he Monterey Bay Aquarium, very strong sense of connection to the which Julie Packard helped found environment,” Packard says. 40 Years Tand has led as executive director Her passion for marine science, in par- since it opened 20 years ago, is among the ticular, was kindled by a class in intertidal ...and Counting world’s most popular attractions. A recent na- biology she took in her sophomore year at tional survey ranked it the best aquarium and UC Santa Cruz. The class brought students one of the top family destinations of any kind, out to the tidepools and introduced them to ahead of Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo. field research; it also introduced Packard to Four decades But the aquarium is not just about family biologist William Doyle, founding director Since receiving an Academy of UCSC grads fun and entertainment—it aims to educate of UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences. She Award for his work editing the and inspire people to care about the oceans conducted research with Doyle both as an blockbuster film Traffic in 2000, are making their and help protect them. And with nearly undergraduate and as a graduate student at Steve Mirrione (theater arts– 2 million visitors a year, the aquarium UCSC, studying the ecology of marine algae. film, ’91) has had no shortage reaches a lot of people. Packard has made sure that the aquari- of work. His credits since mark on the world his Oscar include Ocean’s “We provide an opportunity for people um’s programs and exhibits are always Twelve and Criminal (2004); to connect with ocean wildlife and establish firmly grounded in science. In addition, 21 Grams (2003); Confessions a sense of caring for it,” says Packard, an as concern about human impacts on the of a Dangerous Mind (2002); o celebrate eloquent and passionate advocate of ocean marine environment has escalated, the and Ocean’s Eleven, Tribute, conservation. aquarium’s mission has evolved to become and Thirteen Conversations this anniversary year, T In 1998, Packard was awarded the more explicitly focused on ocean conser- About One Thing (2001). UC Santa Cruz’s 40th, Audubon Medal for Excellence in vation and advocacy. Environmental Protection, and in 2004 Packard says she has been pleased to see we decided to tell the stories she received the Ted Danson Ocean marine scientists at UCSC and other insti- Hero Award from the conservation group tutions focusing more of their research on of a half-dozen UCSC alumni Oceana. She also served on the Pew Oceans questions that relate to conservation issues. city of san jose courtesy who have never been profiled Commission, which issued an influential “Many UCSC scientists are working at the report on ocean policy in 2003. forefront of where I believe science needs in the pages of this publica- The Pew Oceans Commission, in paral- to go, which is interdisciplinary approaches As mayor of San Jose, Ron lel with the U.S. Commission on Ocean that are linked to real-world environmental tion. We also couldn’t resist Gonzales (B.A., community Policy, undertook the first comprehensive problems,” she says. studies, ’73) grapples with recalling some of the many jones r. r. review of national ocean policy in 30 years. She also says that getting undergraduates reshaping city government These two independent efforts reached es- involved in research is essential for training the to promote teamwork and ef- outstanding graduates we sentially the same conclusions: “Our oceans next generation of environmental scientists. ficiency, stoking the economic engine that powers San Jose, have featured in the past. are in trouble, and the federal regulations “There’s just no match for that kind of Julie Packard we have now are not working to protect experience to get students engaged with the balancing economic and The impressive accomplish- marine ecosystems,” Packard says. subject matter and fired up about exploring environmental concerns, and supporting the schools that Executive Director, Monterey Bay Aquarium Packard’s interest in science and nature the natural world,” Packard says. “The op- ments of our alumni say educate tomorrow’s work- B.A. Biology, Crown College, 1974; M.A. Biology, 1978 started early. Her father, David Packard, portunity for undergraduate research and force. Before becoming mayor more about UC Santa Cruz cofounder of the Hewlett-Packard the focus on undergraduate education is a in 1999, Gonzales served Company, was both a scientist and an real strength of UCSC.” on the Santa Clara County than we ever could. avid outdoorsman. “I grew up with a —Tim Stephens Board of Supervisors.

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rom pundits to presidents, moved to the Minneapolis Star, where she regular readers of the New York Times was a columnist and deputy opinion-page Frely on the paper’s Sunday “Week in editor. Three years later, she was recruited Review” section to tell them what they need by the Times. to know. In a field where learning never stops, One of the most influential publications Roberts says her liberal arts background has in journalism, the section provides context been an asset. She has had to become an courtesy john doolittle courtesy

mickey pfleger mickey for the week’s top stories, combining insight expert in space shuttle technology, New York U.S. Representative John When Geoffrey Marcy and analysis with fine writing on topics City taxis, Nicaraguan dynasties, immigrant Doolittle was unanimously was 14, he watched Neil from politics and religion to science and the health care, and forest fire policy, among reelected by his Republican Armstrong’s historic walk on symphony. other topics. colleagues to a second two- the Moon. In 1996, Marcy In short, section editor Katy Roberts “I did my undergraduate work at Santa year term as House Republican (M.S., astronomy, ’78; Ph.D., shoulders the burden of sifting through Cruz, and my graduate work at the ‘Week Conference Secretary for the astronomy and astrophysics, mountains of news and information so we in Review,’” says Roberts. “It’s a continuing 109th Congress, a position ’82) took his own leap don’t have to. “Keeping up with the news education.” he held the two prior years. for mankind when he and The position is the sixth-high- a fellow astronomer discovered used to be relatively easy. Now it’s impos- Roberts lives in Manhattan with her est-ranking elected post in the two distant planets located sible,” Roberts says with typical candor. husband and has been known to watch surf- House leadership. Doolittle between 40 and 70 light- “Accepting that is the only way to survive.” ing documentaries when she’s not reading (B.A., history, ’72) represents years from Earth. The planets Roberts’ self-effacing manner belies the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Review of northern California’s 4th were only the second and her achievements: During more than 20 Books, or the New Yorker. Congressional District. third to be discovered outside years at the Times, she has held several Asked about her worst day in journalism, our solar system. positions, including a two-year stint as Roberts describes the morning of September national editor and five years as editor 11, 2001, when, as national editor, she got a of the op-ed page. She believes her great- call at home from the office. Stepping outside hockney david r. r. jones r. r. est impact was on the op-ed page, where her Greenwich Village apartment, she saw she brought in voices “outside the Eastern one tower, then another, on fire. Heading to Establishment” and sped up the page’s the office on foot, she kept looking over her responsiveness to events. shoulder as the tragedy unfolded. fred conrad/new york times york conrad/new fred “I’m not a producer of ideas, but an en- Inside the newsroom, however, the scene For the past two decades, thusiastic consumer of them,” says Roberts. was “awe-inspiring as the paper’s staff went to New Yorker staff writer “I learned to question conventional wisdom work.” Sixteen hours later, she and a reporter Lawrence Weschler (B.A., A UC Berkeley bioengineer, philosophy and Western Katy Roberts and authority, wherever it was vested.” trooped to the only subway that was running. Kimmen Sjölander (B.A., com- After graduating from UCSC, Roberts They stood alone on the dead-quiet platform, civilization, ’74) has written puter and information sciences, about unexpected relation- earned a master’s degree in journalism waiting for the downtown train. ’93; Ph.D., computer science, Editor, New York Times “Week in Review” ships among art, culture, war, and Russian area studies from Indiana “The paper is criticized from every quar- ’97) has made key contributions B.A. Politics, Kresge College, 1974 and peace. His latest book, to the arsenal of computa- University. Although she says she got ter, and sometimes we make mistakes,” says Vermeer in Bosnia, is a col- tional tools available for protein “abysmal grades” in her journalism classes, Roberts. “But you’d be hard-pressed to find a lection of 22 stories written analysis. Her software programs Roberts picked up some reporting experi- more honest, dedicated, thoughtful group of for the magazine and other are sorting out the evolutionary ence and landed a job at the Hayward (CA) people on earth.” publications. William relationships among proteins, Daily Review in 1977. By 1979, she had —Jennifer McNulty Finnegan (B.A., literature, allowing scientists to infer the ’74), also an award-winning structure and function of newly New Yorker staffer, has filed discovered proteins. stories from around the world.

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rancisco Rosado-May’s path to While completing his doctorate, the presidency of a public university Rosado-May joined the team that was Fin Mexico began in the rural village planning the campus for his native state of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, where he and of Quintana Roo—the only Mexican state other eager Mayan youngsters gathered in a without a university. “The challenge was to hallway to take classes. “I vividly remember create a model that would respond to the the end of my first year, when my teacher needs of a rapidly changing world,” says schraub paul nbc/mary ellen matthews nbc/mary called me to her house and gave me a big Rosado-May. Jim Kent, a research scientist As a five-year-old, Maya with UCSC’s Center for can of cocoa—my first cocoa ever—for hav- Founded in 1991, the University of Rudolph wowed her L.A. family Biomolecular Science and En- with impersonations of Rose- ing very good grades,” recalls Rosado-May. Quintana Roo (UQRoo) in Chetumal gineering, wrote the software anne Roseannadanna—one of Teachers continued to encourage Rosado- emphasizes teaching excellence and research program used to assemble Gilda Radner’s signature char- May, who earned government fellowships to that addresses real-world problems. As a fragmented sequence data acters on Saturday Night Live. attend high school and to study agricultural founding faculty member, Rosado-May from the Human Genome Now she is living her childhood engineering in Tabasco, Mexico. That’s where shifted his own focus from chemical ecology Project into intact DNA dream as a cast member on he first met his mentor, Stephen Gliessman, a to applied ecology. Tourism has placed tre- sequences representing the the show. Rudolph (B.A., art— pioneer in the field of agroecology. mendous pressures on the natural resources human chromosomes. Kent photography, ’95) has treated (B.A., mathematics, ’81; For Rosado-May, the affiliation with of Quintana Roo, and Rosado-May’s work viewers to an eclectic mix of M.A., mathematics, ’86; Ph.D., characters—from buttoned-down Gliessman was life changing. After earning a fueled environmental planning changes, biology, ’02) also developed presidential adviser Condoleezza master’s in tropical ecology, Rosado-May fol- including zoning reforms and the adoption the extremely popular UCSC Rice to over-the-top fashion lowed his mentor to UCSC in 1985 for doc- of management plans for protected areas. Genome Browser, which designer Donatella Versace. toral study. At UCSC, he also worked closely As president, Rosado-May has aggres- provides a web-based portal with biology professor Jean Langenheim sively sought accreditation for the young for scientific exploration of the (see page 23), a leader in the field of chemi- campus’s programs, and his administration human genome sequence. rex rystedt rex cal ecology. Building on Gliessman and has adopted “transparent” accountability Langenheim’s work, Rosado-May focused practices and expanded funding sources to on the role of weeds in the management of reduce reliance on government subsidies. jones r. r. agroecosystems. “In Tabasco, farmers believe Rosado-May’s pride in his Mayan heri- that once you learn how to manage weeds tage is accompanied by high expectations— Since Jayne Ann Krentz properly, they become your allies, not your for himself and his community. Halfway began writing romance novels enemies,” said Rosado-May. through his first four-year term as president in 1980, she’s published doz- jose a. granados While at UCSC, Rosado-May embraced of UQRoo, he is promoting programs that ens of books under her own his ancestry. As a Maya in Mexico, he has integrate ancient Mayan knowledge into the In 1984, with its conductor on emergency leave, the name and her most popular frequently felt the sting of discrimination. fields of science, technology, and the arts. pseudonyms, Amanda Quick Boston Symphony turned to “I grew up in the days when the federal “Can you imagine a botanist with a Ph.D. and Jayne Castle. Krentz (B.A., Kent Nagano, who stepped government was trying to homogenize the and a shaman who cures disease with local history, ’70), whose novels have Francisco Rosado-May in without rehearsal to lead made the New York Times country,” recalls Rosado-May. “Getting plants standing side by side?” he asks. “The the orchestra through two President, University of Quintana Roo at Chetumal, Mexico Best-seller List some 40 times, to know other UCSC students who were synergy between conventional education widely praised performances. also authored an award- Ph.D. Biology, 1991 proud of their origins, especially Native and traditional knowledge might represent Today, Nagano (B.A., music winning critical work about Americans, was eye-opening for me. Now I the best potential Mexico has to face the and sociology, ’74) is one her genre, Dangerous Men take pride in my ancestry, but before going challenges of globalization.” of the world’s most sought- and Adventurous Women: to California, I could hardly talk about it.” —Jennifer McNulty after conductors and, with Romance Writers on the Placido Domingo, leads the Appeal of the Romance. Los Angeles Opera.

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ed Goldstein has built a “When I came out of UCSC with an successful career in the computer undergraduate degree, my training in the Tindustry by combining expertise area of programming languages and tools in programming with an appreciation for was as good as or better than that of many the human side of technological innovation. students with graduate degrees from well- Now a vice president at Apple Computer, known schools,” Goldstein says. Goldstein oversees the development Starting out as a consultant working for of programming tools for Apple’s highly a variety of start-up companies, he ended up courtesy of bruce aidells of bruce courtesy

james sorensen acclaimed new operating system, Mac OS X. at the legendary Xerox Palo Alto Research When Bruce Aidells (Ph.D., In his work, Goldstein says he draws on Center (Xerox PARC), birthplace of such As a child, Camryn Manheim biology, ’74) was a grad- practiced for her future fame by the entire breadth of his undergraduate concepts as the mouse, laser printers, and the uate student at UCSC in the accepting awards in front of the education at UC Santa Cruz. When asked graphical user interface. When Xerox PARC early 1970s, he was already bathroom mirror and conducting about influential teachers, he mentions not spun off ParcPlace Systems to commercialize known for his cooking, having bathtub interviews with the likes only computer science professor Ira Pohl, its highly influential programming language, helped launch one of the of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, but also Murray Baumgarten, professor of called Smalltalk, Goldstein went along as a campus’s first restaurants. and Dinah Shore. In 1998, the English and comparative literature. member of the ParcPlace management team. But after receiving his doctor- bathroom rehearsals paid off, as “Having a liberal arts degree is terrific. From ParcPlace, he went to Sun ate, he founded the Aidells Manheim (B.A., theater arts, ’84) Sausage Co. First sold mainly I find that so much of what we do is not Microsystems, where he spearheaded the accepted both an Emmy and a in gourmet markets, the Golden Globe award for her role just about technology, but about technology development of Java Card, the leading sausages can now be found as an attorney on ABC’s court- in the context of people and society,” he platform for “smart cards.” More than everywhere. room drama The Practice. says. “The Stevenson core course is as 750 million smart cards are now used for

important in what I do as Data Structures banking, cell phones, and other purposes nasa 101, because it’s all about people.” throughout Europe, Asia, and increasingly The programming tools Goldstein in the United States. neil michel/axiom develops at Apple are used by software Goldstein says he first got a sense of what developers to create applications for OS X. computer programming can do for people Just as OS X is designed to be a friendly, while working as an undergraduate in UCSC’s trouble-free system for ordinary users, first computer center. Noticing a group of the developer tools are designed to make biology graduate students using a text editor to writing software for OS X easy and efficient. do painstaking genetic comparisons, he offered Kathryn Sullivan made two

For Joe Palca (Ph.D., psychol- jones r. r. “We try to design things that are to write a program that would automate much historic trips to space during ogy, ’82), science journalism good for developers as well as end users,” of the work for them. her years as a NASA astro- has a lot in common with teach- Goldstein says. “Everywhere I go, I meet “It was a wonderful experience to work naut. During her first voyage, ing: It’s a chance to share his in 1984, she became the first fascination and delight with sci- people who love Apple products—it’s a with the users and design a specialized tool American woman to walk in ence. A science correspondent Ted Goldstein very gratifying part of the job.” to meet their needs,” he says. space. During the second, six at National Public Radio since Although Goldstein graduated from The resulting software, used by UCSC Vice President of Development Technologies, Apple Computer years later, Sullivan (B.S., 1992, Palca has covered a wide UCSC long before the Jack Baskin School biologists for many years, was probably Earth sciences, ’73) joined range of stories—from biomedi- B.A. Computer and Information Sciences, Stevenson and of Engineering was established, he received the first genetic sequence alignment editor, fellow UCSC grad Steven cal research to the Pathfinder specialized training in one of the core areas of a precursor of the powerful bioinformatics Hawley (Ph.D., astronomy landing on Mars. Also at NPR is Oakes Colleges, 1983 computer science—programming languages— programs for which UCSC has since and astrophysics, ’77) on the another award-winning science that helped give the campus a solid foundation become famous. mission that deployed the reporter, Richard Harris (B.A., Hubble Space Telescope. biology, ’80). on which to build its engineering school. —Tim Stephens

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ourists come from around the tioners to work with clients on often-compli- world to witness the wonders cated drug regimens are just a few of the Tof Serengeti National Park in challenges she and her staff regularly face. Tanzania, but Dr. Cheryl Scott has never The introduction of antiretroviral drugs been able to slip off with friends or family will complement an effort begun in 2003

to see the wildebeests and cheetahs herself. providing life-saving medicines for expect- university bucknell courtesy Her job running the Centers for Disease ant mothers. The single-dose treatment can Because he enjoyed teaching Control and Prevention (CDC) office in cut infection rates of newborns by up to 80 and research, William “Bro” the East African nation of about 34 million percent. Adams (Ph.D., history of consciousness, ’82) made the

gary friedman/los angeles times friedman/los gary people—where an estimated 10 percent of Battling HIV/AIDS in Tanzania is the transition from academic to the population has HIV—leaves little time latest step in an international career that The Museum of Contemporary administrator with some Art in Los Angeles draws thou- for sightseeing. has taken Scott to the Ivory Coast, Kenya, reluctance. However, in 1995 sands of visitors each day for Since the Global AIDS Program Office India, and the Caribbean. An investigator in Adams became the 14th exhibitions and public program- was founded in 2001 with a small staff at the elite Epidemic Intelligence Service at the president of Bucknell Univer- ming. Director of MOCA since the invitation of the Tanzanian government, CDC, Scott has also worked in maternal sity and, five years later, was 1999, Jeremy Strick (B.A., the CDC’s contribution to the fight against and child health and disaster epidemiology named the 19th president art history, ’77) is involved in HIV/AIDS in that country has grown in California, New York, and New Jersey, of Colby College. Fellow every aspect of the museum’s “exponentially,” Scott says. Under her where she was the state’s maternal and child campus president Alexander operation—from acquisitions Gonzalez (M.S., Ph.D., leadership, CDC–Tanzania has supported health epidemiologist. and event programming to psychology, ’79), headed fundraising and marketing. improving blood-transfusion safety, strength- In Africa, Scott’s challenges are not all California State University, San He even curates on occasion. ening laboratory services, developing a medical. Her job also has a diplomatic side, Marcos, before taking the helm national HIV/AIDS surveillance system, and involving frequent consultation with the U.S. of CSU Sacramento in 2004. preventing mother-to-child HIV transmis- embassy and the Tanzanian government. sion. With recent funding from President While mobilizing the host government’s sup- rachel salzman rachel Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, her port for the fight against HIV/AIDS in several office now manages a $17 million budget. countries has been politically difficult, “it is a Working closely with the Tanzanian privilege to partner with the Tanzanian gov- courtesy brent constantz brent courtesy government, the CDC and other U.S. govern- ernment,” she says. “They are very clear about Following years as the ment partners are providing technical support their situation and what assistance is needed.” Washington Post’s Pentagon to the rollout of a national antiretroviral drug Despite the long hours and travel sched- correspondent, Dana Priest joynson-hicks paul therapy program—which can turn HIV into ule that takes her around the continent, In 1985, Brent Constantz (B.A., politics, ’81) spent eight a manageable condition instead of a death Scott enjoys her time in Tanzania. Her was on a South Pacific atoll near Tahiti, working toward his months as an investigative sentence. Over the next five years, the gov- public health physician husband, Stephen S. reporter for a series about doctorate on how corals make ernment plans to put 400,000 people on the Robinson, works with the National Institute America’s regional military their skeletons. Ten years commanders. The series Cheryl Scott drugs in a nation where roads are frequently for Medical Research, and their 9-year-old later, Constantz (M.S., Earth impassable and communications are sporadic. daughter, Ajayi Omiseye, attends a local el- sciences, ’84; Ph.D., Earth earned her the Gerald R. Ford Country Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tanzania Prize for Distinguished Report- “Tanzania is a large and populous country, ementary school. “She gets a lot out of being sciences, ’86) headed Norian ing on the National Defense B.A. Biology, Oakes College, 1974 and care and treatment present tremendous here,” Scott said, noting that her husband Corporation, a company that in 2001. Priest’s first book, logistical challenges,” Scott says. Developing a and daughter have become more fluent in made waves for a remarkable The Mission: Waging War and reliable laboratory system, planning large-scale Kiswahili than she has. “It’s a rewarding life.” product: a paste that can be injected into and around a Keeping Peace with America’s counseling and testing, and training practi- —Louise Gilmore Donahue Military, was published in 2003 fracture, dramatically speeding on the eve of the Iraq war. the healing of broken bones.

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omposer, pianist, and keyboard- (B.A., individual major, Porter ’84)—who ist Wayne Horvitz has performed has herself gone on to record eight albums as C on more than 100 albums and a singer/songwriter. Together, they moved to CDs over the past 25 years. He has written New York City in the late 1970s to immerse for theater, dance, and film, and collabo- themselves in a stimulating downtown rated on a mind-boggling variety of musical music scene that also spawned the careers projects—in styles ranging from rhythm & of people like David Byrne of the Talking shmuel thaler In 2000, Martha Mendoza bill lovejoy blues and improvisational jazz, to classical Heads, revolutionary guitarist Bill Frisell, (B.A., journalism–education, ’88) minimalism and urban noise. and saxophonist John Zorn. John Laird has represented received journalism’s highest California’s 27th assembly Since he graduated from UCSC in Horvitz would eventually produce honor—the Pulitzer Prize. district since 2002. Prior to 1977, Horvitz has gone on to perform several CDs by Frisell and to date has helped Mendoza and her AP colleagues serving a district that includes extensively throughout North America, create nearly 30 other recordings by a variety were honored for reporting on a parts of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Europe, Asia, and Australia. National Public of artists. He has composed for a number Korean War massacre. Mendoza and Santa Clara Counties, Radio recently described his music as of film, video, television, and multimedia is one of four UCSC grads he completed two terms on “a dazzling sonic playground full of some projects, including three PBS specials and to have received this coveted the Santa Cruz City Council, wild rides.” Added the New York Times director Gus Van Sant’s film Psycho. He also prize. Another is Laurie Garrett where he was elected to two (B.A., biology, ’75), who in 1996 in another accolade: “What makes Mr. has been involved with the New York dance one-year terms as mayor. This received a Pulitzer for a series past December, Laird (B.A., Horvitz’s music so good is its ingenuity community, collaborating with artists such of articles in Newsday about politics, ’72) was appointed and variety of textures . . . one gets surging as renowned choreographer Paul Taylor the outbreak a year earlier chair of the Assembly Budget planes of sound and viscerally involving and with the White Oak Dance Project. of the ebola virus in Zaire. Committee. rhythms, and of that kind of music, All the while, Horvitz has received Mr. Horvitz is some kind of master.” dozens of commissions to compose works Although he has acquired an interna- for the likes of the Kronos Quartet and the tional reputation as a cutting-edge composer/ Seattle Chamber Players, as well as leading musician steeped in the avant-garde, Horvitz various ensembles such as the acclaimed john patrick salisbury john patrick

says he never deliberately sets out to shatter jazz/funk group, Zony Mash, and his foundation macarthur courtesy musical boundaries. “I’m not interested modern big band, the New York Composers in innovation for innovation’s sake,” he Orchestra. When an unknown Gillian Welch (B.A., art, ’90) explains. “I like beauty in music. I don’t want Although Horvitz already has a vast array respiratory illness began had a minor screen part in the people just to be intellectually stimulated. of dynamic artistic projects under his belt, infecting thousands of

2000 movie O Brother, Where laananen robin I basically look for soulfulness in every- he always looks forward to experimenting people in more than two- Art Thou? But she had a thing—whether it’s blues or classical music.” with that next project—whatever it might be. dozen countries in 2003, major role in the film’s haunting Horvitz says that UCSC had a “tremen- “It’s at the edges where things get Joseph DeRisi (B.A., soundtrack, performing and dous impact” on his career, opening him up interesting, and that’s where art should lie,” biochemistry and molecular serving as the movie’s associ- Wayne Horvitz to a wide variety of musical formats, expos- Horvitz observes. “You don’t need art the biology, ’92), a biochemist ate music producer. Welch’s and biophysicist at UC San ing him to a number of extraordinary musi- way you need food in the sense that you’ll unique sound, a blending Composer/Musician Francisco, determined that of various musical influences, cians, and teaching him about the technical expire if you don’t get it. But art is like the culprit was a previously B.A. Composition for New Music Improvisation, Porter College, 1977 especially bluegrass and aspects of producing concerts and recordings. love. It’s an essential experience beyond unknown coronavirus. The traditional country music, He also met his wife during his undergradu- the mundane.” finding moved scientists helped propel the soundtrack ate days—UCSC alumna Robin Holcomb —Scott Rappaport one step closer to control- to the top of the country charts. ling the outbreak.

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