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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

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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

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Your Reunion is April 22. Be there. 1156 High Street 18 of War jim mackenzie Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 Historian Alice Yang Murray Come to Banana Slug Spring Fair 2006 Go to alumni.ucsc.edu/reunions to: Voice: 831.459.2501 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. Produced by UC Santa Cruz Public Affairs R The UCSC Alumni Vintners Wine Tasting R Get event details 9/05(05-046/81.5M) R A panel discussion featuring fascinating graduates R RSVP UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Also in this issue from the class of ’76 Vol. 43, No. 2 / September 2005 Campus Update ...... 2 R Make your reunion gift UC Santa Cruz is a series of administrative publications R The annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture published in August, September, November, and March Alumni Profile ...... 20 by University Relations at the University of California, R Affinity group, academic department, college-based, and Santa Cruz. Periodicals postage paid at Santa Cruz, Campaign Update ...... 22 other reunions CA 95060. 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 Geophysics and Planetary negative in their derstanding of how Dynes will participate in a brief At this year’s dinner, UCSC Denton’s inaugural “listening Women; the annual Sidhartha Physics, use remote memories.” people remember ceremony investing Denton as benefactor Jack Baskin will Ctour” and offering communi- Maitra Lecture to complement imaging tools to study Psychologists things that weren’t UCSC’s chancellor on Friday, receive the foundation’s first- ty members opportunities to join the campus’s Satyajit Ray Film Earth’s surface, oceans, at UCSC have there,” said Mather, November 4, followed immedi- ever Fiat Lux Award for service in the celebration of the chancel- and Study Collection; and and atmosphere. Their learned that adults Mara Mather who coauthored ately by her inaugural address. to the campus. lor’s arrival, UC Santa Cruz is a presentation by professor investigations address of all ages tend to the paper with collaborating with partners of physics Joel Primack at many diverse topics, “fill in the gaps” when recall- UCSC graduate student Marisa throughout the region to present NASA Ames. including coral reefs, ing decisions of the past, Knight and then-undergradu- For a schedule of special events surrounding Chancellor Denton’s a variety of special events this fall. For details on these and NASA’s ER-2 aircraft carries a variety of glaciers, volcanoes, air shedding light on the myster- ate Michael McCaffrey, who investiture and to RSVP, please go to: celebration2005.ucsc.edu Among activities open to related events, please visit: sensors used for observing and monitoring pollution, ocean currents, ies of memory distortion. But graduated in 2003. the public will be a series of con- celebration2005.ucsc.edu Earth’s environment. and land-use planning.

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 3 Gracie,” courted and then raised news-group participants, who Yamashita, codirectors of the Falcon family draws a clutch of four falcon chicks. tuned in from as far away as New Teacher Center Living Writers Series UCSC Creative Writing New symposium “The response has been Europe. “An amazing commun- Program. “Our primary goal is louise donahue louise online crowds awarded $1.5 million brings guest authors, showcases donahue louise overwhelming,” said SCPBRG ity of people came together federal contract poets into classes to bring in people whose work graduate research pair of peregrine falcons research associate Glenn Stewart. around these birds,” Stewart said. we think will reach the students had a very public courtship More than 2,000 people The falcon webcam project he highly regarded ach quarter, the and broaden their horizons,” here’s no doubt A this past spring and raised a participated in an online news is part of SCPBRG’s education New Teacher Center at Humanities Division’s said Perks. about it: UCSC’s first family in full view of thousands group moderated by SCPBRG and outreach program, support- T UCSC has been awarded E Living Writers “We really try to T Graduate Research of fans, thanks to researchers scientists. Crowds gathered in ed by major gifts from Oracle a $1.5 million contract to Series brings eight bring a large variety of Symposium won’t be its last. who set up a webcam in the downtown San Francisco to and PG&E. participate in the federal gov- to 10 visiting writers—people just “It’s succeeded beyond falcons’ nest box. The nest box watch the young ernment’s first major evaluation authors and poets rappaport scott starting out, those who what we envisioned,” said sits on a ledge on the 33rd floor peregrines make of programs that school districts into UCSC classes have been around a associate graduate studies of the headquarters of Pacific their first flights brian latta offer novice teachers. to give students an long time, older people, dean Lisa Sloan as stu- Gas & Electric in downtown and to celebrate The New Teacher Center in-depth look into younger people—to dents, staff, and faculty San Francisco, where it was their fledging, (NTC) has supported beginning the world of the give students a sense of came to the Graduate installed by the UCSC while the web teachers since 1988, and now working writer. what’s possible in the Commons in early June Predatory Bird Research Group site logged works across the country with Sponsored by the writing life and how to look over research (SCPBRG). An Internet-linked hundreds of school districts interested in in- campus’s Institute the choices they make posters and view research camera sent streaming video of thousands of tensive induction models. “We for Humanities will affect their lives presentations. the nest to the SCPBRG web hits. Donations know that teacher quality is the Research and the and work.” Sloan, named graduate site (www.scpbrg.org). and notes of single most important variable Porter College yamashita karen courtesy The spring schedule studies dean in August, Widely publicized in the Bay appreciation in student performance, and Hitchcock Poetry included guests such as said the event had been Area media, the site attracted have poured in we also know that the first two Fund, the series is Vietnamese American optimistically titled the thousands of visitors who fol- from enthusias- Four peregrine falcon chicks were raised by their parents, years of teaching are the most coordinated by writer Linh Dinh, “first annual” symposium, lowed the action in the nest tic webcam “George and Gracie,” in a nest box on the PG&E challenging,” says executive associate professors From top: Micah novelist Stephen Elliott, but it is now a sure thing as the falcons, “George and viewers and building in downtown San Francisco. director Ellen Moir. “Our of literature Micah Perks, Karen and poet Elizabeth to return next spring. NTC induction model has been Perks and Karen Yamashita Willis. A series of 10-minute Ph.D. student Jean Waldbieser, left, Campus volunteers and volunteer Linda Anderson. ed at least 2,000 plants to the shown to cut new teacher drop- oral presentations high- discusses her research on amphiphilic “There’s a problem here, and UCSC landscape, mostly in out rates by half, and we are lighted the variety of polymers with Chancellor Denton give nature a hand we’re out to address it.” the Long Marine Lab area. beginning to show significant Engineering to offer Science Department has put research being conducted. on the Graduate Commons patio. The problems are invasive, The work can be demand- impact on student learning.” together a series of courses computer game that will give students an or the volunteers nonnative species and erosion. ing—Anderson said she could High school graduation documented a 6 to 8 percent who join work crews each Work crews pull out the trou- recommend it as aerobic exer- design as new track in-depth introduction to the increase in the high school grad- quarter to help preserve blesome plants, replant areas cise—but it also comes with design and technology of rate improved by uation rate of youth in homes F Theater arts creates he development of interactive computer video UCSC’s natural areas, the with native species, and moni- a sense of satisfaction. home computers with computers. Other positive effort is a labor of love. tor the campus to detect prob- “In the few years I’ve new student-run interactive computer games. impacts include a lower rate of “It really is a wonderful lems with invasive species. volunteered at Younger production company T video games has become “The students we’ve talk- hildren living in homes school suspensions and higher way to get out, with a great Scott Loosley, who heads Lagoon I’ve been able to see a multibillion-dollar industry ed to are very excited about with a computer are more grade-point averages among stu- group of people, and work to the Site Stewardship Program once-tiny plants that we’ve csc’s theater arts that caters to the legions of it. To my knowledge, this is C likely to graduate from dents in homes with computers. help the environment,” said of UCSC’s Grounds Services, planted thrive and form a Department has established gaming enthusiasts with a the first undergraduate ini- high school than young adults The study is part of an paleoceanography researcher estimates volunteers have add- thick cover that helps to keep U a new student-run produc- steady output of new games tiative in computer gaming without computer access at investigation of the digital out the weeds,” said volunteer tion company to help ease the featuring ever greater levels in the UC system,” said Ira home, even when factors like divide being conducted under Laura Goodhue. A 1991 transition for undergraduates of technical sophistication. Pohl, professor and chair of income and parental education the auspices of UCSC’s Center UCSC graduate, Goodhue is from academia to the professional For students whose inter- computer science. are controlled for, according to for Justice, Tolerance, and scott loosley scott a field assistant for the Fort theater world. est in games goes UCSC researchers investigating Community. Ord Natural Reserve rare Named “Barnstorm” because beyond merely play- the “digital divide.” plant survey. of its home base in the Barn ing them, UCSC’s Although many studies have Students are the backbone Theater at the foot of the cam- Jack Baskin School explored the impact of comput-

of the volunteer preservation- pus, it has been created as a mod- of Engineering now ers in schools, few have assessed donahue louise ists, though staff and faculty el of a small professional theater offers the opportu- the impact on youth of having a courtesy microsoft game studios microsoft courtesy members also take part. company—completely organized nity to specialize computer in the home, says Volunteers may sign up and managed by students. in computer game Robert Fairlie, associate profes- through the Site Stewardship Participants receive five units of design through a sor of economics at UCSC and Program, which can be academic credit and must put in new track in the a lead project investigator. computer science Volunteers take part in a restoration planting project on an earthen accessed via the following a minimum of 150 hours each Halo 2, released last year, had first-day sales of More than a quarter of all major. berm buffer that separates the Long Marine Lab facilities from the Younger web site: ucscplant.ucsc.edu/ quarter working in one particular $125 million, well above the opening-day reve- children in the United States Lagoon Natural Reserve. ucscplant/Grounds/. position, such as actor, director, The Computer nue of even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. lack computer access at home, publicist, or set designer. according to Fairlie, whose team

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cultural inroads African donahue louise in front of home crowd Mellon grant Americans are making jim mackenzie

or the fifth time in rika zavaleta, an assistant monica lee courtesy democracy now! democracy courtesy school history, UCSC’s professor of environmental ver the past decade, Fmen’s tennis team captured Estudies at UCSC, has African Americans have a national championship. But received a prestigious grant Obecome more visible on the this time, the feat was accom- from the Andrew W. Mellon cultural landscape of the United plished on the team’s home Foundation to investigate the States, says sociologist Herman courts as the host school thrilled ecological impacts of the loss Journalist Amy Goodman, Gray. But the inroads black hundreds of very enthusiastic of plant species in California host of the popular Democracy artists like Wynton Marsalis Slug supporters in May with a ecosystems. Now! radio program, discussed have made on U.S. culture aren’t 4–1 victory over top-ranked Through a program that the role of independent media enough, according to Gray, au- Middlebury College of supports the research projects in democracy during a lecture thor of the new book, Cultural Vermont. of outstanding junior faculty, sponsored by the UCSC Alumni Moves: African Americans and The tournament also marked cientists in UCSC’s Laboratory for Adaptive Optics are developing Zavaleta has been awarded a Association and College Ten the Politics of Representation. the first time in NCAA Division extraordinarily precise optical systems that will enable astrono- three-year, $200,000 grant. A earlier this year. Goodman “I want my multiracial six- Herman Gray III history that a player on one mers to capture images of planets far beyond our solar system maximum of only three such was presented with College Ten’s S year-old grandson to be able to team captured the team, singles, and to build the next generation of giant telescopes. This past spring, awards are presented each year. first Ruben Salazar Journalism turn on the television and see doesn’t mean we’ve achieved our and doubles titles in the same Award for her “outstanding campus officials and visitors dedicated new facilities for the laborato- other people of color, but we can’t goals of justice and equality.” year. In the singles competition, commitment to preserving the ry and celebrated its achievements. Above: Graduate students Katie stop there,” says Gray, a professor In Cultural Moves, Gray integrity of journalism.” UCSC’s Matt Seeberger repeated Morzinski and Stephen Mark Ammons, working in the laboratory. Biologist earns of sociology and chair of the de- examines the impact of culture as national champ; he also partment at UCSC. “Just because on political change and explores teamed with Matt Brunner to prestigious Searle grant Jane Wilhelms television does a better job now how black popular culture has capture the doubles title, winning UC Santa Cruz to lead ties working on the Dynamic Dickens Project of representing our diversity shaped the nation. a thrilling third-set tiebreaker. Ad-hoc Wireless Networks he searle scholars Jane Wilhelms, professor celebrates ambitious project on (DAWN) project. Program has awarded of computer science and an wireless networks The project also includes T Melissa Jurica, assistant expert in computer graphics 25th year UCSC, NYU join researchers at UC Berkeley, professor of molecular, cell, and and animation, died of cancer UCLA, Stanford University, developmental biology, a three- in March in Santa Cruz. She ounded in 1981 to in virtual dance and jim mackenzie csc researchers are lead- Massachusetts Institute of year, $240,000 grant to support was 56. stimulate collaborative theater collaboration ing a major collaborative Technology, the University of her research. Jurica, who studies Wilhelms began her career F research on the writings, U effort to develop the tech- Maryland, and the University of the complex system by which as a biologist, teaching anatomy cultural impact, and life of ubricious transfer, nology for complex wireless Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. human cells process genetic and physiology for many years novelist Charles Dickens, as an ambitious dance communications networks that It is funded by a five-year information, is one of just 15 at junior colleges before return- well as the Victorian age in experiment in live, can be set up in rapidly chang- grant from the U.S. Department young scientists awarded the ing to school in computer

L oosley general, the Dickens Project transcontinental collaboration ing environments such as battle- of Defense that will provide an prestigious grant this year. science. Much of her work in celebrated its 25th year this using the Internet—was xxxx fields and emergency situations. average of $1 million per year The program makes grants to computer graphics, including summer with its annual broadcast simultaneously this Faculty in UCSC’s Baskin spread among the institutions. selected universities and research techniques for animal modeling Dickens Universe. spring to audiences at UCSC’s School of Engineering will head J. J. García-Luna-Aceves, centers to support the research and animation, drew on her The weeklong event each Experimental Theater and a multidisciplinary team of sci- Jack Baskin Professor of of exceptional young faculty in background in biology. year brings together college New York University’s entists at seven major universi- Computer Engineering at the biomedical sciences. Wilhelms joined the UCSC faculty, graduate students, high Frederick Loewe Theater. UCSC and the project’s princi- faculty in 1985, immediately Melissa Jurica school teachers, undergraduates, Two performances in April Students, staff, and faculty at both universities worked together on the project. J. J. García-Luna-Aceves pal investigator, said the meth- after completing her M.S. and Elderhostel participants, and were the culmination of a ods and protocols developed Ph.D. in computer science at members of the general public distance arts project undertak- The project was conceived students both the opportunity for this project will have UC Berkeley. She earned her tim stephens tim to study one particular Dickens en by an interdisciplinary mix of by UCSC assistant professor to perform and to acquire the widespread applications. The tim stephens B.A. in zoology at the University novel. This summer’s event fo- of students, staff, and faculty of theater arts Ted Warburton technical knowledge necessary research is of interest to the of Wisconsin–Madison, and an cused on the novel Little Dorrit. at both universities. The result and carried out in his move- to produce this type of event,” U.S. Army to enable troops to M.A. in biology at Stanford A scholarly consortium was an interactive, real-time ment research class. UCSC’s noted Warburton. “We had deploy mobile communications University. Her experience in headquartered at UCSC, the performance where UCSC staff provided the expertise and performers on opposite sides of networks on the battlefield. But computer graphics and anima- Dickens Project consists of dancers performed in front instruction, enabling students the country working together such networks could also be tion included working as a faculty and graduate students of three “liquid screens,” upon to run all of the technical —interconnected and inter- used by emergency personnel in consultant programmer at from UC’s general campuses, as which live images of the New aspects of the performances. dependent—using advanced the aftermath of an earthquake Lucasfilm—where the Star Wars well as from 16 other major York University dancers were “I believe this is the first telecommunications for artistic or other disaster in which pre- movies were produced—while American and international simultaneously projected. course in the U.S. to offer collaborative purposes.” existing communications infra- she was a graduate student at universities. structure has been knocked out. UC Berkeley.

6 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 7 40 Years of Excellence in the fall of public elementary and Like their predecessors, Committed high schools, tutoring and 1965, UC Santa helping ESL students. She today’s students also directed the campus’s Cruz opened to community multicultural center, work- ing with student groups to its doors to 652 are preparing to promote diversity educa- Christina Morales students who were tion and recruit students make a big difference Ph.D. candidate, History and faculty of color. eager to learn and After graduating with a B.A. in history, Morales committed to serve. in the world hristina Morales spent a year working for Cholds the distinction Mujeres Pueden, a welfare- As the following of being the first person in to-work program in San her immediate and extended Jose, where she served as five profiles illus- family to attend a four-year case manager for Mexican trate, the passion college. American single mothers She also happens to be on public assistance, help- of today’s students the second Latina gradu- ing them to become em- ate student in the History ployed and self-sufficient. remains true to Department at UCSC to She also applied to three be honored with a $69,000 doctoral programs in his- the spirit of that Ford Foundation Predoctoral tory, ultimately choosing founding class. Fellowship for Minorities. to come to UCSC. The award is given each year “I had heard good things to only 60 students across the about Latino and Latina country who have “demon- scholars here,” Morales At right (l–r): students Reza strated superior scholarship recalls. “UCSC was also the Shabani, Christina Morales, and show the greatest prom- only place where the fac- Elise Youssef, Erin Kraal, and ise for future achievement ulty called me and students Eduardo Hernandez. Below: as scholars, researchers, and e-mailed me prior to my UCSC students, c. 1965. teachers in institutions of acceptance—it seemed re- higher learning.” ally inviting. They expressed jim mackenzie Growing up in a low- interest in what my research income neighborhood in interests were, and I felt like the United States during the issues of education—one Gilroy, California, Morales it was going to be a good fit.” Depression. of my goals is to be involved was actively involved dur- Morales has completed her Although her ultimate aspi- in university policy and serve ing her high school years in master’s thesis on the forced ration is to become a universi- on school boards,” Morales MECHA, the community- sterilization of Chicanas that ty professor, Morales definitely said. “I would also like to oriented student organization took place at various medical plans to continue working in be able to mentor students promoting education on issues centers in California during the community, well aware of in the future,” she adds, involving Mexican Americans. the 1970s. Her dissertation how much her volunteer and “because I had such a positive As an undergraduate at Santa project examines the repatria- work experience has come experience with professors Clara University, she spent tion movement to expel the to shape her research interests. who mentored me.”

vester dick vester time volunteering at local Mexican community from “I’m really interested in —Scott Rappaport

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 9 r. r. jones r. r. Acting, Economics sleuth naturally Reza Shabani Dual-degree program leading to a B.A. in Economics Elise Youssef and an M.S. in Applied Economics and Finance Senior, Theater Arts

eza Shabani considers The team’s preliminary uring spring quarter, Rhimself lucky. Many of findings have surprised DElise Youssef was out the his childhood friends joined Shabani: They indicate that door by 6 a.m. on weekdays the military, while each day vets have experienced lower to perform the lead role in brings Shabani closer to his rates of suicide and death in the traveling Shakespeare goal of earning a doctorate motor vehicle accidents than To Go production of The in economics. previous studies showed. Winter’s Tale. The 50-minute Shabani was always good “One thing I’ve really play by Shakespeare Santa at math, and he discovered learned in economics is you Cruz was performed 48 times economics during his sopho- have to be honest in how in two months for Central more year. He promptly you approach and interpret Coast schoolchildren. enrolled in the department’s your results,” said Shabani. Once the day’s Shakespeare rigorous “Pathway” program “When you’re after the truth, performance ended, it was to earn a B.A. and a master’s you have to put aside your jim mackenzie back to campus for classes degree in five years. own ideological agenda.” and 5 to 11 p.m. rehearsals for had time to do anything else. including roles in two shows says, noting that she won “The world revolves Integrity is evident in the theater arts production Almost from the time and creation of the Intern the role over Equity actors around economics—money Shabani’s extracurricular of Merrily We Roll Along, a she set foot on campus, Showcase—a sellout. and that Shakespeare Santa and resources,” he said. activities, too. Each spring, Stephen Sondheim musical. Youssef has been landing Lighter roles are her favor- Cruz artistic director Paul “It’s a good foundation for he participates in student- jim mackenzie At one point, Youssef roles normally reserved for ites. “In high school, I loved Whitworth “goes all over the anything I want to do in led outreach programs that performed both plays just more experienced actors. She playing the ingenues, but as world” to audition actors. the public policy arena.” encourage students of color crisis” after receiving positive for outstanding achievement hours apart. snagged a part in Shakespeare I’ve gotten older I’ve found Youssef, just beginning her Shabani’s concern about to enroll at UCSC, and he feedback on a paper he wrote in economics. “I love every minute of it,” Santa Cruz’s Gretel & Hansel the most fulfilling roles are the senior year, is sure to pursue his friends in the military founded a campus chapter about water in California. “I’m busy all the time. she says of her hectic pace. her first quarter, and hasn’t comedic ones.” One of her even more choice roles. “It’s inspired an ambitious study of the nonprofit Project “I got a glimpse of how I It’s crazy,” he says. “But I Acting seems as natural as slowed down since. favorite courses last year was my last year, so I hope to go of the health of Vietnam Namuwongo Zone, which could affect the world. That want to be successful. I have breathing for Youssef, who There was the student- Clowning Studio, taught by out with a bang.” veterans. Shabani is using fights poverty and AIDS moment made me realize friends in Richmond and has been performing since directed family drama assistant professor of drama And after that? Youssef draft records to compare in Uganda. what an opportunity I had Oakland, and they’re living the age of 8. “I enjoy being Tales of the Lost Formicans, and dance Patty Gallagher. considers her time at UCSC the fates of draftees to those “Coming to Santa Cruz here to better myself.” in the richest country in the with an audience. It’s like and a production of Youssef’s most recent invaluable preparation for who were not called up— has changed me so much,” Since then, Shabani has world facing the problems of a conversation,” she says. The Trojan Women at the off- comedic turn, as Maggie in an acting career, and has her a methodology worthy of a says Shabani, who grew up won research awards, a fel- impoverishment. No one can “I can’t really imagine doing campus community venue, Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s next step all planned. “I’ll dissertation, says Shabani’s in Richmond. Recalling his lowship to attend a summer save every person, but you anything else.” The Attic. A Shakespeare Engaged this summer, was definitely move to New York faculty adviser, Assistant Crown College core course, public-policy institute at the have to help out. You have Looking at her stage cred- Santa Cruz internship another coup. “That was a and tough it out.” Professor Carlos Dobkin he describes feeling like University of Michigan, a to do your duty.” its, it’s hard to see how she has offered more opportunities, really big honor,” Youssef —Louise Gilmore Donahue (B.A., economics, UCSC). he’d “solved the state’s water dean’s award, and two awards —Jennifer McNulty

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 11 Mars explorer From cotton

Erin Kraal to computers Ph.D. candidate, Earth Sciences Eduardo Hernandez Sophomore, Computer rin Kraal got hooked on the planet that appear to Eon Mars in high school, be alluvial fans—fan-shaped Engineering when she wrote a term paper deposits of sediments left on the red planet. Now a when water flows out of a Ph.D. candidate in Earth canyon into an open valley. urrounded by cotton sciences at UCSC, she stud- She is also using experiments Sfor as far as his eyes could ies Martian landforms for and computer simulations see, 14-year-old Eduardo clues to the planet’s history, to investigate the physical Hernandez would have been looking for evidence that processes that might have hard-pressed to imagine the water once flowed across its formed certain features. redwoods of UCSC in his now dry and barren surface. Take shorelines, for exam- future. “It was one of the “Mars is an amazing ple. An eroded shoreline toughest jobs I’d never want planet because it has so many implies open water with anyone to experience,” the mysteries and hints that it waves lapping at the edges. computer engineering sopho- was once very different from But Kraal has found that it more recalls of his days work- jim mackenzie what we see today,” Kraal would have been difficult ing the Central Valley cotton says. “One of the big ques- for waves to take shape on fields. the high-tech field. Not only the Society of Hispanic almost like being smart was tions about Mars is how its Mars because of the low He left fieldwork behind did that cousin bring the fam- Professional Engineers on a crime,” Hernandez remem- climate has changed over atmospheric pressure. These as soon as he could, but work ily into the computer age with campus, Hernandez has bers. “You were persecuted time, which has implications findings come from experi- always went hand-in-hand the gift of a hand-me-down received two scholarships to for it.” jim mackenzie for the possibility of life ments conducted inside the with high school, as he bal- system, he taught Hernandez defray college costs and is a Hernandez, who moved there.” Mars Surface Wind Tunnel with collaborators at NASA Before she began her anced jobs as a butcher and how to build his own com- resident adviser. He is active in to the United States from Many features of the at NASA Ames Research Ames and other institutions. Mars research, Kraal earned a computer lab assistant on puter, piece by piece. the Multicultural Engineering Mexico at the age of 5, is planet—channels, basins, Center, the only wind tunnel “It was really her persis- a master’s degree at UCSC, his way to becoming class Hernandez has found his Program and the statewide grateful his family has always alluvial fans—suggest that where the pressure can be tence year after year that studying Alaskan glaciers valedictorian. niche at UCSC, continuing Mathematics, Engineering, been supportive. His four water once flowed on the lowered to simulate the created the Mars geomorphol- with Robert Anderson, then “It really pushed my to get high grades and study- Science Achievement program, older siblings are either in surface. The quandary, she surface of Mars. ogy program on this campus,” a professor of Earth sciences limits—seeing how much ing with a group of like- and is a School of Engineering college or have graduated. says, is that surface water With funding from a says Asphaug, whose own at UCSC. I could do,” he says of his minded students of varying mentor for freshmen. “I know there are a lot of cannot exist there under NASA Graduate Student research has focused mostly “I felt it was important to hectic high school years. “I backgrounds: “We all have Hernandez also reaches students like I was who want current conditions. Research Fellowship, Kraal on asteroids and planetary really understand Earth’s geo- learned the value of money the same drive to succeed; out as a UC Ambassador. to do something with their Poring over the vast data- does much of her work at collisions. “I had contem- morphology before I tried to and the value of hard work.” we’re all supportive of each He explains to school groups lives but don’t quite know bases of images gathered by NASA Ames in Moffett plated studying Mars as a study a distant world,” Kraal Hernandez says he’s always other,” he said. Hernandez how—until moving to how to go about it. I think various NASA spacecraft, Field. Her thesis adviser, graduate student myself, says. “Now I apply those had a mechanical bent, but plans to major either in com- Fresno his junior year— it really makes a difference such as the Mars Global associate professor of Earth but I ended up getting into same skills to analyze the his interest in computers— puter engineering or infor- he was surrounded by class- when you tell them your Surveyor, Kraal is mapping sciences Erik Asphaug, other things. Now I’m really geomorphology of Mars.” and especially circuits—was mation systems management. mates with no plans for life own story.” the distribution of features helped her make connections enjoying this new track.” —Tim Stephens sparked by an older cousin in Elected vice president of after high school. “It was —Louise Gilmore Donahue

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 13 tions, labor unions, and churches that which at one point claimed one in six the state sanctioned white supremacists black Floridians relied on to organize African American men in Florida as and the Ku Klux Klan to use violence to and sustain themselves during an era of members, was a vital avenue for orga- prevent blacks from voting. overt state-sanctioned violence against nizing. After World War I, a resolution The election on November 2, 1920, Lost History African Americans. “It’s really about required members to register to vote was ultimately the bloodiest presidential UCSC historian uncovers first statewide struggle for civil rights what happens when people are faced before the 1920 election or face expul- contest of the 20th century. Heavily with political terrorism—how they sion. Churches and other organizations armed white men patrolled polling places challenge that and find the courage and promptly followed suit. Years of orga- and deputies stood menacingly at the self-confidence needed to put together nizing culminated with the 1920 presi- polls, suppressing black voter turnout By Jennifer McNulty a social movement,” says Ortiz. dential election. across the state. But the violence was Through oral histories and subse- worst in Orange County in central ong before the election debacle quent archival research, Ortiz docu- Florida, where white mobs converged of 2000, Florida was the ments the courageous actions of African on the black community of northern L Americans who fought for their rights, Ocoee and paraded through the streets. scene of ugly racial politics. Indeed, often at enormous risk to themselves Gunfights broke out and house-to-house African Americans in Florida have and their families. Sam Dixie, an octo- fighting persisted through the night as fought for the right to vote since the genarian, shared his childhood memo- hundreds of armed whites poured into ries of a shootout in his hometown of the town. Homes were torched and days of Reconstruction, when the Quincy between blacks and the Ku Klux scores were wounded as hundreds of “Sunshine State” had the highest Klan. Members of the Colored Knights African Americans fled into the night. of Pythias, a black fraternal organiza- Although many perished, the total lynching rate in the country. tion, had taken a secret oath to pay their number of victims will never be known In his new book, Emancipation poll taxes and register to vote. After because some human remains were car- Betrayed, UCSC historian Paul Ortiz learning of the pledge, armed posses of ried away as souvenirs by members of tells the story of black resistance to the Klan surrounded the lodge during the mob. The National Association for white supremacy in Florida and a meeting of the Knights, and a major the Advancement of Colored People documents the organizing and activism gun battle ensued; the lodge was burned (NAACP) cautiously estimated that 30 he believes set the stage for the to the ground, and several knights were to 60 African Americans were killed civil rights movement of the 1960s. killed during the shootout. across the state that day.

“Decades before the Montgomery That memory was the catalyst that jim mackenzie The violence shocked the country, bus boycott, African Americans in “completely changed my understand- and African Americans expected the na- ith roots in the days of Jacksonville, Florida, organized streetcar ing of American history and social tion to intervene. Despite vast evidence boycotts that forced the city to abandon change,” Ortiz writes in the preface to Wslavery, black Floridians’ of discrimination against black voters efforts to segregate the system,” says Ortiz, Emancipation Betrayed. “We are not courageous struggle for emanci- that was presented during a congres- an associate professor of community stud- taught to see African Americans as pro- pation established the grounds sional investigation, the election results ies. “That little-known act of rebellion is tagonists fighting for their own rights, were certified. With that act, the U.S. part of a pattern of resistance I discovered but that’s exactly what these people did.” for our modern expectation that all Congress dealt a deathblow to an era of through talking with the elders of the Ortiz went “back and back in time,” adults in the United States have vital African American activism. black community. Handed down within picking up threads of black resistance the right to vote. —Paul Ortiz Despite the tragic outcome, the leg- black families, their stories describe what to racial oppression. He heard black acy of early black activism in Florida is really became the first statewide civil rights Floridians speak with admiration of the a powerful one, says Ortiz. “With roots movement in U.S. history.” activism of their parents and grandpar- With African Americans united and in the days of slavery, black Floridians’ Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden ents, and he documented boycotts orga- poised to use the ballot to challenge the courageous struggle for emancipation History of Black Organizing and White nized in the early 1900s by black residents status quo, white Floridians sought to established the grounds for our modern convict laborers, courtesy of florida state archives of florida state laborers, courtesy convict Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to of Jacksonville to oppose the segregation sabotage the election by intimidating expectation that all adults in the United With one of the highest incarceration rates of prisoners and juveniles the Bloody Election of 1920 focuses on of the city’s streetcars. (The system was black voters with threats of arrest at the States have the right to vote,” he says. in the Deep South, Florida profited from convict labor. The state the African American struggle for voting ultimately segregated, however, with the voting booth and purging hundreds of “This is a brutal part of our history, but rights. The book documents networks intervention of the state legislature.) African American names from voter-reg- we are the beneficiaries of their struggle administered one of the most notorious penal systems in the world. of secret societies, fraternal organiza- The Colored Knights of Pythias, istration lists. As Election Day neared, and sacrifice.”

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 15 Electrical engineering professor Ali Shakouri has brought together a multidisciplinary team of researchers to develop Hot Tech By Tim Stephens new technology for direct conversion of heat to electricity. Here’s something to be deposited onto potential ing in high electrical conduc- ponder the next time hot spots on computer chips. tivity with a high Seebeck you fill up your gas tank: This application did not coefficient and low thermal Two-thirds of the energy Graduate student Javad Shabani require high efficiency, but conductivity. all photos: jim mackenzie all photos: produced from burning adjusts a Raman spectroscopy Shakouri thought the ap- The energy filtering machine in Ali Shakouri’s lab. proach he used to build a that fuel in your car’s is based on “thermionic successful chip cooler could emission” (from which the engine will be wasted compact refrigerators with no also lead to the development TEC Center gets its name). as heat, while only one- moving parts. Unfortunately, of thermoelectric materials Thermionic emission also third will actually be developing practical thermo- efficient enough to be practi- operates in vacuum tubes used to get you where electric devices has proven to cal for power generation. (such as the cathode ray Graduate student Yan Zhang with you want to go. be a daunting challenge. When the Office of Naval tubes used in televisions a cryostat used to test thermoelec- “Until recently, the effi- Research (ONR) issued a and computer monitors), in tric materials over a range of tem- Ali Shakouri wants to ciency was so low it was not call for proposals to develop which hot electrons are emit- peratures, from near absolute zero change that. An associate economical to build thermo- technology for direct con- ted from a heated filament. to over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit professor of electrical engi- electric refrigerators or power version of heat to electric- “We knew that the same neering at UCSC, Shakouri generators for use on a large ity, Shakouri jumped at the principle could be used for professor of electrical engi- leads the Thermionic Energy scale,” Shakouri says. opportunity. He brought power generation,” Shakouri neering, and about a half- Conversion (TEC) Center, With advances in nano- together a team of research- says. “Our idea was to dozen graduate students, a collaborative project in- technology, however, engi- ers from around the country combine this conventional undergraduates, and post- volving researchers at seven neers may finally be able to with expertise in different vacuum thermionics with doctoral researchers. major universities working to develop efficient thermoelec- fields, and their proposal for semiconductors and do the Shakouri is also looking develop new technology for tric materials for a variety the TEC Center won a $6 energy filtering inside a semi- to expand his research into direct conversion of heat to of practical applications. million grant from ONR in conductor material.” other areas of renewable- electricity. That’s because at “nanoscale” 2003. With UCSC as the The center also has a energy technology. He and To achieve this, the TEC dimensions, where distances lead institution, the center team doing complementary other UCSC faculty in engi- Center is taking a new ap- are measured in nanometers also includes researchers research to improve vacuum neering, physics, and chem- proach to an old concept. (billionths of a meter), weird from UC Berkeley, UC Santa of Technology, Purdue Ali Shakouri and graduate student Xi Wang in one of the TEC Center thermionic emitters for pow- istry have started a discussion “Thermoelectric” materials, quantum effects begin to Barbara, Harvard University, University, and North labs, where researchers use sophisticated equipment to evaluate er generation. “It helps to group that meets every other in which temperature differ- govern the properties of ma- Massachusetts Institute Carolina State University. materials that convert heat to electricity combine various approaches week to discuss how recent ences can produce an electric terials. As a result, Shakouri “It is a very multidisci- and look at the problem advances in nanomaterials voltage, were first described says, engineers can use tech- Shakouri and research assistant plinary team, with experts er plants by converting waste features independently so from different perspectives,” might be used to address in 1821 by physicist Thomas niques such as molecular Rajeev Singh with the molecular in mechanical engineering, heat to electricity. that, for example, increasing Shakouri says. problems in renewable en- Johann Seebeck. By the beam epitaxy—which depos- beam epitaxy machine used to electrical engineering, ma- But first, there are some the electrical conductivity The results from the first ergy, such as the design of 1830s, physicists knew that its layers of material a few create nanostructured materials. terials science, and physics,” major technical hurdles to does not also increase two and a half years of this photovoltaic cells for solar the effect also works in re- atoms thick—to manipulate Shakouri says. overcome, Shakouri says. thermal conductivity. five-year project have been energy. Shakouri also plans verse: An electric current can features such as electron The U.S. Navy is inter- An efficient thermoelectric Shakouri describes the promising, he says. “We now to offer a new undergraduate be used to pump heat from transport and heat transport ested in using thermoelectric material requires three cru- TEC Center’s approach as understand the physics much course on renewable-energy one side of a thermoelectric in ways never before possible. technology to build quiet cial features: high electrical a method of energy filter- better and are able to engi- technologies this year. material to the other. Shakouri’s work in this all-electric ships. But the conductivity, low thermal ing within a semiconductor neer the material properties “There has been very little In theory, this thermo- field began with a project possibilities for applying conductivity, and a favor- material. The basic idea is in the way we anticipated, so fundamental research in this electric effect could be used to help solve the problem this technology are almost able Seebeck coefficient (the to structure the material so I think we are going in the area,” he says. “But the ways to generate power from all of overheating in computer endless. Thermoelectric measure of voltage created that “hot” electrons that have right direction.” we generate power now are kinds of heat sources, includ- chips. He and his collabora- materials could be used to by temperature difference absorbed energy from a heat In addition to Shakouri, not very environmentally ing waste heat from cars tors developed tiny thermo- increase the efficiency of within the material). The source can flow more easily the UCSC group includes friendly, so we really need to and factories, and to build electric refrigerators that can everything from cars to pow- challenge is to control these than “cold” electrons, result- Holger Schmidt, assistant find better ways to do this.”

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wide world /

ap By Scott Rappaport wide world /  of W ap tions not only enable students renowned Cu Chi Tunnels, A UCSC class explores how to conduct more intensive where thousands of Vietnam- real-world research, but also ese once lived underground history can change with time teach them how to collaborate in order to fight American effectively across the globe. soldiers. Clements has since from country to country, and lead UCSC’s graduate pro- “At the same time, they learn presented his work as a how much they have changed gram in digital arts and new to create history themselves guest instructor in a UCSC in the U.S. and Japan since media—Yang Murray and by interviewing the rapidly class on the history of the that earth-shattering war end- Christy began to work with declining number of atomic Vietnam War—often called ed more than a half century students to develop DVD and bomb survivors,” he says. the “American War” in ago. She approached faculty web virtual tours of the many The instructors can even Southeast Asia. colleague Alan Christy, a spe- Pacific memorial sites that are envision an exchange program The course also struck a cialist in the history of Japan, an essential focus of the class. where a student who has particularly resonant chord about helping her create a The instructors also formed taken the class might work as with students after 9/11 when new course that would explore partnerships with colleagues a course facilitator in another the memory of Pearl Harbor how the war’s history is per- at universities in Japan, as well country. “A UCSC student was invoked as a symbol ceived in both countries—and as in Australia, New Zealand, could end up in Okinawa or of the attacks on the Twin how that chapter in world Korea, and the Philippines, Sydney and get out in the field Towers, and images of the history has been shaped and and plan to teach the class in combination with a research flag-raising soldiers at Iwo rewritten over time. simultaneously in Santa Cruz project—that’s a pretty excit- Jima were constantly linked “We wanted to challenge and Tokyo in the spring of ing prospect,” notes Christy. to the firefighters at Ground students’ notions that there is 2006. The ultimate goal is to The course’s new direction Zero. The use of such imagery just one single memory of the make the course—now titled has already produced some is a prime example of why war,” says Yang Murray, au- Comparative Memories of impressive results. Undergrad- the professors were originally thor of a book in 2000 about World War II in the Pacific— uate Kaley Clements was so motivated to create the class. Japanese American internment. more vivid and relevant for inspired that he started his “It’s not so much a course “We thought it was important today’s students. own independent project— about World War II, but wide world / ap to explore how people in the “We imagine professors at applying the same multicultur- rather how the war has come two countries had very different many different sites around al approach he had learned in to be viewed in the years and Top: Hiroshima, after the first n 1993, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum wartime experiences and very the world teaching from a class to another 20th-century decades that followed,” says atomic bomb was dropped. different memories of the causes relatively similar syllabus with war. Traveling to Vietnam, Yang Murray. “It’s about why Above: the Atomic Bomb prepared to launch an exhibit commemorating the 50th anni- and consequences of the war.” everyone communicating elec- he shot footage at historical history often gets interpreted Dome, one of the few build- versary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. When the plans After extensive planning, tronically,” Christy explains. memorial sites such as the the way it does.” ings that survived the blast, the course—Memories of “And the thread binding the now part of the Hiroshima Ifor the exhibit became public, a fierce controversy arose over the exhib- World War II in the U.S. and classes in all these locations is Course instructors Alice Yang Murray and Alan Christy Peace Memorial Park. Japan—debuted in the fall of the students themselves. They Facing page, top: the it’s perceived sympathetic portrayal of the Japanese people. Veterans 1999 with 80 students. But as will collaborate and produce A-bombing of Nagasaki. enrollment grew to more than group research projects—such groups staged protests, and media coverage was extensive. Congress 200 students by 2004, the as designing a new war memo- two history professors decided rial or a virtual museum exhib- passed a Senate resolution condemning the exhibit. Eventually, the to redesign the class, incorpo- it, or providing translations of museum’s director was forced to resign, and the exhibit was canceled. rating innovative technology historical source documents— to enliven the classroom ex- with input from students in all The impassioned response prompted UC Santa Cruz history profes- perience. Collaborating with of the countries.” Assistant Professor Warren Christy adds that the jim mackenzie sor Alice Yang Murray to consider how memories of World War II vary Sack—recently hired to help course’s international connec- murray alice yang courtesy

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 19 “That, really, was why I wanted to go to Iran. To see whether the ties that bound me were real, or flimsy threads of inherited nostalgia.”

—from Lipstick Jihad

TornTorn betweenbetween twotwo culturesculturesby Jennifer McNulty cooper james patrick Azadeh Moaveni sonal and political awakening in inspiring her to practice “engaged self perfectly situated to report her tenure. Her prose is almost Middle Easterners were lost,” says B.A. Politics, 1998 the Middle East that launched her journalism.” It was David Dodson, on Iranian life for an American impressionistic, weaving report- Moaveni, who covered the war career as a journalist and became her Oakes College core course in- audience. For the first time, her age, anecdote, and analysis into a in Iraq and wrote Lipstick Jihad Oakes College the heart of her first book, Lipstick structor, she says, who “taught me background and her ability to silken textile. before returning to Time. Based Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up how to reflect on personal identity speak Farsi were assets. She began The book has been well-received today in Beirut, she can’t imagine rowing up in San Iranian in America and American fruitfully.” reporting for Time, gaining ac- by critics and readers, including living outside the Middle East. Jose, Azadeh Moaveni in Iran. “I wanted to go to a UC that cess to top government officials as young Iranian Americans who, like “It’s where I want to be right now lived what felt like a At 28, Moaveni has already was like a private school,” she says. well as the educated young people Moaveni, were raised in the United because of my work,” she says. double life. As the achieved a level of success most “I wanted to go somewhere smaller whose yearnings were convulsing States and feel cut off from Iran. During a recent reporting trip Gdaughter of Iranian exiles, twentysomethings only dream of. that paid a lot of attention to stu- the nation. With its descriptions of the “youth to Iran, Moaveni detected more Moaveni served tea to her elders, She covered the war in Iraq for dents, and that’s exactly the experi- In Lipstick Jihad, Moaveni rebellion from below,” Lipstick alienation and apathy in the coun- listened as they spoke of the “year the Los Angeles ence I had.” describes the appearance of inde- Jihad fills a void experienced by try than she felt in 2001. “Young of the great catastrophe” when Times, just After graduating pendent newspapers for the first the children of exiles. “They find people who were active politically the Shah was ousted in 1979, finished col- with a B.A. in time since Islamic fundamentalists it encouraging, heartening, because have turned off politics,” she says. and savored the flavors of Persia: laborating with politics in 1998, took over the country 20 years it gives them something to relate At the same time, Iranians are fluffy rice with cinnamon, raisins Iranian human Moaveni won earlier. Student activists began to,” says Moaveni. enjoying greater social freedoms drizzled with saffron, and pome- rights activist a Fulbright to demanding greater civil liberties. The end of Moaveni’s sojourn as the regime tries to keep discon- granates and sour cherry juice. and 2003 Nobel study in Cairo. Women appeared in public wear- in Iran coincided with a govern- tent from spilling over into revolt. But Moaveni, like all Iranian Peace Prize win- It was, she re- ing colorful veils, and their delicate ment crackdown. Her reporting “Rock bands are even allowed to Americans, lived in the shadow of ner Shirin Ebadi alizes now, a sandals exposed pedicured toes. activities were coming under perform in cafés,” she adds. the 1979 hostage crisis. She tried on her memoir, rest stop that In Tehran, lovers strolled arm in greater scrutiny, and she began to Moaveni, who considers herself for years to avoid any mention of and now covers allowed her to arm, and crowds of young people fear for her personal safety. She Iranian American, says growing her background. She recalls cring- Middle Eastern work up her refashioned religious holidays into left the country abruptly after riot up in the United States has never ing on the first day of school each affairs for Time courage to make occasions to party in the streets. police clubbed her during a post- made her the target of hostility year, waiting for the teacher to magazine. the leap to Iran. Moaveni likens this “cultural soccer-match street celebration. in the Middle East. “It’s like I’m mispronounce her name. Trying to Moaveni cred- When the rebellion” to a silent coup, saying It was the summer of 2001, and in a hybrid category,” she explains. blend in, she listened to Madonna, its UCSC profes- first headlines government reformers’ inability Moaveni returned to the United “I’m one of the lucky few Iranian practiced yoga, and flirted with sors Edmund about stu- to turn around rampant corrup- States—before September 11, be- Americans with the ability to go courtesy publicaffairs, a member of perseus books group a member of perseus publicaffairs, courtesy boyfriends. “Terry” Burke dent unrest tion, economic suffering, and fore the war on terrorism, before back and forth. It’s not about It was, Moaveni writes in her of history and Isebill “Ronnie” in Tehran appeared in 1999, lawlessness led to “society evolv- President Bush declared Iran part being aligned with the govern- new memoir about growing up Gruhn of politics with preparing Moaveni felt a powerful urge to ing from the bottom up.” It was of the “Axis of Evil.” ment or with the exile group in between two cultures, a burden to her to ask the right questions, and bear witness. Ignoring the warn- a heady time, and Moaveni uses a “After 9/11, terrorism became America. I’m one of a small but be Iranian in America. And so she writing instructor Conn Hallinan, ings of family and friends, she light touch to convey the undula- reattached to the entire Middle growing number of Iranians who left, beginning an odyssey of per- her adviser at City on a Hill, with moved to Tehran and found her- tions that marked Iran during East, and distinctions among exist somewhere in the middle.”

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The UC Santa Cruz Cornerstone Campaign: Goal Surpassed, Students Benefit

ated from a “The scholarship is a way First UCSC fundraising Stories from the campaign: Santa Cruz for Ed’s vision and values to County be carried forward,” said campaign a success callers contact UC Santa Cruz high Alison, whose most recent Alumnus creates alumni, friends, and parents, school and gift increased the endowment hanks to many generous donors, fund with Asia focus raising funds to support a wide Cabrillo to almost $100,000. The College. Eduardo Carrillo Memorial array of academic departments, seaside company cruz amy sibiga, santa the Cornerstone Campaign was Mark Headley (Stevenson T programs, and other campus Established Scholarship Fund helps art ’83) and his firm, Matthews a resounding success. A total of activities. Many TOP students with a majors who achieve high International Capital Manage- have experienced the generosity Charles Canfield $50,000 academic merit in painting, $67.6 million was raised in two years, ment, have established the of donors firsthand, receiv- gift, the drawing, or sculpture. “Transforming Asia Fund,” surpassing the goal by $17.6 million. ing need- and merit-based award will provide an annual which will “Our supporters have joined with scholarships to support their $2,000 need-based scholarship, provide which will increase as the en-

ann m. gibb studies. us in taking UC Santa Cruz to the sponsorship dowment grows. “I want to help jim mackenzie of an Asian next level of achievement,” said ensure that future generations of economies Planned gift benefits local students are able to pursue Gordon Ringold (Crown ’72), chair of conference, their dreams through educa- a distin- women in engineering the Cornerstone Campaign Council. tion,” said Charles Canfield, guished-visi- A planned president of the Santa Cruz “The tremendous success of this tor lecture gift from Seaside Company. campaign is thanks to the demon- Mark Headley program, tim stephens Barbara and un- Snader has Sally and Michael Graydon strated commitment and support of dergraduate research awards. endowed a our faculty and staff and the greater Headley credits UC Santa Cruz $1 million ann m. gibb with giving him a good start in scholarship Couple endows new UC Santa Cruz community of alumni, his career. “The work I was do- fund for library fund

parents, and friends.” jim mackenzie ing at UC Santa Cruz, compar- undergradu- ing the economic development Skye Vendt-Pearce ate women Future students will find The campaign benefited virtually of countries, is exactly what I’m enhanced support for their For graduate student Petra Dekens (Crown ’98), the keys to the future in the every area of campus, including doing today,” he said. Baskin School of Engineering. studies and learning in the lie in the past. Dekens is a paleoceanographer researching long-term climate University Library, thanks to more than $5.2 million raised for Established in memory of changes in coastal systems during past periods of global warmth. “If you can Snader’s daughter Amy (Merrill Sally and Michael (Cowell undergraduate and graduate student understand what happened in the past, you’re much more likely to be able to ’83), eight Amy Beth Snader ’70) Graydon. The couple has jim mackenzie endowed the McHenry Library support, a focused effort within the understand how climates will respond in the future,” said Dekens, who is Memorial Scholarships were awarded in the last academic Expansion Learning & Outreach campaign. Gifts small and large completing her Ph.D. in ocean sciences and was recently awarded a fellowship year. One went to Skye Center Fund, enriching a from UC Santa Cruz’s Center for the Dynamics and Evolution of the Land-Sea Vendt-Pearce (Cowell ’05), Alison Keeler Carrillo with a self- planned state-of-the-art instruc- contributed to the campaign’s tion center in the forthcoming Interface (CDELSI). who used the funds to purchase portrait by Eduardo Carrillo success, and as these pages a laptop during her senior year McHenry Library expansion. CDELSI fellowships are generously funded by an anonymous donor to “TOP” student caller Jennifer Dunn “By supporting these programs, show, every gift has a story. as an electrical engineering Art scholarship grows foster interdisciplinary training and research that promotes greater understand- major. we’re helping new generations move through new experiences ing of interactions between physical, biogeochemical, and ecological changes Telephone Outreach The legacy of UC Santa Cruz Program sets record professor of art Eduardo and helping expose them to the and the human environment along Earth’s coasts. The fellowships cover tu- Local company helps Carrillo continues to inspire brilliant people at UC Santa ition, health insurance, and a living stipend. “To have funding for my last year Undergraduates staffing the local students and support students, thanks Cruz,” Mike said. is really great,” said Dekens, “because I know I’ll be able to really focus on Telephone Outreach to the generosity of his widow, Program raised more than The Santa Cruz Seaside Alison Keeler Carrillo, and For more stories of generosity, writing up the research I’ve done so far.” $1.18 million, the highest total Company has endowed a schol- other donors who have built please go to giveto.ucsc.edu/ For more on Petra Dekens, see giveto.ucsc.edu/profile-dekens.asp. in the program’s history. “TOP” arship for students who gradu- a scholarship in his memory. stories_of_support.asp

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 23 Old friends reconnect Over the years Woo and Sobrino lost touch but always won- Contact the Alumni Association ALUMNI NEWS after 30 years dered what path the other had tak- en. Recently, Woo decided to look UCSC Alumni Association Web: alumni.ucsc.edu uri Sasaki Woo left behind up her old friend using the UCSC University of California E-mail: [email protected] Alumni Association her family and home state of alumni Online Community. “Just 1156 High Street Y Hawaii when she enrolled at wondering if you’re ‘Laurasaurus’ Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 Toll free: (800) 933-SLUG Councilors, 2005–06 Make plans now to attend your reunion UCSC in 1972. Garcia,” she wrote. “If so, please Laura Garcia Sobrino grew up write back. It’s me, Yuri, from

not 15 miles from campus, but she College Five days!” Cowell fitt matt too was living away from family Since then, the two are planning Gregory Canillas ’90 for the first time when she became a visit and catching up via long e- Alumni are invited to Karen Rhodes ’77, Vice President Woo’s neighbor across the hall. mails. Woo now works at Stanford

participate in UC Day elizabeth irwin for Internal Affairs They grew up thousands of University; Sobrino, a pioneer Stevenson miles apart, but once they met, female mariachi performer, was in- lumni who like to shape the David Brick ’69 the two became fast ducted into the Mariachi Hall news, not just read about it, Amy Everitt ’92, Vice President friends. of Fame last year. are invited to participate in for External Affairs A “We’d never expe- The UCSC alumni UC Day on Tuesday, February 7, Paul H. Mixon ’71 rienced anything like Online Community makes Joan Fitting Scott ’69, Executive in Sacramento. UC Day brings to- dorm life” remem- it easy to reconnect with old gether all nine UC alumni associa- Vice President Among the participants at UC Day bered Sobrino, “and friends. It contains nearly tions to discuss issues of concern to 2005 were (l–r) Assemblymember Crown we were both minori- 52,000 alumni records, more the university with members of the John Laird (Stevenson ’72), Kyoko Bomberg Freeman ’85 ties at College Five (later renamed than half of which list an e-mail Jerry Ruiz ’77 legislature. It is the only time when Chancellor Denice D. Denton, and Porter). There weren’t many of us.” address. To find your old friends, Rick Simpson ’73 the UC systemwide “family” gath- Gary Novack (Kresge ’73), former Stacey Vreeken ’83 “We always hung out together and to post your e-mail address ers in one place to acknowledge alumni member of the UC Regents. in the dining hall, playing ping- so they can find you, go to the UC’s contributions to the state. Merrill pong” said Woo. “It was a great UCSC Alumni Association’s Online Alumni participants hear from and new jobs through research in- Ken Doctor ’71, Past President time.” Directory, alumni.ucsc.edu. some of the newsmakers them- novations, or working to improve Patrick R. A. Ford ’93 California’s health care and quality Dominador Siababa ’75, President selves, including UC President Robert C. Dynes. They meet sena- of life, UC’s impact is felt statewide. Porter Religious studies professor emeritus Noel King reconnects with his former student Renee De Palma (Stevenson tors and assemblymembers and, Budget cuts have threatened the Mary Doyle ’74 ’88, now a documentary filmmaker in southern California) at the All-Alumni Reunion Luncheon. Banana Slug during a special reception, partici- future of the university. Alumni, John Gutierrez ’73 Spring Fair 2005 offered alumni 37 events, which drew more than 2,500 attendees. pate in honoring outstanding legis- with their firsthand UC experience, Rob Sawyer ’72, Vice President services ucsc photo can share a special perspective with for Finance lators who have helped shape the future of higher education in elected officials about adequate Kresge The Alumni Association’s gathering of alumni and friends Plans are under way for California. The day ends with an levels of higher education funding. Panda Kroll ’81 popular annual Alumni Vintners of the Cowell Press; and a reunion reunions, other activities all–UC reception and campus- To participate or find out more Paul D. Seeman ’76 Wine Tasting will take place of alumni who, in the early ’80s, about UC Day, contact the UCSC Sharif Traylor ’85 hosted dinners. at Banana Slug Spring Fair Saturday afternoon. The event, were involved with TWANAS Alumni Association. For informa- which in the past has always been (Third World and Native American Whether providing a world-class Oakes weekend on April 22–23 education for high-achieving stu- tion about advocating for UC, go Filomena Trindade ’85, Vice held during the summer, has Students) Press. The Alumni dents, generating economic growth to UCforCalifornia.org. President for Administration Events will include the following: historically attracted hundreds Association’s web page has the latest Ruth P. Wilson ’75 of loyal alumni, faculty, and other information about all Banana Slug All-Alumni Reunion R wine lovers from Santa Cruz Spring Fair programs. Your reunion College Eight Luncheon, bringing together and the Bay Area; now, it’s easier ideas are welcome via e-mail. See Susan Brutschy ’80 long-lost alumni friends and for all alumni to participate alumni.ucsc.edu. BECOME AN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Aaron Cole ’91 reconnecting faculty with their while they’re on campus for their Last year, generous alumni former students. Special recognition Graduate Division reunions. celebrating five- through 35-year 2004–05 Alumni Association College Service Award Winners MEMBER NOW, OR RENEW—AND SAVE Emily Moberg Robinson ’04 will be given to the classes of ’71, Participating 2006 vintners are reunions donated over $300,000 to back row, l–r: Lindsay Osborne (Porter), James Patrick Scott ’76, ’81, ’86, ’91, ’96, and ’01. Ex Officio still tentative, but in prior years they support scholarships and programs (Kresge), Rosa Contreras (College Ten), Valerie Guerrero (Oakes), R Support students. Carolyn Christopherson, R Alumni Vintners Wine Tasting. included such wineries as Saintsbury, at UCSC. Reunions are a great time and Jennifer Lawrence (Crown); Front row: Olivia Villanueva R Enrich college life. Executive Director R Panel discussion featuring Bonny Doon Vineyard, Morgan for alumni to reconnect with the (Cowell), Amanda Elliott (Stevenson), and William Welcher R Bring the voice of alumni to campus. Faye Crosby, Chair, Winery, and Barefoot Cellars. campus in many ways, including (College Nine). Not shown are Ryan Francis (College Eight) and Academic Senate fascinating graduates from the R Reconnect with your alma mater. Other reunion weekend events financial support. To make Martin Smith (Merrill). In addition, the association supported Denice D. Denton, Chancellor class of ’76. will include a special session with your reunion gift online, go to 43 financially needy students, providing qualified undergraduates Current rates: annual membership, $35; life membership, $450 Ian Dobbs-Dixon, President, R Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Graduate Student Association UCSC Admissions Office staff for giveto.ucsc.edu or contact Jennifer with a record high of $99,500 in 2004–05. To make a donation After January 1: annual membership, $40; life membership, $500 Jessica Pierce, Chair, R Reunions for affinity groups, alumni parents whose children are Wood, director of development, to the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund for students with Student Union Assembly academic departments, college- interested in attending UCSC; Annual Fund and Colleges, at financial need, go to giveto.ucsc.edu. Join online today at alumni.ucsc.edu based groups, and others. the “Cowell Press Wayzgoose,” a (831) 459-2489.

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 25 Atmospheric Administration Sea graduated from UC Davis, and a Rosewood House, which sells Asian ’97 Jessica HOBBS had a series Grant program; he will spend a son, Jim, who is a student at Ohio furniture and art in the Bay Area; of her original poster designs, titled LUMNI OTES year as a legislative aide to Senator State University. he is responsible for sales, marketing, Wedding Portraits, displayed in kiosks A N Olympia J. Snowe (R–Maine), ’87 In addition to teaching and and design. He can be reached at on Market Street in San Francisco in currently chair of the Commerce, lecturing about art, Kira Lynn [email protected]. spring 2005; the portraits celebrate Cowell College ’95 Peter GILLIN recently started ’79 Gregor BLACKBURN has pointed manager of the Colorado Science and Transportation HARRIS has been exhibiting ’02 Heidi CUNNINGHAM is co- the marriage ceremonies of same-sex a new career in commercial real recently been promoted to se- Department of Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, steadily, including a solo exhibit editor of 3rdfloor: a portable artspace, couples held in that city in 2004. ’69 Keith CHRISTIANSEN, estate with CB Richard Ellis, sell- nior planner with the National Insectary, which aims to decrease and Coast Guard. in April at Bruno Marina Gallery a new publication that seeks to radi- ’98 Clown duo Natasha KALUZA curator in charge of Old Master ing apartment buildings; he lives Flood Insurance Program of the agriculture’s reliance on chemical ’01 Jennifer DEAN Teeters has in Brooklyn, N.Y.; she recently calize art magazines and create an & Jamie Coventry won the top prize paintings at the Metropolitan in Newport Beach and still loves to Federal Emergency Management pest control through the use of finished her third year of teaching designed a set for Via Sacra, a work accessible medium for viewing and for “Best Clown/Comedy Act” in Museum of Art in New York, was surf and mountain bike. He’d love Administration; he writes that beneficial insects; he has worked as and was planning to complete her of original choreography by Elisa publishing creative works; for more the Third Annual American Circus quoted extensively in a story in the to hear from old friends at peter. he was “gratified to see Thomas a researcher for 25 years in the field clear/CLAD teaching credential in Monte Dance; she’s lived in his- information, visit 3rdfloorproject.org. Festival/People’s Choice Cabaret, New Yorker about the museum’s [email protected]. Pynchon make his public debut on of weed biocontrol. August; she celebrated her first toric and ever-changing Harlem, held in Santa Cruz in May and recent purchase of an early ’00 Aaron BRODKIN and Andrea The Simpsons.” ’84 David CRAGO has been select- wedding anniversary in April. N.Y., since 1999. John TOROK, Porter College hosted by the Flynn Creek Circus. Renaissance Madonna and Child; CHAPPELL Brodkin (Cowell ’00) ’98 Andrea KING has a private ed as chief psychologist at the federal ’03 Milene BARGAOANU is a doctoral student in ethnic stud- Jeffrey MASUDA is a high school Christiansen, who has worked for celebrated their first wedding anni- practice in career and educational prison in Dublin, Calif. a graduate student in biology at ies at UC Berkeley, is working on ’73 Richard OPPER, a partner English teacher in the Milpitas, the museum since 1977, handled versary in June. counseling in Portland, Ore.; she has ’88 Bill CARTER is the author of Temple University in Philadelphia. his first two books, “McCarthyism in a small San Diego law firm that Calif., Unified School District. the acquisition. ’02 Regan FRASER Eymann a half-price rate for UCSC students Fools Rush In: A True Story of Love Jeffrey DeQUATTRO landed a and New York Chinatown: A Legal specializes in facilitating brown- ’01 Joseph DePAGE currently plays ’73 Scott CRASK recently celebrat- married Daniel EYMANN (Cowell and alumni and offers a free phone and Redemption, a memoir based on great job in Alabama; he notes that History” and “Asian American field redevelopment, was invited bass for Vlad and the Impalas, a ed his eighth year of employment at ’04) in 2004, and they had their first consultation. Her web site is www. his experiences in Bosnia (Wenner the South has a shortage of people Jurisprudence”; his article “Freedom to Belfast and Berlin by the U.S. rockabilly act signed with Alternative Buckelew Programs in San Rafael, child, Timothy, in April. careerful.com. Books, 2005); he has produced and with environmental studies degrees. Now! Race Consciousness and the Environmental Protection Agency Tentacles Records; their album, Calif., which provides housing and ’99 Trevor JACKSON graduated directed several documentaries, Denise PECCIANTI, a nursing Work of Decolonization Today” ap- to make presentations on the topic Romanian Bop, will be released soon. rehabilitation services for adults with Stevenson College from Golden Gate University School including the award-winning Miss student, won $2,900 on the TV peared in the fall 2004 Howard Law of regenerating cities, following his mental illness. of Law with a J.D. degree and is Sarajevo, which succeeded in bring- program Wheel of Fortune in Journal. Classmates may reach him work on a noteworthy project in San Kresge College ’74 James VALADEZ is director ’68 George PAINE retired in March preparing for the California Bar ing international attention and January; she is using the money to at [email protected]. Diego and his recent publications of the Educational Research and as Australia/New Zealand desk Examination; his fiancée and best outrage to the plight of the war-torn pay for textbooks. ’89 Randall STUDSTILL’s book on brownfield redevelopment policy ’75 Cathy DANA was selected as Leadership Institute at California officer for the U.S. Department friend, Christina ALPI (Stevenson region. He lives in southern Arizona. The Unity of Mystical Traditions: The and law. Member of the Year by the Northern Lutheran University in Thousand of Commerce in order to spend ’03), is “adept at keeping him in line ’89 After teaching biology in New Merrill College Transformation of Consciousness in ’76 Michelle ERRECART is a California Chapter of the National Oaks, and he recently received more time fly- and finding a York City high schools and get- Tibetan and German Mysticism was cytologist and a research coordinator Speakers Association for her many tenure there. fishing and means by which ting her M.Ed. at the University of ’75 Anita HEMPHILL published in May by Brill Academic at Dynacare Laboratories in Seattle. hours of volunteer service to the ’80 Katherine SHIREK grandparenting. We’d like to to pay off his Massachusetts Amherst, Kathleen McCormick recently won a Publishers as part of a series on the ’86 Marla SAMUEL is living in a organization; she practices hypno- Doughtie’s first book of essays, ’70 Henry student debts.” CORR is now working on a Ph.D. Distinguished Lecturer Award at history of religion. new home in Phoenix, Ore., with therapy combined with massage and Aphrodite in Jeans, is being published FUCHS is hear from you ’02 Shayna in geoscience, also at UMass UCLA for outstanding contributions ’92 Daniel GLUESENKAMP her son, Jacob, who was born on teaches Conscious Embodiment, the by Haven Books. Federico Gil HIRSHFIELD Amherst; friends may write her to university teaching. earned a Ph.D. in integrative biology Valentine’s Day 2004; she a figura- centering practices of aikido. ’81 Robert SLOAN is a physician Professor in the R Use the card in is working on a at P.O. Box 613, Springdale, UT ’77 Susana LAGUDIS is the execu- from UC Berkeley; he now lives in tive sculptor working in stone, ’84 Brigid DEASON Hildeburn in private practice in Hilo, Hawaii; Department the middle of the master’s degree 84767. Christine MURPHY tive producer, producer, postproduc- Sonoma and San Francisco, oversee- bronze, and fused glass. has realized a long-held dream of in- he is busy with his nine-year-old of Computer magazine to send in public policy Pugliese is a married homemaker tion supervisor, interviewer, sound- ing habitat protection and restora- ’89 After earning an M.S. from tegrating her love of gardening with daughter who wants to ice skate on Science at the us your class note at the University and mother of two beautiful girls, person, and driver of a feature-length tion for 26 properties in Marin and Long Island University and doing her study of Tibetan Buddhist phi- another island, and so he plans to University of of Michigan, Ashley and Taylor; she loves living documentary film, Trespassing, that Sonoma Counties; he is a board humanitarian work in Bosnia and losophy and meditation by starting a move to Honolulu to better groom North Carolina at R or send e-mail to and she dearly in Chandler, Ariz., where she’s been premiered at the Santa Cruz Film member of the California Invasive Kosovo, James KOO is now work- landscape design firm with her hus- his little skater. Chapel Hill; U.S. [email protected] misses the forest for nine years, and looks forward to Festival in May. Plant Council. ing as a reference librarian in N.J. band, John HILDEBURN (Kresge ’86 After studying yoga in India in News & World in Santa Cruz. using their boat as her girls get older. ’80 Clyde JONES, who has a ’95 Jody GEHRMAN’s second ’92 Kimberly GREWAL is living ’83); the mission of the firm, Living summer 2004, Eric SHAW moved Report has ranked R or submit a note ’04 James ’91 Matt KOUMARAS is the master’s in religious education and is novel, Tart (Red Dress Ink, 2005), in West Palm Beach, Fla.; she is a Designs, is cultivating sacred space. to San Francisco and began a self- the department via the web at HONG received executive director of the Boys & an ordained minister, has started an chronicles the adventures of a party- small-animal veterinarian married to ’87 Karen BREWSTER, a re- designed Ph.D. in hatha yoga at number one in alumni.ucsc.edu his commission Girls Club of Santa Cruz; he and his independent multicultural, multi- girl-turned-UCSC-professor as she an equine veterinarian. search associate with the Oral the California Institute of Integral the nation in the (go to Class Notes) as a naval officer wife, Denise, celebrated the birth of purpose ministry in Watsonville. searches for love, tenure, and the ’93 Niall BRENNAN is moving to History Program at the University Studies; he has been a yoga teacher area of “Graphics: after complet- their daughter, Grace, in June 2004. ’81 Elizabeth McKENZIE’s first perfect vodka tonic; Gehrman teach- London in September to begin an of Alaska Fairbanks, has published for four years. User Interaction,” ing Officer Bruno PERNET’s recent research book, Stop That Girl (Random es English at Mendocino College. M.Phil./Ph.D. program in media a book titled The Whales, They Give ’92 Kimberly DeCOSTE is which is Fuchs’s Candidate on marine invertebrates was reported House, 2005), is a novel composed ’98 Megan McNAMARA took a and communications at the London Themselves: Conversations with Harry living in the Denver area and work- specialty. School (OCS) at Officer Training in the New York Times and Science of nine consecutive stories about a two-week tour of Israel and Palestine School of Economics and Political Brower Sr. (University of Alaska ing to launch a Denver/Boulder area ’72 Eve ABBOTT is a personal Command in Pensacola, Fla.; during magazine; he is an assistant professor girl growing up in California; her in May as part of an Interfaith Peace- Science. Jennie MORRIS and Press, 2004), which tells the life alumni group. If interested, contact productivity expert and author of the the 13-week training program, he re- of biological sciences at California stories have appeared in Pushcart Builders delegation organized by the Mikhail GERSHOVICH (Porter history of an Iñupiaq whaling cap- the UCSC Alumni Association at book How to Do Space Age Work with ceived extensive instruction in navi- State University, Long Beach. Prize 2001, The Best American Fellowship of Reconciliation–U.S.A. ’93) live in Brooklyn and welcomed tain from Barrow, Alaska. [email protected]. Matt PRICE a Stone Age Brain (Booksurge, 2005), gation, ship handling, engineering, Mia MORSY Whitfield and her Nonrequired Reading (2002), and Beyond meeting Palestinians and their son, Jonah Lev Gershovich, in ’91 Leslie MOORE and her was in the Peace Corps in Benin in which promises to help the reader es- naval warfare, and management. husband, Jim, welcomed daughter TriQuarterly, among others. Israelis, the purpose of the trip was October 2004. husband, Mark, recently expanded 1993–95 and went on to complete cape from information overload, paper Valerie Michelle in April. ’85 James HATTERSLEY was to provide delegates with deeper in- ’94 Kim WALDNER and fellow their family with the birth of their a Ph.D. in epidemiology from piles, and mind-numbing multitasks. Crown College ’97 Chad ENGLISH, a doc- recently appointed vice president sight into the issues surrounding the alumna Kenzie FERGUSON first child, Anouk. the University of North Carolina ’77 Kelvin FILER, a Superior toral candidate in applied ocean of corporate business development Palestinian-Israeli conflict. (Porter ’93) raised money to fight ’96 Anna Sophie LOEWENBERG at Chapel Hill; now he is work- Court judge in Los Angeles, was ’72 Terry Louise TERHAAR re- sciences at Scripps Institution of for a specialty pharmaceutical firm, ’01 Wilson TAI, since returning breast cancer by taking part in the has published a short story about ing as a program manager with profiled recently in the Daily Journal, ceived her Ph.D. in environmental Oceanography, has won a John A. Antares Pharma; he and his wife, from two years abroad in China, San Francisco Avon Breast Cancer Beijing in Lost on Purpose: Women in the International AIDS Vaccine a legal publication for attorneys, studies from Yale University in May. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Jennifer, have been married 23 years Australia, and New Zealand, is Walk in July under the team name of the City (Seal Press, 2005), a new Initiative. judges, and law professors. ’75 Daniel BEAN has been ap- from the National Oceanic and and have a daughter, Jillian, who immersed in the family business, Banana Slugs Walking. collection of short fiction by women

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2005 27 whose characters are held in thrall by magazine; her book Lipstick Jihad: received the Elizabeth Noble award the Kellogg School of Management urban life. A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian from the American Physical Therapy at Northwestern University; he’s also ’97 Yan SHAM-SHACKLETON in America and American in Iran Association Section on Women’s starting a parking facility manage- has been nominated for a Freedom was published by PublicAffairs this Health; it is the highest award given ment firm that uses a patent-pending Blog Award, given by Reporters year. Mica VALDEZ is running a for outstanding achievement in the low-cost technology platform of his Without Borders to individuals middle school program that provides field of physical therapy for women. own invention. who “defend freedom of expression” positive alternatives to youth gang ’85 Susan DAVIS Dzieduszycka- ’97 Denise DeJOSEPH received though the blog medium; Yan’s violence and fosters youth leadership Suinat was project manager of an M.Sc. in archaeological science blog—www.glutter.org—focuses on development. Overseas Vote 2004, a web applica- in 2000 from the University of the Democratic Movement in Hong ’05 Mimosa ANDRE was selected tion that was able to help more Glasgow, Scotland; she now lives Kong, human rights, and free speech to be an intern with the produc- than 80,000 U.S. overseas voters to in Seattle, where she is a project issues in greater China. Her blog tion team at the Berkeley Repertory register, and she is now executive manager with Historical Research is frequently censored and blocked Theatre for the 2005–06 season. director of the nonprofit, nonpar- Associates and is pursuing a cer- in the mainland by the Chinese E. T. HAZZARD was also chosen tisan Overseas Vote Foundation tificate in geographic informa- Communist government. by Berkeley Repertory Theatre as an (www.overseasvotefoundation.org); she tion science at the University of For the SLUG in your life... apparel, books, and gifts ’00 In 2004, Viva STOWE Harris intern for the 2005–06 year; he will lives in Munich with her husband, Washington. graduated first in her class from work with the technical director and Olivier, and their two daughters, ’99 Cary FUKUNAGA won a Santa Clara University School of Law the staff of the scene shop. Anna and Margaux, and has her own Student Academy Award from the and married Michael Harris; Viva Academy of Motion Picture Arts and practices law in San Jose, and they Sciences for his film Victoria Para live in Santa Cruz. SAVE THESE 2006 DATES: Chino, a 14-minute narrative film ’02 David BERG is the producer of based on the true story of the worst Raging Cyclist, a 30-minute action/ R Alumni Association Awards Luncheon. Celebrate faculty, single case of illegal immigrant death dark comedy film that was selected staff, and alumni award winners. February 4 on campus. in U.S. history. to screen at this year’s Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose and the R UC Day. Legislative advocacy for higher education. February 7 In Memoriam Durango Film Festival in Colorado. in Sacramento. Craig David FORREST is the William EVERSON (Porter ’73), Banana Slug Spring Fair. Reunion weekend, with special author of Joyride: A Son’s Unlikely R who received a B.S. in chemistry Journey to His Mother’s Heart recognition for the classes of ’01, ’96, ’91, ’86, ’81, ’76, and from UC Berkeley in 1929, retired (iUniverse, 2005), a memoir of how ’71; receptions, panel discussions, and more. April 22–23. as a chemist from Shell Oil, took a DIPLOMA FRAMES he reconnected with his journalist R Alumni Vintners Wine Tasting. Top Banana Slug vintners postretirement degree at UCSC, and backpacked around the world, died mother before and after her death pour their best for guests celebrating 2006 reunions. April 22. through the archives of a weekly at the age of 97. Edna KIMBRO (Porter ’76), GIFTS humor column she had written for alumni.ucsc.edu the Cape May, N.J., newspaper while California State Parks historian and Craig was growing up. nationally recognized expert on adobe construction and preservation, IT marketing consulting firm. died in her sleep at her Watsonville Oakes College College Eight ’86 Scott CRAMER has been home in June 2005 after a six-year promoted to associate professor ’75 David PAINE has been appoint- ’75 Patricia O’NEILL is a plumb- battle with ovarian cancer; she of cancer biology at Wake Forest ed superintendent of the Live Oak ing contractor in Berkeley. was 57. University School of Medicine. School District in Santa Cruz; prior ’77 Lisa FINDLEY’s book Building Mark STIER (Stevenson ’76), a ’93 This summer, Mara JEFFRESS to this, he served the district as direc- Change: Architecture, Politics and lawyer with the civil tax division of took a 1,000-mile solo-backpack- tor of curriculum and instruction Cultural Agency was published this the Department of Justice who in ing trek along the Pacific Crest and as an elementary principal. He year by Routledge Press; she is a 1996 and 2004 received the depart- Trail to raise money for Doctors has a doctorate in educational leader- registered architect and an associate ment’s Outstanding Attorney award, Without Borders (Médecins Sans ship from the University of La Verne professor at California College of the died of cancer in January 2005. He Frontières); she earned her Ph.D. in and a master’s in education from San Arts, where she coordinates the mas- is survived by his wife, Cynthia, and molecular and cell biology from the Jose State University. ter of architecture program. two sons, Andrew and Brendan, all by Faculty and Alumni University of Washington in 2004. BOOKS ’77 Raymond ROMO recently ’80 Ann KRCIK received the 2005 of McLean, Va. Contributions can still be made at as featured in the UCSC Review retired from the Royal Micronesian Pioneering Woman Award from Gordon KIO (Porter ’85), restaurant Air Force with the rank of Wing the Outdoor Industries Women’s jeffress.net/mara/1000miles.html. critic for the Idaho Statesman and ’94 Jason BINSWANGER is Commander; he and his wife, Coalition; she is the founder of lover and supporter of music, art, running a chiropractic office in San Priscilla BALANON Romo (Merrill Extreme Connection, which helps and theater, drowned in the Sea of Diego and expecting his first child in ’72), live in Hawaii, where they mountaineers, outdoor sports ath- Cortez in October 2003, while vaca- September; friends may contact him SHOP ONLINE own an aquaculture research facility; letes, and adventurers make a living tioning with his wife. at Priscilla works at Volcanoes National and support their endeavors by being www.bingchiropractic.com. ’95 (Jason) Cooper MARCUS, Park. motivational speakers for corporate who founded Slug Books Co-op slugstore.ucsc.edu ’98 Azadeh MOAVENI (see profile, meetings and events, endorsement while a UCSC student, is living in page 20) lives in Beirut and cov- spokespeople, and sports models. Serving the UC Santa Cruz campus community since 1965 831.459.4544 Chicago, working on his M.B.A. at ers Middle Eastern affairs for Time In February, Elaine MEADOWS

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