EPA ranks UCSC sixth CAMPUS UPDATE for ‘green energy’

vote by uc santa cruz of sterling planet courtesy Engineering school celebrates 10 years of innovation Astudents to boost their own courtesy of shakespeare santa cruz santa of shakespeare courtesy fees to enhance campus support for “green power” has brought that cross disciplinary bound- Open house, lecture national recognition from the

matt fitt matt aries, pioneering new areas of series, symposium research and creating exciting U.S. Environmental Protection opportunities for students. New Agency (EPA). mark anniversary buildings completed in 2004— The EPA’s College and Students voted last spring to pay $3 per the award-winning Engineering University Green Power Partners, quarter more in tuition to purchase he baskin school of 2 and the Baskin Engineering Paul Whitworth as Henry Higgins and Julia Coffey as Eliza Doolittle in which promotes purchases of renewable energy from Sterling Planet, Engineering is celebrating Auditorium—have greatly Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s 2006 production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. renewable resources, has named including wind, solar, and geothermal. T UCSC its sixth largest green its 10th anniversary and its expanded the school’s research hakespeare Santa Cruz announces a slate of four plays for power purchaser in the country. emissions associated with nearly emergence as a vibrant and and teaching facilities. summer 2007, each one a unique exploration of serious The list is based on purchases 3.6 million gallons of gasoline innovative center for research In the months ahead, the comedy. The Festival Glen will play host to two Shakespeare S through the end of 2006. annually,” said James Critchfield and education. Baskin School will be hosting offerings: Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest. The indoor “Based on national average of the EPA’s Climate Protection At an open house in February, Jack Baskin (left) and Acting Chancellor at the 10th a distinguished lecture series, stage will be the setting for a duet of classic Irish plays, Samuel Jack Baskin, whose $5 million anniversary open house at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering in February a research poster symposium, Beckett’s Endgame and Playboy of the Western World by John utility subregion emissions rates, Partnerships Division. gift helped launch the school and other events to celebrate Millington Synge. According to SSC artistic director Paul Whitworth, the U.S. EPA estimates that “I want to thank our students a decade ago, said he was im- more than $8 million. Departments of Computer 10 years of achievements and “All four plays are considered trailblazers for the types of comedy UC Santa Cruz’s purchase is for their generosity and the UC pressed by the school’s rapid “The engineering school has Science and Computer the creation of an engineering they introduced in their time.” The plays will be in repertory equivalent to avoiding the car- Santa Cruz Physical Plant for its progress. Baskin’s most recent flourished beyond our wildest Engineering. It has since grown school poised to tackle the from July 17 through September 2. For ticket information, go bon dioxide emissions of nearly effectiveness in making this rec- gift to the campus includes dreams,” Baskin said at the to include five departments, challenges of the 21st century. to shakespearesantacruz.org or call the UCSC Ticket Office at 7,000 cars per year, or avoiding ognition possible,” said Acting $500,000 for an endowed chair celebration. with more in the planning For more information about (831) 459-2159. the equivalent carbon dioxide Chancellor George Blumenthal. in technology and information Established in 1997, the stages, and the number of fac- upcoming events, visit the management (see story, page 6), Baskin School of Engineering ulty has grown from 25 to 72. 10th anniversary web site at bringing his contributions was built on the foundation Engineering faculty have www.soe.ucsc.edu/events/tenth/ Scientists help shape biggest marine conservation Group focuses on “There’s a growing desire to the engineering school to of two strong programs—the developed innovative programs calendar. issues not only in California, on campus to explore issues policy in plan for but the whole world,” Carr said. science and justice of science and society and to Astronomer wins state’s marine reserves As a member of the MLPA ini- build more reflective under- Assistant arts dean information to Muscutt, an tiative’s Science Advisory Team, apitalizing on UCSC’s standings of the embedded- expert on the Chachapoya Packard Fellowship Carr plays a pivotal role in en- Cstrengths in scientific ness of science and technology reports discovery of and author of the 1998 book ark carr’s office looks suring decisions are made based and social justice research, in our lives,” said Reardon. Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost he david and lucile Mout on a stretch of pound- on sound science and providing Assistant Professor Jennifer A faculty affiliate of the ancient ruin in Peru Packard Foundation has Reardon of sociology has Center for Biomolecular courtesy of keith muscutt courtesy Civilization in the Upper T ing surf, kelp beds, and tide guidelines on how to design a Amazon of Peru. Muscutt trav- awarded a Packard Fellowship pools that represents not only network of marine protected created a new Science & Engineering, eith muscutt, assistant eled to Peru in late August for Science and Engineering to his research interest in marine areas to best conserve and Science and Reardon specializes in the Kdean of the arts at UCSC, to make a preliminary survey Constance coastal ecology, but also his protect marine ecosystems. Justice Work- social, cultural, and historical reported the existence of a of the site, dubbed “Huaca Rockosi, involvement at the intersection ing Group jennifer mcnulty study of genomics.

previously unknown pre- La Penitenciaria” (The tim stephens assistant of science and policy. Mark Carr is helping to implement on campus. “Many scientists think the Columbian ruin in Peru at Penitentiary) because of its professor of Carr, an associate professor California’s Marine Life Protection Act. Established problem lies with society and the annual Institute of A Chachapoya stone sculpture that formidable appearance. It is of of ecology and evolutionary in the fall, the how it uses new information,” Andean Studies conference represents the chewing of coca leaves particular interest because of and astro- biology, serves on the Science new group she said. “I maintain that as tim stephens held at UC Berkeley in its size, distinct design, and . The Advisory Team that is helping to brings we’re doing science, social January. to the 15th centuries. There remote location, said Muscutt. fellowship is implement California’s Marine together Jennifer Reardon decisions are being made, Constance Rockosi Located in the remote and is little evidence of the culture Muscutt is working with one of the Life Protection Act (MLPA). faculty and and we need to talk about densely forested eastern slope left today, except for the ruins the Discovery Channel to nation’s most prestigious honors Passed by voters in 1999, the graduate students from all that. Without that discussion, of the Andes Mountains, of ancient settlements and plan a full-scale archaeologi- for young faculty members. MLPA is moving toward the es- five academic divisions on we’re living in an unreflective the massive ruin is thought well-preserved mummies cal investigation of the newly Rockosi will receive $125,000 tablishment of an unprecedent- campus—arts, humanities, society.” to be a remnant from Peru’s recovered from cliff tombs. discovered site. The ruin will per year for the next five years ed network of marine protected social sciences, engineering, Reardon is organizing a vanished Chachapoya people, The ruin was first discov- be featured in a Discovery to support her research on the areas along the entire California and physical and biological conference on genomics and who flourished in the upper ered by three local Peruvians Channel documentary to be old and distant stars in the coast. sciences—to promote justice that will take place at Amazon region from the ninth last August who relayed the aired next year. Milky Way and the clues they “The establishment of interdisciplinary discussion. UCSC May 17–18. hold to the ’s formation. marine reserves is one of the

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2007 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2007 3 by her family’s archive in Special Physics, space r. r. jones r. r. jones r. r. Collections of the University Three receive top manner for almost four de- Library. sciences, toxicology, way terry cades,” noted his department Julie Packard and Robert awards from Alumni chair, Paul Koch, professor of

courtesy robert stephens robert courtesy Stephens are spouses and gradu- music get top rankings Earth and planetary sciences. ates of UCSC. They have helped Association Despite his administrative UCSC as volunteers and finan- n a new analysis of research pioneering medical duties as director of the cial supporters of a number of Ipublications from top U.S. A researcher, an influential Institute of Marine Sciences campus programs, including the universities, UC Santa Cruz professor of Earth and plane- for 15 years, Griggs has always Arboretum, Shakespeare Santa ranked first for the impact of its tary sciences, and an academic chosen to carry a full teaching Anne Neufeld Levin Julie Packard Robert Stephens Cruz, and the Seymour Marine faculty in the field of physics adviser known for her personal load, probably reaching more Discovery Center. and fifth in the field of space touch were selected to receive than 10,000 students. Supporters of UCSC The campus awarded two Packard is executive director sciences. The new rankings were the UCSC Alumni Association’s In her career as academic Fiat Lux (“Let there be light”) of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, reported in Science Watch, a highest honors for the 2006–07 preceptor at Cowell College, honored at Scholarships Awards at the event: one to which she helped found in 1975, newsletter published by year. Lynne Wolcott’s commitment Benefit Dinner Anne Neufeld Levin and and has been a trustee of the David Thompson Scientific. Joseph DeRisi received to students was renowned. one presented jointly to Julie and Lucile Packard Foundation Thompson Scientific gathers the Alumni Achievement from left: Joseph DeRisi, Chancellor Blumenthal, Lynne Wolcott, Gary Griggs Some former students doubt Packard and Robert Stephens. for more than 25 years. Stephens data from thousands of influen- Award; Gary Griggs, the they would have graduated hree generous supporters Award recipient Anne Levin is was cochair of the capital cam- tial, peer-reviewed journals and Distinguished Teaching Joseph DeRisi (Crown a “rock star” of science. without Wolcott. Carol Tof UCSC—Anne Neufeld a tireless advocate for the campus. paign committee for the Seymour conducts analyses to identify Award; and Lynne Wolcott, College ’92) is best known Founding faculty member Freeman, who has served as Levin, Julie Packard, and Robert A past president of the UC Santa Marine Discovery Center. He also trends and measure research the Outstanding Staff Award. for his work leading to the Gary Griggs’s popular oceanog- Cowell provost, described Stephens—were recipients of a Cruz Foundation, she has served serves on the Packard Foundation performance. A commonly used The winners, who each identification of the type of raphy class “has been intro- Wolcott as having “the perfect major campus honor at the as a Foundation trustee for 19 board and owns the Elkhorn performance measure, called received $500, were honored virus involved in the SARS ducing students to science balance between concern and fourth annual Scholarships years and is a generous donor Native Plant Nursery. citation impact, is based on the at the Alumni Association outbreak, prompting USA and conservation issues in an common sense, justice and Benefit Dinner, which was held to programs, organizations, and Proceeds from the annual number of times a published pa- Awards Luncheon in February. Today to describe him as engaging, thoughtful, and clear mercy, empathy and rigor.” in February at Seascape Resort capital projects across the campus. dinner provide undergraduate per is cited by other researchers. in Aptos. Levin, who escaped Austria scholarships, internships, re- The latest rankings are based on The gala dinner has become an with her family in 1939, also search opportunities, and gradu- the citation impact of research Large halo of red giant and the University of Virginia stellar halo, a distinct structural Business influence important fundraising event sup- endowed the Neufeld Levin ate fellowships. Many recipients papers published by the top are conducting an ongoing component of the galaxy that porting undergraduate and gradu- Chair in Holocaust Studies in are students who might not oth- 100 federally funded universities stars discovered study of Andromeda’s stellar has eluded astronomers for over over policy is targeted, ate scholarships and fellowships. 1995, which is further enhanced erwise be able to attend UCSC. between 2001 and 2005. around Andromeda halo, using observations at the 20 years, Guhathakurta said. researcher says In another comparative Kitt Peak National Observatory The group’s ongoing inves- study, the Faculty Scholarly in Arizona and the W. M. Keck tigation of Andromeda’s halo Productivity Index ranked stronomers have found Observatory in Hawaii. Their promises to shed new light usiness influence over Donors fund library an outdoor reading area, surrounded by UCSC doctoral programs in Aan enormous halo of stars new findings are based on data on the question of how large Benvironmental policy and garden that will be benches, tables, and music and in environmental bound to the Andromeda galaxy gathered using the 4-meter formed, Guhathakurta regulation in the United States café, reading garden located just outside cook bruce chairs situated under health engineering third in and extending far beyond the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak said. is strategic and focused, says the café. the redwoods— swirling disk seen in images of and the DEIMOS Sheldon Kamieniecki, dean the nation in scholarly faculty The newly discovered stellar halo of the Andromeda wo gifts to the campus The new Global complete with power productivity. At UCSC, envi- the famous galaxy, our nearest spectrograph on the galaxy extends far beyond the disk and central bulge of social sciences at UCSC Tvalued at $350,000 will Village Café will outlets and wi-fi ronmental health engineering large galactic neighbor. The 10-meter Keck II seen in this image. and author of the new book

work together to create an have a rotating digi- availability—and discovery, reported in January Telescope in Hawaii. nsf Corporate America and

research takes place primarily in /

exciting new social and educa- tal newspaper dis- landscaped with at the American Astronomical The research- aura Environmental Policy: How the Environmental Toxicology /

tional center at the University play that spotlights small cherry trees. Society meeting in Seattle, ers detected a sparse noao Often Does Business Get Its Way? Department. / Library. up-to-date front The design will The Faculty Scholarly suggests that Andromeda is as population of red giant The book is the first major Stephen Silberstein— pages of approxi- Stephen Silberstein ensure that the area Productivity Index, partly much as five times larger than stars—bright, bloated investigation of business influ- reu program reu cofounder and former presi- mately 140 news- receives sunlight, financed by the State University astronomers had previously stars in a late stage of / ence over environmental policy dent of Innovative Interfaces, papers from around even in the winter. of New York at Stony Brook thought. stellar evolution—that in all three branches of govern- a library software company in the world. The café “The cyber café, and produced by Academic “I am absolutely astounded appear to be smoothly ment. Through quantitative

Emeryville, California—has menu will feature rappaport scott combined with the Analytics, rated faculty members’ by how big this halo is. As we distributed around analysis, as well as in-depth case donated $250,000 to create fresh, healthy ingre- reading garden, will scholarly output at nearly 7,300 looked farther and farther out, the galaxy out to a studies, the book examines the

a global cyber café in the dients that are ob- be a place for fac- doctoral programs. The index, we kept finding stars that look distance of at least harvey bill schoening, vanessa influence of business since 1970. campus’s newly expanded and tained and prepared ulty and students based on 2005 data, judged like halo stars,” said Puragra 500,000 light-years “Corporate interests define renovated McHenry Library. locally. to study, read, and productivity on publications, (Raja) Guhathakurta, professor from the center. Even the issues and frame the debates Longtime Santa Cruz The new out- socialize . . . a beauti- including citations; federal-grant of astronomy and at that great distance, to their advantage,” Kamieniecki resident and library supporter door reading ful environment for dollars awarded; and awards at UCSC, who presented the the stars are bound to concludes. “When business William Ackerknecht has also garden will have a everyone to enjoy,” and honors. The rankings were findings. the galaxy by gravity. does become involved, they are pledged $100,000 to create large terraced grass William Ackerknecht said Ackerknecht. reported in January in the Guhathakurta and his col- These stars probably a formidable opponent for Chronicle of Higher Education. laborators at UCSC, UCLA, represent Andromeda’s environmental groups.”

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jennifer mcnulty elected AAAS Fellow for life’s work

tudents in Dee Hibbert- professor’s fieldwork löf Einarsdóttir, professor reeminent social psychol- SJones’s Public Art 1 class have Óand chair of chemistry and Pogist Elliot Aronson has created a permanent art installa- lmost as difficult as biochemistry, has been awarded received a lifetime achievement tion to replace the netting that Ahunting for the proverbial the distinc- award from the Association for had lined the spiral staircase at needle in a haystack, foraging tion of AAAS Psychological Science. McHenry Library for more than for prized wild matsutake mush- Fellow by A renowned scholar, teacher, a decade. rooms requires a keen eye, an the American and author, The students designed and experienced hand, and a good Lue Vang, left, assisted anthropology professor Anna Tsing on her research into Association Aronson installed an image of a cherry sense of direction. the global commodity chain of matsutake mushrooms. for the conducted tree on 550 Plexiglas panels that One of Japan’s most culturally Advancement pathbreaking climb from the basement to the significant foods, matsutakes, interests in global commodities, Hmong about mushrooms and of Science. research on obel Prize laureate and renowned economist Amartya Sen top floor. Many of the panels are grow underground in densely multiculturalism, and how peo- their lives,” said Vang. “But Election as a cognitive dis- delivered the sixth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture at Ólöf Einarsdóttir inscribed with literary or philo- forested areas, where the only ple interact with the landscape. once I got there, they said they fellow is an sonance and the Music Center Recital Hall in October. After his talk, Sen was sophical quotations that relate sign of their presence is a slight In the fall, she made her third had no time. They worked from N honor bestowed upon members interpersonal presented with the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal—the highest to the specific subject matter disturbance of the soil. trek to the Cascade Mountains six in the morning until four in honor awarded by the university. The Sidhartha Maitra Memorial of AAAS by their peers. attraction contained on each library floor. During Japan’s “economic to observe the matsutake har- the afternoon, and afterwards Lecture was established in 2001 by Foundation President Anuradha Einarsdóttir was recognized before cham- Elliot Aronson “It’s really exciting for the bubble,” matsutakes were prized vest, and this time she brought they were too tired to talk.” Luther Maitra to honor the memory of her late husband. for her work in understanding pioning the students to do an installation on as corporate perks and expensive in a research collaborator: Ultimately, Vang succeeded. the role of a key enzyme in use of social psychological princi- campus in their own commu- gifts. As demand grew and Undergraduate Lue Vang got “With Hmong people, I’m very respiration, called cytochrome ples to address societal problems, nity,” said Hibbert-Jones. Japanese matsutakes became a crash course in ethnographic talkative. I’d wait behind the as the impact of the U.S. on the oxidase, which extracts energy including racial prejudice, energy scarce, new markets emerged in research and made significant motels every day until some Grad students develop world,” noted Burke, director from food molecules. and water shortages, and AIDS. China, Korea, Morocco, Turkey, contributions to the project. finally made time for me.” U.S. history curriculum of the Center for World History British Columbia, and the Vang, who is of Hmong de- As cultural diversity is woven at UCSC. “It aligns for the first scott campbell scott Pacific Northwest, said anthro- scent, speaks Hmong and built into today’s global entrepreneur- raduate students in time major dates in U.S. history In Memoriam pology professor Anna Tsing. sufficient trust with some pick- ship, Tsing sees an opportunity Ghistory at UCSC have devel- with world historical processes.” “Southeast Asians started ers that he was able to conduct for students and faculty to work oped a new globalized model The curriculum is the result R Bert Kaplan, 87, profes- eralism, the effects of taxation flocking to the Pacific lengthy interviews. Two men together: “Anthropologists need curriculum for college-level of the collaboration of more sor emeritus of psychology on risk taking, and the role of Northwest,” said Tsing. even allowed Vang to accom- their help in deciphering the survey courses in U.S. history. than a dozen UCSC graduate and a member of UCSC’s fiscal policy in stabilizing the Tsing immediately saw the pany them foraging. new landscape of cultural com- Titled “Globalizing U.S. students of world history over founding faculty, died in July. economy. opportunity to explore her “I thought I’d chit chat with plexity and global integration.” History,” the project is under an 18-month period. It fea- His interest in humanistic the direction of UCSC history tures a syllabus for each of the studies and interdisciplinary R Donald Osterbrock, professor and UC Presidential two parts of the U.S. history learning influenced the intel- 82, professor emeritus of $1 million gift from professor whose ing, and information Chair Edmund Burke III. lower-division survey course, lectual development of the astronomy and astrophysics, work advances the jones r. r. technology. The Baskin “The project provides a along with lecture titles and as- campus in its early years. and former director of the Jack Baskin establishes study of the role School of Engineering new lower-division curriculum signed readings. There is also an His own research was focused ’s Lick two endowed chairs of ethics in various is developing M.S. and for United States history that instructor’s syllabus that outlines on the cross-cultural study of Observatory, died in January. fields. The chair Ph.D. programs in this reflects cutting-edge research each lecture, as well as a bibliog- personality and mental illness. He was a pioneer in the use supports an area of field, complementing its regarding the impact of the raphy to guide the instructor’s of spectroscopic methods for hilanthropist Jack Baskin interest to Downes undergraduate program world on U.S. history, as well preparation. R Richard Musgrave, 96, the study of gaseous nebulae has continued his remark- Baskin, a research in information systems P Graduate students (l–r) Sarah Doub, Anders Otterness, Urmi Engineer, and an adjunct professor of eco- and published nearly 500 able record of support for UC associate in UCSC’s management. Eliza Martin with Professor Edmund Burke III nomics at UCSC and a pro- works, including his textbook, Santa Cruz with two $500,000 feminist studies “These two chairs fessor emeritus of economics Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae gifts establishing endowed program. support the very best at Harvard University, died in and Active Galactic Nuclei. chairs, one in the Humanities The Jack Baskin of UC Santa Cruz: January. Musgrave was widely After he retired, he wrote Division that honors his wife, Endowed Chair innovative programs regarded as the founder of numerous books and articles Peggy Downes Baskin, and in Technology Peggy Downes Baskin and Jack Baskin and a creative approach modern public finance and on the history of astronomy. another in the Baskin School and Information to discovery involving an adviser on fiscal policy Among his many honors of Engineering. Management will be engineering school that bears his faculty from multiple dis- and taxation to governments were lifetime achievement The Peggy Downes Baskin held by the faculty member name total more than $8 million. ciplines,” said Acting Chancellor from Washington to Bogota awards from the American Endowed Humanities Chair who directs the Technology Technology and informa- George Blumenthal. “The cam- to Tokyo. Musgrave’s many Astronomical Society and the for Interdisciplinary Studies in and Information Management tion management is a new and pus is again benefiting from Jack contributions included studies Astronomical Society of the Ethics will be held by a distin- Program in the Baskin School distinct discipline within engi- and Peggy Baskin’s support for on tax incidence, tax progres- Pacific, two of the field’s high- guished member of the UCSC of Engineering. With this gift, neering, combining technology key programs and initiatives that sivity, public goods, fiscal fed- est honors. humanities faculty or a visiting Baskin’s donations to the management, systems engineer- advance our mission.”

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