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UC Santa Cruz Features A world of experience Review Students like Christine Lee, center, have discovered that Chancellor “service learning” placements M.R.C. Greenwood The World is Their Classroom ...... 6 outside their classrooms greatly enhance their UCSC Director of Public Information education—and enable Elizabeth Irwin them to make valuable Editor From the Lab to the Newsroom ...... 12 contributions to society. 6 Jim Burns Making sense of science Art Director/Designer Graduates of John Wilkes’s Jim MacKenzie EE at UCSC...... 16 Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz Associate Editors acquire skills in writing or Mary Ann Dewey illustration that allow them Jeanne Lance Jazzed...... 18 to make complicated subjects Writers understandable to Barbara McKenna the general public. 12 Jennifer McNulty Doreen Schack The Facts of Death...... 20 Electricity in the air Tim Stephens Having recruited a core Francine Tyler of faculty, UCSC’s program in electrical engineering Cover & principal photography Departments is concentrating on opto- R. R. Jones electronics and other areas Office of University Advancement of research that will be key Carriage House to the growth of the University of California From the Chancellor...... 1 high-tech industry. 16 1156 High Street Music to our ears Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 During a visit to Santa voice: 831.459.2501 Campus Update ...... 2 Cruz coordinated by fax: 831.459.5795 UCSC’s Arts & Lectures, e-mail: [email protected] Wynton Marsalis helped web: www.ucsc.edu/public/review/ the young—and young Alumni News ...... 22 at heart—celebrate Produced by UCSC Public Information and Publications. Printed on recycled the timeless music paper; recyclable. 6/99(99-046/60.5M) of Duke Ellington. 18

UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Alumni Notes...... 24 A sleuth for the truth Vol. 36, No. 4 / Spring 1999 Alison Galloway’s work as UC Santa Cruz is a series of admini- strative publications published quarter- a highly trained forensic ly by University Advancement at UC anthropologist often takes Santa Cruz. Periodicals postage paid Alumni Profile ...... 25 her to the scenes of major at Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Postmaster: accidents and crimes, where Send address changes to the University she uncovers vital evidence of California, Santa Cruz, University Advancement, 1156 High Street, Santa that helps reveal the Cruz, CA 95064-1077. truth about death. 20 FFROMROM THE THE CCHANCELLORHANCELLOR By M.R.C. Greenwood

ndergraduates at ucsc benefit students: Service learning aren’t shy when it comes to deepens students’ understanding telling me what they like about of theoretical material, increases UUtheir educational experience: retention, motivates students, and access to distinguished faculty, sharpens the focus of their studies. unparalleled research opportunities, Janet Eyler, a Vanderbilt University state-of-the-art facilities. education professor and a leading For many of our students, researcher in the field of service however, UCSC’s commitment to learning, recently compared the ways undergraduate education is also students learn about the legislative defined by the campus’s emphasis on process. She found that students whose service learning, or what I like to call work included internships with their “hands-on” education. UCSC has a state legislature knew more about the strong track record of fostering field- real forces that shape public policy—

study programs, internships, and don harris including interest groups and the independent-study placements that informal power structure of the legisla- give our students a chance to apply Service learning deepens students’ ture—than those whose studies were what they are learning in the classroom confined to the classroom. to the “real world.” In other words, it is one thing to More of our students than ever understanding of theoretical material, memorize the steps it takes to get are taking advantage of these opportu- a bill passed into law, and it is quite nities. Last year, UCSC students increases retention, motivates another to see the political process in contributed more than 200,000 hours action. of service to the community through In this issue of the Review, service-learning placements. students, and sharpens the focus we make the case for this kind of Some of these students work far “hands-on” education. Our cover story from Santa Cruz—either elsewhere in of their studies. . . . Our students describes how UCSC’s field-study, the state, in other parts of the country, internship, and independent-study or even overseas. But the majority programs are integrated into the devote hours of service right here in are the primary beneficiaries of curriculum. Our students are the the Monterey Bay Area. Our schools, primary beneficiaries of this approach businesses, nonprofit organizations, this approach to education, but to education, but service learning is an and other agencies wouldn’t be the outstanding example of an educational same without the talent offered by initiative that benefits everyone. UCSC students. service learning is an outstanding Students are pleased to get the kinds of hands-on work experience example of an educational initiative that service learning offers, and educa- tional researchers have documented the M.R.C. Greenwood ways in which high-quality programs that benefits everyone. Chancellor

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 1 CCAMPUSAMPUS UUPDATEPDATE

UCSC purchases is discussion of the development of a science park for children Terrace Point property that would augment the educa- tional programs slated for the c santa cruz has Seymour center. acquired approximately “This is a very positive courtesy ucsc special collections ucsc special courtesy U55 acres adjacent to the decision for everyone,” noted campus’s Joseph M. Long Chancellor Greenwood. “UC Marine Laboratory and the new Santa Cruz welcomes the oppor- Seymour Marine Discovery tunity to enhance our existing Center. The property was coastal research and teaching purchased from Wells Fargo resources, and at the same time, Bank for $4 million. we take seriously the responsi- It is expected that UCSC will bility for careful stewardship of permanently protect the wet- this unique property. This ac- lands and some other portions quisition advances our prospects The recently discovered horoscope, authored by Kepler four centuries ago of the site, possibly as a natural for new research partnerships.” reserve. Although Found at UCSC: for his discovery of the laws UCSC has not devel- of orbital motion. He was also oped plans for the shmuel thaler Horoscope written a phenomenal mathematician remainder of the site, by Johannes Kepler and was responsible for major other potential uses of breakthroughs in telescope the land include devel- 400-year-old manuscript optics. He is considered to be, opment of ocean and penned by one of history’s along with Copernicus and coastal research A greatest astronomers was Galileo, among the most facilities and some recently discovered at UCSC. important astronomers of the complementary hous- The manuscript is a horo- modern era. ing. In addition, there Chancellor Greenwood, on the Terrace Point site scope authored by 16th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler $17.7 million grant to conduct coordinated studies sometime in the late 1500s or of coastal ecosystems on an early 1600s. The discovery was for marine research unprecedented scale. made by Anthony Misch, an The five-year project astronomer at Lick Observatory. consortium of marine will involve researchers from Misch was researching scientists from UCSC and diverse fields working toward solar eclipse expeditions in Athree other major univer- an integrated picture of the the University Library archives sities has received a grant of coastal environment and when he discovered the un- $17.7 million from the David ecosystems. assuming six- by eight-inch The grant will fund research into and Lucile Packard Foundation A major focus of the group’s framed paper in a drawer of the interactions of marine organisms to conduct ecological research efforts will be to study the miscellanea. The horoscope was such as rockfish (above) and rock aimed at improving the conser- movements and interactions of annotated in German. lobster (below). vation of marine ecosystems. fish and other marine organ- Misch, a book collector who The Partnership for isms over a 1,200-mile stretch speaks German, had an immedi- Interdisciplinary Studies of of ocean from Oregon to ate sense of the significance of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) southern California, said Peter what he held in his hand. brings together four leading Raimondi and Mark Carr, “It was a pretty thrilling centers of marine science biology professors at UCSC moment,” Misch said. “I knew research: UC Santa Cruz, and two of the project’s princi- right away this had potential to UC Santa Barbara, Stanford pal investigators. “This part- be a pretty spectacular discovery. University, and Oregon State nership allows us to look at As I looked the document over University. By combining their marine ecological processes at my hand was shaking.” strengths, PISCO will enable the scales at which things really

Kepler, who lived from central library noaa courtesy photos researchers at these institutions happen,” Raimondi said. 1571 to 1630, is best known

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 UCSC psychologist to

$1.5 million gift jon kersey receive field’s ‘Nobel’ for Jewish studies nyone who has taken an ith a gift of introductory psychology $1.5 million, a San A class or read a best-selling W Francisco Bay Area self-help book has been touched couple has established an by the work of Elliot Aronson, endowment for Jewish studies a man whose research has at UCSC. The gift is the fundamentally shaped our largest private donation ever knowledge of what motivates received by the Humanities human behavior. Division. From cognitive dissonance The gift comes from to the causes of interpersonal Helen and Sanford Diller of attraction, Aronson’s research Woodside. Named the Helen has pushed the envelope, often Elliot Aronson and Sanford Diller Family challenging established theories Endowment in Jewish Studies, and always addressing impor- include B. F. Skinner, Carl New policy increases the donation will support and tant social problems, including Rogers, Jean Piaget, and Leon expand UCSC’s interdiscipli- prejudice reduction, energy Festinger. UC-eligible students nary program, which focuses conservation, and AIDS Aronson, 67, who came to on modern Jewish history, life, prevention. UCSC in 1974, credits his he university’s board and cultures. One of the most distin- mentors and students with his of Regents has approved “We are honored that the guished social psychologists of success. “I’ve been very lucky to T changes in freshman Dillers selected UCSC as the our time, Aronson, a professor have had some brilliant teachers eligibility that will make the home for this endowment,” emeritus of psychology at and to have worked with some top 4 percent of students from said Chancellor Greenwood. UCSC, will receive the terrific students along the way,” all California public high “Their generous gift consti- American Psychological said Aronson. “Social psych- schools eligible for UC. tutes the cornerstone of a Association’s 1998–99 ology has always thrilled me UC faculty developed the major UCSC effort to build Distinguished Scientific because it is such a wonderful new criteria following more Jewish studies.” Contribution Award at the blend of art and science. To tell than a year of considering ways The gift was made through APA’s convention in August. you the truth, I don’t think I’m for the university to increase the the Jewish Community Considered the “Nobel Prize of that smart—I just found the number of UC-eligible students Endowment Fund of the San psychology,” the award is the perfect thing in the world for in order to meet its obligation Francisco Jewish Community highest recognition offered to me. I can’t imagine I would’ve to the state to enroll from the Federation. psychologists for a lifetime of been as happy or productive top 12.5 percent of California research. Previous recipients doing anything else.” high school graduates and continue to maintain academic quality. UCSC considered for Granting eligibility to adaptive optics center students who rank in the top 4 percent of each high school committee from class based on UC-required the National Science courses will make nearly 3,600 A Foundation visited UCSC additional students eligible for recently to evaluate a proposal the university. to create a national Center for Those new students increase Adaptive Optics on campus. laboratory national livermore lawrence courtesy the percentage of high school The center would coordinate graduates eligible for UC from the efforts of researchers across 11.1 to 12.5 percent as required the country working in the by California’s Master Plan for new field of adaptive optics, The adaptive optics system at UC’s Lick Observatory uses a laser beam Higher Education. which has major applications in (captured in this time-exposure photo) to measure turbulence in the atmosphere. This new path to eligibility astronomy and vision science. greatly enhances UC’s ability to Adaptive optics is a method Turbulence in the atmos- fections and small motions in attract students from across the to actively compensate for phere causes blurring of images the eye result in blurred vision state, particularly from rural changing distortions that cause obtained by ground-based tele- and interfere with efforts to and inner-city schools, said UC blurring of images. scopes. Similarly, internal imper- study the living human retina. President Richard C. Atkinson.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 3 Chancellor urges

greg pio greg scientists to expand role in K–12 education

peaking at the annual meeting of the American SAssociation for the Advance- ment of Science, UCSC’s chan- cellor urged her fellow scientists to become directly involved in efforts to improve science education and the public’s understanding of science. Presiding as president of AAAS, Greenwood advocated changes throughout the educa- UCSC made May 2 a day to celebrate the arts as a dedication ceremony and open house officially inaugurated sever- tional pipeline and proposed a al major new arts facilities on campus. LEFT: Onlookers watch a bronze-pouring demonstration by Art Department national campaign to promote staff and students. RIGHT: Performing at the celebration were two UCSC groups, Taki Ñan (above), one of UCSC’s Latin American ensembles; and Swara Sauti (below), UCSC’s Balinese gamelan ensemble. the involvement of scientists on school boards. the arts at UCSC, led the Nobuho Nagasawa, Sharon While recent scientific Celebrating the decade-long push to secure Daniel, and Peter Elsea. Titled discoveries and advances give funding and space for the new Opening, the work featured scientists ample cause to cele- arts at UCSC facilities, but Houghton was video and electronic music brate, the United States may be the first to point out that components, written text, slipping behind other nations hen hundreds of the buildings are not the only and—strung colorfully outside in its ability to inspire and people turned out for accomplishment of the last the Multimedia Theater— educate the next generation of WUCSC’s Celebration of decade. “We have many rea- bright red binoculars so that scientists, Greenwood said at the Arts in early May, the halls sons to celebrate: the comple- guests could better read the the meeting in Anaheim this echoed with the sounds of tion of these exceptional text. Special guests at the dedi- past January. music, theater, and art in facilities during a time when cation were UCSC alumni “We can already see indica- action. The afternoon event funding for the arts was Anne Flett-Giordano and tions that the next generation is featured an open house Chuck Ranberg (co- not receiving the preparation that offered performances, “In these walls, future generations producers of the TV necessary to maintain the excel- backstage tours, lectures, of Picassos, Coppolas, Oliviers, and show Frasier) and Lance lence that U.S. science current- rehearsals, concerts, and Linares, executive direc- ly enjoys,” Greenwood said, demonstrations. Beethovens will study and learn.” tor of the Community pointing to the results of recent In addition, many guests Foundation of Santa surveys that show U.S. 12th attended a dedication ceremo- shrinking, the expansion of Cruz County. graders near the bottom in ny celebrating the completion academic programs in the arts In her comments at international comparisons of of a number of new arts facili- at UCSC, an all-time high the dedication, Chancellor science and math ability. ties. Among those facilities are in enrollments in the arts at Greenwood noted that, “In Greenwood urged scientists, music and art studios, a 391- UCSC, and the emergence these walls, future generations engineers, and other scientifi- seat Multimedia Theater, the of tremendous collaborations of Picassos, Coppolas, cally literate professionals to Experimental Theater, and the between the campus and the Oliviers, and Beethovens will get involved in K–12 education Music Center. community. As teachers, study and learn. The teachers by serving on school boards. The event was initially con- artists, parents, and audience of our grandchildren and great She proposed an AAAS pro- ceived simply as a dedication members, the arts belong to grandchildren will begin here. gram called “Project 20/20” to of new arts facilities, but all of us, and we all have cause Perhaps our next mayor or sustain and support these board rather than emphasizing the to celebrate this exciting time governor, or the CEO of a members with information and walls that were raised, the for the arts in Santa Cruz.” major corporation, will gain advice to help them protect and day’s program celebrated the The May 2 dedication a new way of looking at old enhance scientific content and learning and creativity that ceremony featured works by problems because of time accuracy in schools. have and will take place within film and video students and spent inside the walls of the “Education for our children, those walls. a collaborative work by Arts arts at UC Santa Cruz, honing and lifelong education for all of Edward Houghton, dean of Division faculty members his or her creative potential.” us, must be paramount in this evolving era,” Greenwood said.

4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 In Memoriam

shmuel thaler Angus Taylor, third chancellor of UCSC, vice president of

academic affairs under four UC jim mackenzie presidents, and chairman of the universitywide Academic Council during the Free Speech Movement, died in a Berkeley hospital in April after a brief Participating in the gift ceremony were (l–r): Michael Twombly (Cowell ’69), illness. He was 87. David Graves (Crown ’74), EVC John Simpson, Alumni Association president Chancellor from February Angus Taylor Steve Klein, Ronna Perelson (Porter ’79), and Dobro Goodale (Kresge ’94). 1976 to July 1977, Taylor is credited with helping build an Gurden Mooser, whose decades- Alumni class gifts ing a total of $230,000. organizational foundation upon long association with the cam- “I want to thank all alum- which the campus has grown. pus included 13 years as the generate $230,000 ni, particularly the pioneers At his family’s request, contri- founding head of University and the classes of 1974, 1979, butions in Angus Taylor’s name Relations, died in February in he generosity of four and 1994, for their remark- may be made to the UC Santa his Santa Cruz home after a classes of UCSC gradu- able support of this campus Cruz Foundation and designated lengthy illness. He was 85. T ates has generated nearly and its students,” Simpson for the “Angus and Patsy Taylor Assistant chancellor for a quarter of a million dollars said. “It is so wonderful that Fund,” an endowment that sup- University Relations from 1965 for the UCSC Alumni while celebrating the time ports the academic activities of to 1978, Mooser helped the Association Scholarship Fund you shared as students at UCSC’s Cowell College. campus attract major gifts that and other campus programs. UCSC, you have chosen to established the college system Representatives of the support today’s students, who Sheila Hough, a lecturer emeri- and provided private support to classes of ’69, ’74, ’79, and follow in your footsteps.” ta in social sciences, died in many other emerging academic ’94 presented checks totaling Some $140,000 of the gift April; she was 67. Hough and administrative programs. $180,000 to Executive Vice will go to the UCSC Alumni worked at UCSC from 1966 Mooser formed the UC Chancellor John Simpson at Association Scholarship Fund, until her retirement in 1991 Santa Cruz Foundation in 1974 an alumni reunion luncheon which provides support to as a lecturer for the Modern and served as the foundation’s during UCSC’s Banana Slug students with financial need. Society and Social Thought first executive secretary. Spring Fair in mid-April. The Approximately $90,000 will Program, a lecturer in the At the family’s request, UCSC Alumni Association benefit other areas of the cam- Stevenson Core Course, admin- donations in Mooser’s name added $50,000 in the form pus such as college programs istrative coordinator for the may be made to the UCSC of a challenge grant, produc- and academic divisions. Stevenson core course, and Foundation for the Seymour counseling psychologist. Marine Discovery Center.

UCSC, California natural history specimens at Academy of Sciences CAS are among the world’s

victor schiffrin victor largest and provide essential formalize ties tools for comparative studies in biodiversity. Experts in the acad- CSC and the California emy’s eight scientific depart- Academy of Sciences (CAS) ments include leading authori- Uhave agreed to combine ties (known as systematists) on strengths in pursuit of their the classification of different common interests in biological types of organisms. research and public education. “The academy has biologists Chancellor Greenwood and and systematists whose work CAS Executive Director Patrick Chancellor Greenwood and CAS Executive Director Patrick Kociolek shake hands dovetails nicely with research Kociolek signed a memorandum over an agreement formalizing ties between their two institutions. at UCSC in biology, chemistry, of understanding formalizing and marine science, and we the ties between the two institu- Sciences has resources and important issue of understand- hope the memorandum tions in a ceremony in April at expertise that complement those ing the value of biodiversity,” of understanding will foster the UCSC Arboretum. of UCSC, particularly in areas Greenwood said. cooperative interactions in “The California Academy of related to the increasingly The extensive collections of these areas,” Kociolek said.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 5 T

Scott MacDonald of Santa Cruz County’s Probation Department, UCSC student Christine Lee, and field-study coordinator Mike Rotkin outside Juvenile Hall, where Lee recently served as an intern. Tell me and I forget,

Teach me and I remember, all photography for this article: r. r. jones r. r. for this article: all photography The Involve me and I learn. —Benjamin Franklin

World is their classroom by Jennifer McNulty

ids at Juvenile Hall can be tough and intimidating, but sometimes the right person can break through those barriers and make a difference. Christine Lee, a master’s student in education at UCSC, was that person for a 17- year-old named Richard.* Lee tutored Richard as part of a UCSC field-study class called New Vistas in Juvenile Justice. She helped him prepare for his high school equivalency exam, and she was there to celebrate when he passed. His parents were not. “My fear is always that “He’s so smart, but he’s been on and off the streets since he was eight years old,” said Lee, who hopes the milestone makes a lasting students will come back difference in Richard’s life. For Lee, her internship at Juvenile Hall confirmed her interest in cynical and discouraged, working with at-risk youth. “It gave me a lot of energy to move for- ward with my teaching,” she said. “It gave me a sense of urgency and but it’s always the of hope, because I saw both: The need for urgency, and that there is opposite. They come hope.” Scott MacDonald, assistant division director with the County of back feeling less Santa Cruz Probation Department, says UCSC interns like Lee pro- vide critical help for youth who become entangled with the juvenile cynical, more energized, justice system before they’re old enough to drive. “Christine is an example of why I do this program,” said and believing they can MacDonald, who supervises 20 interns every quarter. “Helping a kid get through that exam is remarkable. Now I’ve got kids at Juvenile make a difference.” Hall saying, ‘When are the interns coming back? I want an intern.’” R

—Mike Rotkin * Not his real name

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 7 Portia Edwards was inspired to Internships and field-study placements give students a chance major in art history after her intern- to integrate the theory they learn in the classroom with practical ship at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn experience. Dubbed “experiential education” and “service learn- Museum in Washington, D.C. ing” by researchers, these opportunities for hands-on learning enrich the academic experience while contributing to personal and career development. The roots of service learning at UCSC go back to the earli- est days of the campus, when faculty members like William Friedland and Herman Blake, and staff member Nick Royal, took up the cause and fought to house field-study programs under the academic wing of the university rather than under career services. After more than 30 years at the forefront of service learning, UCSC is now a model for schools across the country, many of which are trying to re-create what has been done here. New research confirms what early supporters like Friedland and Blake suspected: Experiential learning within a structured academic program deepens students’ understanding of theoreti- cal material and motivates students to learn more. Students retain more of what they learn, they perform better academically, and their subsequent studies are more focused. “High-level field-study work that is integrated into the curriculum helps students develop a complexity of understand- ing. It enhances learning itself,” said Janet Eyler, a Vanderbilt University education professor and coauthor of the new book Where’s the Learning in Service-Learning? With validation from researchers like Eyler, support for experiential education is taking off. Professional associations are growing, attendance at national conferences is increasing, and a growing number of communities like Santa Cruz are reaping the benefits as university students fan out into community organiza- tions, schools, government agencies, nonprofits, and businesses, eager to test their knowledge and develop their skills.

t UCSC, service learning is almost synonymous with the name Mike Rotkin. A lecturer in the Community Studies Department, Rotkin began A sponsoring students in field studies when he arrived on campus in 1969. He has officially coordinated the department’s field-study program for two decades. Rotkin’s is a front-row seat from which he watches the transformation of students who participate in service learning. “Aside from the practical experience of living outside the cocoon of student culture, students come back with a more complex understanding of the world,” says Rotkin. “My fear is always that they’ll come back cynical and discouraged because the world is a difficult place, but it’s always the opposite. They come back feeling less cynical, more energized, and believing they can make a difference.” Last year, UCSC students contributed more than

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 200,000 hours of service through field-study placements and Terence Lien’s appreciation internships. Students are particularly gung ho about field-study of psychological theory courses offered by the Social Sciences Division: More than 1,200 deepened during his work students enrolled in the division’s field-study courses last year. tutoring homeless teens. About 80 percent of those placements were in the Santa Cruz region, but students regularly pop up elsewhere in California, the United States, and internationally. Nearly half chose to work with nonprofits, about a third were in education, and the remainder worked in government and business. “Field study is such a good match for our students,” said Martin Chemers, dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UCSC. “It gives them a chance to see the theory they’re learning unfold in the real world, and at the same time they’re able to make a positive contribution to society.” Students in every division benefit from service-learning opportunities, however. For Yvonne Rodriguez, internships in a geochemistry lab on campus and then with the United States Geological Survey gave her a chance to work in the world of science for the first time. “Especially in the sciences, what you’re learning in the class- room is the basics,” she said. “During an internship, you get to ap- ply what you’ve learned. You set up your experiment, go out there, and do it. You have to analyze your own data and use your brain to figure out what’s going on. You learn how to be a scientist.” Rodriguez, a physics major who transferred to UCSC in a pivotal experience for Edwards, who helped organize a poetry 1995 from Chabot College in Hayward, credits her internships workshop for writers inspired by the visual arts. Her final project with building her confidence, too. was to edit a volume of poems created in response to the muse- “My parents didn’t go to college, and I had no idea what it um’s show of George Segal’s sculpture. would be like to work with scientists,” said Rodriguez, a single “I love art history, but I’d been reluctant to major in it be- mother of three who juggles school, work, and parenting cause I was worried about getting a job after college,” explained responsibilities. “Being a woman going into the sciences and Edwards, who changed her major from global economics. hanging out with the guys, I didn’t know what to expect. “Working in the museum convinced me to go into art. Since It was demystifying for me to see that they’re nice people and it’s what I really love and am passionate about, I’ll find some- that it’s okay to ask questions.” thing to do with it.” If internships opened The internship also shored up Edwards’s academic up the world of science motivation. “Christine is an example for Rodriguez, art histo- “I think experiential learning is the only way to fully under- ry major Portia Edwards stand what I’ve been studying,” said Edwards, who described of why I do this program. surrounded herself with with awe the experience of seeing in real life the paintings she great art during her ex- had studied for years in the slide library. “You get a sense of the Now I’ve got kids at Juvenile perience as an intern at value of your academic work. I’ve always been into studying, the Hirshhorn Museum but now when I’m reading a journal article, I’ll check the cross- Hall saying, ‘When are the and Sculpture Garden in references.” Washington, D.C. Edwards did her internship through the campus’s UCDC interns coming back? Edwards worked program, which sends about 40 UCSC students to Washington, in the public programs D.C., each year. The program offers an exciting combination department of the of course work, field research, and work experience. I want an intern.’ ” Smithsonian Institution’s “It’s an incredible opportunity,” said Edwards, who would museum of modern and regularly cross the Mall to view paintings at the National —Scott MacDonald contemporary art. It was Gallery. “I can’t imagine not having done it.”

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 9 Yvonne Rodriguez got to tional education. Our goal is to integrate the two. We want apply what she’d learned students to come back to a rigorous traditional academic in the classroom during education, motivated to read, study, use the library, and do two science internships. more research. The two need to go together.” Faculty notice the difference, too. As students return to the classroom, they’re eager to engage with the material in a more critical way. “It allows for more of a dialogue as students ask deeper, more complex questions,” says Rotkin. “As teachers, that’s more challenging, and it’s more fun.” To encourage students to make the link between academics and their “real-world” experiences, faculty advisers at UCSC typically require an academic paper, a final project, and a journal that charts the student’s experiences. Some host weekly seminars. Vanderbilt University’s Eyler endorses all four tools as appropri- ate means of reflection. “All of our most prestigious professions involve an active learning component—doctors in residencies, lawyers in legal clinics, physicists in the lab,” said Eyler. “Think about it. Whenever we’re serious about learning, we don’t just put people in rooms and talk to them.”

tudents enroll in service learning for different reasons. “All of our most S One of the most popular offerings in the prestigious professions Edwards’s supervisor, Teresia Bush, said she came to rely Economics Department is on Edwards to an unprecedented degree. “Portia was extremely the new major in business involve an active resourceful and mature,” said Bush. “You find very bright management economics, interns all the time, but you don’t always find that enthusiasm where students are eager to learning component— about learning that creates learning opportunities. Portia would prepare for jobs. There go to the library and read about artists she didn’t know. She was aren’t many who can match doctors in residencies, remarkable in that way.” Adam Roseman’s enthusiasm. A junior, Roseman has ive departments at UCSC offer formal field-study bolstered his schoolwork lawyers in legal clinics, programs: psychology, environmental studies, econom- with two demanding intern- ics, Latin American and Latino studies, and community ships, first as a financial physicists in the lab. F studies, which requires majors to participate in a two- analyst intern for Autodesk, quarter, full-time field study. In education, field-study place- a Cupertino-based manufact- Whenever we’re ments are an integral part of the undergraduate minor, but urer of computer-assisted academic credit for service learning is available to students in design software, and then serious about learning, every department. Strikingly, women are three times as likely as an analyst intern in the to participate as men, which Rotkin believes reflects the prepon- corporate finance department we don’t just put derance of women in the “helping professions.” of U.S. Bancorp Piper Most departments require students to be juniors before they Jaffray, an investment bank- people in rooms and can participate in service learning. In community studies, ing firm headquartered in students are required to take two courses specifically to prepare Minneapolis. for their placement and at least one upon their return. “I learned a ton at talk to them.” “Field study enhances people’s learning. We know that Autodesk—a ridiculous scientifically,” says Rotkin. “But it’s not an alternative to tradi- amount,” said Roseman, who —Janet Eyler

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 has had to invest in three suits, a sports jacket, and slacks since Adam Roseman’s business internships venturing into the heart of corporate America. “And now have been a perfect match for his Piper Jaffray is a perfect match for my professional goals.” professional goals. Roseman analyzes corporate financial statements to help establish the current and potential value of companies. “It’s quite a bit of responsibility. You don’t want to make mistakes,” he said. “It’s very exciting for me.” If Roseman’s focused career goals have shaped his college experience, his internships have helped him hone his selection of classes, pointing out gaps in his education. “I’m going to take Corporate Finance next year,” he said. “And Money and Banking, too.” Terence Lien, who graduated in psychology last fall, spent two quarters tutoring homeless teens for Above the Line, an organization that operates a school for homeless teens in conjunction with the Santa Cruz County Office of Alternative Education. As a classroom- and case-management aide, Lien helped students get back on track to attend mainstream schools. The experience offered him numerous opportunities to apply theories he’d learned in the classroom. “It helped me understand some of the literature and see how it can apply,” he said. “But it’s also a different experience. Learning from a book and seeing it applied in real life are two different things for me.” survive without the help UCSC students provide. Lien chose the position because he wanted to broaden his “A lot of university students like working with kids and experiences before going to graduate school, but it has turned youth, and they play a very powerful role as mentors,” said into something more. Now out of school, he has gone back as Delaney, a 1981 alumna whose organization helps place about a volunteer to work with the kids. 6,000 volunteers annually. “It really makes a huge difference “During my internship, the kids couldn’t believe I wasn’t in the lives of the kids.” being paid,” said Lien. “But just being there for the kids makes Service learning can have civic value, too, allowing students me feel good.” to get a sense of how communities work and how they can have an impact. Some students find their introduction to such work ust as the benefits of experiential learning so rewarding that they go on to establish their own nonprofit are multiple, so are the beneficiaries. Students rave about agencies or service organizations after graduation. their opportunities to grow personally, intellectually, and Experiential education is being embraced at all levels. Delaine Jprofessionally, and their field supervisors appear to be Eastin, California’s superintendent of public instruction, believes equally enthusiastic about what they get out of the relationships. that service learning can help prepare K–12 students academical- Like Scott MacDonald, the intern coordinator at Santa Cruz ly as well as contribute to their development as good citizens, County Probation, many appreciate the dedication students and she has urged school districts across the state to incorporate bring to their field studies. service learning into their curricula. And California Governor “UCSC students tend to have a real commitment to doing Gray Davis wants to require all students at state colleges and something in society,” said MacDonald, a 1983 alumnus whose universities to perform some community service as a condition department is moving away from traditional law-enforcement of graduation. strategies toward a “holistic” approach that emphasizes social As the rest of the educational world recognizes the value work and early intervention. “We couldn’t do what we’re doing of service learning, UCSC students are doing what they’ve been for the kids without the help of the UCSC interns.” doing for more than three decades: leading the way. Karen Delaney, director of the Volunteer Center of Santa Rotkin, a proud facilitator of three decades of experiential Cruz County, echoes MacDonald’s comments, saying that learning, sums up its value succinctly: “It’s a profoundly many agencies, nonprofits, and service organizations couldn’t different model of how to learn,” he said. “And it works.”

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 11 r. r. jones r. r. Instead of traditional

careers in the sciences,

students in UCSC’s

Science Communication

Program work to make JOHN WILKES, director of UCSC’s Science Communication complex subjects Program

accessible to the public From the lab to the newsroom

y the time Camille she oversees the health section. Mojica Rey graduated from “I love it,” Rey says. “I feel like I’m UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. putting my scientific training to work in integrative biology, she had and having more of an impact than decided a career in academic I could from behind a lab bench.” B science was not for her. The Science Communication She wanted to be a writer, but she also Program, launched in 1981 by director wanted to use her knowledge and training John Wilkes, actually comprises two sep- in biology. UC Santa Cruz’s Science arate tracks, one in science writing and Communication Program another in science illus- showed her how to do both. tration (see sidebar). Both mike kepka Rey completed the pro- / are one-year graduate pro- gram in 1997, worked as grams leading to a certifi- a medical writer for the San cate in science communi- Jose Mercury News and the cation. Though each track

Monterey County Herald, county herald monterey only admits ten students and is now associate editor per year, UCSC has of New York–based Latina, CAMILLE MOJICA REY (’97) become known nationally a bilingual magazine for is associate editor of Latina and internationally for Hispanic women, where magazine. producing science writers

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 and illustrators of the show an aptitude the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and former- highest caliber. for writing. Perhaps ly the city editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. The science writing ben balagot because of his literary For Wilkes, who soon became friends with program (the better background, Wilkes Lewis, it was his first real exposure to the known of the two has a knack for spot- world of journalism. tracks) takes in students ting applicants with “This was a real newspaper editor who trained as scientists and writing talent. had become a magazine editor, and he turns out writers who “I like being a knew a lot and was willing to share it with can make the esoterica talent scout, finding me,” Wilkes says. of science understand- ROSIE MESTEL (’91) is health writer at people out there who Lewis only stayed for one quarter and able and accessible to a the Los Angeles Times. would not be able to Wilkes managed to get the job of teaching general audience. Its get into the profession the next science writing course that spring. graduates—about 180 so far—include if it were not for a weird program like To a great extent, the Science Communi- writers for major metropolitan newspapers mine,” Wilkes says. “They would not go cation Program owes its existence to the and national consumer magazines, design- to journalism school—they do not want students who signed up for the first science ers of exhibits for aquariums and muse- to be journalists—but they do want to writing class Wilkes taught. They ums, and authors of popular books. Some write for the public. Sometimes they just included Pat have gone into radio and television work, don’t realize that’s journalism.” Murphy, now others work in the news offices of universi- head of publica- ties and national laboratories, and still oth- n January, UCSC Chancellor tions for the courtesy erik stokstad courtesy ers have ventured into the brave new world M.R.C. Greenwood hosted a recep- Exploratorium in of multimedia communications. tion for Wilkes at the annual meeting San Francisco, Some students, like Rey, come to the of the American Association for the and Bob Stayton, program with Ph.D.s from major research Advancement of Science (AAAS), a now head of universities, while others come with bach- Imeeting Greenwood presided over technical writing elor’s degrees from small liberal arts col- as AAAS president. She presented Wilkes at the Santa leges. The rest fall somewhere in between. with a plaque honoring him for “out- Cruz–based “All of our students, I think it is safe to standing contributions to public under- computer say, could have had a career in academic standing of science.” company SCO. ERIK STOKSTAD (’96) is science if they had chosen to continue on With neither a science background “I was so editor of ScienceNOW, that path,” Wilkes says. nor much journalism experience, Wilkes delighted with the online news service of The writing program guides them onto drifted almost by accident into the everything that Science magazine. a very different career path, with remark- teaching of science writing. In 1976, was happening able success. Editors who have worked he was a part-time lecturer at UCSC in that class, I wanted to get the students with graduates of the program are among (where he had received all of his degrees), out into the world and see what they its biggest fans. teaching a three-quarter sequence in could do in a professional setting,” “Santa Cruz turns out more high-quali- English Romanticism. Wilkes recalls. ty journalists in the science writing area He had also begun writing articles about He managed to place several of them, than anyone else,” says Justin Mullins, San cars (“the one technical area I felt comfort- including Murphy and Stayton, in intern- Francisco bureau chief for the internation- able in”) for Road & Track magazine and ships at the California State Assembly’s al science magazine New Scientist, who has was getting excited about being a freelance Office of Research in Sacramento. They several graduates of the program either on writer. So when he did such a great job his staff or freelancing for him. heard through a producing reports r. r. jones r. r. Ellis Rubinstein, editor of the weekly colleague that on technical issues journal Science, agrees. “I don’t know of the Division of for the state legisla- another program that has had as many Natural Sciences tors that the assem- outstanding graduates year after year,” had hired a lectur- bly passed a resolu- Rubinstein says. “It has produced some of er to teach an tion honoring them. the best science journalists we have.” undergraduate This recognition, The program only accepts students science writing once news of it got with science degrees and research experi- course, he decided back to the campus, ence. Wilkes likes to point out that, to audit it. helped ensure that with his Ph.D. in English literature, he The lecturer AVA FERGUSON (’84) and MELISSA HUTCHINSON funding for science wouldn’t even be considered for the was Richard S. (’87) are editors and exhibit developers at the writing courses program he runs. Applicants must also Lewis, editor of Monterey Bay Aquarium. would continue.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 13 Initially, Wilkes thought he still beating on it,” he says.

would only teach for a couple of jones r. r. As the program’s reputation keeps years while he got his own writing growing, however, that kind of attitude is career off the ground. But the steadily fading. “My students all seem to classes were so much fun and the get pretty good jobs, and they even turn students so good he kept at it. down jobs because they’re confident they In those early years, his students can make a living freelancing,” Wilkes says. included Shannon Brownlee, now In fact, about half of the program’s a senior editor at U.S. News and graduates have chosen to work on their World Report, Dan Warrick, now own as freelancers. an editor at Health, and Richard Graduates from both tracks of the Science Communication Wilkes’s students benefit almost as Harris and Joanne Silberner, both program work together on college-level educational multi- much from his guidance and connections now reporters for National Public media products at Archipelago Productions in Monterey: as from the training they receive. He Radio. ANDREA FOUST (’97), scientific illustrator and designer; follows their careers closely and is always Then, out of the blue, Wilkes ALEJANDRO CRUZ (’97), scientific illustrator and designer; available for consultation and advice, even got a telephone call from the TRACY WASHBURN (’97), content director and writer; years after they leave the program. News Massachusetts Institute of SHEILA FOSTER (’94), content director and writer; and and job announcements are relayed to Technology (MIT) inviting him CARLETON EYSTER (’97), scientific illustrator and designer. graduates via e-mail. Wilkes takes a per- to apply for a tenure-track job as sonal interest in every one of his students, director of MIT’s new master’s degree pro- ists. After the first quarter the students seek and the walls of his office are decorated gram in science writing. Wilkes ended up part-time internships, mostly at local with photos spending two years at MIT before coming newspapers, and they complete the pro- of former stu- r. r. jones r. r. back to UCSC gram with a full-time summer internship. dents and their to establish the Wilkes regards science writing as a fine children. campus’s own art as well as a craft. Every piece of stu- Between the

george wuerthner george graduate program dent writing goes through multiple drafts graduates of his in science and gets scrutinized by fellow students as program and communication. well as by teachers. Students also learn by the connections example, closely studying articles written he has made n design- by the best science writers in the business. with other writ- ing UCSC’s According to Wilkes, some editors at LISA DAVIS (’85) is ers and editors, program, major newspapers remain convinced that articles editor at Health Wilkes sits at Wilkes want- scientists can’t write and refuse to even magazine, San Francisco. the center of ed to make consider his students for internships. an extensive Isure his stu- “We’re still hitting a wall of prejudice network reaching into every corner of the dents would be against scientists that I vowed to science writing world. No aspiring science firmly grounded break down 20 years ago, and I’m writer could ask for a better resource. GEORGE WUERTHNER in the realities of Wilkes has been a staff book reviewer (’85), on assignment professional jour- for the Los Angeles Times and has written with daughter Summer, nalism. For that ron cowen articles for Health, Psychology Today, is a freelance writer, reason, intern- Technology Review, and other magazines. photographer, and ships have always For years, however, teaching has taken author of over been a critical precedence over his own writing. “For a 20 books, including component of the while it grieved me that I didn’t have a guide to California program. They more time to write, but it grieves me less wilderness areas. give students ex- now than it used to,” he says. perience in writ- “The fact is,” he adds with a laugh, ing under real-world deadline pressures. “I found my students’ work more com- Each internship also yields a handful of pelling than I found my own.” all-important “clips,” published articles the —Tim Stephens student can show to prospective employers. At the weekly magazine Science News, The program starts off with a crash LAURA HELMUTH (’98) is a science writing Tim Stephens graduated from the science course in the fundamentals of journal- intern, PETER WEISS (’90) covers physics and writing program in 1990. He joined ism—how to report and write news stories. technology, and CORINNA WU (’95) covers the UCSC Public Information Office as The instructors are all practicing journal- chemistry and materials science. campus science writer in 1998.

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 3

1 Portia Rollings (’96) recently 2 The process of photosynthesis, 3 Illustrations of marine life by illustrated a National Geographic as illustrated by Andrea Foust (’97) Portuguese native Pedro Salgado article about evidence that birds in the Archipelago Introduction to (’89) grace these Portuguese descended from dinosaurs. Biology, an educational CD-ROM. postage stamps.

1

Velociraptor Crow courtesy pedro salgado 2

© by archipelago, a harcourt higher learning company © 1998 jen christiansen

4

5 rollings portia by art society, geographic ©1998 national

4 Jen Christiansen (’96) depicted 5 Jen Christiansen’s illustration for gene-cloning procedures for a Scientific National Geographic shows bottlenose American article about identifying whales’ remarkable diving habits as human genes involved in disease. revealed by time-depth recorders.

©1998 national geographic society, society, geographic ©1998 national jen christiansen by art Visualizing science ortia Rollings artists like Rollings, who graduat- “There are certainly art tor at National Geographic, and earns her living doing ed in 1996. Students have come schools preparing illustrators, but Bell hired Heidi Noland (class what she loved most as from as far away as Japan, none that are preparing science of ’98) to take her place. P a child—drawing and Germany, and Portugal. Program illustrators in the way the UCSC John Wilkes, director of working with animals. A full- coordinator Ann Caudle says program does,” Bell says. “It’s a the Science Communication time staff illustrator for the most of the students enter the big help to magazines like ours, Program, says he created both an American Museum of Natural program with a degree in science because we don’t have to give illustration track and a writing History in New York, Rollings and an aptitude for art. science lessons to the illustrator track because he thought most takes photographs of specimens “For many of them, art was on each project.” publications were not making and produces detailed drawings a very big part of their lives, About a half-dozen graduates good use of illustrations to for the museum’s curators and but they also liked science and of the program have worked for accompany science stories. for use in exhibits and museum pursued that because it seemed Bell as interns or on staff, and he “I have always thought that a publications. She also does more practical,” Caudle says. has hired two for the position of good illustration is worth its freelance work, including illus- In fact, there is a real need assistant art director. He hired Jen weight in diamonds and rubies,” trations for National Geographic for illustrators with a solid Christiansen (class of ’96) less Wilkes says. “I still think there’s and Scientific American. grounding in science, according than a month after she started her not enough use of illustrations, UCSC’s science illustration to Ed Bell, art director for internship. In 1998, Christiansen but I’m pretty happy with what program specializes in training Scientific American. left to become assistant art direc- we’re doing to remedy that.”

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 15 UCSC’s electrical engineering program, which admitted its first class of

ago, is already on the threshold of becoming a full-fledged department, EE degree programs under the guidance of a faculty on the cutting edge of photos by r. r. jones r. r. by photos

ormal approval is “We are concentrating our n addition to the new expected from the UC faculty in areas we believe will EE department, this summer Regents this summer be key to the future growth of Imarks the opening of new for the Department of industry in the Silicon Valley,” engineering facilities on the Electrical Engineering, Mantey says. first floor of the Jack Baskin making it the third Five EE faculty members Engineering Building. The department in UCSC’s Jack have been recruited, including facilities include electrical Baskin School of Engineering the chair of the new depart- engineering teaching labs and along with computer science ment, John Vesecky. The faculty offices surrounding an and computer engineering. department’s plans call for a informal common space for Within the broad discipline total of ten faculty members students and faculty. Data in 3-D: Associate Professor Claire Gu’s of electrical engineering (EE), by July 2000. “This open area is the living optics research includes work on holographic the new department is focusing Vesecky, who comes to room for the engineering on electronics, communica- UCSC from the University school,” Mantey says. “We’ve data storage, which has the potential to store a tions, and instrumentation and of Michigan’s College of created both formal and informal terabit (125 gigabytes) of digital information control systems. These areas Engineering, said starting up spaces for people to get together, were chosen to complement a new department is a great to work in teams, and to rub per cubic centimeter. The technique uses laser UCSC’s existing strengths in opportunity. “My goal is to shoulders with their colleagues.” beams to store data in special crystals, such as computer-related fields, and create a first-rate EE depart- they are also topics of great ment and to complement the ptoelectronics is one this 8mm (5/16-inch) cube of lithium niobate. interest to industry, says Computer Engineering and area in which UCSC’s EE Patrick Mantey, dean of the Computer Science Depart- Ofaculty are engaged in School of Engineering. ments,” Vesecky says. exciting research. Optical fibers,

16 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 Keeping the noise down: Visualizing the electro- magnetic field distribution inside an integrated-circuit chip carrier helps Associate Professor Jiayuan Fang undergraduates less than two years avoid the problems of electromagnetic interference. offering both undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering research. diagram courtesy jiayuan fang jiayuan courtesy diagram on top of the chips,” Shakouri explains. Associate Professor Jiayuan at Fang is addressing another set of problems associated with the increasing speed of computer chips. An expert in electromag- netics, Fang is working on ways to avoid the interference that UCSC results from coupling or “cross- talk” between different signals in integrated circuits and on circuit boards. “Problems with interference Engineering a new department: UCSC’s electrical engineering faculty are (l–r) are more serious as micro- Assistant Professor Ali Shakouri, Assistant Professor Peyman Milanfar, Professor and Department processor speeds get faster,” Chair John Vesecky, Associate Professor Claire Gu, and Associate Professor Jiayuan Fang. says Fang, who joined the UCSC faculty in January. which use light instead of elec- Associate Professor Claire Gu “We can transmit data at Peyman Milanfar, current- tricity to carry data, are now and Assistant Professor Ali high speeds on optical fibers, ly at SRI International in widely used in communication Shakouri are both engaged in but there is a bottleneck when Menlo Park, will join the new systems because of their high optoelectronics projects. Gu’s you switch the signal from fiber department in the fall, bringing speed and information capacity. interests include volume holo- to fiber, because currently the expertise in signal processing Building on the success of fiber graphic data storage, optical fiber switching is done electronical- and image processing and optics, researchers in optoelec- communications, information ly,” Shakouri says. enhancement. tronics are developing new tech- processing, and liquid crystal Shakouri also is the technical Vesecky’s research, which nologies that take advantage of displays. She is also collaborating director of a project to develop involves the use of radar for the unique properties of light for with researchers in the Chem- new ways of cooling increasing- remote sensing of ocean waves, transmitting, processing, and istry and Physics Departments ly powerful computer chips. currents, and winds, is conduct- storing information. on a project to develop new The collaborative project, fund- ed primarily on Monterey Bay “The next century will be the polymer-based materials for ed by the Defense Advanced and may lead to fruitful collab- century of light,” says Narinder fiber-optic communications. Research Projects Agency, orations with researchers in Kapany, a fellow at AMP “Our goal is to build low- involves researchers from marine sciences. Vesecky says Incorporated in Palo Alto who cost devices that can be used to UCSC, UC Santa Barbara, UC he also sees opportunities for has helped shape the optoelec- extend fiber optics into people’s Berkeley, Harvard University, himself and other EE faculty tronics program at UCSC. homes,” Gu says. and an industrial partner, HRL to collaborate with researchers “There is a burgeoning need Shakouri’s optoelectronics Laboratories. in astronomy. for optoelectronics research and research focuses on optical “As chips get smaller and “One of the things UCSC development, and I believe switching, which has the poten- faster, they generate a lot more is very good at is fostering UCSC will make significant tial to greatly increase the speed heat. We are designing new work across disciplines,” Mantey contributions.” of fiber-optic networks. cooling devices to integrate notes. —Tim Stephens

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 17 all photos: mickey pfleger mickey all photos:

It was a day for the ages. A day, in fact, rarely seen in Santa Cruz, waltzes; to the composer’s for all ages. and the children’s workshop experimental adaptations Jazzwas made possible by support of movements from Grieg’s from the Santa Cruz County “Peer Gynt Suite.” n a blustery Saturday Symphony and the Kuumbwa Much in the spirit of in March, Wynton Jazz Center. Ellington, Wynton Marsalis O Marsalis and the Lincoln Artistic director Marsalis, (son of pianist Ellis and brother Center Jazz Orchestra came one of the world’s most talent- to saxophonist Branford) to Santa Cruz and performed ed jazz composers and trum- downplayed his presence on two shows—a free afternoon peters, and executive producer stage. He had his moments, workshop for more than 1,000 and director Rob Gibson have of course, but so did each of enraptured schoolchildren good reason for showcasing the other members of this and a sold-out evening concert the work of Ellington. The exceptional ensemble (after all, at which more than 2,000 pianist and composer’s prolific what’s jazz without a few solos). jazz lovers bopped, swayed, career, during which he pro- The evening crowd was snapped, and tapped together duced more than 1,500 pieces, dressed to the nines—the band in the dark of the downtown not only spanned 50 years in tuxedos, the crowd in dress Civic Auditorium. of jazz, but was instrumental coats and gowns. But hours The visit by Marsalis and in launching and defining earlier the preferred fashion ran the orchestra, presented by UC many jazz idioms. more along the lines of jeans, Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures, During the evening show, sneakers, and baseball caps was the third stop on a world the orchestra traveled nearly when area fourth and fifth tour celebrating the centennial the entire course of jazz graders attended the orchestra’s of the birth of the grandfather history, playing everything extraordinary afternoon work- of jazz, Duke Ellington. The from “Take the A Train,” an shop. One of several education concerts by the 15-member Ellington classic; to “Lady programs offered by Jazz at ensemble were of a caliber Mac,” one of Ellington’s few Lincoln Center (the nonprofit

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 until all hours of the morn- ing,” he said. “But in those days, I wasn’t really hip to it. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized that the music made by great artists like Ellington and Louis Armstrong contains a beauty, a sophistication, and a hipness that you don’t always find in other forms of music.” And now, as both educator and performer, Marsalis trans- fuses that appreciation into others. “I just want to treat these kids like my own kids, and invite them into the world of music. As long as they look back on it and remember that some man, sometime, told them something about music, that’s enough for me.” —Barbara McKenna umbrella under which the much more. “Ellington did dynasty he grew up in, orchestra performs), the work- what he loved: He liked it, and Marsalis didn’t much like jazz The afternoon workshop, Jazz shop is designed to turn it felt good. You can do that as a child, which may be for Young People, is just one of kids on to the magic of jazz. too. Do what you like, not part of the reason the educa- the many free programs present- Marsalis immediately what your friends are doing. tional aspect of his work is ed by Arts & Lectures for area endeared himself to the chil- Be a number one yourself, so important to him. students. For more information dren when he apologized for not a number two somebody “Growing up we always on these programs, contact Arts performing a Saturday show. “A else,” he told the kids. had jazz in the house, and my & Lectures at (831) 459-3861 zedlot of the time, we do this show Ironically, given the musical father would take us to his gigs or [email protected]. during the week; so I am really sorry that we’re not getting y’all “I just want to treat these kids like my own kids, and invite them into the out of school,” he told them. But there were no com- world of music. As long as they look back on it and remember that some plaints as Marsalis captivated his young audience with a wit- ty and insightful narrative of man, sometime, told them something about music, that’s enough for me.” Ellington’s life and music. As he traced the evolution of jazz from “polite society music” (“kind of boring,” he confid- ed), through such incarnations as New Orleans jazz, swing, and improv, the orchestra demonstrated with music. As the concert concluded, Marsalis said in a bemused tone that he had never, in 15 years of presenting kids’ pro- gramming, seen such an atten- tive and focused audience. And though it was, in some ways, all about music, the afternoon workshop was about

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 19 The Facts of lison Galloway anthropology at UCSC, recalls the first time she Galloway conducts research on Forensic anthropologist Alison Galloway saw a dead body. It was the effects of reproduction on D her second semester the skeleton, but her academic of graduate school in and professional interests are examines skeletal remains to piece anthropologyA at the University complementary. Her university of Arizona, and she was called research gives her forensic together the circumstances of death to the morgue to examine the work unparalleled depth, and victim of a light plane crash. her fieldwork addresses a key reconstructing events such as and beyond the reach of He was badly burned, and his problem: In the lab, human the nature and sequence of newspaper reporters, but she skull had been shattered by skeletal remains can be hard to injuries, Galloway works to concedes that the presence the impact. It was a gruesome come by, but that hasn’t been re-create the final moments of of journalists can add to the scene, but Galloway was the case in the field. a human life. The medical pressure she already feels. riveted, driven by the task causes of death are numerous, Whether at the scene of a of identifying the remains. purple beeper but the manner of death falls plane crash, an automobile That was 16 years and 300 on Galloway’s belt keeps into one of five categories: accident, or a grisly murder, bodies ago. her within reach of the suicide, homicide, accidental, Galloway approaches each case Now at the top of her authorities who regular- natural causes, and unknown, with the same methodical profession, Galloway is one of ly call on her services, the catchall for those who take professionalism that has estab- only 50 highly trained forensic includingA sheriff’s deputies in the mystery to their graves. lished her reputation. Less anthropologists in the country Santa Cruz, Monterey, and It’s work that requires focus, skilled investigators may be who are regularly called to San Benito Counties. an eye for detail, and a strong compelled by the “yuck factor” accident and crime scenes “Often in homicides, a stomach, says Galloway, who to rush through a job, getting to gather evidence. Unlike criminal has tried to silence concedes that it also helps the body in the bag but over- medical examiners, who work any voice the victim had,” to have a bad sense of smell. looking items or circumstances with soft tissue, Galloway says Galloway. “We’re the “I habituate to bad smells very that could later prove vital. was trained in physical last chance that victim has quickly, so after ten seconds, Douglas Ubelaker, curator anthropology. She examines to say what happened, and I don’t smell them anymore,” of physical anthropology at bones for the clues that help so we feel the weight of she explains. “It’s part of what the Smithsonian’s National her make critical judgments that responsibility.” allows me to do this work.” Museum of Natural History about the nitty-gritty facts At the site, Galloway uses Many of the cases Galloway in Washington, D.C., and of death: Who died, when, basic archaeological techniques handles involve people living former president of the how, and where. and tools, including shovels, on the margins of society, in- American Board of Forensic r. r. jones r. r. Though not at liberty to picks, and a camera, to docu- cluding the homeless, mentally Anthropology, says Galloway discuss the details of individual ment the site and recover ill, drug addicts, and alcoholics. brings a unique breadth of high-profile cases she has evidence. Every detail is exam- Often, their disappearances knowledge to her work in handled, Galloway is part of ined, including clothing, go unnoticed. “They are what forensics. the elite corps whose members insects (the presence of which we call ‘the missing but not the “Many forensic anthropolo- have identified victims of the can help establish the time missed,’” says Galloway. gists specialize in that area, but Oklahoma City bombing, the of death), and soil, which is On the other end of the Alison is one of relatively few crash of TWA flight 800 off screened for small items like spectrum are the high-profile who has always performed her the coast of Long Island, and rings—and bullets. cases that attract widespread work in the broader context of victims of suicide bombers In the lab, dental records media attention. Galloway physical anthropology,” said in Jerusalem. are the most reliable tool for works behind the scenes, out Ubelaker, who for 20 years has An associate professor of establishing identity. Then, by of view of television cameras been the FBI’s primary consul-

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 crime” television have glamor- ized the work, but they leave DEATHout the grueling nature of the job. The fieldwork is physically and mentally exhausting. It is followed by hours in the lab and the long process of writing a report. Lonely work that de- mands focused concentration, it carries with it the isolation of being the sole individual who makes the final determination. “Sometimes you feel like you’re walking out on this very narrow plank,” says Galloway. To live with that responsi- bility, says Galloway, you must be driven by a keen interest and maintain your skills at a very high level, which requires handling a lot of bodies. That dedication is not for everyone. Nearly half the students who enroll in doctoral programs in forensic anthropology drop out. And the work takes an emotional toll, too. Galloway’s cases often involve homicide, and she concedes that it can be draining to deal with such first- hand knowledge of the human capacity to inflict suffering. At the end of a long day, it is comforting to come home and tant in forensic anthropology. hug her young daughter. “Often in homicides, a criminal has tried to “That makes her work of “Most of the individuals I especially high quality.” work with have not had an easy Over the years, Galloway life,” says Galloway. “I feel a silence any voice the victim had. We’re the last has taught many undergradu- responsibility to the person— ates who were eager to go into not to the defense or the prose- chance that victim has to say what happened, forensic anthropology, but she cution, but to the individual. is careful about whom she Sometimes I wonder if I’m the encourages to pursue a career. only advocate they’ve ever and so we feel the weight of that responsibility.” Mystery novels and “real- had.” —Jennifer McNulty

21 ALUMNILUMNI NEWS

Alumni Association African American

Councilors, 1999–2000 shmuel thaler alumni build a reunion ...... lans are under way for Cowell UCSC’s first African Adilah Barnes P American alumni reunion. Michael Twombly The event will take place on Stevenson Saturday, April 15, 2000, as part Diana Reece, Vice President of the Banana Slug Spring Fair for Programs campus open house. Heather Urquhart, Vice Members of the reunion President for Administration planning committee include Los Angeles actress Adilah Barnes Crown Michael Brown (Cowell ’72); Oakland dentist Linda Wilshusen, President-elect Carol Bradshaw (Oakes ’83, Old friends Judy Einzig and Michael Stusser (both Cowell ’69) were delighted community studies); Paula Powell Merrill to find one another amid the record crowd of 350 guests at the April all- (Graduate Studies ’89, history), alumni reunion luncheon. Einzig was a member of an outstanding team of Alan Acosta director of UCSC’s African Dominador Siababa pioneer alumni volunteers who put on a memorable 30-year reunion. American Student Life Resource Porter and Cultural Center; Sacramento Daren Lewis Alumni invited New alumni directory public finance expert Eric Thomas Linda Ziskin (Oakes ’84, economics); as well as to plan reunions in the works other interested graduates. Their Kresge Douglas Foster efforts will be aided by staff from Richard C. Hall lumni who will celebrate hen you took theater the Alumni Association. 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, and arts classes with Camryn “Though many of us African Oakes A30-year reunions in 2000 are W Manheim (Porter ’84), American alumni have talked Renée Martínez invited to step forward now to could you tell she was bound for about a reunion over the years, year Eric D. Thomas begin event planning. The Alumni Hollywood success? When Geoffrey 2000 feels right to ‘just do it,’” College Eight Association’s all-alumni reunion Marcy (Ph.D. ’82, astrophysics) says Barnes. “We welcome all who Joanne Foxxe luncheon, set for Saturday, April was your astronomy TA, did you would like to join us: those from Robert Weiner, President 15, 2000, will give special recogni- expect to read front-page news the very beginning up until those tion to the classes of ’70, ’75, ’80, about his discoveries of planets that who just graduated last year. At Large orbit sunlike stars? Mark Adams ’85, ’90, and ’95. Alumni volun- Herman Blake [Oakes founding Ken Doctor teers will need to come forward to Find out what your lost friends provost] plans to come; that will Dorothy Gustafson put together additional activities, and classmates are doing these days allow us to really come full circle John Laird, Vice President such as the traditional reunion (and let them know what you’re up with the very beginning of for Finance dinner and dance. to) by participating in the UCSC UCSC.” Sandor Nagyszalanczy It takes only a handful of volun- Alumni Association’s directory proj- The committee’s first step is to Kathryn Tobisch, Vice President teers to put on a reunion. In 1999, ect. The alumni directory will list build a mailing list of all African for Membership just ten committed volunteers updated alumni residence and American alumni. Those who Pat Walker planned and coordinated an entire e-mail addresses as well as informa- graduated before 1986 (before Ex Officio weekend of reunion events. tion about careers and family. some electronic records were avail- Kami Chisholm, President, With Alumni Association assis- A request for updated informa- able) are strongly encouraged to Graduate Student Association tance, reunion planning can take tion (or, for those who’ve recently contact the Alumni Association Carolyn Christopherson, just a few meetings. E-mail access contacted UCSC, an information now to get on the mailing list. Executive Director and Web skills are a plus. confirmation) will be sent to all Comments, suggestions, and offers Michael Cowan, Past Chair, To volunteer or for more alumni later in 1999, along with to assist with reunion planning Academic Senate information, contact the Alumni an invitation to order a directory. are also welcome. The association M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor Association via phone toll-free For more information, call the can be reached by phone toll-free Stephen Klein, Past-President at (800) 933-SLUG, locally at Alumni Office toll-free at (800) at (800) 933-SLUG, locally at Kirti Srivastava, Chair, 933-SLUG or locally at (831) Student Union Assembly (831) 459-2530, or via e-mail at (831) 459-2530, or via e-mail at [email protected]. 459-2530. [email protected].

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 Vintners support scholarships

isted below are participants in the 1998 UCSC Alumni Vintners don harris Wine Tasting. Since the wine tasting began in 1989, this popular event Lhas raised over $18,000 for undergraduate scholarships. You can thank these vintners for their generosity by remembering these names when you make your wine purchases. The 1999 Alumni Vintners Wine Tasting will be held on Saturday, July 31, at UCSC. For more information, contact the Alumni Association by phone toll-free at (800) 933-SLUG, locally at (831) 459-2530, or via e-mail at [email protected].

Ahlgren Vineyard Mirassou Winery and Alice Kelly (Kresge ’92) Radcliffe Cellars ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS: Ten undergraduates received Thomas Stutz (Cowell ’74) Bargetto Winery $2,500 scholarships in 1998–99 funded by the Alumni Association. Susan Leach (Cowell ’92) Patz and Hall Wine Company They are, back row (l–r), Christopher Pratorius (Porter, music), Bonny Doon Vineyard Anne Therese Moses (Crown ’85) Nancy Redwine (Kresge, literature), Amy Post (Stevenson, business Randall Grahm (attended UCSC Pelican Ranch Winery management/economics), and Ester Anderson (Stevenson, art); in the early ’70s) Phillip Crews (professor of chem- front row (l–r), Ian Cuevas (Porter, psychology), Maria Ramos (Merrill, undeclared), Jeanette Dowell (Oakes, biology), Selina Domaine Chandon istry, UCSC) Hunstiger (College Eight, undeclared), and Gilbert Quintana (Kresge, Dawnine Dyer (Oakes ’74) Roudon-Smith Winery Michael Walters (Porter ’93) math). Not pictured is Jenny Tang (College Eight, sociology), Frey Vineyards who spent the 1998–99 academic year studying in China. Twelve Saintsbury Paul Frey Jr. (attended UCSC in the financially needy students will receive awards from the Alumni ’80s); Karla Frey (College Eight ’86) David Graves (Crown ’74) Association Scholarship Fund in 1999–2000. Glen Ellen Winery Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Jeff Booth (College Eight ’79) Brooks Painter (Kresge ’80) Husch Vineyards Storrs Winery Richard A. Robinson (Crown ’71) Jason Brandt Lewis (Stevenson ’78) The University of California Madroña Vineyards Sylvester Winery Alumni Associations present the.... Hugh Chappelle (College Eight ’86) Dominic Martin (Kresge ’73) McHenry Vineyard Zayante Henry and Linda McHenry (son and Gregory Nolten (Crown ’73) Sixth Annual UC Alumni Career Conference daughter-in-law of the late Dean McHenry, founding chancellor) ☛ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Terry Paulson: “Making Change Work” Jenny Prisk: “Stand Up, Speak Up, and Succeed” ☛ Career workshops david alexander david ☛ Networking luncheon with alumni in your job field

Saturday, September 18, 1999 9 A.M. to 3 P.M.

At the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles

cost (includes lunch): $45 Alumni Association members $60 Nonmembers

For more information or to register, Anne Therese Moses, left, owner of Patz and Hall Wine Company, gets ready contact the UCSC Alumni Association: to sample a competitor’s wares as Madroña vineyards wine maker Hugh (800) 933-slug Chappelle fills her glass at the 1998 UCSC Alumni Vintners Wine Tasting. [email protected] Alumni council members Sandor Nagyszalanczy (Stevenson ’77), second from left, and Douglas Foster (Kresge ’76) look on. Over 250 fellow alumni, friends, and UCSC community members attended the tasting.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 23 ALUMNI NOTES

Cowell College reached at [email protected]. Ph.D. in environmental and com- for his piece, “Fire Signs”; ’82 Karen LINICK and Vince munity sociology at Utah State the piece was performed in ’67 Michael FARNEY has been ROMERO (Cowell ’84) are mar- University and feels fortunate to January by the San Francisco named the Philip G. Laurson ried, and their son, Evan Romero, have landed a tenure-track assis- Conservatory Orchestra with Professor of Mathematics and was born in October 1998. Vince tant professor position in natural Jung-Ho PAK (Cowell ’85) promoted to full professor at is teaching high school social stud- resources planning at Humboldt conducting. Dakota Wesleyan University in ies and coaching the academic State University in Arcata, Calif. ’97 After serving in the Peace Mitchell, S. Dak. team and varsity basketball; Karen “He is happy to be back living Corps in Eritrea, East Africa, ’68 Ellen SCHIFF has been a is a full-time mom trying to figure and working in a place where Betty DEPPS is now teaching nuclear medicine technologist at out how to supplement their in- there are redwoods surrounding English at a high school in Japan. Sonoma Valley Hospital since come without having to be away campus buildings and banana ’98 Neal HARTLEY was voted 1976; she has a black belt in from home 11 hours a day. slugs prowling the sidewalks.” best teacher for 1998–99 at the Shito-Ryu karate, a second kyu in ’84 After finishing a residency in ’92 After spending two and a high school in Saitama, Japan, Bo-Okinawan kobudo, and she is family medicine at the University half years in Nairobi with the where he is teaching English. an assistant karate instructor. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Peace Corps and subsequent When asked about his most influ- ’73 After seven years living in in 1995, William (Sandy) stays in Argentina and Spain, ential teacher, he answers, Dane Hong Kong and working as CRAIG joined the UNC Medical Christopher MONDAY is in St. Archer, from whom he took class- regional managing director of a School faculty; did medical work Petersburg, Russia, working on a es on sociological methods and personal and organizational in Malaysian Borneo with his master’s degree in economics. nonverbal communication. effectiveness training company, wife, anthropologist Kirsten Edey; Jane Parks-McKAY is a reporter Mitchell FEIGENBERG and his and is working now as a family for the Times Publishing Group’s family are returning to northern doctor at a rural health center in family of newspapers; she is at Stevenson College California this July; he would love Vermont. work on her third book and ’69 Diane COHAN was award- to hear from old classmates at ’85 Karen NEWBRUN Einstein “credits her UCSC education for ed a license in marriage and fami- [email protected]. teaches English as a second her current activities.” ly therapy from the California David HOVLAND has worked language at Santa Rosa Junior ’93 Sara DANIELSEN is finish- Board of Behavioral Sciences in for 25 years in the fields of geolo- College; she is living in cohousing ing her master’s in theater from 1998; she has been a licensed gy and environmental geology in Sebastopol, Calif., and is the UC Santa Barbara and has relo- private investigator for 17 years. and is now manager of Idaho’s proud mother of four-year-old cated to San Francisco with ’70 Patricia HALL is the author Drinking Water Program. twins, Koby and Elsa. Amanda WYLIE (Cowell ’94). of Johnny Gruelle, Creator of ’76 In summer 1998, Richard ’88 Jennifer HATHORNE is ’95 Eric LIPTON is working Raggedy Ann and Andy: The LEITER was promoted to full working in Salt Lake City as a in Washington, D.C., for the Definitive Biography of America’s professor of law and appointed as- development associate for the Tribune Company doing produc- Premier Juvenile Entertainer sociate dean for Information and Sundance Institute, raising money tion and reporting for the various (1993) and the Raggedy Ann and Technology Services at Howard for the Sundance Film Festival Tribune television stations, Andy Postcard Book (1998). University School of Law; his and the Theatre Program. Internet sites, and newspapers, ’71 Charles (Chuck) BURTON book, Concordance of Federal ’91 Elisa GORDON completed including the Chicago Tribune, has moved with his wife and Legislation, was published by her Ph.D. in anthropology at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, daughter to Steilacoom, Wash., William S. Hein Co. in 1998. Case Western Reserve University WPIX-TV in New York, and where he is a seasonal tax prepar- ’77 Rita ROSENKRANZ runs in Cleveland and is now working their Web sites. Marine Lance er. He also hikes and bikes and the Rita Rosenkranz Literary as a research associate in the Cpl. Charles McEWEN is cur- has won nine major tournament Agency in New York City; she has Department of Medicine at the rently deployed to the western bridge titles in the last several worked with alumna Patricia University of Chicago. Rachel Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and years. Jonathan KIRSCH is the HALL (see Stevenson ’70) on five MARTIN, a senior financial au- Arabian Gulf with the 15th author of two best-selling books books. ditor at Barclays Global Investors Marine Expeditionary Ready on the Bible and two books on ’80 Scott ENGLER spent the in San Francisco, began an Group. publishing law; he is also a con- summer of 1998 in Poland visit- evening M.B.A. program at the ’96 Bruce ROCKWELL won tributing writer to the Los Angeles ing relatives with his wife, Zuza; Haas School of Business at UC the Jim Highsmith Competition Times Book Review and a book they have moved recently to Berkeley in fall 1998. Michael for Composition from the San critic for National Public Radio Petaluma, Calif., and Scott can be SMITH has recently finished his Francisco Conservatory of Music

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 for a seat on the Sunnyvale City Council, but won on his second try two years later. He served as mayor of Sunnyvale for two

steve castillo photography castillo steve terms before being elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in 1988. During his campaign for mayor of San Jose, Gonzales made education his No. 1 issue. While the mayor has no direct responsibility for schools, Gonzales maintains that mayors can take both concrete and symbolic steps to help schools improve. In the first few months of his term, Gonzales began making good on his campaign pledge, launching a program to help new San Jose teachers repay portions of their college loans. In another effort to help the city attract and retain teachers, his experience in government while administration is providing Leading the way in San Jose fulfilling a field-study require- resources to help teachers buy ment. During the spring and their first homes in San Jose, summer of his junior year, where skyrocketing housing Alumnus Ron Gonzales (B.A. the kind of job where you are he worked for the Equal prices make home ownership community studies, Kresge ’73) never bored. No day is like the Employment Opportunity difficult on a teacher’s salary. day before.” Commission (EEOC) in Gonzales is also aware of the is halfway through his first year On a daily basis, Gonzales Washington, D.C. value of simply keeping educa- as mayor of San Jose grapples with a range of issues: It was an exciting time to tional reform in the forefront reshaping city government to be in Washington and at the of discussion. he third-largest city promote teamwork and efficien- EEOC: The capital was abuzz “We need to do everything in California and the 11th cy, stoking the economic engine with Watergate, and the EEOC we possibly can to help children T largest in the nation, San that powers San Jose, balancing had just received the power to realize their dreams, whether it’s Jose is considered by many to be economic and environmental sue employers directly for dis- to be a software engineer, a the capital of the high-octane, concerns, and supporting crimination. Gonzales, who had schoolteacher, a journalist, or high-tech mecca known as schools as they educate tomor- never before traveled outside even a mayor,” Gonzales says. Silicon Valley. row’s workforce. California, called his field study “I want every child in San Jose As mayor of such a dynamic “The bottom-line responsi- a “tremendous personal learning to know that this mayor is city, Ron Gonzales frequently bility of any city is to make sure experience.” standing behind them, working arrives home very late at night, we’re doing our job providing After graduating in 1973— with the teachers in their feeling like he’s been through the infrastructure that fuels the the first in his family to earn a schools, the principals of the the spin cycle of a washing industries that keep our people college degree—Gonzales schools, the superintendents of machine. Undaunted, Gonzales working,” says Gonzales. “It worked for two years on a com- the school districts.” calls the job he’s held since takes a lot of cooperation and munity schools program in As a Hispanic mayor of January the most incredible he’s partnership and is not always Sunnyvale before taking a job a major city, Gonzales is ever had. easy.” in the city of Santa Clara’s plan- frequently mentioned as one of “It has surpassed my expecta- Educated in Sunnyvale’s ning department. Four years California’s brightest political tions,” he says. “It’s going to public schools, Gonzales came later, he joined Hewlett- stars. The mayor, however, says sound a little bit like a cam- to UC Santa Cruz in 1971 as a Packard, where he worked in the future is not his focus. “I’m paign slogan, but I really do junior transfer student from personnel and marketing. thinking about this job,” he ex- believe I’ve got the best job in De Anza College in Cupertino. At about the same time, plains. “If I do this job really, re- the best city in the nation at the A community studies major at Gonzales launched his political ally well, that will be satisfying best possible time. It’s certainly UCSC, Gonzales got his first career. In 1977, he lost a race enough.” —Francine Tyler

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 25 affiliate KPCC-FM in southern psychologist at three schools in ly in the 1940s and features clas- ’98 Andrea VAN NOTE is pur- California. Kirsch practices law in the Brea Olinda Unified School sic songs from the Grateful Dead; suing an M.S. in counseling at the field of publishing and intel- District; she was recently awarded the play ran at the Stage Door San Francisco State University; lectual property as a partner in a human services recognition for Theater in San Francisco in sum- she has recently become engaged the firm Kirsch & Mitchell. His her work as a school psychologist mer 1998. and “already misses UCSC.” wife, Ann BENJAMIN Kirsch and conflict management pro- ’91 Kim BEA is in the first year (Porter ’71), is a psychotherapist gram coordinator. Sharon HAYS, of a master’s program in history at in private practice in Beverly an assistant professor of sociology the University of Minnesota at Crown College Hills. Jeanette PETERSON and women’s studies at the Minneapolis St. Paul. Dana ’69 Jack OTIS took a year off Nutcher is teaching K–12 stu- University of Virginia, has written CADILLI Linnet returned to the from the printing business to par- dents in an English Language a book about the contemporary U.S. after six years of corporate ticipate in the Expo 98 Round Development program in Lone ideology of “intensive mothering” life, graduate study, and public the World Rally, in which he Pine, Calif.; she has been involved and the unrealistic expectations of service in Denmark; she is now sailed over 20,000 downwind in bilingual education since 1973 mothers, titled The Cultural president and founder of ICON- miles in 358 days on a Nelson and received her M.A. in bilin- Contradictions of Motherhood (Yale International Consultants in Merick 68 “Maverick.” The trip gual crosscultural special educa- University Press, 1998). Boston. Julie SEVRENS has been took him across three oceans and tion in 1987 from San Jose State ’83 Beverly CRAIR has joined appointed to the position of four seas and to four continents University. She added the follow- Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park health and fitness writer at the and over 20 islands. ing comment on the article on as manager of the NFS (network San Jose Mercury News. ’71 Deborah KAPLAN is Adilah Barnes in the last UCSC file system) development team. ’92 Marcia WALL is teaching executive director of the Review: “Herman Blake had a ’84 Diane KERN Hamilton’s English at the University of San World Institute on Disability in profound influence on my career business won the Telstra and gov- Diego. Timothy WEINER is a Oakland. Kathy BENDER Koch and interest in my own heritage, ernment Small Business Award second-year law student at is working as a clinical laboratory as did Murray Baumgarten and for the southwest of Australia in Southwestern University School scientist in cancer research at the Norman O. Brown.” Nina 1997 and the Telstra Internet of Law in Los Angeles; this sum- University Medical Center in SUNTZEFF Zagaris is working Innovation Award in 1998; in her mer he is clerking for a Superior Göttingen, Germany. in the Development Department free time, Diane is an active Court judge in Los Angeles ’73 After working for 20 years in at the Jewish Museum in San member of the local theater group County. Sacramento drafting education Francisco and finishing her M.A. and a Cub Scout leader. ’93 Carolyn LEEDY received legislation, Rick SIMPSON has in museum studies at John F. ’85 After graduating from the her M.D. from Northwestern joined Governor Gray Davis’s Kennedy University in Orinda, University of Montana Law School University Medical School in team as educational liaison to the Calif.; she is president of the in 1988, Andrew SUENRAM is 1998; she is presently a resident legislature. Board of Directors of the Modesto living and practicing law in the in pediatrics at Children’s ’83 Aviation Week and Space Sister Cities International. “last best place”—Dillon, Mont.; National Medical Center in Technology magazine awarded ’72 Judy BERGER directs new he is married and has two Washington, D.C. Larry CORNMAN, a researcher leadership development initiatives daughters. ’96 Jolene ALLRED is serving at the National Center for for Health Forum, a subsidiary ’87 Lance BERNARD is teach- with the Peace Corps in Jamaica, Atmospheric Research in Boulder, of the American Hospital ing U.S. history at the University working with the National Colo., one of its annual laurels for Association, based in San of Nevada at Reno and finishing Resources Protection Authority his lead role in developing a new Francisco. his Ph.D. in history. Chuck on improving water quality and method of measuring atmospher- ’73 Robert BROOKS is working FLACKS changed careers in 1998 maintaining freshwater resources. ic turbulence from commercial with a police department in a and is now working in market Mai BLOOMFIELD is practic- aircraft. juvenile-delinquency prevention research. Eric MENDELSON ing graphic design in southern ’84 Lisa SIEVERTS is still living program, teaching criminal justice writes, “the years I’ve spent on my California and pursuing her love in Boise, Idaho, with the goats at a local university, and working mountain bike in the uphill battle of music as vocal and guitar lead and chickens. his 40-acre farm in his spare time. against gravity have paid off with in an all-women band called ’86 Jennifer BUNDY Koenigs is Christine ABRAHAMSON a lifetime achievement award Raining Jane. After moving to hiking in the desert, taking ballet McClelland holds leadership po- from the Flummoxed by Physics Portland, Ore., as an AmeriCorps and piano lessons, and camping sitions in a local NAMI (National Society.” member, Renée SANCHEZ with her family; she is involved Alliance for the Mentally Ill) ’89 Michael Norman MANN is now working as a tenant with Cub Scouting, and she’s a group, providing companionship has written a musical theater pro- organizer. soccer mom. and education for people affected duction, titled Cumberland Blues, ’97 Sarah RUSSELL is in her ’89 Nick KOPSINIS completed by mental illness. which tells the story of a disinte- first year of medical school at UC his master’s in education at ’77 Dori BARNETT is a school grating Appalachian mining fami- San Diego School of Medicine.

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 Chapman University and is now National Forest; he also assisted April by George Braziller. Porter College in his tenth year of teaching at a in an excavation of an original ’86 Juan RAMIREZ has had his middle school. Spanish cathedral at the San book A Patriot After All: The Story ’72 Diane KOMINICK ’90 Jason HOFFMAN is work- Francisco Presidio. of a Chicano Vietnam Vet—which Ouzoonian is working as an art ing for Wells Fargo in informa- began as his undergraduate the- teacher for prekindergarten tion security; he plans to enter an sis—published by the University through 12th-grade students at a M.B.A. program at St. Mary’s Merrill College of New Mexico Press; he owns a Christian school in New York; she College this summer. landscaping business in is in a master’s program at SUNY ’71 After 17 years living in Israel, ’91 Damian BIONDO is Watsonville. and has been involved in mission- where she worked as a teacher and halfway through a J.D. program ’89 Michelle ANDERSON is a ary work in the Philippines. an editor, Joan (now Yael) at Georgetown University and is professor of law at Villanova ’74 In spring 1998, Lisa MILIMAN Gott is living in contemplating a career as an art University School of Law. JENSEN Aschbacher had her Bellingham, Wash., with the lawyer. Jonathan KLEIN is a partner at first novel published in Germany, younger of her two daughters; ’92 Amanda SARGENT the 14-attorney law firm of Kelly, and she and her husband, artist she is enrolled in a program for received her master’s degree in so- Herlihy, Advani & Klein in San James Aschbacher, painted a mur- clinical pastoral education and is cial work in 1998 at USC and re- Francisco; he has a new baby girl al in downtown Santa Cruz; this working as a hospital chaplain cently moved back to Santa Cruz. named Rachel. John PEREIRA year she celebrates 23 years as film intern. ’93 Karen Lara ACKERMANN and his wife, Anne Riddell, were critic for the Good Times, 14 years ’76 Bernard GOLDEN has been completed a master’s degree in expecting their first child in fall as a book critic for the San named vice president of engineer- marine biology at the College 1998; they have relocated to Francisco Chronicle, and 20 years ing at Deploy Solutions, a compa- of William and Mary in Williams- Mexico City, where he represents of marriage. Noe LOZANO is ny specializing in workforce man- burg, Va., in January. Gary LISKA Bechtel in the Latin America enjoying working at Stanford but agement software. was chosen new associate of the northern region in the area of misses UCSC; he has one daugh- ’79 Peter COLE is a social year for John Hancock Financial human resources. He asks ter at Stanford, one applying to worker in private practice in Services in 1995 and 1996; in “moat rats” to contact him at UCSC, and two boys still too Sacramento and a clinical instruc- 1997, he started his own registered [email protected]. young for college. Teresa tor of psychiatry at UC Davis investment advisory firm, SEIA. ’90 Carolyn CHERRY is doing McNEIL MacLean teaches col- School of Medicine; he lives with After receiving her M.S.W. from special education monitoring and ored-pencil drawing, writing and his wife, Daisy, and their blended Loma Linda University in 1997, compliance in the Minneapolis performing poetry, and “music of family of five kids in Fair Oaks, Susan RITTER is now living on schools; she would like friends the westward expansion” in Santa Calif. the Mendocino coast and working and classmates to write her at Ynez, Calif., area schools; she had ’83 Deidre WILLETTE Paknad as a social worker for Child [email protected]. a one-person show of her draw- and her husband, Mohammad Protective Services. ’91 Debra SCHMIDT is living ings and watercolors in February PAKNAD (Crown ’85), live in ’94 Henry DAVIS is graduating and working in the San Diego at the Faulkner East Gallery in Palo Alto with their five-year-old from the University of Nevada area and teaching ESL in Baja Santa Barbara. daughter, Azora, and are co- Medical School and moving, with California, Mexico. ’77 B. J. BAUER Glowacki is founders of a Silicon Valley start- his wife, Lucy ROBBINS Davis ’92 Kate SULLIVAN lives in working toward an M.A. in spe- up company, Glyphica. Deidre (Porter ’94), and their three chil- Minneapolis and is a pop music cial education and a concurrent and Glyphica were recently dren, to Tacoma, Wash., where he critic at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, CLAD and special education inducted into the Smithsonian will begin a residency in family as well as a theater critic for credential at National University. Institution’s National Museum of medicine. American Theater Magazine and Laura MORRELL Marello has American History for the compa- ’96 Virginia Anne YOUNG was an arts reporter for City Pages written four novels, a collection ny’s work in preserving historical expecting to graduate from Boalt weekly newspaper. of stories, and a collection of Olympic documents on the Hall School of Law at UC ’94 Linda MIKLOSKO is an ed- novellas; she teaches at the State Internet. Berkeley in May. itor of research publications and University of New York at Albany. ’85 Persis KARIM received her ’98 Through his involvement the Web development manager ’78 Steven PEÑA recently left Ph.D. in comparative literature with the Cabrillo College for the Wood Materials and Warner Bros. Online to become from the University of Texas at Archaeological Program, Engineering Laboratory at counsel in the L.A. office of Austin in 1998 and will take a Matthew ARMSTRONG was Washington State University; she Brown, Raysman, Millstein, position as an assistant professor part of a team that uncovered an and her son, Aaron, live in Felder & Steiner; he’s still work- at San Jose State this fall; she is ancient Native American site in Moscow, Idaho. ing on entertainment matters, coeditor of A World Between: Monterey County during a rou- including Internet issues. Poems, Short Stories and Essays by tine survey of land in Los Padres ’79 Singer and songwriter Iranian Americans, published in Carmaig DE FOREST has a new

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 27 album titled El Camino Real. with studio space for them both. research at the New York College ’96 Cassandra MOONEY ’80 Kathryn CHETKOVICH’s ’92 Susannah COPI received her in Syosset, N.Y.; he is conducting taught English in Spain for two collection of short stories about M.F.A. in film production from research in alternative and com- years; now she is doing research women and their friendships, CalArts; she is currently teaching plementary medicine. on women photographers. titled Friendly Fire, was the 1998 film classes at the Academy of Art ’84 Jim SCHWEITZER is presi- ’98 Angela THOMPSON is winner of the John Simmons College in San Francisco. John dent of the Yorba Linda Lions currently working for the Santa Short Fiction Award, a national FOWLER is serving as a Peace Club, as well as secretary of the Rosa Press Democrat and is search- juried award through the Iowa Corps volunteer in Kenya, teach- North Orange Region of District ing for a good graduate program Writers’ Workshop. Jennifer ing basic fundamentals of biology 4-L4 Lions Club in Orange in journalism. COLBY is the owner of Galería and chemistry to high school County, Calif.; he is also secretary Tonantzin, which shows women’s students. of the Brea Historical Society. contemporary art in San Juan ’93 Alexis Lynne PAVENICK ’88 Daphne BROGDON is Oakes College Bautista, Calif.; she teaches in earned an M.Phil. in anthropolo- cohost of CNET Central, a show ’76 Denise SEGURA is a sociol- various colleges and is pursuing a gy from Cambridge University in on computer gadgets on the ogist at UC Santa Barbara, and Ph.D. at the California Institute England and a master’s in English USA/Sci-Fi networks and produc- she directs the university’s Center of Integral Studies. from Cal Poly, Pomona; she mar- er and call screener for Dr. Dean for Chicano Studies. ’84 In September 1998, Camryn ried Alex Tennant, a mechanical Edell’s KGO radio show; she is ’80 Tamara NICHOLS is a MANHEIM won an Emmy for engineer, in 1997. also a cocreator and performer licensed marriage and family Outstanding Supporting Actress in ’95 Monica CREASON de la with an improv group called therapist working with seriously a Drama Series for her role as Garza is a research assistant at the Scratch Theater. emotionally disturbed (SED) attorney Ellenor Frutt on ABC’s L. A. County Natural History ’89 Carl DURHAM left the po- adolescents and with perpetrators The Practice. She has had feature Museum and is working toward sition of vice president of a Santa of domestic violence. roles in a number of films as well, an M.A. in art history and muse- Cruz company to return to the ’81 Christoph RUBACH is an including Romy and Michelle’s High um studies; she recently married Bay Area and practice law in San actor in an experimental English School Reunion, Mercury Rising, Jaime de la Garza. Jose. Christine JOHNSON- dance company that has been Happiness, and David Searching. ’96 After serving in the Peace Staub has a 14-month-old son, touring throughout Europe with ’85 Mattison FITZGERALD’s Corps, William KTSANES is Benjamin, and she has recently a production relating to the paintings are on an animated film now director of an organization begun a position as director of Holocaust. on the Internet, which was caring for HIV-positive children research and public policy for ’90 Paul BUSE is a tax preparer screened at the Cannes Film in Thailand, and he is proud to Associated Day Care Services in with Mission Financial Services, Festival; her work is archived in announce the birth and adoption Boston. and he owns his own bookkeep- the National Museum of Women of his son, Thomas, a Thai child ’92 Elena AGUILAR is in a ing firm; he and his wife, Suzanne in Arts. orphaned by AIDS. Ph.D. program in anthropology Barreras, live in Santa Cruz and ’90 Michael DILLON lives and at UC Berkeley; she married the have a daughter, Caitlin Jane, teaches in lovely Venice, Calif. love of her life in 1998. Jonathan born in 1998. Barry HAINES After graduating from the Kresge College BENAK is currently on a precep- was made an officer of General University of La Verne Law torship in the emergency room at ’75 Dana Andersen-WYMAN is Reinsurance Corporation in School in 1998 with his J.D. and Washington, D.C., General head of drama at Brazosport 1998. passing the California Bar, Marc Hospital as a second-year physi- College in Lake Jackson, Tex. ’92 Catherine PFISTER GROSSMAN has opened a law cian’s assistant student; he expects ’76 Gael PERRIN is happily completed her M.S.W. at San office in Upland, Calif., and is to graduate from the MCP living in Novato, Calif., with her Francisco State University in building a practice, hoping to Hahnemann University Physician husband and considering the 1998 and is now working with specialize in consumer and class- Assistant Program in August. options for graduate school. disabled children in San Mateo action matters. Folksinger/song- ’94 Michelle SHIN graduated ’79 Navy Chief Petty Officer County. She and her “com- writer Gillian WELCH’s second from Hastings College of Law Elsa FRIEDMAN Conely was pañero,” Jonathan, live in San album, Hell Among the Yearlings, with a J.D. in 1998. one of more than 5,000 sailors Francisco and are planning a trip was released in 1998; her first al- ’95 Shelley BATES sold her first and marines aboard the USS John around the world. bum, Revival (1996), was nomi- novella, titled “Strictly Business,” C. Stennis who recently spent a ’93 After receiving an M.S.W. nated for a Grammy. which will be published by Red record 131 days in the Arabian from Boston College Graduate ’91 Andrew EHRNSTEIN Sage this summer. After graduat- Gulf helping to enforce mandates School of Social Work in 1997, earned the Top Gun Award for ing from McGeorge School of levied against Iraq after the 1991 Sherie FULLER Smith is teach- business growth in 1998 within the Law, Robert SCHMITT is work- Gulf War. ing health in a middle school. Lynden Air Freight system; he and ing as associate city attorney for ’83 Kevin ERGIL is director of Matthew RAHMAN has been his wife, Cynthia, bought a house the city of Roseville, Calif.

28 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 1999 awarded a Ph.D. in neuroscience neys in a lawsuit against one of to Salt Lake City for Anesta national Gambling Impact Study from the F. Edward Hebert the national forests; she is also Corp., an anesthesiology/analge- Commission; she is in charge School of Medicine at the involved in human rights issues, sia pain management drug deliv- of writing the section on Indian Uniformed Services University of such as protesting the Aryan ery company. Gaming for the commission’s the Health Sciences; he is current- Nations parade in northern Idaho ’88 Eugene SHEEHAN (Ph.D., report. ly engaged in a postdoctoral last summer and fighting antigay psychology) was chosen the 1998 fellowship in drug-abuse research initiatives. Distinguished Scholar at the at Texas A&M University. ’88 Kelley BURST (K. B.) University of Northern Colorado, In Memoriam ’94 Michelle JELINCH graduat- Singer is an internal medicine where he is professor of psycholo- Eugene FRANK (Cowell ’76), a ed from the Monterey Institute physician and mother of Oskar gy and department chair; the passionate Jew and cocreator, with of International Studies with an and Otto; she is married to a honor carried with it an award of his wife, Leslie Gattman, of a M.A. in teaching English as a Brandeis University graduate. $1,500. Hardi PRASETYO Jewish ceramic arts business, died second language in 1995 and is ’90 After finishing an M.D. (Ph.D., earth sciences) has been of an aneurysm at his home in now a full-time faculty member at at Boston University, Aaron appointed assistant to the minis- Forestville, Calif., in November Hartnell College in Salinas, Calif., PERLMUTTER is completing ter of mines and energy in 1998; he was 45. teaching ESL. Janis BARNEY his residency in internal medicine Indonesia. Terence FREITAS (Crown ’97), Aziza Varo is a nationally certified at the University of Hawaii. ’89 Jon HOLTZMAN (Ph.D., who had been working to pre- massage therapist; she also works ’91 After two busy years at Net- astronomy), an assistant professor serve the culture of the U’wa, an as a services administrator for a scape, Heather TRUMBOWER of astronomy at New Mexico indigenous people in Colombia, software company. is working as a software engineer State University in Las Cruces, was found shot to death near the ’95 After graduating from med- for a pre-IPO company develop- won a campus award for out- Colombia-Venezuela border in ical school at Michigan State ing enterprise application integra- standing teaching. early March; he was 24. Friends University, Estaban LOPEZ has tion software. ’91 Wolfgang ROSENBERG of the Freitas family have estab- moved to Houston with his wife, ’94 An identical twin herself, (cert., theater arts) has given up lished an endowment at UCSC in Agueda LOPEZ (Oakes ’92), and Tracy Lea SMITH Oskolkoff is commuting from San Francisco his honor to support the research their three daughters, where he is now the proud mother of identi- and moved to Santa Cruz perma- of undergraduate students in completing a residency in internal cal twin girls. nently. environmental studies; to make a medicine and pediatrics at the ’95 Winnie POON is working ’92 Ceyda CAN (M.A., applied contribution to the endowment, University of Texas at Houston. in the Asset Management economics) married Kutlu contact Christina Valentino, Department at Solectron Corp. Aricanli in 1998, and they live in director of development for ’98 Corey QUINN’s company, the San Francisco Bay Area. the social sciences, at (831) College Eight Quintal Internetworking LLC, ’96 Lucía RAEL (M.A., educa- 459-3857. provided a live video/audio tion) has been selected as advising ’82 April ZILBER has been Christoffer Erik HARMS broadcast on the Internet of all and retention coordinator for working as a glass artist for six (Cowell ’91), a former Peace the action taking place at the Title III Grant Project at years; “still trying to figure out Corps volunteer, who had worked O’Brien’s Irish Pub in Santa Oregon Institute of Technology what to do with my science back- for the U.S. Geological Survey on Monica, Calif., on St. Patrick’s in Klamath Falls. Portia ground,” she writes. hydrology projects and helped Day. ROLLINGS (cert., science illus- ’83 Brian McRAE is living in run a safari business, committed tration) provided the cover art for the beautiful northern-beaches suicide in November 1997. At the the July 1998 issue of National area of Sydney, Australia, with his time of his death, he was a mas- Graduate Studies Geographic. (See page 15.) wife and six-year-old son; he is ter’s student in civil engineering at ’97 Alexander (Sasha) the technical director for the ’81 Kathy Louise RAFKIN San Diego State University. BOGDANOWITSCH (M.A., Australian Water and Wastewater (M.A., literature) is the author Vicken MARKARIAN music) wrote and performed a Association. He would be happy of Other People’s Dirt: A (Stevenson ’94) died of complica- piece titled “Atom Turning in the to hear from anyone at Housecleaner’s Curious Adventures, tions from an auto accident in Sun of Eternity” at the American [email protected]. a collection of humorous and December 1998; he was the hus- Festival of Microtonal Music in ’85 Since receiving an M.S. in thoughtful essays drawn from band of Lise MARKARIAN 1998; his piece was described as forest resources from the interviews with housecleaners and (Merrill ’95). an “intriguing work” with a “win- University of Idaho in her own experiences cleaning Laurie LATZER Webb (Porter ning authenticity” in a New York 1994, Natalie SHAPIRO has other people’s houses. ’76) died in May 1998 in Times review of the festival. been working with environmental ’86 James HATTERSLEY Farningham, England, where ’98 Katherine SPILDE (Ph.D., groups in Idaho and is (M.S., chemistry) has moved with she lived with her husband, anthropology) has been appointed currently doing research for attor- his wife, Jennifer, and his children Jonathan Webb. policy analyst/writer on the

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