UCUC SANTASANTA CRUZCRUZ REVIEW Spring 2005 Meet UCSC’s Ninth Chancellor: Denice D. Denton Celebrating 40 years of alumni achievement Providing financial support for students UC SANTA CRUZ REVIEW UC Santa Cruz Q&A: Chancellor Review 8 Denice D. Denton Chancellor New chancellor Denice Denton Denice D. Denton describes the UCSC qualities Vice Chancellor, University Relations Ronald P. Suduiko that attracted her to the post— and that make her optimistic Associate Vice Chancellor Communications about the campus’s future. Elizabeth Irwin Editor schraub paul Jim Burns Art Director 40 Years... Jim MacKenzie 10 and Counting Associate Editors Julie Packard, executive Mary Ann Dewey Jeanne Lance director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is one of many Writers Louise Gilmore Donahue alumni we celebrate to mark Jennifer McNulty the campus’s 40th year. Scott Rappaport Jennifer Dunn, student Doreen Schack Telephone Outreach Program Tim Stephens r. r. jones r. r. 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UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Vol. 42, No. 4 / March 2005 UC Santa Cruz is a series of administrative publica- Campus Update ........................ 2 So, when a student calls, please say ‘yes.’ tions published in August, September, November, and March by University Relations at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Periodicals postage paid at Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Postmaster: Send Alumni News .......................... 24 address changes to the University of California, Santa Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077. Alumni Notes ........................ 26 AMPUS PDATE Laser technique opens C U opportunities for nerve et al. yanik m. f. scott rappaport scott usually sees at the beach. regeneration research Computer simulation of “It’s like the ocean turns into Indian Ocean tsunami a river and starts to flow onto n a breakthough for the land. It’s not a big crashing research on nerve regenera- oon after hearing news wave like in the Hollywood Ition, a team of UCSC and reports of the tsunami that movies,” Ward said. Stanford scientists has reported victor schiffrin, ucsc photo services schiffrin, ucsc photo victor S devastated coastal regions In the aftermath of the using femtosecond laser pulses throughout the Indian Ocean, disaster in South Asia, he to precisely cut individual axons This nerve axon was cut using research geophysicist Steven was contacted by numerous of nerves in the roundworm femtosecond laser nanosurgery. Ward, an expert on tsunami media outlets, including the CSC has received a $500,000 gift to benefit Special Caenorhabditis elegans, one of hazards, went to work on his Washington Post, Dateline NBC, Collections in the University Library. The endowment is being the most versatile and widely control whether damaged nerves computer. the New York Daily News, and Uestablished in honor of the late Miller and Bunny Outcalt used experimental organisms for can regrow, said Chisholm, an A day after she was named UCSC’s ninth chancellor, Denice Denton traveled Using sophisticated compu- Newsweek magazine. and their lifelong partnership in the field of photography. genetic and biomedical research. associate professor of molecular, to campus, where she met with members of the UCSC community. tational techniques to simulate Christine Bunting, head of Special Collections, displays an untitled The nerves severed by this cell, and developmental biology. the tsunami, Ward created an photograph taken by Miller Outcalt. Proceeds from the endowment precision technique regrew “This technique will enable UCSC welcomes its February 14, comes to UC animated movie showing the will be used to fund a permanent staff position dedicated to work within 24 hours, often with us to find the genes that are Santa Cruz from the University tsunami waves spreading out on the extensive photography archives housed at UCSC. complete recovery of function. important in allowing an axon ninth chancellor of Washington, where she through the Indian Ocean from ward steven courtesy The project was a collaboration to regenerate. In the worm, we served as dean of the College of the site of the powerful earth- between biologists at UCSC can do systematic screening of standing-room-only Engineering. She is clearly quake that triggered them. The that are in organic cultivation,” led by Yishi Jin and Andrew large numbers of genes, and of crowd turned out to greet thrilled by her new affiliation. simulation, based on the physics First major study of said Julie Guthman, an assistant Chisholm and applied physics drugs and other small molecules A Denice D. Denton during “This has been a wonderful of earthquakes and tsunamis, organic farming in professor of community studies researchers at Stanford led by as well, to ask how they affect her first visit to campus after experience,” said Denton of was considered preliminary and author of the new book, Adela Ben-Yakar. the process of regeneration,” the Board of Regents named her her selection. “I’m trying to because geologists had not yet state yields surprises Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of The team’s findings give Chisholm said. In Ward’s simulation, the tsunami UC Santa Cruz’s ninth chancellor. enjoy it and take it all in. fully characterized the earth- Organic Farming in California. researchers an experimental sys- waves are shown approximately one The researchers reported Less than 24 hours after The University of California quake, Ward said. hour and 42 minutes after the quake. he first comprehensive A proponent of many of the tem in which they will be able their findings in a paper pub- the announcement was made leads the United States and the “The tsunami model depends The simulation may be viewed at: study of organic agriculture ideals associated with organic to investigate in great detail the lished in the December 16 issue on December 14, Denton world in public higher educa- on earthquake parameters, so currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/01-03/ T in California challenges the agriculture, Guthman neverthe- genetic and molecular factors that of the journal Nature. was welcomed to UCSC by tion,” she added, noting that as we learn more about the earth- tsunami.asp popular notion that organic less believes the fastest-growing University of California President UC is thereby also at the fore- quake I will be able to refine it. farming is dominated by small segment of farming today front of the “challenges But the essence of the phenome- family-owned farms and shows warrants scrutiny. Her analysis Vietnam: Race, Class, and and opportunities” facing non is captured in the animation,” how the industry’s regulatory included the following findings: Revisiting Vietnam Resistance.” academia today. Ward said in January. Celebrating UCSC’s structure has thwarted the very • Many growers switched to in the midst of Iraq “There has been resistance More than 700 people A magnitude 9.0 earthquake, 40th year benefits that have generated higher-value organic commodi- [among soldiers] to every war applied for the top post the most powerful earthquake strong public support for ties to increase earnings. he vietnam war was we have ever fought,” he said. at UCSC, a process that recorded in more than 40 years, csc is celebrating organic agriculture. • Much of the growth of never mentioned at all “But in Vietnam the resis- tance to fight was on a scale victor schiffrin, ucsc photo services schiffrin, ucsc photo victor began in May, noted struck underwater off the its 40th anniversary in “Organic farming is seen as organic agriculture has come T during history major search committee member Indonesian island of Sumatra U 2004–05 with a num- an answer to the crisis in our from growers who switched Martin Smith’s high school never before seen by the U.S. and UCSC chemistry and on December 26. The resulting ber of special events and food system, but organic agri- from conventional farming and days in Tennessee. But by do- military.” biochemistry professor tsunami caused devastation a fundraising campaign culture in California has evolved recruited others to join them. ing research at UCSC on that Smith found that one Eugene Switkes. throughout South Asia, with the that makes the support of in some peculiar ways that effec- • Many growers went organic conflict in the midst of media reason why resistance in A day after being named UCSC’s ninth “It was a sunny day coverage of the Iraq war, he Vietnam was so much greater chancellor, Denice Denton met with death toll estimated at more undergraduate and gradu- tively limit the number of acres out of fear that pesticides they reporters during a visit to campus. when the committee was than 200,000. ate students a top priority. used would be banned has discovered many similari- than in previous wars was the charged, and it’s a sunny According to Ward, the speed For information about Julie Guthman or create health risks for ties between the two wars. contradiction between what Robert C. Dynes, Acting day this December 15 when we of a tsunami depends on the anniversary events, as well as themselves or others.