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

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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. Cover Photography Cornerstone Paul Schraub (B.A. Politics ’75, Stevenson) 22 Offi ce of University Relations Campaign Update Carriage House Raising money for scholarships When a student calls, say ‘YES.’ University of California 1156 High Street and fellowships, which support Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 students like Charles Tolliver, is a Voice: 831.459.2501 priority of UCSC’s fi rst campus- Fax: 831.459.5795 wide fundraising campaign. tudents are making an all-out effort this year to raise funds for E-mail: [email protected] scholarships and fellowships at UC Santa Cruz. They are asking Web: review.ucsc.edu

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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. Smith, who served in the the U.S. government claimed Chancellor Martin M. Chemers, welcome Chancellor Designate depth of the water, with waves the Cornerstone Campaign, “There were very Marine Corps from 1997 to was occurring in Vietnam and and several hundred people who Denton,” said Switkes. “I look traveling as fast as 400 miles per please go to www.ucsc.edu compelling economic 2002, is the winner of last what the troops were actually filled the Media Theater. forward to working with you, hour in the deep ocean. and select and regulatory reasons for year’s Melkonian Prize for encountering on the ground. Denton, who took office Denice.” When the waves come the logo, conventional growers to submitting the top proposal He also uncovered the exis- ashore, they are typically shown at enter into organics,” said to UCSC’s Humanities tence of hundreds of under- moving at about 30 miles right. See Guthman, who believes Undergraduate Research ground newspapers that were The new chancellor offers her views of UCSC and outlines the per hour, he said, adding also pages that the organic industry’s Awards program: “The utilized to help build an anti- emerging goals of her administration. See Q&A, pages 8–9. that tsunami waves are very 22–23. reach was also limited by Soldiers’ Rebellion in war GI movement.

different from the waves one jennifer mcnulty its decision to self-regulate.

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 3 UCSC scientist U.S. Senate called Three receive top endorses nitrogen- zaretsky paul ‘unrepresentative’ awards from Alumni management efforts he electoral college

isn’t the only outdated Association jim mackenzie all photos: s a soil scientist at T political system that should gifted teacher of UCSC, Marc Los Huertos be overhauled, according to a the Spanish language, A helps farmers on the UCSC political scientist who A a public defender who Central Coast manage nitrogen says the antiquated ways of the successfully argued a case levels to maximize harvests and U.S. Senate contribute to con- before the U.S. Supreme from left: Victoria González Pagani, Roberto Nájera, and Cheryl Perazzo minimize pollution. gressional gridlock and thwart Court, and a dedicated schol- He is also part of a growing American democracy. arship adviser received the Student evaluations of of making her proud.” tional. The court agreed. global effort to address the prob- The gravest threat to fair Alumni Association’s highest distinguished teacher González Alumni recipient Nájera, Staff member Cheryl lem of farm-generated nitrogen Marc Los Huertos and CASFS colleagues monitor the Elkhorn Slough. representation is the mandate honors for the 2004–05 year. Pagani, a leader in the field of who graduated in 1979 from Perazzo, scholarship coordina- pollution. Back from the Third that each state elect two senators M. Victoria González language teaching and technol- Merrill College with a bache- tor for UCSC’s Office of International Nitrogen Conference manager for UCSC’s Center for ture-related nitrogen pollution. to the U.S. Senate regardless of Pagani received the Distin- ogy, stress her “extraordinary lor’s in sociology, is a Contra Financial Aid, has been de- in Nanjing in October, Los Agroecology & Sustainable Food In Nanjing, about 800 population, a system that has guished Teaching Award; commitment of time and ener- Costa County deputy public scribed as “a miracle worker” Huertos had a sobering message Systems (CASFS). conference participants created “perhaps the most un- Roberto Nájera, the gy” noted Gildas Hamel, chair defender. As such, he was an for her efforts to help students. for farmers: “China is ramping Convinced that U.S. farmers approved a declaration that representative legislative cham- Alumni Achievement Award; of UCSC’s Language Program. unlikely choice to argue a case “I know I will look back to my up agricultural production, and have a huge stake in regulations urges the UN, among other ber in the world,” says Daniel and Cheryl Perazzo, the Added one of her students, before the Supreme Court. But college years and see Cheryl strong international environmen- that would force global competi- things, to promote understand- Wirls, a professor of politics Outstanding Staff Award. Lisa Peake: “She is so he believed that a California Perazzo as my guiding light,” tal regulations could be what saves tors to clean up their act, too, ing of the nitrogen cycle, assess at UCSC and coauthor of the The three were honored at the personally invested as a law retroactively extending the said Heather Hazen, a student U.S. farming from a formidable Los Huertos is eager to increase consequences of its disturbance, new book The Invention of the association’s awards luncheon teacher that students cannot statute of limitations for child who came to UCSC badly in competitor,” said the research public understanding of agricul- and provide policy advice. United States Senate. on campus in early February. help but achieve for the sake sexual abuse was unconstitu- need of financial assistance. Exploring the political Dynes, legislators Engineers develop the size of a flashlight. A laser, is being developed for future Antibiotic shows meaning of words much like the one in an ordi- prototypes. visit UCSC to dedicate tim stephens technologies to nary laser pointer, is combined “In the audio signal, the pitch promise for fighting emocracy, patriotism, with a digital camera and corresponds to distance, and there engineering buildings family…these are words assist the blind a computer processor that are also special sounds to indicate Parkinson’s disease Dspoken with overwhelm- analyzes and integrates spatial features such as a curb, step, or op uc officials, includ- ing fervorfervor in the aftermath csc researchers are information as the user moves drop-off,” Manduchi said. csc researchers have ing President Robert C. of 9/11, the invasioninvasion of Iraq,Iraq, developing new assistive the device back and forth over Dan Yuan, a graduate student shown that rifampicin, T Dynes, joined state and the days that precededpreceded the U technologies for the blind a scene. The user receives working with Manduchi on the U an antibiotic used to treat government representatives NovemberNovember presidentialpresidential election. based on advances in computer feedback about the scene in virtual white cane project, built leprosy and and leaders of Silicon ButBut what do those wordswords vision that have emerged from the form of audio signals, and the initial prototype. tubercu- Valley industry at UCSC in reallyreally mean? Apparently,Apparently, differ- research in robotics. A “virtual an additional tactile interface The Santa Cruz researchers losis, can In November, (l–r) State Senator Bruce McPherson and Assemblymember November to dedicate the John Laird presented a resolution from the California State Legislature ent things, depending on youryour white cane” is one of several are collaborating prevent the campus’s new Engineering 2 political affiliation. to Acting UCSC Chancellor Martin M. Chemers and UC President prototype tools for the visually The “virtual white cane” combines a laser, a camera, with the Smith- formation Building and the Jack Baskin Robert C. Dynes, honoring the dedication of the engineering buildings. Shock and Awe: War on impaired developed by Roberto and a computer processor to give a blind person Kettlewell Eye of protein

Engineering Auditorium. Words explores the political Manduchi, an assistant profes- feedback about features such as stairs and curbs. Research Institute, fibrils associ- dept. ucsc chemistry/biochemistry Engineering Dean Steve ing and research valued at These multicampus research meaning of wordswords thrthroughough sor of computer engineering, a nonprofit research ated with Jie Li, one of the Kang announced two major $575,000. “With strong centers are supported by state essays, photographs, poems, and and his students. institute in San the death of project researchers

gifts to the engineering school support from our partners, funding and industry partner- drawings byby nearly 80 scholars, The traditional white cane is manduchi r. Francisco, on the brain cells in in the UCSC lab, is at the dedication. Kumar we are building 21st-century ships to provide the technolog- artists,artists, and poets frfromom UCSC still the most common mobility virtual white cane people with the fi rst author of a Malavalli, a prominent leader engineering,” Kang said. ical foundation for the state’s and aroundaround the world. device for the blind. It is a and other projects. Parkinson’s paper describing the in the data-storage industry, Engineering 2 includes future economic growth. CreatedCreated byby the campus’scampus’s simple and effective tool that “The people at disease. The team’s results. The has made a $1 million gift to facilities for two California Participating in the dedica- InstituteInstitute for AdvancedAdvanced FeministFeminist enables users to extend their Smith-Kettlewell drug also paper was published establish the Kumar Malavalli Institutes for Science and tion ceremonies was Jack ResearchResearch (IAFR), the book is sense of touch and “preview” the are helping us to dissolved in the November Endowed Chair in Storage Innovation: the Institute for Baskin, whose $5 million gift “an effort to reclaim language area ahead of them as they walk. understand the real existing issue of the journal Systems Research (see story, Quantitative Biomedical established the Baskin School that’sthat’s been debased in the But the long, rigid cane is not needs of the blind, fibrils in Chemistry and page 23). Cisco Systems, a Research (QB3) and the of Engineering. A subsequent politics of the ‘war‘war on terror,’”terror,’” well-suited to all situations or and they have lab tests. Biology. leading provider of network Center for Information $1 million gift helped fund explained IAFR directordirector HeleneHelene all users. blind engineers The research was carried out products and services, has Technology Research in the construction of the auditorium Moglen,Moglen, who holds a UC Manduchi’s high-tech who test the sys- by a team of scientists in the lab donated equipment for teach- Interest of Society (CITRIS). that also bears his name. PresidentialPresidential Chair in LiteratureLiterature alternative is a laser-based tems we develop,” of Anthony Fink, professor of at UCSC. range-sensing device about Manduchi said. chemistry and biochemistry.

4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 5 Students collaborate held collaborative discussions, Unusual structure in Annual alumni panel • Gordon Wiltsie (Kresge Two UCSC scientists interviewed living artists, and ’75, B.A. individual major and with museum to create visited the presses that produced the SARS virus offers will take place at literature/creative writing), elected AAAS fellows the prints—in addition to con- whose photography appears jennifer mcnulty gallery exhibit ducting extensive archival, target for drugs spring fair April 16 regularly in wo ucsc scientists— library, and web-based investiga- leading maga- TAnthony Fink, professor he big and bold exhibit, tions. Based on this research, the esearch on the genome n acclaimed museum zines such of chemistry and biochem- Ton display this past fall at the students then produced original Rof the virus that causes curator, a prize-winning as National istry, and Russell Flegal, Santa Cruz Museum severe acute respiratory syn- A journalist, a tech entrepre- Geographic, wiltsie gordon courtesy professor of environmental of Art and History, drome (SARS) has revealed an neur, and a wildlife photogra- Outside, and toxicology—were among is a prime example of unusual molecular structure that pher are among the graduates of Ski. After more than 25 years the 2004 fellows of the the benefit derived rappaport scott looks like a promising target for UCSC’s Class of ’75 who will leading and photographing American Association for from combining antiviral drugs. participate in a panel discussion expeditions to the Earth’s wo UCSC education faculty members, Judit Moschkovich (left) the Advancement of Science university research A team of scientists at UCSC on campus on April 16 during wildest corners, Wiltsie has and Julia Aguirre, are participating in a multicampus collabora- (AAAS) announced by the with an important has determined the three-dimen- the Banana Slug Spring Fair achieved international acclaim tion addressing the mathematics needs of Latino students association. cultural institution sional shape of this structure, an T reunion weekend. for his visual artistry. in kindergarten through eighth grade. The new Center for the Election as a fellow intricately twisted and folded The panel takes place on in the community. Mathematics Education of Latinos/as will examine math learning and The four graduates, who will is an honor bestowed upon segment of RNA. Their findings The exhibit featured teaching in school, family, and community settings. The goal is to discuss the relationship between Saturday, April 16, at 10:30 members of AAAS by an array of large and suggest that it may help the virus discover new ways to teach Latino students mathematics by building their UCSC education and a.m., in the University Center’s their peers. oversized graphic hijack the protein-building ma- on the cultural and linguistic diversity they bring to the classroom. current careers, Bhojwani Dining Room. The association recog- art from premier chinery of infected cells. are as follows: For more information on the

nized 308 members as 2004 American artists such The SARS virus is a type of • Philip jim goldberg panel discussion and other fellows for their efforts as Roy Lichtenstein, RNA virus, meaning that its of most placental mammals, Brookman Banana Slug Spring Fair to advance science or its Robert Rauschenberg, genetic material is RNA rather Scientists closer to including humans. (Porter ’75, reunion events, see page 24 applications that are deemed and Helen Catherine Soussloff, with a James Rosenquist print than the more familiar DNA reconstructing genome Knowing this ancestral mam- B.A. 20th-cen- or go to: alumni.ucsc.edu. scientifically or socially Frankenthaler. found in the chromosomes of mal’s complete genome would tury art history and fine arts), distinguished. Working closely wall-label descriptions and everything from bacteria to of common ancestor not mean that scientists could who is senior curator of An acknowledgement with the museum, 12 students interpretations for each of the humans. All RNA viruses have bring it to life. photography and media arts at ceremony for the new from UCSC art history profes- prints displayed to help educate relatively high mutation rates, ontrary to the movie But that’s not the point, said the Corcoran Gallery of Art. UCSC astronomer fellows took place during sor Catherine Soussloff’s the public about the exhibition. making their genomes highly CJurassic Park, in which a member of the team, David • Laurie Garrett (Merrill receives Lawrence the 2005 AAAS Annual History and Visual Culture class “It’s very unusual for variable. In HIV, for example, scientists recreate dinosaurs Haussler, UCSC professor of ’75, B.A. biology), a science Meeting in Washington, researched large-scale prints by students to work directly with this high rate of mutation con- from ancient DNA, genetic biomolecular engineering. “We and health Award in Physics D.C., in mid-February. prominent American artists such well-known artists at a tributes to the rapid appearance material more than about 50 will be able to trace the molecu- writer. A Gates from 1970 to the present. They museum,” noted Soussloff. of drug-resistant strains of the thousand years old cannot be lar evolution of our genome Senior Fellow he u.s. department virus. In SARS and related vi- reliably recovered. Nevertheless, over the past 75 million years. at the Council Tof Energy awarded the

ruses, however, one segment of a team of scientists has now It’s a very exciting new way to on Foreign garrett laurie courtesy 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award in November at SC2004, the sustained performance of 51.9 the RNA genome—known as demonstrated that computers think about our origins, a kind Relations, in Physics to Claire Max, a Scientists harness premier international conference trillion operations per second, the s2m RNA—remains virtu- could be used to reconstruct of DNA-based archaeology to Garrett is the only person to professor of astronomy and new supercomputer on high-performance comput- or teraflops, making it one of ally unchanged. with 98 percent accuracy the understand how we came to be awarded all three of the astrophysics at UCSC. the world’s fastest “Because viral evolution has DNA of a creature that lived at be,” said Haussler, a Howard major prizes in journalism: the Max, who is deputy director at NASA Ames supercomputers. not been able to tamper with the time of the dinosaurs more Hughes Medical Institute inves- Peabody, the Polk (twice), and of the Center for Adaptive Jim Taft of this sequence, it is clear that it than 75 million years ago—a tigator and director of UCSC’s the Pulitzer (for which she has Optics at UCSC and holds a strophysicists and NASA’s Advanced must be of vital importance to small, furry nocturnal animal Center for Biomolecular Science also been a finalist three times). joint appointment at the Acosmologists at UCSC are Supercomputing the viruses that have it, but no that was the common ancestor and Engineering. • Carol Lawrence Livermore National among the first scientists to Division said access one knows exactly what its func- Realini (Oakes Laboratory, received the award have access to the powerful new to Columbia was tion is,” said William Scott, an ’75, B.A. math- for her contributions to the Columbia supercomputer at the determined by a associate professor of chemistry ematics), a theory of laser guide star adap- NASA Ames Research Center. review committee and biochemistry. veteran of three realini carol courtesy tive optics and its application courtesy courtesy woosley stan The UCSC scientists have been that established a Scott’s lab used x-ray crystal- decades in tech- in ground-based astronomy. using the new system’s unprece- Astrophysicist Stan Woosley, heading up one of list of prioritized lography to map the structure of nology, and one of the industry’s Adaptive optics sharpens the the UCSC groups using the supercomputer, is dented computing power to activities. “The this RNA element with nearly most accomplished entrepre- vision of telescopes by correcting running simulations of a “burning fl oating bubble,” run simulations of complex UCSC work was atomic resolution. The results representing a small piece of an exploding supernova. neurs. Peppers and Rogers for the blurring effects of the phenomena such as supernova at the top of the showed several unique features One-To-One Marketing Group atmosphere.

ing, networking, and storage. history natural of museum carnegie klingler, a. mark explosions, gamma-ray bursts, list, so we were authorized to of the s2m RNA, including a The common ancestor of placental mammals probably looked like Eomaia named Realini as a “One-To- The E. O. Lawrence Award and dark matter halos. The Columbia supercom- give early access to a number of distinctive fold that appears to scansoria, the earliest known placental mammal, shown here in an artist’s One Pioneer,” and McGraw- is given in seven categories to NASA featured the work puter, named to honor the crew UCSC projects. These guys have be capable of binding to certain reconstruction based on a 125-million-year-old fossil skeleton found in Hill recognized her with the honor scientists and engineers of UCSC researchers in dem- of the space shuttle Columbia been burning up the cycles ever proteins involved in regulating China in 2002. Researchers now say they can reconstruct the DNA of the prestigious listing in the “Top for exceptional contributions onstrations and presentations lost in 2003, has achieved a since,” Taft said. protein synthesis in cells. common ancestor of placental mammals with 98 percent accuracy. 100 Women in Computing.” in the field of atomic energy.

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rom 1996 until her UC appointment, Introducing Chancellor Denton FChancellor Denton was Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington What have you learned about that requires Spanish-language study, Even so, we doubled our resources (UW), the fi rst woman to hold such a position UC Santa Cruz since your engineering research that is helping over a period of a few years. That at an NRC–designated Research One univer- appointment as chancellor? the blind to “see,” and an interna- experience underscored my belief that sity. Previously, she held academic appoint- tional economics program whose an entrepreneurial spirit along with ments at the University of Massachusetts In a global society, universities scholars are guiding governmental productive partnerships can lead in Boston, the Swiss Federal Institute of have new obligations to seek, under- policy around the globe. to new sources of funds and more Technology in Zürich, and the University of stand, and celebrate diversity—not effective ways to use the resources at Wisconsin–Madison. only diversity in people, but the hand. UC Santa Cruz is emerging Chancellor Denton has an international repu- intellectual diversity and creativity that UCSC is much smaller than from a period of signifi cant budget tation for effective advocacy supporting access can be found at the edges of inquiry. your former institution, the reductions. Still, I see opportunity to to science, math, and engineering opportunities I have learned that this interdisciplin- University of Washington. recover and expand resources, whether for women and minorities. In May 2004, Denton ary approach to creativity is a corner- Does that concern you? from private philanthropy or increased was among nine scholars honored by the White stone of UC Santa Cruz’s history and Size is not as important as state and federal funding. For example, House with a Presidential Award for Excellence in remains an integral element of its creativity and innovation, both of a reputation for excellent teaching Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentor- current aspirations. This appreciation which abound at UC Santa Cruz. and research has led to fundraising ing, recognizing her role as a leader in enhancing for intellectual diversity provides a UCSC is smaller and younger than success in the current Cornerstone diversity in science and engineering. strategic advantage for our campus— other leading universities, but this Campaign. I intend for UCSC to Chancellor Denton is a current member of one that I believe will continue to makes it more agile and adaptive, build on that unprecedented success. the President’s Committee to select recipients distinguish UC Santa Cruz as one the allowing nimble responses to change of the National Medal of Science, and she also world’s most innovative universities. and new opportunities. Another key to What led you to accept serves on the committee to select recipients of I have also observed that UCSC’s UCSC’s leadership in the 21st century the position of chancellor the A. T. Waterman Award sponsored by the Na- will be our ability to develop new and students and faculty are committed at UC Santa Cruz? tional Science Foundation to honor exceptional to making positive contributions to productive partnerships. The problems individual achievement in science or engineer-

paul schraub paul society, regardless of their discipline. we face as a society are too large for Ucsc is clearly going places. ing. She is a fellow of the American Association And this fi re burns brightly among one discipline or even one institution The campus has a well-deserved for the Advancement of Science, the Associa- Denice D. Denton, the ninth chancellor to lead our alumni, who clearly carry to tackle alone. I am convinced that reputation for—and a passionate tion for Women in Science, and the Institute of forward a tradition of making a bringing together a variety of strengths commitment to—diversity, excellence, Electrical and Electronics Engineers and serves UC Santa Cruz, was appointed by the UC Regents difference in the world. Already, I and perspectives is the only way to and innovation. As the new chancellor, on several prestigious commissions and boards. have seen examples of this desire to address society’s crucial challenges. I welcome the chance to support the The author of nearly 100 scholarly journal in December and offi cially assumed the position on tackle critical issues in the work of Many UCSC scholars are doing just education of some of the country’s articles, book chapters, and conference papers, the Center for Justice, Tolerance, that. With students, staff, and faculty, most talented students and to help Denton earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering February 14. On the eve of her fi rst offi cial day as and Community; the Institute I will build on the collaborations sustain and inspire the work of at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chancellor, Denton took a few minutes from a very full for Advanced Feminist Research; already begun and develop new ones. distinguished faculty and outstanding where she earned three other degrees, including the Center for Ocean Health; the staff. I will dedicate myself as an a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engi- schedule to contemplate the future. As she stresses in the Institute for Humanities Research; How does the current climate ambassador and ardent advocate in neering, the Electrical Engineering degree, and a and the Center for Adaptive Optics, both national and international circles Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. Her following interview, she is eager to pursue opportunities of limited budgets affect your to name just a few. In fact, I have vision for UC Santa Cruz? to increase recognition of UCSC’s research is in microelectromechanical systems that will benefi t students, support the work of staff not yet discovered an area of inquiry achievements. On a personal note, this (MEMS) as an enabling technology, particularly at UCSC that doesn’t strive to create When i started as dean of position has given me the wonderful in life sciences applications. She also works in and faculty, and foster productive connections with knowledge that will advance our engineering at the University of opportunity to live in a community the arena of transformational change in higher society. At UCSC, for example, we Washington, budgets also were lean that is renowned for its natural beauty education and holds a UCSC appointment as alumni, donors, corporate partners, and others. are home to a health sciences major and state budget cuts were frequent. and progressive attitudes. Professor of Electrical Engineering.

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 9 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.

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 21

The UC Santa Cruz Cornerstone Campaign: Supporting Students, Transforming Lives

First UCSC fundraising Some recent campaign highlights: Humanities graduate program gains support campaign nears goal support the Baskin School of

Alumna’s gift supports sandor nagyszalanczy Engineering’s Storage Systems One of UCSC’s earliest graduate he Cornerstone Campaign is the scholarships and library Research Center. “I am most programs has received a major excited that Mr. Malavalli, gift from Craig Schiffer Tfirst major campuswide fundrais- When Kit Mura-smith a business leader in the field of (Cowell ’78), who established ing effort in the history of UC Santa (Merrill ’75) came to UCSC storage networks, has chosen the History of Consciousness as a “re-entry” student, she had to support the Storage Systems Fellowship Endowment. Steve and Rebecca Sooy Cruz. The campus is well on its way nearly enough units to gradu- Research Center with this endow- The history of consciousness toward raising the goal of $50 million ate—but in four different ma- ment,” said dean of engineering program is an interdisciplinary Long-time Año Nuevo jors. “UCSC Steve Kang. Ph.D. program centered in the State Reserve volunteer docents by the end of June. welcomed humanities with links to social Rebecca and Steve Sooy All areas of UCSC are benefiting me and sciences, natural sciences, and have made a gift of $200,000 provided a Colleges benefit from the arts. Schiffer’s $25,000 gift to establish the Rebecca and from the campaign, with increased kit mura-smith courtesy grant and provides crucial student sup- Steve Sooy Graduate Fellowship the support support initiatives port, enabling focused disserta- in Marine Mammals. The undergraduate and graduate support I needed to tion research and writing. fellowship will be open to any a top priority. complete Volunteer leaders have launched graduate student studying ma- my degree new fundraising programs that rine mammals at UCSC, with To help meet that priority, hun- Kit Mura-smith in one year are providing immediate and Santa Cruz couple’s primary consideration being dreds of alumni, parents, donors, and without working. I’ll always be long-term benefits for UCSC’s given to students investigating grateful for that,” said Mura- colleges. Nearly $80,000 has surprise gift the northern elephant seals. other friends of UCSC attended the smith, who recently made the been raised through the first- Jean Langenheim, professor Scholarships Benefit Dinner, held largest gift ever by a graduate. ever Reunion Match Challenge Graduate students in psychology emerita of ecology and evolution- Her $1.4 million planned gift will be benefiting from the hard ary biology, has been studying in November. A record $1 million, will be split equally between work of a couple they will never plant ecology scholarships for re-entry stu- meet. Long-time Santa Cruz and evolu-

double the amount of the previous jim mackenzie dents and improvements to the residents Federico and Rena tion for 60 year’s event, was raised to support University Library’s facilities. Perlino lived modestly, worked years. Now ucsc photo services ucsc photo hard, and donated their estate to she is giving UCSC students. jim mackenzie local charities and organizations, financial sup- “With this campaign, we will Tech leader funds including UCSC. More than port to a new “I can focus more on my academics,” says Charles Tolliver Jr., describing $400,000 from the Perlinos’ generation continue advancing the mission the impact scholarship support has had on his studies at UC Santa Cruz. The Merrill data systems chair planned gifts will support of graduate Jean Langenheim of UCSC at a crucial time for the College senior is the first recipient of the Eric Thomas Memorial Scholarship, an award psychology graduate students students Kumar Malavalli, cofounder of established to celebrate the life and achievements of the late alumnus. The scholarship working with deaf or hearing- through an endowed fellowship students we serve,” said Gordon Brocade Communications and impaired individuals. fund. Her $200,000 gift estab- recognizes and supports students who are committed to community service. InMage Systems, has made a gift lishes the Jean H. Langenheim Ringold (Crown ’72), chair of the A South Central Los Angeles native who had never been outside the U.S., Tolliver of $1million Ken Doctor Graduate Fellowship in Plant worked all last summer to save enough for one quarter in the Education Abroad Kumar Malavalli to establish an Cornerstone Campaign Council. Ecology and Evolution, which endowed chair and the Alumni Colleges Fund Fellowships support Program in Rome. Now he’s nearly fluent in Italian. The scholarship support he will be available to students in storage Tiles Program. College tiles received supplemented his savings, enabling him to get more out of the trip and science students in two departments: ecology systems recognize gifts to a college of not have to worry about fees and book expenses as he completes his degree. and evolutionary biology, and research. $1,000 or more. Shown above Graduate students studying A legal studies major and sociology minor, Tolliver is applying to graduate school. environmental studies. The Kumar is Ken Doctor (Merrill ’71), marine mammals and plants His long-term goal: a J.D. in criminal justice. “I would like to say thank you to the Malavalli president of the UCSC Alumni have new options for student For more information on the donors who helped create the Eric Thomas scholarship,” said Tolliver. “This support Endowed Association, with his inaugural support with the creation of Cornerstone Campaign. go to

has given me access to opportunities I otherwise would not have had.” kiumar malavalli courtesy Chair will college tile. two fellowships. giveto.ucsc.edu

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 23 ALUMNI NEWS Supporting students: The Eric Thomas Memorial Alumni Association Scholarship honors the late Oakes For more information on Make your nomination: Banana Slug Spring Fair on April 16 Alumni Association ’84 graduate, former Alumni the Alumni Association You may have a winner Councilors, 2004–05 Association president, and co- and its activities, contact: ...... soars to new heights founder of Black Escargot (UCSC’s CSC lecturer M. Victoria African American alumni affi nity Alumni Association González Pagani “introduced Cowell his academic year, UCSC group), who passed away in June University of California me to a world of Spanish lan- Adilah Barnes ’72, Vice shmuel thaler photos: U 1156 High St. President for External Affairs graduates and other donors 2004. Charles Tolliver Jr. is the fi rst guage, literature and linguistics that Gregory Canillas ’90 T to the Alumni Association recipient of this award (see page 22). Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 I could not have known otherwise. Scholarship Fund (AASF) have The Alumni Association’s “First She is the reason I am pursuing Karen Rhodes ’77 On the web: Allison Tom ’93 provided more student scholar- in Family” scholarship initiative graduate studies in Spanish,” wrote alumni.ucsc.edu ships than ever before. Both the targets fi nancially needy students Jenny Nadaner (Cowell ’03) when Stevenson E-mail: David Brick ’69 dollar amount and the number of who are the fi rst in their family she nominated the winner of the Amy Everitt ’92 fi nancial-need-based scholarships to attend UC. [email protected] Alumni Association’s 2004–05 Sandor Nagyszalanczy ’77, reached record levels: 20 under- The Alumni Colleges Fund Tiles Distinguished Teaching Award. Banana Spring Fair 2004: Early-era alumni discussed UCSC’s college system with current and retired Toll-free long distance: Vice President graduates received new awards of Program will generate annual and Nominations are now open for faculty and staff (left photo) during a session titled Stewarding College Traditions; (l–r) Professor David (800) 933-SLUG for Administration $3,000 each, and 23 students re- endowment funds for UCSC’s col- the Alumni Association’s 2005–06 Joan Fitting Scott ’69, Kaun, Cowell College programs coordinator Angie Christmann, and Professors Emeritae Priscilla newed their scholarships at $1,500 leges. For a gift of $1,000 or more, Locally: Alumni Achievement, Outstanding Vice President Shaw and Audrey Stanley. A college reception at Kresge (right photo) brought together journalism each. Together, these awards total donors may purchase a personalized (831) 459-2530 Staff, and Distinguished Teaching for Internal Affairs lecturer Conn Hallinan (left) and two former students, Santa Cruz Sentinel reporters Donna Jones $94,500. engraved tile that will be perma- Awards. Your nomination of a Nancy Redwine Crown (Kresge ’93, center) and (Kresge ’01). The Alumni Association has nently displayed at the college of memorable professor, an exceptional Jerry Ruiz ’77 recently launched two new scholar- their choice (see page 23). staff member, and/or an accom- Rick Simpson ’73 ship initiatives within AASF and To make a gift to these and Alumni site makes plished UCSC graduate may bring Stacey Vreeken ’83 elebrate spring and UCSC’s 40th anniversary with a visit to your alma mater a new program to raise money for other campus support programs, connecting easier well-deserved recognition to a mem- Merrill Cduring Banana Slug Spring Fair, the campus reunion weekend. Enjoy lectures, the colleges. go online to giveto.ucsc.edu. ber of the campus community. Ken Doctor ’71, President receptions, reunions, and panel discussions designed especially for alumni. Selected s April’s Banana Slug To make a nomination, go to Patrick R. A. Ford ’93 Spring Fair campus reunion alumni.ucsc.edu/programs and choose Dominador Siababa ’75, highlights are listed below. Check the web—alumni.ucsc.edu—for a complete list, weekend draws near, savvy the “awards” button. The 2005–06 Executive Vice President A UCSC graduates are fi nding the nomination deadline is May 6.

all the details, and to RSVP; or contact the Alumni Association at (800) 933-SLUG. services ucsc photo Porter Alumni Association’s web page Mary Doyle ’74 more useful than ever before. All-Alumni Reunion Luncheon, Class of 1975 30-year reunion, Latino Alumni Network John Gutierrez ’73 R R R Your membership honoring UCSC’s 40th anniversary reception, and dinner. student and alumni mentoring The Online Directory contains Rob Sawyer ’72, Vice President and the graduating classes of forum and networking reception. password-protected information on makes a difference for Finance R Jack Baskin School of some 60,000 graduates, including ’70, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, and ’00; lumni keep UCSC’s Kresge all alumni and guests welcome. Engineering reunion—for all R UCSC’s fi rst-ever Asian 16,000 e-mail addresses—a record unique experience alive, Paul D. Seeman ’76 majors related to computer and American and Pacifi c Islander number of alumni e-mails since the accessible, and affordable. Sharif Traylor ’85 R Second Annual Alumni Panel information sciences, engineering, alumni reunion. site was launched A Discussion, featuring graduates and bioinformatics. Membership in your Alumni in March 2002. Oakes from the class of ’75, including R Hillel/Jewish alumni reunion. Association supports UCSC Gala opening of the exhibit E-mail makes Filomena Trindade ’85 Philip Brookman, senior cura- R and its students by: Patrick Walker ’84 tor at the Corcoran Gallery of “Reminiscing Cowell College: R Lionel Cantú Gay Lesbian it easy to fi nd The First 10 Years.” Bisexual Transgender Intersex and contact old • Providing scholarships College Eight Art; Pulitzer, Polk, and Peabody prize–winning author and journalist Resource Center lavender reception. friends. • Funding college projects Susan Brutschy ’80 R Humanities Division party, Laurie Garrett; high-tech entrepre- The “Events Aaron Cole ’91 including faculty—past and present. R “A Day on the Bay” morning • Offering career advice and neur Carol Realini, named one of whale-watching cruise with ocean Registration/RSVP” function al- networking Ex Officio the top 100 women in computing; R Psychology Department reunion. sciences professor Mary Silver, on lows guests to submit an RSVP and Carolyn Christopherson, • Hosting visiting scholars and Gordon Wiltsie, whose photo- ADA-compliant ship. Proceeds payment online for reunions and Executive Director R All-sciences reunion. graphs regularly appear in National benefi t GLBTI Resource Center. other events, and also to see who • Promoting excellence with Denice D. Denton, Chancellor Geographic and other magazines. Receptions at each college. else plans to attend. awards. Alison Galloway, Chair, R R Chancellor’s Undergraduate Now is a great time to contact Join more than 10,000 loyal Academic Senate R Third Annual Distinguished 2005 African American alumni Internship Program reunion, R Recipients of 2004–05 Alumni Association Scholarship Fund awards are (l–r): old friends, invite them to join you Alumni Association members. Jessica Pierce, Chair, Faculty Lecture presented by pro- reunion. 1994–2004. Student Union Assembly fessor of psychology Craig Haney, back row, Jordan Neyer, Susanna Tuan, Anna Archna Madan, and Phillip B. at the on-campus April reunion, Support tomorrow’s leaders and Kai Pommerenke, President, an expert on the psychological R Fifteenth anniversary celebration R UCSC track and fi eld reunion, Rose; third row, Jacqueline Lima, Laura Ann Landriau, Ngoc Ba Nguyen, and submit your reunion RSVP, and/or become a member today. Graduate Student Association effects of incarceration and other of the African American Resource including the alumni Slug Run, to Sherry Sibley Hall; second row, Sam Kuo, Latrici Donyel Thomas, and Mariel confi rm the accuracy of your per- alumni.ucsc.edu legal and civil rights issues. and Cultural Center. benefi t the Track and Field Club. Tarango; and front row, Noah Anthony Fullerton and Jade Meadow Brooks. sonal data at alumni.ucsc.edu.

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 25 selection, project scheduling, and ’02 Jennifer JONES has recently ’91 George GUBBINS Jr., who Crown College financial feasibility studies. returned from a two-year tour of participated in the EAP in Spain, ALUMNI NOTES ’80 Dan COLTON captained a ’90 Carolyn CHERRY recently service with the Peace Corps as a now teaches high school Spanish and cycling team that rode in the 2004 passed her written preliminary exams community economic development is about to go into administration. Bike for Breath and raised over for her doctorate in educational pol- volunteer in the Dominican Republic. ’93 Merrill FEITELL’s first book, Cowell College ’99 Sarah DIAZ-BASTIN is work- studies; in nominating her, colleagues she teaches and travels worldwide $10,000 for the American Lung icy and administration; she is work- ’03 Eion LYS earned a California titled Here Beneath Low-Flying ing as a fine artist in San Francisco noted her positive attitude, teaching and has private practices in Berkeley Association; he was also an active ing on her dissertation and adminis- Teaching Credential in secondary Planes, was published in fall 2004 ’70 Sandra KATZMAN teaches and recently had her first mural expertise, willingness to work hard, and Sebastopol, Calif. member of the planning committee trative licensures, while still working school social studies from CSU by the University of Iowa Press; she English at the National Defense dedicated at the Quan Yin Healing and knowledge of developmental ’83 Sarah CREWE and her for the event. as a professional development coor- Sacramento in May 2004; he is now has published in Book Magazine, Academy and at Osaka University Arts Building; her web page is studies. Stacy SMITH has been a husband, Patrick Connor, are the ’87 Jeffery MUNIC has been in dinator for the Minneapolis public managing The Gardener, a retail Glimmer Train, and the Best New of Foreign Studies; she also works as spiralpathart.com. licensed marriage, family, and child proud parents of twin girls, now Jerusalem for over 15 years studying schools. Suzanne SAUNDERS store in Berkeley. American Voices 2000 and won the a freelance rapporteur for Mitsubishi ’01 Kristian JENSEN is entering therapist since 1976; he has a private 17 months old; Sarah is a client the holy Torah at an ultraorthodox graduated from Emory University 2004 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Research Institute and for the Ship his third year of a Ph.D. program practice in Los Gatos specializing in adviser in the Private Client Services yeshiva. He says, “The experience in 1997 with a dual M.S.N. and Porter College Stacey LEWIS recently got en- and Ocean Foundation of Japan. in American literature at UC Davis, adult caregivers and their emotional Division of JPMorgan Bank One. has been fantastic and gets better M.P.H. degree and became licensed gaged to Brandon Baunach of San ’77 Bob LOMBARDI’s most recent where he also teaches composition. well-being. ’88 After four years on Mauna Kea, every day,” and invites fellow alums as a nurse midwife the same year; she ’73 David RUTH’s glass sculpture Francisco; she’s the publicity and adventure was to ride his Harley solo ’02 Marnie Lynn GRANADOS is ’73 Martin FINE joined the John McDONALD is working as a to write to him about spiritual issues recently caught her 700th baby and was shown at the Alysia Duckler marketing director of City Lights the length of the Alcan Highway; a member of the inaugural class at Sacramento office of Best Best & flight dynamics engineer for a small at [email protected]. has a busy practice in Santa Rosa, Gallery in Portland in fall 2004. Publishers. Bob lives with his most recent wife UC Irvine College of Medicine’s Krieger in October 2004 as a spacecraft operated at UC Berkeley ’89 Nick KOPSINIS is married, Calif. She married her high school ’76 Wayne ASHLEY is the curator ’94 After enjoying every second at in Modesto, Calif., and continues to Program in Medical Education for partner in the firm’s Schools and Space Sciences Laboratory and miss- living in Virginia, and the father of sweetheart in 2000, and their son, of New Media and Public Programs UCSC, Lisa ARNDT went on to support conservative issues, pro-life the Latino Community, a medical Special Education Practice Group; ing the Hawaiian Islands. a newborn son, a future Theta Chi, Will, was born in May 2002. at the Lower Manhattan Cultural get a master’s degree in psychology causes, and the rights of gun owners. training program designed to meet he has a law degree from Harvard ’89 Robert BULMAN received named Samuel. ’91 Rebecca ARNOLDI is paint- Council; in the past year he curated from Antioch University and is now ’78 Martin WEISS has been work- the increasing demand for physicians and a master’s degree in counseling his Ph.D. in sociology from UC ing and codirecting an urban envi- public wireless events and produced working with adolescents with severe ing in the psychiatric field for the and public health leaders who can education from Sonoma State Berkeley and is now an associate [ Information removed from this ronmental education program in an international conference on the eating disorders, which she describes past 25 years; he resides happily in address the distinct needs of Latinos. University, and he is a certified professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s location as per alumni request. ] Boston. future of war. as amazing and powerful work. Valrico, Fla., with his wife, Debbie, trainer in negotiations and advanced College of California; he lives in ’92 Kristine CIOFFI was mar- ’77 Laura MARELLO’s first novel, Bethany SKENFIELD Lund owns and his son, Evan. Stevenson College mediation. Davis with his wife, Lynne, and son, ’94 Terran ROSENBERG has ried in the Maasai Mara in Kenya Claiming Kin, is forthcoming from a photography and design business ’79 John LEECH was ordained ’74 Douglas MAYNARD is a Aron (born in October 2004). He moved to north Florida to start up in 2003; in summer 2004 she was Guernica Editions, Toronto, this specializing in photojournalism, to the Sacred Order of Deacons at ’69 Joan FITTING Scott is a lawyer practicing with the law offices recently published his first book, the education department at a small living in London and expecting her year. Rebecca MORGAN is the wedding photography and portraits, Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church in freelance writer and public rela- of Maynard & Hogan in Santa Clara Hollywood Goes to High School: aquarium. first child but planned to move to 2004–05 treasurer for the National and web and print design. Kenwood, Calif., in November 2004. tions practitioner; her work has County; San Jose Magazine recently Cinema, Schools, and American ’96 Elyse OLSON Lowe married France after the birth. Malcolm Speakers Association; she has served ’95 LaMar DAVIS is director ’83 Bonnie HOUGH, a senior been published in named him one of Culture (Worth, 2005). Ryan Lowe in 2004 and is working RIDENOUR was selected as one on the national board of directors of the Choice Program at the attorney with the Administrative newspapers and the top attorneys ’91 Roberto DELGADILLO for the San Diego City Council. of the top 100 ski instructors by for the last three years and was re- Shriver Center at the University of Office of the Courts Center for magazines, and re- We’d like to in SiliconSilicon Valley.Valley. completed his doctorate in modern ’00 Sara WHITESIDE Greco and SKI magazine (November 2004); he elected to serve another three-year Maryland, Baltimore County; he Families, Children, and the Courts, cently in an Atriad hear from you ’76 Joy Latin American history from UCLA; Matthew GRECO (Stevenson ’02) lives in Truckee, Calif., and is the term. She also continues to run the is pursuing a master’s in arts ad- was awarded the 2004 Fay Stender Press anthology, COLANGELOCOLANGELO he continues to work as a librarian married in 2003 and have a son, staff trainer at Northstar@Tahoe organization Books For Treats (www. ministration at Goucher College in Award from California Women Haunted Encounters: R Use the envelope liveslives with her for the Inglewood and Beverly Hills Ezra Owen; they live in Santa Cruz, Ski/Snowboard School. In the sum- BooksForTreats.org), which encour- Maryland and is married to Marla Lawyers, the statewide women’s bar Departed Family in the middle of the husband and Public Libraries. Allison JACK is where Matt is a deacon at Church of mers, he teaches tennis at the resort ages giving “gently read” children’s McLean. association; in giving the award, and Friends. She magazine to send two children;children; senior education policy development the King. and was honored as Pro of the Year books at Halloween instead of candy. ’00 Kimberly DARLINGTON the president of the group described is on the UCSC us your class note she recentlyrecently pub- adviser for Illinois governor Rod for the Reno/Tahoe region by the ’78 Jeffrey GLUCKSON Briar is in her first year of teaching Hough as someone who has devoted Alumni Council. lished a book, Blagojevich. U.S. Professional Tennis Association was the piano accompanist for the elementary school in Santa Rosa; her professional life to helping ’70 Aleck DARR R or send e-mail to titled Embodied ’93 David COLLINS graduated in Merrill College NorCal Division. Stephen Schwartz musical Godspell she received her teaching credential [email protected] poor and moderate income people retired in 2004 after Wisdom: What May 2004 from Howard University ’70 Alexander “Sandy” MacKAY ’93 In 2003, Tiffany VOGEL when it was performed in spring from Sonoma State University. without lawyers gain access to the 32 years of work- R or submit a note Our Anatomy Can School of Law and was admitted to is still having fun in politics, Gerck married Ed Gerck and joined 2004 in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. ’03 Kiel OLFF is working for the family courts. ing for the State of via the web at Teach Us About the the Colorado Bar in October 2004. community activity, and municipal him in his start-up venture, Safevote, Kevin FLYNN is now the executive San Francisco Giants and Golden California; he began ArtArt of LLivingiving. ’95 Kirsten BERZON recently ’84 Chris LINSON lives and works alumni.ucsc.edu planning. an Internet voting company; in vice president of Marathon Products, State Warriors, making highlight as a clerk and ended ’79 Katrin began working at Berkeley Repertory in Oakland as a physical therapist; (go to Class Notes) ’71 Susan FREDA Suter works 2004, little Eduardo, weighing a manufacturer of sensor-based videos and other team media. he is engaged to be married and up as a research FLECHSIG Theatre as the special events manag- as a research nurse in radiation 11 lbs. 5 oz., joined their family. technologies for the pharmaceutical, looking forward to the next phase analyst, responsible receivedreceived a Ph.D.Ph.D. er; she lives with her partner, Kathy, oncology at the University of ’96 Laura VIK Dang taught chemical, and produce industries. Kresge College of his life. for his office’s web in anthropol-anthropol- and dog, Mollie, in Oakland. Alabama, Birmingham. Cynthia English in Vietnam for six years; ’79 Susan MEADE is thrilled ’91 Elisa GORDON, an assistant site. To celebrate, he and his wife, ogy from the University of Texas ’96 Susan HARRISON resides WALL’s book The Courage to now she and her husband, Phu, live that her son, Alex O’KONSKI, is a ’76 After 25 years as counsel in professor of bioethics at Loyola Nancy, journeyed to New York City at Austin and recently published in London, where she is finishing Trust: A Guide to Deep and Lasting in Hollister, have a two-year-old freshman at Crown College this year. the juvenile justice system, Paul University in Chicago, received an for two weeks and later attended Miniature Crafts and Their Makers: graduate work in botany at the Relationships is being published daughter, and are expecting another ’80 Lynn ERLICH Erfer is director SEEMAN was appointed a court NIH grant for research on kidney the Dickens Universe at UCSC; Palm Weaving in a Mexican Town Natural History Museum and the by New Harbinger Publications child in May. In summer 2004 they of marketing at the Maui Visitors commissioner for the Superior Court transplantation; she had a son, he would love to hear from anyone (University of Arizona Press, 2004). Imperial College of Science and in 2005. returned to Vietnam to visit family. Bureau, and she is learning hula. in Alameda County, Calif., in 2004; Nicolai, in February 2003. in his history classes or just alums In the last two years, Pamela Technology; her area of study is ’76 Wendy KING was recently ’99 Aubrey HOLLOWELL’s boy- ’86 Andrew McINTIRE is a he is a founding member of the ’92 Jane PARKS-McKay is a free- from the early seventies at Aleck. REVLING Gravlin has survived molecular phylogenetics and evolu- appointed senior associate dean for friend, Tim Ho Wong, proposed cartographer with the Census Court Appointed Special Advocates lance journalist and runs a 10-year- [email protected]. colorectal cancer, five surgeries, a tion in plants. finance and administration at the while they were on vacation in Paris Bureau. He and his wife, Ann Program, the Donald P. McCullum old public relations firm that repre- ’72 Katherine HAMAKER Clark divorce after 22 years of marriage, ’98 Maricela SANTOS is currently University of Vermont College of on the second anniversary of their RETZLAFF McIntire (Porter ’85), Youth Court, and the Juvenile sents businesses all over the country; was a recent recipient of the 2004 and sending her oldest child off to employed in the Financial District Medicine; prior to this, she worked first date; they’re planning a July have two children and another was Counsel Advocacy Project. Seeman she recently contributed two family Distinguished Staff Award at college; she has been a licensed in San Francisco and is a member of as a consultant to facility and opera- 2005 wedding. Gabrielle TENN expected in December 2004; they is also a member of the UCSC recipes to the Meals to Remember Linn-Benton Community College clinical social worker for 20 years. a local dance company, which per- tions management in areas such as New married Steven New in March are regular churchgoers, Andrew is a Alumni Council. Family Cookbook, compiled by Traci in Albany, Ore.; she has been at the ’82 Ariel GIARRETTO is a formed at the Beijing International architectural and construction firm 2004; they live in the San Diego area Cub Scout den leader, and Ann stays Post—a benefit for the Alzheimer’s college since 1975 and is the depart- somatic psychotherapist specializing Tourist Festival in September 2004. with their two dogs, Roxy and Loki. home with the kids. Association. ment chair for developmental in the treatment of severe trauma;

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2005 27 ’79 Doug FRIEDMAN sang and ’78 David SHERMAN is John Welfare for his coauthorship ’01 Tiffany LEVIN Kim was played “Route 66” at his department Gideon Searle Professor of Medicinal (with Jay Silverman) of the book accepted into the graduate program barbeque; he’s an environmental Chemistry at the University of The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the in communications at San Jose State engineer for the Orange County Michigan. Impact of Domestic Violence on Family University. Nathan PIERCE lives in Planning Department, and he ’83 David FIERSTEIN (cert., Dynamics (SAGE Publications, 2002). Hawaii, where the ska music is great; received his M.P.A. from CSU Long science communication ’97), a ’84 Beth DILLINGHAM, an he has started a record label, and Beach in May 2004. He also acts, freelance science illustrator and environmental educator, has been his first release is a compilation of writes screenplays, and is represented animator, won the top award for chosen as the new superintendent Hawaiian ska, which will be a benefit by Marian Berzon Talent. Brian Informational Graphics in Science of Rio Grande Nature Center for the Surfrider Foundation, Oahu TLOUGAN had his 20th solo magazine’s 2004 Visualization State Park in New Mexico; Nature Chapter ([email protected]). photography exhibition in October Challenge. Center’s operations include numer- ’02 Skylar BUNDY DePedro is 2004 in Berlin; since graduation he ’87 Jana SHOHAT Busby and ous education, outreach, and bosque a graduate student in counseling at has traveled to 51 countries, most her husband, Robert BUSBY restoration programs. Webster State University in North recently Albania, Montenegro, and (Cowell ’88), have two children, ’86 Susan DeVANNA-Conrad Carolina. Slovakia. His photography web site Laura (9) and Megan (6); Jana is a taught school for seven years and is ’03 Hannah De La VEGA won is www.geocities.com/apgalbo. part-time grant writer, and Rob is an now working in educational technol- the Pearl of the Philippine Islands ’89 Garth WOLKOFF received engineering geologist for the State of ogy; she lives with her husband and Beauty Pageant in 2004; she is a Graduation Memories his M.F.A. from the University of California. daughter. Spencer LENNARD sales executive with Property I.D. Maryland in 1996; in 2003, he and ’90 Suzy JONES is director of started the Klamath-Siskiyou in Los Angeles. a small group of teachers started the business development at Genentech; Wildlands Center (KS Wild) in It’s Never Too Late. High School for Public Service in she recently coauthored a biotech 1997 to ensure compliance with Brooklyn, N.Y., where he teaches book that she hopes to make avail- environmental laws in the six million College Nine Maybe you were too broke, English. He lives with his girlfriend, able to UCSC students. acres of federal lands in southwest ’01 Michael LOFGREN is an Leslie Jirsa, and continues to write ’96 Melissa KOHLER graduated Oregon. With a staff of seven, KS aviator in the U.S. Navy; in saddled with student loans, or fiction. from Bastyr University in Seattle Wild (www.kswild.org) has prevented November 2004, after training in ’94 Melinda GLINES spent two with a master’s degree in acupunc- the destructive logging of more than Meridian, Miss., he received the maybe you didn’t think it was cool. years in the Peace Corps in Fiji, went ture and a doctorate in naturopathic 3,000 acres of roadless and native for- coveted “Wings of Gold,” marking to medical school at UC Irvine, and medicine; she hopes to open a ests in the Klamath-Siskiyou region. the culmination of months of is now in her third year of a family private practice after further studies ’92 Melanie CIHOS Anderson flight training. medicine residency in Santa Rosa. in China. Natasha YANNACONE lives in Santa Cruz and is attending ’95 Chris FREUND moved to Yannacañedo is an actress living Maurine Church Coburn School Vietnam immediately after graduat- in New York City; she just won of Nursing at Monterey Peninsula In Memoriam ing from UCSC; initially he worked a HOLA award for her work in College. Charles Gary LOVE (Cowell ’67), for the Templeton Vietnam and Fireflies; she played a lead role in ’94 Douglas KEEHN completed who worked in custodial services Southeast Asia Fund, based in Ho 107 Street, which had its world debut UCLA School of Law and UCLA at UCSC, most recently at Long Chi Minh City, and then he relo- at HBO’s Latino Film Festival. Public Interest Law and Policy Marine Lab’s Seymour Center, died cated to Singapore where he covered ’98 Shealeen BLUM received her Program in May 2004 and was ad- at home in December 2004, after the technology sector in emerg- Doctor of Optometry degree in 2004 mitted to the California State Bar; a courageous struggle with non- ing markets for Templeton. Now from the Pennsylvania College of he practices international law in Hodgkin’s lymphoma; he was 60. back in Vietnam, he is the founder Optometry. Los Angeles. Sharon ERSPAMER (Crown ’76), and managing director of Mekong ’01 Elisa SORIA Arellano is ’97 Matthew MITCHELL married a graphic artist and environmental- Capital, which manages the Mekong married with two children and is Alison Speights of Newport Beach ist, who combined her artistic talent Enterprise Fund, the first private working on a master’s degree in in July 2004; they live in Santa Cruz with her scientific background to equity fund to invest in private, en- social work. where Alison teaches third grade make interpretive signs for Santa trepreneurial companies in Vietnam, ’04 Christina OSUMI is engaged and Matthew is going to paramedic Cruz County beaches and parks, DIPLOMA FRAMES Laos, and Cambodia. Web site: www. to be married, pursuing her elemen- school. Albert Galvan MORALES died of colon cancer in September Is yours framed yet? mekongcapital.com. tary teaching credential, traveling, completed his active duty military 2004 in Santa Cruz; she was 50. ’98 Colleen CROSBY, owner and enjoying life. career as a captain, after serving Ken Corby SHINOMIYA (Cowell of the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting with the 101st Airborne Division ’89), who had worked in the bicycle Company, was honored by the during Operation Iraqi Freedom; industry for many years, died unex- Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce College Eight he was a manager of the Veteran’s pectedly of cardiovascular disease in as “Woman of the Year” at the ’77 Kevin CALLAHAN has served Employment Office in Mosul, Iraq, December 2003; he was 38. Times change. organization’s November 2004 as the public works administrator hiring over 6,700 local citizens for Cat Helen MUNSON-Ring (Oakes Preserve your graduate’s memories, awards dinner. for Summit County, Utah, for the work in humanitarian projects and ’93), who held master’s degrees in last three years and is writing a book, support and stability operations. nursing and clinical psychology, died or rekindle your own. Oakes College titled “The Effective Planner,” to be ’99 Michelle LYNAR Ashley and in December 2004, from critical published by the American Planning her husband, Boyer Ashley, were mar- injuries she suffered when flinging It’s never too late. ’77 Sandra STEVENSON is a Association. ried in 2003 and live on Capitol Hill herself in front of her car to stop it Spanish-speaking psychotherapist ’83 R. Lundy BANCROFT won in Washington, D.C.; Michelle joined from rolling into a ravine with her at an outpatient clinic run by San a 2004 Pro Humanitate Literary Science Applications International six-year-old son inside; she was 33. Mateo County Mental Health Award from the Center for Child Corporation in 2003 as a senior de- slugstore.ucsc.edu Services and is in private practice in Welfare Policy of the North fense policy analyst and was recently San Francisco. American Resource Center for Child promoted to program manager. Serving the UC Santa Cruz campus community since 1965 831.459.4544

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