The Graduate Magazine Spring 2008
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A Magazine for the TheGraduate Graduate Community U N I V E R S I T Y O F C A L I F O R N I A , B E R K E L E Y Spring 2008 2006–2007 Graduate Degrees Awarded Academic Master’s 779 Professional Master’s 1,184 Juris Doctorates 314 D. Optometry 71 Certificates 122 Doctorates 896 Graduate education at a glance photo Arnold Yip Who are the graduate students at Berkeley? If we begin with the entering class in fall 2007, they are 2,977 men and women who come from throughout the United States and around the world. Almost half are from California. Thirty percent come from other states, with the highest numbers from New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Washington, and Texas. The rest are international students who represent 67 countries, with the highest numbers from India, China, Korea, Canada, and Taiwan. Nearly a half century separates the life experience of the youngest (18) from the oldest (66), though both of them are interested in math and physical science. The average age in this group is 27. They will be studying in 95 different majors, with 37 percent seeking a Ph.D. For a fuller picture of the graduate community at Berkeley, we offer the following data. Fall 2007 Graduate Applicants Field of Study Total 32,293 Biological Science 582 Journalism 113 Admitted 5,856 Business 1,493 Jurisprudence & Social Policy 38 Entering students 2,977 Chemistry 512 Law 934 Education 430 Natural Resources 317 Graduate Enrollment Energy/Resources Group 59 Optometry 279 Total 10,317 Engineering 1,673 Physical Science 593 Men 5,677 Environmental Design 356 Public Health 438 Women 4,640 Health/Medical Science 42 Public Policy 159 Humanities 801 Social Sciences 1,186 California residents 6,345 Information 79 Social Welfare 233 Nonresidents 3,025 No designation 947 Major Extramural Fellowships Awarded African American 322 to Berkeley Graduate Students American Indian/ National Science Foundation 358 Alaska Native 121 First Year 94 Caucasian/White 4,505 Continuing 264 Chinese American 783 Foreign Language & Area Studies 62 East Indian/ Institute of International Education (IIE) Fulbright 19 Pakistani American 425 U.S. Department of Education—Fulbright-Hays Filipino American 102 Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) 14 Japanese American 130 Korean American 186 Academic Appointments Pacific Islander 24 Graduate Student Instructors 2,000 per semester on average Vietnamese American 112 Graduate Student Researchers 2,300 per semester on average Other Asian American 54 Chicano 311 Latino 309 Other/no ethnic data 1,090 International 1,843 Source: Graduate Division 2 TheGraduate • 2008 Contents The Graduate The Graduate • Spring 2008 • Volume XX, Number 1 Published by the Graduate Division Andrew J. Szeri, Dean Joseph J. Duggan, Associate Dean Carlos A. Fernandez-Pello, Associate Dean Susan J. Muller, Associate Dean Moira Perez, Chief Administrative Officer Lisa Harrington, Editor Dick Cortén, Senior Writer p. 4 p. 16 Arnold Yip, Publications Coordinator FEATURES The Graduate magazine is published by the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley. We Portraits and Observations 4 Between the Barrio and Seminar welcome your suggestions and comments. Please send correspondence to: Fallen but not forgotten, American Room 17 troops are memorialized by MFA Alvaro Huerta, City and Regional The Graduate 325 Sproul Hall #5900 candidate Emily Prince Planning doctoral student, straddles the University of California — By Lisa Harrington divide between East L.A. and Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-5900 — By Cathy Cockrell [email protected] Berkeley Reveals a New Starr 6 The C.V. Starr East Asian Library, a A Champion of Teens 18 Current and archived copies of this treasure trove of rare collections, opens Public Health Hero Barbara Staggers, publication are available to view or to download in PDF format on the Graduate its doors to scholars and the public M.D., serves the most underserved at Division website. — By Dick Cortén Children’s Hospital Oakland — By Lisa Harrington http://www.grad.berkeley.edu Native Realm 7 A Grammy-winning CD showcases Protecting a National Treasure 19 Copyright 2008 American Indian singer-scholar Grad alum is the Smithsonian’s new Regents of the University of California — By Cathy Cockrell chief executive — By Lisa Harrington Enriching the Culture, Educating the Next Generation 8 Alumnus of the Year 20 Q&A with the Dean of the Graduate Judge Thelton Henderson, civil rights Division, Andrew J. Szeri pioneer and biopic subject — By Lisa Harrington — By Dick Cortén Big Boost from Berkeley 11 ON THE COVER How grad students and alums led the University House, a handsome design of personal computers and the sandstone brick mansion, serves as technology we use at work and home the official residence of Chancellor every day and Mrs. Birgeneau and is used by the — By Dick Cortén campus to host events and welcome How to Save a Life 16 visiting dignitaries. Built in the Italian A research partnership is helping the Renaissance-style, the structure is victims of Darfur and improving lives listed on the National Register of around the world Historic Places. A photograph taken — By Lisa Harrington in 1911 shows Teddy Roosevelt seated in a motor car at the foot of the entry steps when the building was completed. Our cover shot, showing the sundial around noon, was taken more recently. (Arnold Yip photo) TheGraduate • 2008 3 Portraits& Observations Emily Prince documents the cost of war By Lisa Harrington American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (but Not including the Wounded, nor the Iraqis, nor the Afghanis): “The numbers kept coming up in the daily reports. Five here, fourteen there, one day after another. And then the growing figure mounting over a thousand. Peripherally it was ever-present, but still only an abstraction…. I needed to see pictures of them, to familiarize myself just a tiny bit more with what was happening far from my warm home,” writes Emily Prince in an introduction to her project. Shown above at the 52nd Venice Biennale, the artwork has been seen by thousands of people from around the world. (Courtesy of designboom.com) In her San Francisco studio, artist Emily Prince quietly continues a work-in-progress, her vast memorial to U.S. troops whose lives were lost in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. The artwork she’s created, completely by hand, consists of thousands of individual, wallet-size portraits, finely drawn in graphite, that, when arranged on a wall, create a very large map of America. Conceived by Prince on November 4, 2004, the day after the last presidential election, her project American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (but Not including the Wounded, nor the Iraqis, nor the Afghanis) was prominently displayed at the 52nd Venice Biennale, the historic and prestigious international art festival held in Italy last summer through fall. Prince, then 26, was one of the youngest artists invited to participate. “I was stunned,” she says. “I never thought my work would be in it at any point, and certainly not now.” Face to face: During the Venice show, her wall of portraits brought Before leaving for Venice, she confessed some fears regarding reception, but reports Prince, Prince considerable notice and “People were so kind to me there. I met artists from several continents who were directly kind to praise from the press. Michael Kim- me about my work.” Her apprehensions about physically installing the work there (“because it’s melman, chief art critic of The New such a large piece and the size is always changing — I wasn’t even sure that it would fit”) quickly York Times, called her installation a “remarkable work.” (Courtesy of dissipated as an eager crew composed of artist Shaun O’ Dell (her husband), two Italian art stu- designboom.com) dents, a gallery rep from New York, and a Greek journalist who just happened to be going through 4 TheGraduate • 2008 man, 18, from Paradise, California, who was a “deep thinker” and excelled at math and physics, “who had a bright future as an engineer.” Prince, who grew up in the Sierras in Gold Run (pop.125), says her artworks (including an exhibit called Familiar at the Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco in which she catalogued all the hats, all the lamps, and other items in her apartment) share common threads: they map her environment and focus on things, one at a time. “It’s the way I look at the world,” she says. Spending time with each soldier’s face is her way of engaging with the information on a personal level “somewhat akin to prayer.” Her memorial to the troops will appear next in a group show (May 18–October 19) on loss and remembrance at the Wanas Foundation in Sweden (http://www.wanas.se/), and later will travel to the Saatchi Gallery in London (http://www. saatchi-gallery.co.uk/). Though the portraits are a large part of her practice, Prince devotes most of her time to the MFA program at Berkeley, where she’s been studying with Ann Walsh, Justine Taylor, and Brody Reiman, faculty in Art Practice whom she calls “very supportive.” With an undergraduate degree in studio art and psychology from Stanford, she chose gradu- ate school at Berkeley because she had been questioning her work and needed “a safe place to experiment.” She also wanted to try her hand at teaching here. Fall semester, she taught an introductory art class to 26 undergrads and found that she “thoroughly loved it.” In May Prince will present a © Michael Winokur Photography © Michael Winokur new work, using animation to show passage of time, in the Portrait of the artist: Emily Prince, who will earn an MFA degree from MFA Exhibit on campus.