somehow enforce limits on what Monetary Fund (IMF), where Dooley, is figuring out how to Forced to take over massive people are doing with their he remains a consultant. Since preserve new markets while debts, governments have no money. If you’re a government, then, he has advised the govern- avoiding the destabilizing finan- alternative but to turn to the you’ve got to get a hold on that. ments of numerous developing cial crises that have occurred IMF for help. You’ve got to protect yourself.” countries as they strive to with increasing frequency and The IMF operates like a Creating incentives for gov- become the world’s newest magnitude. “That’s a very financial safety net. An interna- ernments to exert some control economic players. big question,” says Dooley, tional membership organization is clearly the next step, says Reflecting on the past acknowledging that there are made up of 182 countries, the Dooley. The IMF, along with the decade, Dooley observes that no ready answers. IMF lends money to members World Bank and the regional economic globalization has ush- One major problem is that that are in financial trouble on development banks, is making ered in an era of unparalleled developing countries lack the the condition that they under- a big push to help developing opportunity—and uncertainty. regulatory structures and the take specific economic reforms countries restructure their bank- Since the collapse of the Soviet expertise within their domestic stipulated by member govern- ing systems. Union, developing countries in banks to operate in an open ments. They need look no further Latin America, Asia, Eastern economic system. By contrast, “Countries turn to the IMF than the U.S. for a good model, Europe, and the former Soviet industrialized countries have a when they can’t borrow from says Dooley. “You need the rule Union are relying on newly lot more experience, and they anybody else,” says Dooley. of law for open financial markets emergent market-oriented regulate their financial markets “They’re already on life support. to work,” he says with finality. economies, rather than the pretty heavily. The patient is in critical condi- But then, with a wry smile, government, to distribute There’s a simple and com- tion.” he hastens to add: “Of course, goods, services, and credit. pelling reason for the high level The IMF has, however, our system didn’t evolve Governments are selling off of oversight: Governments want pulled the plug on Russia, overnight. We had our share of some industries, privatizing to do everything they can to where millions of aid dollars robber barons, too. We had a others, and deregulating fields avoid having to rescue banks. have vanished into the pockets pretty rapacious system for a like finance, telecommunica- “All governments are implicitly of corrupt officials. Until Russia very long time.” tions, and mining. liable for their banking sys- restructures its financial system, —Jennifer McNulty

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 23 ALUMNI NEWS

Alumni Association Banana Slug Spring Fair 2000 on April 15 Councilors, 1999–2000 ......

Cowell Adilah Barnes photos: shmuel thaler photos: Michael Twombly Stevenson Diana Reece,Vice President for Programs Heather Urquhart,Vice President for Administration Crown Michael Brown Linda Wilshusen, President-Elect Merrill At Banana Slug Spring Fair 1999 (clockwise from left): Visitors talk with campus representatives at the student Ken Doctor Dominador Siababa life fair at the Music Center plaza; visitors peruse the schedule for the day as they wait for a bus; Meg Zweiback (’69) and Tom Weiner (’70) greet each other during the 30-year reunion of the pioneer class; fair attendees relax in the sun Porter during a performance of Two Gentlemen of Verona by UCSC’s student touring troupe, Shakespeare To Go. Daren Lewis Linda Ziskin CSC rolls out the red carpet for alumni, current and prospective students, Kresge their families, and friends at Banana Slug Spring Fair campus open house on Douglas Foster Richard C. Hall USaturday, April 15. This annual event showcases UCSC’s academic programs Oakes and offers reunions, tours, lectures, and receptions. Alumni highlights are listed Renée Martínez below. For more information, contact University Relations at (800) 933-SLUG or Eric D. Thomas locally at (831) 459-2501. Web site for the event: admissions.ucsc.edu/bssf College Eight Joanne Foxxe Events to welcome alumni: organizer Adilah Barnes via e-mail ies alumni and friends are invited, Robert Weiner, President at [email protected] or the Alumni including all graduates of Association at (800) 933-SLUG. Introduction to Women’s Studies and At Large The all-alumni reunion luncheon other classes offered by the depart- Mark Adams is the keystone event for all alumni. Encuentro 2000 will be the first ment. Professor Bettina Aptheker Dorothy Gustafson Graduates from the classes of ’70, campuswide reunion of UCSC and Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood John Laird, Vice President for ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, and ’95 will get Chicano and Latino alumni and will participate. Contact the Finance special recognition as they celebrate classmates from1965 through the Women’s Studies Department Sandor Nagyszalanczy five- through 30-year reunions. present. Three days of activities at [email protected] or (831) Kathryn Tobisch,Vice President Guests will be seated together by will include a faculty reception, 459-4324. class year. Saturday night dinner and dance, for Membership and traditional post-party menudo Every college will hold a recep- Pat Walker The first campuswide reunion brunch on Sunday. Events will tion late Saturday afternoon. In Ex Officio specifically for African American focus on ways alumni can addition, Oakes will hold a 25th Roger Anderson, Chair, alumni and friends will offer a contribute to enhanced educational anniversary celebration featuring Academic Senate weekend of events including a opportunities for California’s Latino founding provost J. Herman Blake family reception, mentor’s circle, and current provost David Anthony Kami Chisholm, President, students. Contact organizer and Saturday night dinner and III on Saturday afternoon. At Graduate Student Association Olga Nájera-Ramírez via e-mail, dance. J. Herman Blake, the Merrill, Los Mejícas dance troupe Carolyn Christopherson, [email protected], or the Alumni founding provost of Oakes College, Association. will perform and students will paint Executive Director Paula Powell, director of the UCSC the moat. Porter will feature a M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor African-American Student Life A founder’s luncheon honoring performance by the Marimba band Stephen Klein, Past-President Resource and Cultural Center, women’s studies founding faculty Kuzanga. For more information, Kirti Srivastava, Chair, and other key visionaries past and and students will be held on call the programs coordinator at Student Union Assembly present will participate. Contact Sunday, April 16. All women’s stud- your college.

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 Alumni giving reaches ening as it seemed; on the contrary, Alumni Association it is a power that no one can take record high away from me.” welcomes 10,000th This year, the association was member lumni donations to able to make $2,500 awards to courtesy melyssa jo kelly melyssa courtesy UC Santa Cruz broke all 11 students, including Aguas (see A previous records last year. photo, below). he UC Santa Cruz Alumni Alumni gave almost $1 million The classes of ’70, ’75, ’80, and Association welcomed its to the campus in 1998–99 ’95 may take a lead role in helping T 10,000th member this past ($931,739), a 22 percent increase the Alumni Association reach or fall. The 10,000th member is over 1997–98. Of the 1998–99 exceed its $1 million goal for the Melyssa Jo Kelly, a re-entry stu- total, alumni gave $223,896 in Alumni Association Scholarship dent who graduated from UCSC gifts and pledges to the Alumni Fund. Graduates from these years with a degree in women’s studies Association Scholarship Fund have been invited to make “class in 1996. “I joined so I could stay (AASF), bringing the endowment gifts” to the campus; their dona- in touch and make it easy for to over $800,000. tions (up to $50,000) will be faculty and my classmates to get This year, the Alumni matched by a “challenge grant” in touch with me,” said Kelly, an Melyssa Jo Kelly (Kresge ’96) Association’s goal is to bring the from the Alumni Association. administrator of the violence was the 10,000th member of the fund’s value to $1 million or more. Last year, the classes of ’69, ’74, against women programs for the UCSC Alumni Association. San Francisco Commission on Since the AASF was founded in ’79, and ’94 responded to a similar the Status of Women. graduates to members, he noted. 1991, the association has given invitation, giving $202,768 to the Popular benefits of member- The association was established scholarships based on need to 68 campus for a variety of uses. ship are the free library borrowing in 1968 to promote, influence, undergradutes. One such recipient Interested alumni and friends privileges at all UC campuses, and support the educational, cul- is Jenny Aguas, a junior Latin can support the campus and help the alumni locator service that tural, and social life of UCSC. American/Latino studies major at the Alumni Association meet its helps graduates find their old Its members serve the university, Stevenson. “Many barriers are $1 million scholarship fund friends, and discounts at campus its colleges, and students, and broken thanks to the help we receive endowment goal by making a recreation facilities, according members help guide the university from those who have already walked donation this year. For more infor- to Rob Barandas (Crown ’91), in the future. A 24-member alum- through similar paths as ours,” mation, contact the Annual Fund ni council is the governing body membership and marketing she wrote. “I realized that obtaining at University Relations at (800) director for the association. of the association. Membership a college education is not as fright- 933-SLUG. “But the main reason people join fees help support campus pro- is to show support for the cam- grams, including undergraduate pus,” said Barandas. “It’s nice scholarships. to get the benefits, but they want Annual membership dues are to maintain their connections to $35; lifetime membership is avail- the campus.” able for a one-time payment of services ucsc photo By enrolling 25 percent of the $450, or five payments of $100/ 40,000 graduates for whom it has year. All graduates are offered a addresses, the Alumni Association free one-year membership to is doing very well for a campus of introduce them to the association. its size and age, said Barandas. This year, the association will About 49,000 students have grad- publish a comprehensive Year uated from UCSC. Among UC 2000 Alumni Directory that will be alumni associations, the UCSC available for members to purchase. organization trails only UCLA To join the Alumni Association, and UCSF (which offers only call (800) 933-SLUG toll-free or graduate degrees) in the ratio of locally, (831) 459-2530

Didn’t your mom teach you to say thank you?

Thank an outstanding UCSC faculty or staff member. Celebrate a remarkable UCSC graduate. Nominations are now open for the 2000–01 Alumni Eleven undergraduates received $2,500 Alumni Association scholarships Association Awards for faculty, staff, and alumna/us of the year. this year based on financial need and demonstrated commitment to obtain- Deadline: Friday, June 2 ing higher education. The recipients are (front row, l–r): Jeff Francis (College Eight, environmental studies), Yvonne Rodriguez (College Eight, Information and nomination forms available on the Web at physics), Tatonia Taylor (Oakes, sociology), Marisol Tavera (College Eight, alumni.ucsc.edu/programs/index.html or upon request biology), Sonia Verduzco (Kresge, Latin American/Latino studies); (second Contact the Alumni Association row, l–r): Gilbert Velasquez (Kresge, Latin American/Latino studies), Vince (800) 933-SLUG or via e-mail, [email protected] Hernandez (Merrill, environmental studies), Cesar Becerra (Crown, psychol- ogy), Jenny Aguas (Stevenson, Latin American/Latino studies), Rhiana Gonzalez (Crown, biology). Not shown: Nghi Tran (Crown, undeclared).

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 25 ALUMNI NOTES

in counseling psychology and began ’73 Wayne GLAUSSER, a professor 1999. Jeanne LEONE-Sterwerf gave Cowell College an internship at Youth Services in of English at DePauw University, birth to a daughter, Arabella, with her ’69 Margaret WADE Krausse Santa Cruz in September 1999; she where he has been teaching since husband, Albert Sterwerf, in June is teaching at Linfield College in can be reached at [email protected]. 1980, was awarded that university’s 1999. Oregon; she married Jeff Krausse in George (Bob) PERKOVICH is prestigious Minar Award for his ’92 Marcia WALL is teaching Portland in 1995. deputy director for programs and exceptional record of scholarship; his English at the University of New ’70 Ann COURTRIGHT obtained director of the Secure World Programs most recent book is Locke and Blake: Orleans. an M.S. in human resources manage- for the W. Alton Jones Foundation; A Conversation across the Eighteenth ’95 Charles HENLEY is pursuing ment and is currently the personnel his book, India’s Nuclear Bomb (UC Century. a master’s in public policy at the officer for the City and County of Press, 1999) describes India’s long and ’74 Anne HAFNER is a full profes- University of Michigan. Tlaloc RIVAS San Francisco Department of Human complicated nuclear history. sor of education at Cal State Los received an M.F.A. in directing from Services; she still enjoys oratorio ’84 After completing yet another Angeles, living in Long Beach with the University of Washington School and liturgical singing and is happily graduate degree—most recently in her husband, Joe Lowrey; she would of Drama in spring 1999 and has partnered. physical therapy at Duke University, like friends to contact her at been appointed artistic director of the ’71 Jessica GRESSETT Morton, Chris LINSON is living in the San [email protected]. Venture Theatre in Philadelphia. who has been a teacher in Francisco Bay Area, looking for ’75 Davia NELSON and Nikki ’97 Jeremy FACTOR received a Mendocino, Calif., for 26 years, is gainful employment, running, rock SILVA (Porter ’73), known in the master’s in public health from Rutgers enjoying a recent move up to the climbing, and playing guitar; he can radio world as The Kitchen Sisters, University in 1999 and is now in fourth grade; her book, Kids on the be reached at [email protected]. have produced a series for National his first year of dentistry school at ’Net: Conducting Internet Research in Kevin MICKEY and his wife, Amy, Public Radio called Lost and Found UCLA. K–5 Classrooms, was published by are trial attorneys in Spokane, Wash.; Sound, a collection of stories that ’98 Michelle FRANCO is applying Heinemann in 1998. Rebecca they are the extremely proud parents chronicle and celebrate the changing her experiences as a leukemia survivor LARUE Terry is a school psychologist of a one-year-old son, Matt. century through recorded sound. and her sociology degree background with the Pasco School District in ’86 Annette EMERY is working at ’86 Robin ALLEN is working as to work for Healing Journeys, a local Washington; she is married to Mike Caltrans on welfare-to-work trans- a deputy district attorney for L.A. nonprofit that supports cancer Terry, a nuclear safety engineer with portation issues and was recently County in the Sex Crimes Unit; she patients. Los Alamos National Lab. elected to the Grant Joint Union lives with her partner in Pasadena, ’72 Miguel TEJADA-FLORES High School Board of Trustees. After and they have an art studio in their Crown College recently finished an extended stint as completing her M.S. in accountancy garage. a staff writer for Welcome to Paradox at San Jose State University, Emilie ’87 Steve OLIVER is the author of ’70 Since receiving an M.A. in on the Sci-Fi Channel. LIND is an accountant with Lotus Domino Web Site Development geography in 1994, Michael ’76 Steve LIPKE is an artist and Berger/Lewis Accountancy Corpora- (1998) and Domino Web Development BAUBLITZ has been traveling across part-time instructor at Mendocino- tion in San Jose; she lives in Palo Alto and Administration: Accelerated Study the country and working as a free- Lake Community College; he lives with her two cats and her husband, Guide (1999); he is president of Steve lance writer, tutor for disabled students in Santa Rosa. Virginia BURTON former Cowell College preceptor Oliver Consulting. Bernard YAMRON at UC Berkeley, high-tech consultant Whitehead is a high school teacher Andy Hernandez. is manager of market research at to Silicon Valley, and poet bon vivant. and has two children. ’87 James CALLEROS is contract Oxford Health Plans; he lives in ’71 Reid BECKER owns and runs ’77 Michele GERARD has a private review supervisor for Northwest Connecticut with his wife, Jennifer, a medical diagnostic testing business practice in neuropsychology in Administrators, a third-party benefits and daughter, Kelly. in Coral Springs, Fla.; he has been Boulder, Colo.; she is “cultivating her firm in San Mateo, Calif.; alumni ’90 Stephen KAHN is associate married 24 years and has two sons, gardening addiction with a cutting who share his interest in art, dance, rabbi at San Francisco’s Congregation ages 12 and 16. garden of 100 rose bushes.” Doris and French culture may contact him Sherith Israel, where, as a child, he ’72 Terry TERHAAR is getting her MICHAELS, who started the New at [email protected]. had received confirmation and was doctorate in forestry and environ- York City–based Doris S. Michaels ’88 Bibit HALLIDAY Traut, a president of the youth group. Kahn’s mental studies at Yale University. Literary Agency in 1994, was speaker Ph.D. candidate in ecology at UC first rabbinical job was at Temple ’75 Charles CALLEROS, a profes- at the seventh annual Columbus Davis, has been named a Canon Sinai in Denver, where he helped sor of law at Arizona State University, Writers’ Conference in September 1999. National Parks Science Scholar. guide the congregation through their is a visiting professor of contract law ’78 Michael YINGER is working ’97 Marcus VIGIL’s sticker art was grief after the shootings at Columbine at Santa Clara University for the on Internet projects with Cambridge included in a show called “Sticker High School, which is ten miles from 1999–2000 academic year. Management Consultants and living Shock” at the University of the synagogue. John VALLIER is ’76 W. Gale WATKINS is serving as in New Jersey, reluctantly. Pennsylvania’s Institute of a second-year graduate student in pastor of Westminster Presbyterian ’80 Mark PADILLA was promoted Contemporary Art in 1999. ethnomusicology at UCLA; he and Church in Phoenix; he and his wife, to professor of classics at Bucknell his wife, Cara, reside in Los Angeles Laurie, are parents of Tim (14) and University; he can be contacted at Stevenson College with their cat, MeiMei. Becky (12). [email protected]. ’91 Seth BLACHER is working for ’78 Nina KOLTNOW is saddened ’81 Sherril BABCOCK is currently ’72 Bill GOLDEN continues a the Earthquakes, San Jose’s major to report the death of her husband, representing AIDS Project Los career in radio broadcasting, currently league soccer team, as a ticket sales Carl Dolan, on July 25, 1999; he Angeles before the California Supreme at a three-station complex in Hickory, representative. After earning master’s died of heatstroke suffered during Court; she’s gardening, cycling, going N.C., near Charlotte; he is also doing degrees in library science and Latin a bicycle event on the east shore of to Dodgers games, living with seven freelance narration and voiceover American studies at UCLA and get- Maryland. cats and a bunny, and is 11 years work for ad agencies and business ting married, Roberto DELGADILLO ’83 Michael GOLDBERG and sober; “life is good,” she writes. videos. Friends can contact him at began a Ph.D. program in Latin Lauren JONES is pursuing an M.A. [email protected]. American history at UCLA in fall continued on page 28

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 ly overdosing, she stopped the drugs and gained back the weight.

james sorensen After earning her master’s in 1987, Manheim struggled to find an agent and supported herself as an interpreter for the deaf. But she never gave up on act- ing, securing small roles in the feature film Bonfire of the Vanities and in an off-Broadway play, Hydriotaphia, written by Pulitzer prize–winning playwright and fel- low NYU alumnus Tony Kushner. Those successes—and years of therapy that taught her self-accep- tance—were enough to keep her dream alive. “It was all I had my sights on,” Manheim says. “I knew if I didn’t give it the good old college try, I would regret it the rest of my life.” Ironically, Manheim’s break finally came when she wrote a one- Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, woman, autobiographical show, and Dinah Shore. titled Wake Up, I’m Fat! as a show- Living Life Large That youthful enthusiasm case for her talents. She began per- carried her from Long Beach, forming it off-Broadway in 1993. Camryn Manheim (B.A. theater arts, every turn that she wouldn’t “make California—where she spent her An open, unabashed look at “what it Porter ’84) won Emmy and Golden it” as a performer because of the teenage years—to Santa Cruz. She was like to grow up fat in America,” Globe awards for her role as attorney extra pounds. learned about the town from UCSC the show brought Manheim nation- Ellenor Frutt in The Practice Manheim, who has received alumni Ivan and Dmitri Karamazov al recognition and led to parts in both the Emmy and a Golden (a.k.a. Howard Patterson and Paul several feature films including The elevision actress Camryn Globe award for her role as attor- Magid), a popular juggling and the- Road to Wellville, Romy and Michele’s Manheim surprised even her- ney Ellenor Frutt on ABC’s quirky atrical team known as The Flying High School Reunion, and Happiness. T self at the 1998 Emmy Awards courtroom drama The Practice, says Karamazov Brothers. The play also spawned a best-selling ceremony. She’d planned to give a she feels like she’s won the lot- In Santa Cruz, Manheim found book of the same title. traditional thank-everyone-you’ve- tery—only better. her mecca. She earned an associate’s What comes next? Manheim ever-met acceptance speech upon “It’s a miracle that (A) you get a degree at nearby Cabrillo College has already committed to playing being named outstanding support- show, (B) the pilot gets picked up, before enrolling at UC Santa Cruz. the part of Snow White in an ing actress in a drama series. Instead, (C) in a crappy time slot you sur- During her four years in the seaside NBC miniseries due to air during she held the Emmy aloft and shout- vive, (D) you get moved to a beau- town, she ran a theater company, February sweeps, and she certainly ed, “This is for all the fat girls!” tiful time slot, and (E) you win an bought a house, and taught acting. has no shortage of ideas. The statement—more than the Emmy,” Manheim says. “If I had “The sky was the limit in Santa “I’m starting a production award itself—triggered a tidal wave to choose between winning $200 Cruz,” she remembers. “Anything company; I’ll be making my own of publicity. Its force carried her to million or being on The Practice, was possible.” movies; I hope someday to run for nearly every major television talk I would take The Practice, hands It wasn’t until graduate school office; I’d like to have a family. show and brought her story to the down, any day.” at New York University (NYU) Maybe I’ll start a foundation of pages of a number of national Lottery or not, Manheim that Manheim’s cherished dream of some kind or lecture.” newspapers and magazines, includ- doesn’t attribute her success to luck. acting professionally suddenly On the other hand, Manheim ing People, Parade, and even the Becoming an actress is something seemed not so possible. doesn’t want to get too far ahead of New York Times. she had dreamed about and worked At NYU, Manheim was contin- herself. “I don’t want to look back Through it all, she untiringly diligently toward since childhood. ually “encouraged” to lose weight. years from now and say, ‘What described how she learned to accept As a child, Manheim practiced Comments like “We’d like to see a happened to me during those herself and her weight in a thin-ob- for her future fame by accepting lot less of you in the fall” were years?’ I really just want to be sure sessed culture. She also detailed her awards in front of the bathroom common, Manheim says. In re- that I’m absolutely present for all 30-year struggle to build an acting mirror and conducting bathtub sponse, she took crystal methedrine of this magic right now in my life.” career in spite of hearing at nearly interviews with the likes of and lost 80 pounds, but after near- —Francine Tyler

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 27 continued from page 26 May 1999 and married Hector Real, coauthor, or ghostwriter of 20-plus Merrill College an R.N., in July 1999; she is in books, including the New York Times Elizabeth de FOREST (Cowell ’84) ’70 her fourth year of teaching a dual- No. 1 best-seller The Arthritis Cure; are “enraptured” by their son Asher Donald OLSEN retired in July 1999 after 25 years with the immersion first-grade class in Baldwin his books and over 160 articles have Abraham Goldberg de Forest, born in Park, Calif. been translated into 16 languages, and December 1998; Michael is teaching Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, where he had served as police ’96 After graduation from UCSC, he has appeared on numerous televi- American studies in the Interdisci- Janeen MALATESTA did graduate sion and radio shows; he lives in Los plinary Arts and Sciences Program commander since 1990. ’74 Rich KITCHENS has been work at Oxford University and at an Angeles with his wife, Nadine. at the University of Washington Italian university; currently she is a ’81 While continuing her work as a at Bothell, where he has recently teaching high school social studies for about 25 years and was a basketball substitute teacher and working on an reference specialist for visual resources received tenure. M.A. in English. at the Getty Research Institute in ’84 coach for about 20 of those years; he David CRAGO is a lt. comman- ’97 Kristi BERES files unemploy- Los Angeles, Tracey SCHUSTER is der in the U.S. Public Health Service, is president of the teachers’ union and recently received a law degree from ment claims with the State of doing consulting work for organiza- working as the Drug Abuse Program California. tions that need assistance with their coordinator for the residential drug John F. Kennedy University in Walnut Creek and has a part-time law archival collections. programs at the Federal Correctional ’85 Rob LAMMÉ is director of Institution and the Federal Prison practice in the areas of education and Porter College labor law. communications for the president Camp in Florence, Colo. pro tem of the North Carolina ’86 ’79 Jill FEHLMAN enjoys her work ’73 Christie NICHOLS is a licensed Robin BARRETT Hastings is Senate, where he oversees communi- now a full-time housewife, busy with as a charge nurse on an adult unit in clinical social worker working a private psychiatric hospital; she gar- with recently homeless people with cation strategy for the senate’s remodeling a new home and assisting Democratic majority; his e-mail her husband, Allen HASTINGS dens and raises koi in her spare time. psychiatric illness, substance addiction, ’86 address is [email protected]. (Crown ’85), with his computer Jennifer DURRIE MacKay is and HIV; she was president of the living in a small town in northern San Francisco unit of the National Lisa LICHTMAN Smith is an business. Calvin HUI is currently associate editor at U.S. News & working as a network engineer at Mexico, running a tourism business, Association of Social Workers and which includes a bed and breakfast, was nominated for California social World Report in Washington, D.C. Silicon Valley Networking Lab. ’86 Mary Cathleen SPOHRER ’87 Megan ROBBINS received a river trips, hiking, and bird watching; worker of the year. she can be reached by e-mail at ’75 Lori HIGA is West Coast Wilder is a lesbian pagan living in master’s degree in school psychology Eugene, Ore.; she received a master’s from San Francisco State University [email protected]. public relations manager for Lucent ’88 in music from the University of in 1990. Shela TOBIAS received her Technologies Microelectronics Group. ’76 Oregon and is now teaching and ’91 Sean DEXTER is completing M.B.A. from the University of the Tamara PINKAS is serving a Pacific in May 1999 and is taking a second year as Faculty Council chair performing as a singer-songwriter. an M.A. in anthropology from CSU ’87 Douglas STYLES completed a Chico and working as an archae- position as an accountant with the at Lane Community College in State of California Employment Oregon, where she continues to work doctor of psychology degree in spring ologist for a consulting firm; he is 1999; he is working on a collection preparing to act as a field director on Development Department. as a cooperative education coordina- ’89 Clay EVANS published I Can See tor, setting up work-based learning of short stories titled “Conversations a major archaeological excavation of About My Nose.” Emeryville Shellmound. Friends can by Your Outfit (Johnson Books, 1999), experiences for students. a memoir of the six and one-half years ’77 Rebecca MORGAN and Ken ’90 Eric ELKINS is editor of the contact him at sean_dexter@urscorp. weekly kids’ section in the Denver com. Ellen REITERMAN moved he spent working as a cowboy. Braly received the 1999 President’s ’90 After spending many summers Distinguished Service Award from Post; his latest book, School Tools, was to San Diego after graduating from published in 1999. Holly KEENAN Contra Costa College with a C.A. in during high school and college in the National Speakers Association for Oaxaca, Mexico, Jake LUSTIG is their publication SpeakerNet News, is the proud mom of her eight- early childhood education. She writes, month-old son, Jared; she and her “Theater and improv training is a great now president of Reunion Mezcal a free weekly e-mail newsletter for Company in Oakland, Calif., a speakers, trainers, and consultants; husband, Jordan, own a feature- asset when working with children!” film marketing company, Celluloid ’92 business which imports the artesanal the same duo received the Patricia Robert GROPP has been named Heroes, in Los Angeles. John the 1999–2000 American Institute mezcal of the Oaxaca area. Fripp Outstanding Leadership Award ’92 ROEVEKAMP cofounded a software of Biological Sciences Congressional Sherry ROUSH received her from the Northern California Ph.D. in Italian from Yale University Chapter of the same organization in company, Cyrun Corporation, based Science Fellow. After finishing a in Santa Cruz, which manufactures Ph.D. in physiology and an M.B.A. in May 1999 and began a tenure- 1998. Terence SCHULL received track position as assistant professor a Ph.D. in chemistry in May 1999 and supports software for law enforce- in marketing, Anthony RUSSELL is ment; the company is in its seventh now the technical marketing manager at Penn State University in fall 1999. from George Washington University; Tamara WHITE Van Hooser has he is now working as a postdoc at year, with clients in California, at Baxter in Glendale, Calif. Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. ’95 been married five years and has a nine- the Naval Research Laboratory in Bincy CHU completed the Eleanor RUCKMAN received her multiple subject CLAD clear teaching month-old son, William Christopher; Washington, D.C. John YEWELL she is living in Tillamook, Ore., and has been news editor of Metro Santa master’s degree in art therapy/marital credential program at San Jose State and family therapy from the College University and is in her second year working as a fourth-grade dual- Cruz since June 1998. ’78 of Notre Dame in Belmont, Calif., in of teaching kindergarten at Alta Vista language teacher (Spanish-English); John BOGART taught philos- she would love to hear from friends at ophy from 1985 through 1990 and May 1999; she paints and exhibits her Elementary in Los Gatos, Calif. art in San Francisco. Nicole FRESQUEZ Lawrence mar- [email protected]. then went to Stanford Law School; ’93 ’91 Kristanne BOHNER Heaton ried Matt LAWRENCE (Crown ’95) Betsy BRAIT started a graphic after law school, he first practiced in and Web design company, Digital Los Angeles and now has a practice and her husband, Sid, are living in in 1996, and she is currently working Europe, where Kristanne is working at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the Media Visions, in January 1999. in Salt Lake City. David MORI is a Melissa LUCAS is exploring the pastry chef for Stanford Alumni Sierra on her master’s thesis in art history Education Department. while her husband does research on ’97 John POLAND is working on a worlds of health care policy and pub- Operations at Fallen Leaf Lake. lishing and searching for the next Mia Pamela FLINN Schanuel is living alternative employee-employer master’s at the University of San relations by telecommuting to his Diego; he and Rachel STEVENS Hamm while coaching AYSO under- in Colorado, missing the California 12 girls’ soccer; her e-mail address is coastline, and dreaming of returning company back in Silicon Valley; they (Crown ’97) were planning to marry continue to update their “Extreme in August 1999. [email protected]. Esther VARGAS to the sea. completed an M.A. in education in ’79 Barry FOX is the author, Telecommuting” adventures on their

28 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2000 Web page (www.officeodyssey.com), husband, a fellow artist, spend ’81 Beverly ALEXANDER has been which was featured in Telecommute their summers at their cabin on appointed vice president of rates and Graduate Studies magazine. the Yellowstone River in Montana. account services at Pacific Gas and ’75 Marc HOFSTADTER (Ph.D., ’92 Sean AARON is employed by ’94 After graduation Jon Electric, where she has worked since literature) has published his first the UC Office of the President as a CARNERO worked in Japan for 1992; she has a law degree from Boalt volume of poetry, House of Peace. Unix system administrator. three years, got married in Canada, School of Law at UC Berkeley. ’80 Thomas BASS (Ph.D., history and then went to grad school at ’82 Jean BROCKLEBANK has of consciousness) has a new book, Kresge College Columbia University; now he and worked in the field of energy efficien- The Predictors, which follows UCSC his wife are living in Brooklyn. cy in residential and commercial grads Doyne FARMER (Ph.D., ’76 Don McCORMICK has started ’95 Misty BURGESS graduated buildings since 1982; her work has physics, ’81) and Norman a new job as an associate professor in from Arizona State University in May included a number of projects at PACKARD (Ph.D., physics, ’82) as the Department of Management and 1999 with a master’s in social work; UCSC; she can be reached by e-mail they apply chaos theory to the global Business at Alfred North Whitehead currently, she is the coordinator of at [email protected]. financial markets; the book is a sequel College at the University of Redlands. a domestic violence shelter in the ’83 Greg MEYER is a freelance to The Eudaemonic Pie, which Bob SCHRAER is married with Seattle area. After living in Israel, naturalist and leads expeditions to five describes Farmer’s and Packard’s years three sons, ages 19, 16, and 11; he Guatemala, and Mexico, Sara-Rozet continents; between travels, he runs in Santa Cruz developing chaos has been self-employed as a flooring NORWICK has graduated with an a kayak tour company in Santa Cruz theory while working on beating the and window-covering contractor for M.A. in international economics and and teaches at Cal State Monterey game of roulette in Las Vegas. the past ten years. finance from Brandeis University and Bay; his e-mail address is greg@ge-trips ’87 Edward STEPHENSON ’80 Douglas MANCILL, a partner is now employed by one of the “Big and his Web site is ge-trips.com. (Ph.D., psychology) is an assistant at Graham & James since 1992, is 5” in San Jose. ’84 Lisa GRAVES is living in Salt professor of psychology at Florida now posted to Deacons Graham & ’97 Yan SHAM-SHACKLETON Lake City, working at Wild Oats Memorial College and an adjunct James in Bangkok, where he handles moved back to Hong Kong after Market, and back in school pursuing instructor at Miami Institute of restructuring matters. a stint in Central America and is a B.F.A. in drawing and painting. Psychology and at Nova University, ’85 Terrance McLARNAN has a working as an editor for a new ’85 Carl MUTTERSBACH will be with a specialty in cross-cultural private practice in psychotherapy bilingual community Web site a Peace Corps volunteer in Southeast psychology. and is the training coordinator at the (www.renren.com) that aims to Asia for 27 months beginning in May ’90 Thomas MADDEN (Ph.D., Center for Human Development. provide a home for the global 2000. Michael VAN ALTENA physics) is a programmer at the ’86 Gail CARLSON is now a Chinese family on the Web; her moved to New Meadows, Idaho, National Center for Biotechnology regional account manager with Roche e-mail address is [email protected]. where he is enjoying the peace and Information, a section of the Diagnostics in diabetes-care retail quiet, working from home as a pro- National Library of Medicine, promotions, representing Accu-Chek Oakes College grammer. Susannah FREEMAN working as part of a team of brands. White is a licensed acupuncturist researchers on a new generation of ’90 Anne GARNER is teaching first ’75 Danny SYLVESTER recently living in Bozeman, Mont. protein database search programs. grade and raising two children with completed a one-year probationary ’86 Karen SEMERAU moved back ’91 Eberhard SCHEIFFELE (cert., her husband, Mathew Plate. Faye period as a disability evaluation to the San Francisco Bay Area from theater arts) finished his Ph.D. at JAHNIGEN is chief radiological analyst for the California Department the Dakotas; she is an office adminis- UC Berkeley and now works as a technologist for the Santa Cruz of Social Services. trator/events planner for a software psychodramatist in Pennsylvania; County Human Services Agency; ’82 Robin TOMA is assistant development company. friends may e-mail him at she received an M.S. in health executive director of L.A. County ’87 Carrie KAHN was awarded a [email protected]. services administration from Saint Commission on Human Relations, Pew Fellowship for International ’95 Jonathon GRASSE (M.A., Mary’s College in 1998. Trent which focuses on hate crimes, inter- Journalism for fall 1999; during her music) earned a Ph.D. in music with JONES received the 1999 Phil group conflict, and strengthening and fellowship she planned to study inter- a cognate in ethnomusicology from Killiam Fellowship from the Oregon building multicultural communities; national affairs at Johns Hopkins UCLA in 1999 and is now a lecturer Shakespeare Festival, where he assist- he was married last year, and he con- University’s Paul H. Nitze School of in world music theory in UCLA’s ed in the production of Henry IV, tinues to do pro bono lawyering for Advanced International Studies and Ethnomusicology Department. Part Two, and Pericles, as well as Japanese Latin Americans abducted do in-depth reporting in Mexico. ’96 David SONNENFELD (Ph.D., directing a staged reading of Edward and imprisoned by the U.S. during ’95 Kate McFADDEN is finishing sociology) is a visiting scholar at UC III. Natalie LUTZ has been living in WW II. her M.S. at Texas A&M University, Berkeley during the 1999–2000 aca- France for the past ten years teaching ’92 Mike SINCLAIR and his wife, where she is studying endangered demic year; he is working on two English to French professionals as an Dorota, spent St. Patrick’s Day 1999 wildlife biology; after completing books and doing research on environ- independent contractor; “I have two celebrating the birth of their first her master’s she will begin a Ph.D. mental reform in Southeast Asia. beautiful children and a lovely life but child, Alexis Nicole. Clay ZHANG is program in conservation biology sometimes I get nostalgic for those currently a full-time M.B.A. student at Columbia University. Mark long-lost friends from my wonderful at Rice University in Houston. MUIRHEAD is designing computer In Memoriam systems in Latin America for a large years at UCSC,” she writes. ’95 Sandra LOVING graduated Aaron David McVEY (Crown ’84) New York–based insurance company. Elizabeth STARK graduated from from California College of Podiatric died in October 1997 of a heart ’96 Andrea HELZER is pursuing Columbia University with an M.F.A. Medicine in San Francisco in May attack. At the time of his death he an M.S.W. at the University of in writing in 1996; her novel, Shy 1999 and is now doing a two-year was working in Rancho Cordova, Pennsylvania and plans to work Girl, was published by Farrar, Straus residency at the Veterans Hospital in Calif., for MCI Telecommunications with abused children. & Giroux (July 1999), and she is at Palo Alto. as a senior systems analyst. Prior to ’98 Matthew SIMMONS worked work on her next novel. that he worked for many years at for a year before opening his own busi- ’91 Tamara LIEBMAN was plan- the National Council on Crime and College Eight ness and buying a house in Long Beach. ning to marry Greg GIFFIN (Cowell Delinquency in San Francisco. Aaron ’99 After serving as an intern with ’90) in November 1999; they live in ’76 Henrietta FINGOLD was married in 1989; he and his wife California Governor Gray Davis, Los Angeles. Elizabeth MAURO Bensussen is retiring after almost 20 had no children. Patrick CHANDLER is working for owns a successful art installation years at Stanford University Press to AmeriCorps in Riverside. business in Seattle; she and her devote time to gardening and writing.

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