UCUCREVIEW SANTASANTA CRUZCRUZFall 2005 UCSC’s 40th Anniversary: Also in this Issue: Chancellor Denton’s Investiture How today’s students are preparing Lost History to make a world of difference Hot Tech Memories of War ...and more UC SANTA CRUZ REVIEW UC Santa Cruz 40 Years of Review 8 Excellence jim mackenzie Chancellor In this anniversary year, actress Denice D. Denton Elise Youssef is one of five Vice Chancellors, University Relations students profiled whose achieve- Elizabeth Irwin (Interim) ments are cause for celebration. Thomas Vani (Interim) Associate Vice Chancellor, Communications Elizabeth Irwin Lost History Editor 14 Community studies professor jim mackenzie Jim Burns Paul Ortiz tells the little-known Art Director but powerful story of black Jim MacKenzie resistence to white supremacy Associate Editors Mary Ann Dewey in post-Reconstruction Florida. Jeanne Lance Writers Louise Gilmore Donahue Hot Tech Ann M. Gibb 16 Graduate student Javad Shabani jim mackenzie Jennifer McNulty Scott Rappaport is part of a team engineering Doreen Schack new technologies that could Adilah Barnes (Cowell ’72) and Paul Mixon (Stevenson ’71) attended Tim Stephens convert heat—often wasted— the 2005 African American Alumni Reunion—one of 37 reunion Cover Photography into electricity. events that took place during Banana Slug Spring Fair 2005. r. r. jones Office of University Relations Carriage House Memories University of California Your Reunion is April 22. Be there. 1156 High Street 18 of War jim mackenzie Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 Historian Alice Yang Murray Voice: 831.459.2501 Come to Banana Slug Spring Fair 2006 Go to alumni.ucsc.edu/reunions to: Fax: 831.459.5795 coteaches a course that considers R The All-Alumni Reunion Luncheon, with special recogni- R Reconnect with your E-mail: [email protected] how perceptions of World Web: review.ucsc.edu tion for 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, and 2001 grads classmates online War II have changed over time. 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Postmaster: Send address changes to the Alumni News ................................................................................. 24 University of California, Santa Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077. Alumni Notes ............................................................................... 26 Astronomers discover CAMPUS UPDATE most Earthlike trent schindler, nsf schindler, trent victor schiffrin victor planet yet team of astronomers Fall activities celebrate arrival of Chancellor Denice Denton has reached a major mile- A stone in the search for Earthlike planets with the jim mackenzie Highlights of the Celebration discovery of the smallest planet ever detected beyond our solar Symposium on system. About seven and a half The newly discovered planet is shown Academic Diversity rpi courtesy ix faculty members and 11 graduate teaching assistants who times as massive as Earth, it in this artist’s conception. Intellectual discourse on have demonstrated “exemplary and inspiring teaching” have may be the first rocky planet achieving excellence through received top honors from UCSC’s Academic Senate. The 2004– ever found orbiting a star not around the star in a mere two diversity, access, and inclusion. S 05 Excellence in Teaching Awards were presented by Chancellor much different from our Sun. days, and is so close to the star’s THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Denice D. Denton (right) and Committee on Teaching chair Charles All of the nearly 150 other surface that its temperature 2:30 p.m., Media Theater McDowell (second from right) at University House at the end of the extrasolar planets discovered to probably tops 200 to 400 academic year. Faculty award winners are (l–r) Julie Tannenbaum, date around normal stars have degrees Celsius (400 to 750 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Susana Terrell, Radhika Mongia, Paul Ortiz, and Jerome Neu. Not been larger than Uranus, an ice degrees Fahrenheit). Chancellor Denton meets with students during a tour of UCSC’s arts facilities— 8:30 a.m., Colleges Nine/Ten* SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE giant 15 times the mass of Earth. “This planet will be histor- one of many introductory stops around campus the new chancellor has made pictured is Grant Pogson. SPEAKER (Nov. 3, 2:30 p.m.) “We keep pushing the limits since becoming UCSC’s ninth chancellor in February. ic,” said team leader Geoffrey Investiture of Shirley Ann Jackson of what we can detect, and we’re Marcy, a UCSC alumnus and Investiture, symposium, A “Symposium on Academic Denice D. Denton President, Rensselaer UCSC managing facility earlier this year. getting closer and closer to find- professor of astronomy at UC Diversity” will take place on Led by UC president Robert C. Polytechnic Institute. UCSC has a collaborative ing Earths,” said team member Berkeley. “Over 2,000 years dinner are highlights Thursday and Friday, November Dynes, a ceremony marking the Recipient of UC Santa operation of NASA relationship with NASA Ames Steven Vogt, a UCSC professor ago, the Greek philosophers 3 and 4. On Thursday afternoon, investiture of Denice D. Denton Cruz Foundation Medal. Ames sensor facility that includes the management of astronomy and astrophysics. Aristotle and Epicurus argued orgoing a traditional Shirley Ann Jackson, 18th presi- as the ninth chancellor of UCSC. of the University Affiliated The new planet orbits the about whether there were other inauguration, Chancellor dent of Rensselaer Polytechnic csc has taken over Research Center (UARC), a star Gliese 876, just 15 light- Earthlike planets. Now, for FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Denice D. Denton will Institute and former chair of jones r. r. the operation of NASA’s $330 million contract between years away and located in the the first time, we have evidence F 1:30 p.m., Colleges Nine/Ten* be sworn in as UCSC’s ninth the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U Airborne Sensor Facility, UC and NASA for a broad range constellation Aquarius. for a rocky planet around chancellor as part of a series Commission, will deliver the a major program for observing of mission-oriented research. The smaller planet whips a normal star.” of events this fall that will be keynote address; Jackson will also Third Annual Scholarships and monitoring Earth’s environ- The UARC will now oversee short on ceremony and long receive the third annual UCSC Benefit Dinner ment. The facility is based at the activities and program of the on substance. “Instead of Foundation Medal. Celebrating successful Cornerstone NASA Ames Research Center Airborne Sensor Facility. Under Research shows why as people age, they rely more spending resources on pomp On Saturday, November 5, Campaign and raising funds to in Moffett Field. the current agreement, NASA heavily on a comparison and circumstance, Chancellor support UCSC students. The transfer of management will provide funding to UCSC older adults ‘accentuate process that favors positive we will invest in Instead of spending Denton will host Jack Baskin strengthens the links between through the UARC at the rate the positive’ emotional outcomes, said lead SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Philanthropist and recipient of $3 million per year to cover researcher Mara Mather, an our academic pri- resources on pomp and UCSC’s annual NASA and UCSC and will orities and our stu- Scholarships 6 p.m., University Center of the Fiat Lux Award at the enhance the campus’s remote operation costs, salaries for the ge-related differences associate professor of psychol- dents,” Chancellor circumstance, we will Benefit Dinner— *Multipurpose Room Scholarships Benefit Dinner. sensing capability and research, current staff of 17, and stipends appear to affect the way ogy at UCSC, whose work Denton announc- invest in our academic an event at which said Eli Silver, a professor of for one or two graduate students, A adults make and remem- was published earlier this year Earth sciences who was named Silver said. ber their choices in in the Journal of ed in meetings priorities and our students. it was announced with students, last year that certs and lectures sponsored principal investigator of the Researchers in UCSC’s life, suggesting that Experimental staff, and faculty —Chancellor Denton more than Regional events by UCSC’s Arts & Lectures Center for Remote older adults “accen- Psychology. nasa at the end of the $1 million in are also planned program; a presentation Sensing, part of the tuate the positive jennifer mcnulty “The results add 2004–05 academic year. scholarships and fellowships cosponsored with the American campus’s Institute of and eliminate the a twist to our un- UC President Robert C. for students had been raised. ontinuing Chancellor Association of University