July 6, 2009

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:

The three hundred signers of this letter write to you as members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, and as professors at the University of California to express our deep concern about the latest round of proposed cuts to the UC budget. Current proposals being weighed by your office and the Legislature call for a 19% reduction from 2007-8 levels in state support for UC, producing an $800 million shortfall in the UC budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year. This will lead to increases in student fees, reductions in pay or furloughs for faculty and staff, and cuts in virtually all University services. These cuts will be devastating to every part of the University’s mission, but as scientists and engineers we are particularly concerned about their effects on the future of science and technology in California. While we recognize that our state faces an unprecedented financial crisis, the proposed cuts come on top of a decades-long trend of declining state support for the University of California. The situation has reached a breaking point.

Further cuts of the magnitude being contemplated in the latest round of budget proposals are likely to destroy UC’s status as the leading public university in the United States. This would undermine prospects for economic recovery and damage California’s competitiveness for decades.

Before making a decision in the heat of a crisis that will have negative consequences for decades to come, we ask that you consider the following:

• It is estimated that 85% of per capita economic growth in the United States is due to technological change1, and the University of California has been a leading driver of that change. Productivity growth produced by UC technological innovation is estimated at $5.2 billion from 2002-11, leading to more than 100,000 new jobs in California.2 For every dollar that California invested in research and development at UC in 2000-1, UC researchers brought in another $3.89 of private and federal research money.3

• UC trains the highly skilled workforce that drives California’s economy: 85% of biotech firms4 and 57% of research and development-intensive communications

1 “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future”, report of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, 2007, pg. 1. Available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11463. 2 “California’s Future: It Starts Here”, a study of the University of California’s impact on California, 2003, pg. 6. Available at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/itstartshere/report/fullreport.pdf. 3 Ibid, pg. 7. 4 “Assessing the Role of the University of California in the State’s Biotechnology Economy: Heightened Impact Over Time”, Industry-University Cooperative Research Program Working Paper Series, C. Yarkin & A. Murray, 2003, pg. 9. Available at http://ucdiscoverygrant.org/about/reports_ca.htm. firms5 in California employ holders of advanced degrees from UC. The co- founders of Intel, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, and MySpace all hold undergraduate or graduate degrees from UC.

• In 1970, the fraction of the state of California’s general fund devoted to UC was 7%.6 By 2008-9 it had declined to 3.2%.7 Thus further cuts to UC would come from a portion of the state budget that has already declined by more than a factor of two in relative terms in past decades.

• Between 1990 and 2008, inflation-adjusted state support per UC student fell by 40%. As a result, the total inflation-adjusted education expenditure per UC student (including student fees and contributions from UC General Funds) decreased by 19%, while student costs rose by 138%.8 Further cuts will hit disadvantaged and lower-middle-class students the hardest, since they rely on financial aid, outreach, gateway, and tutoring programs, all of which will be under extraordinary pressure. This will inexorably reduce services to the component of California’s population most in need of access to a distinguished public university.

• UC’s status as a leading research institution depends on its ability to attract and retain the best scholars, but faculty salaries were already 12% below market as of 2006-7.9 The salary reductions resulting from the proposed budget cut would widen the gap to 19%. UC will find it impossible to attract and retain leading faculty with a salary gap of this magnitude.

• The impact of salary cuts on young faculty, many of whom have mortgages that they are only barely able to pay now, is likely to be particularly devastating. If their salaries are cut and they are faced with the prospect of losing their homes, these future scientific leaders can and will move elsewhere. This will produce a huge brain drain from California.

• If this damage is done, it will not be easy to undo. Even if UC salaries and research support were to recover after the crisis passes, it would take years to replace the professors who leave, and many of the investments that have been made in research and teaching programs would be irrevocably lost. Even worse, worries about the stability of funding and the safety of jobs at UC would hinder efforts to recruit talented scholars and teachers for years or even decades to come.

5 “The Role Of University Of California Scientists and Engineers In The State’s R&D-Intensive Communications Industry”, Industry-University Cooperative Research Program Working Paper Series, C. Yarkin & A. Murray, 2003, pg. 3. Available at http://ucdiscoverygrant.org/about/reports_ca.htm. 6 Larry Hershman, 2005-06 Budget Presentation Regents meeting, November 2004. 7 UC Budget summary, available at http://www.ucsc.edu/budget_update/article.asp?pid=2991. 8 University of California 2009-10 Budget for Current Operations, Summary of the Budget Request, pg. 5, available at http://budget.ucop.edu/pubs.html. 9 “Faculty Salaries at California’s Public Universities, 2007-8”, California Postsecondary Education Commission Report, pg. 9. Available at http://www.cpec.ca.gov/completereports/2007reports/07-15.pdf. For the past 40 years, California has been struggling to run a world-class university on ever-declining state support. In the face of the current crisis, the past strategy of incremental cuts at the margin will no longer be viable, and major changes will be set in motion. The actions of the Governor and the Legislature in coming weeks will be seen, both by the scientists currently employed by UC and by the young researchers who will consider moving here in the next decade, as a clear statement of whether the state of California intends to maintain a leading research university or not. If it does not, California must be prepared to accept the long-term loss of educational, economic, and technological benefits that UC produces. The forefront of innovation will move elsewhere. This is the prospect with which we are now faced.

In a time of crisis, our attention rightly focuses on using limited resources to meet the needs of the moment. However we must remember that the University of California represents our state’s investment in the future. When the crisis passes and we begin to repair the damage, our prospects for success will be determined by how well we protect that investment today.

Sincerely,

(Signatories are identified by their National Academy affiliation: National Academy of Engineering [NAE], National Academy of Sciences [NAS], or Institute of Medicine [IOM].)

John Abelson (NAS) Guenter Ahlers (NAS) Adjunct Professor, Deparment of Professor, Department of Physics, UC Biochemistry and Biophysics, Santa Barbara UC San Francisco Bruce Alberts (NAS) Asad Abidi (NAE) Professor, Department of Biochemistry Professor, Department of Electrical and Biophysics, UC San Engineering, UCLA Francisco President Emeritus, NAS Nancy Adler (IOM) Editor-in-Chief, Science Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UC San Francisco Satya N. Alturi (NAE) Professor, Center of Aerospace Research David A. Agard (NAS) and Education, UC Irvine Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UC San Walter Alvarez (NAS) Francisco Professor, Department of Earth and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Planetary Science, UC Berkeley

Alice Merner Agogino (NAE) Ronald M. Andersen (IOM) Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor Wasserman Professor Emeritus, of Mechanical Engineering, UC Departments of Health Services Berkeley and Sociology, UCLA John C. Avise (NAS) Thomas Bodenheimer (IOM) Distinguished Professor, Department of Professor, Department of Family and Ecology and Evolutionary Community Medicine, UC San Biology, UC Irvine Francisco

Francisco J. Ayala (NAS, National Michael Botchan (NAS) Medal of Science Laureate) Richard and Rhonda Goldman University Professor Distinguished Professor and Co- Donald Bren Professor of Biological Chair, Department of Molecular Sciences and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, School of Social John Bowers (NAE) Sciences, UC Irvine Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering George Backus (NAS) Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency, Professor Emeritus, Department of UC Santa Barbara Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Harvey W. Blanch (NAE) CSTO, Joint BioEnergy Institute Ruzena Bajcsy (IOM, NAE) Merck Professor of Biochemical Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering and Computer Chemical Engineering, UC Director Emeritus, CITRIS, UC Berkeley Berkeley Lewis M. Branscomb (NAS, NAE, Jill Banfield (NAS) IOM) Professor, Department of Earth and Adjunct Professor, School of Planetary Science, UC Berkeley International Relations and Pacific Studies Elizabeth Barrett-Connor (IOM) Research Associate, Scripps Institution Distinguished Professor of Family and of Oceanography, UC San Diego Preventative Medicine, UC San Diego Rafael L. Bras (NAE) Distinguished Professor and Dean, Civil Leslie Z. Benet (IOM) and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering and UC Irvine Therapeutic Sciences, UC San Francisco Paula Braveman (IOM) Professor of Family and Community Elwyn Berlekamp (NAS) Medicine Professor, Department of Mathematics, Director, Center on Social Disparities in UC Berkeley Health, UC San Francisco

Peter J. Bickel (NAS) Robert G. Bregman (NAS) Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley Berkeley Eric A. Brewer (NAE) John E. Casida (NAS) Professor, Department of Electrical Professor of Toxicology and Engineering and Computer Entomology Science, UC Berkeley Director, Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory, UC Steven P. Briggs (NAS) Berkeley Professor, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Webster K. Cavanee (IOM, NAS) Division of Biological Sciences, Professor, Department of Medicine, UC UC San Diego San Diego Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Bob B. Buchanan (NAS) Research, UC San Diego Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley William J. Chancellor (NAE) Thomas F. Budinger (NAE, IOM) Professor Emeritus of Biological and Professor of the Graduate School, UC Agricultural Engineering, UC Berkeley Davis Professor Emeritus, UC San Francisco Home Secretary, NAE David Chandler (NAS) Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Patricia A. Buffler (IOM) Berkeley Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley Shu Chien (NAE, NAS, IOM) University Professor, Departments of William E. Bunney, Jr. (IOM, NAS) Bioengineering and Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Research, UC San Diego School of Medicine Distinguished Professor, Della Martin Anil K. Chopra (NAE) Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Horace, Dorothy, and Katherine Johnson UC Irvine Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michael Callaham (IOM) UC Berkeley Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, UC San Alexandre Chorin (NAS) Francisco University Professor Professor, Department of Mathematics, Michael J. Carrey (NAE) UC Berkeley Bren Professor of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine Maarten J. Chrispeels (NAS) Professor, Division of Biological Dennis Carson (IOM) Sciences Director, Moores Cancer Center, UC Director, Center for Molecular San Diego Agriculture, UC San Diego

William A. V. Clark (NAS) Phillip Colella (NAS) Professor, Department of Geography, Senior Staff Scientist, Computational UCLA Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory James E. Cleaver (NAS) Professor Emeritus of Dermatology and Eugene D. Commins (NAS) Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Professor Emeritus, Department of Department of Dermatology, UC Physics, UC Berkeley San Francisco David E. Culler (NAE) Professor, Department of Electrical Michael T. Clegg (NAS) Engineering and Computer Donald Bren Professor of Biological Science, UC Berkeley Sciences, UC Irvine Foreign Secretary, NAS Shaun R. Coughlin (NAS, IOM) Professor of Medicine and Cellular and John A. Clements (NAS) Molecular Pharmacology Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, UC Director, Cardiovascular Research San Francisco Institute, UC San Francisco Julius H. Comroe, Jr., Professorof Pulmonary Biology, Emeritus Gary W. Cox (NAS) Member, Graduate Group in Biophysics, Professor, Department of Political Retired Science, UC San Diego Lasker Prize Awardee, Royal Society of Physicians of London Pedro Cuatrecasas (NAS, IOM) Adjunct Professor, Departments of Don W. Cleveland (NAS) Pharmacology and Medicine, Professor and Chair, Department of UCLA Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego Marc Davis (NAS) Head, Laboratory of Cell Biology, Professor, Departments of Physics and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Astronomy, UC Berkeley Research, UC San Diego Russ E. Davis (NAS) Thomas W. Cline (NAS) Professor Emeritus, Scripps Institution Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and of Oceanography, UC San Diego Development, Department of Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley Haile T. Debas (IOM) Professor of Surgery Thomas J. Coates (IOM) Former Dean of the Medical School Michael and Sue Steinberg Professor of Former Chancellor, UCSF Global AIDS Research Distinguished Professor, Division of James Demmel (NAE) Infectious Diseases, Department Professor, Departments of Electrical of Medicine, UCLA David Engineering and Computer Geffen School of Medicine Science and Mathematics, UC Berkeley Donald J. DePaolo (NAS) David Eisenberg (NAS, IOM) Class of 1951 Professor of Director, Institute for Genomics and Geochemistry, Department of Proteomics, UCLA-Department Earth and Planetary Science, UC of Energy Berkeley Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Vijay K. Dhir (NAE) Professor, Department of Mechanical Charles J. Epstein (IOM) and Aerospace Engineering Professor Emeritus, Department of Dean, Henry Samueli School of Pediatrics and Institute for Engineering and Applied Human Genetics, UC San Science, UCLA Francisco William E. Dietrich (NAS) Professor, Department of Earth and José Escarce (IOM) Planetary Science, UC Berkeley Professor, Department of Medicine, UCLA Kathleen A. Dracup (IOM) Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, Deborah L. Estrin (NAE) UC San Francisco Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCLA Jennifer A. Doudna (NAS) Professor, Department of Molecular and Sandra M. Faber (NAS) Cell Biology, UC Berkeley University Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Astronomer, University of California Institute Observatories Professor and Chair, Department of Greg Duncan (NA Education) Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Distinguished Professor, Department of Santa Cruz Education, UC Irvine Juli Feigon (NAS) Thomas Dunne (NAS) Professor, Department of Chemistry and Professor, Bren School of Biochemistry, UCLA Environmental Science and Management and Department of Donna M. Ferriero (IOM) Earth Science, UC Santa Barbara Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, UC San Francisco Robert C. Dynes (NAS) Professor, Department of Physics, UC Alexei V. Filippenko (NAS) Berkeley Professor, Department of Astronomy, Chancellor Emeritus, UC San Diego UC Berkeley President Emeritus, University of 2006 Carnegie/CASE National Professor California of the Year

Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts (NAS) Bruce C. Gates (NAE) Distinguished Professor, Department of Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UC Davis Robert Fischer (NAS) Professor, Department of Plant and Michael S. Gazzaniga (IOM) Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley Director, The SAGE Center for Study of the Mind T. Kenneth Fowler (NAS) Professor, Department of Psychology, Professor Emeritus, Department of UC Santa Barbara Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley Arthur Geoffrion (NAE) James A. Collins Chair in Management Glenn H. Fredrickson (NAE) Emeritus, Anderson School of Professor, Departments of Chemical Management, UCLA Engineering and Materials Director, Mitsubishi Chemical Center Andrea Ghez (NAS) for Advanced Materials, UC Professor, Department of Physics and Santa Barbara Astronomy and Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Michael Freeling (NAS) Physics, UCLA Professor of Genetics, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Kathleen M. Giacomini (IOM) Berkeley Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Stuart J. Freedman (NAS) Sciences, UC San Francisco Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley J. Freeman Gilbert (NAS) Inez Fung (NAS) Professor Emeritus, Cecil H. and Ida M. Professor, Departments of Earth and Green Institute of Geophysics Planetary Science and and Planetary Physics, Scripps Environmental Science, Policy, Institution of Oceanography, UC and Management San Diego Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, UC Berkeley Linda C. Giudice (IOM) Professor and Chair, Department of Mary K. Gaillard (NAS) Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Professor, Department of Physics, UC Reproductive Sciences, UC San Berkeley Francisco

Patricia A. Ganz (IOM) Stanton A. Glantz (IOM) Professor, Schools of Medicine and Professor of Medicine, American Public Health, UCLA Legacy Foundation Division of Cancer Prevention and Distinguished Professor in Control Research, Jonsson Tobacco Control, UC San Comprehensive Cancer Center Francisco Robert B. Goldberg (NAS) Warner C. Greene (IOM) Distinguished Howard Hughes Medical Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology Institute Professor, Department and Immunology of Molecular, Cell, and Nick and Sue Hellman Distinguished Developmental Biology, UCLA Professor of Translational Medicine Gerson Goldhaber (NAS) Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, Professor, Deprtment of Physics, UC and Immunology, UC San Berkeley Francisco President, Accordia Global Health Marvin Goldberger (NAS) Foundation President Emeritus, Caltech Professor Emeritus, UC San Diego John Greenspan (IOM) Professor of Oral Pathology, Department Leo A. Goodman (NAS) of Orofacial Sciences, School of Class of 1938 Professor, Departments of Densitry Statistics and Sociology, UC Director, AIDS Research Institute, Berkeley School of Medicine, UC San Francisco Richard E. Goodman (NAE) Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Carol Cross (NAS) Engineering, UC Berkeley Professor, Departments of Cell and Tissue Biology and Ronald Graham (NAS) Microbiology and Immunology, Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor, UC San Francisco Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego David Gross (NAS, Nobel Laureate) Professor, Physics Department Paul R. Gray (NAE) Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley Physics, UC Santa Barbara

John C. Greene (IOM) Kevin Grumbach (IOM) Dean Emeritus, School of Dentistry, UC Professor and Chair, Department of San Francisco Family and Community Former Deputy Surgeon General, US Medicine, UC San Francisco Public Health Service Chief, Family and Community Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital

Melvin M. Grumbach (IOM, NAS) Edward B. Shaw Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, UC San Francisco

Christine Guthrie (NAS) Richard J. Havel (NAS, IOM) Professor, Department of Biochemistry Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Biophysics, UC San Director Emeritus, Cardiovascular Francisco Research Institute, UC San American Cancer Society Research Francisco Professor of Molecular Genetics Clayton Heathcock (NAS) E. A. Hammel (NAS) Professor, Department of Chemistry Professor Emeritus, Departments of Dean College of Chemistry, UC Demography and Anthropology, Berkeley UC Berkeley Alan J. Heeger (NAS, Nobel Laureate in Bruce D. Hammock (NAS) Physics) Distinguished Professor of Entomology, Professor, Departments of Physics and UC Davis Materials Science, UC Santa Director, Cancer Center, UC Davis Barbara Medical Center Director, NIEHS-UC Davis Superfund Carl Heiles (NAS) Basic Research Program Professor, Department of Astronomy, Principal Investigator, NIH UC Berkeley Biotechnology Training Program, UC Davis Donald R. Helinski (NAS) Professor Emeritus, Department of Charles B. Harris (NAS) Molecular Biology, UC San Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Diego Berkeley Chih-Ming Ho (NAE) James Hartle (NAS) Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Professor, Professor, Department of Physics, UC School of Engineering, UCLA Santa Barbara George M. Homsy (NAE) Stephen L. Hauser (IOM) Professor, Department of Mechanical Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Engineering, UC Santa Barbara Professor, Department of Director, Institute for Multiscale Neurology, UC San Francisco Materials Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory / UC Santa David Haussler (NAS) Barbara Professor, Center for Biomolecular Medicine and Engineering, UC Wayne L. Hubbell (NAS) Santa Cruz Jules Stein Professor of Opthalmology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical and Distinguished Professor, Institute Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA Associate Director, Jules Stein Eye Center

Enrique Iglesia (NAE) Sungho Jin (NAE) Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Distinguished Professor of Materials Chemical Engineering, UC Science and Iwama Endowed Berkeley Chair Faculty Senior Scientist, Chemical Director, Materials Science and Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley Engineering Program National Laboratory Professor, Department of Mechanical Director, Berkeley Catalysis Center and Aerospace Engineering, UC Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Catalysis San Diego

Louis J. Ignarro (IOM, Nobel Laureate) Edward G. Jones (NAS) Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry David Geffen School of and Behavioral Sciences Medicine, UCLA Director, Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis Tatsuo Itoh (NAE) Professor, Department of Electrical Lewis L. Judd (IOM) Engineering, UCLA Mary Gilman Marston Professor Distinguished Professor and Chair, John David Jackson (NAS) Department of Psychiatry, UC Professor Emeritus, Department of San Diego Physics, UC Berkeley David Julius (NAS) Anthony A. James (NAS) Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Distinguished Professor, Departments of Biology and Medicine Microbiology and Molecular Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology Physiology, UC San Francisco and Biochemistry, UC Irvine Ronald Kaback (NAS) Robert B. Jaffe (IOM) Distinguished Professor, Departments of Fred Gellert Professor of Reproductive Physiology and Microbiology, Medicine and Biology, Center Immunology, and Molecular for Reproductive Sciences, UC Genetics, UCLA San Francisco Ivan P. Kaminow (NAE) Raymond Jeanloz (NAS) Adjuct Professor, Department of Professor, Departments of Earth and Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science and Computer Science, UC Berkeley Astronomy, UC Berkeley Bell Labs (retired)

David Jewitt (NAS) Adib Kanafani (NAE) Professor, Department of Earth and Cahill Professor, Department of Civil Space Sciences and Institute for Engineering, UC Berkeley Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA

Robert M. Kaplan (IOM) Cynthia J. Kenyon (IOM) Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman American Cancer Society Research Professor Professor, Department of Chair, Department of Health Services, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCLA School of Public Heatlh UC San Francisco

Bill Kastenberg (NAE) John Kim (NAE) Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Professor Emeritus, College of and Aerospace Engineering, Engineering, UC Berkeley UCLA

Randy H. Katz (NAE) Sung-Hou Kim (NAS) Professor, Department of Electrical Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Engineering and Computer Berkeley Science, UC Berkeley C. Judson King (NAE) Kenneth Kaushansky (IOM) Professor Emeritus, Department of Helen M. Ranney Distinguished Chemical Engineering Professor and Char, Department Director, Center for Studies in Higher of Medicine, UC San Diego Education Provost and Senior Vice President, Steve A. Kay (NAS) Academic Affairs, Emeritus, UC Dean, Division of Biological Sciences Berkeley Richard C. Atkinson Professor in the Biological Sciences, UC San Talmadge E. King (IOM) Diego Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine Charles F. Kennel (NAS) Chair, Department of Medicine, UC San Distinguish Professor Emeritus, Francisco Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA Patrick V. Kirch (NAS) Former Director, Dean, and Vice- Class of 1954 Professor Anthropology Chancellor of Marine Sciences, and Integrative Biology, UC Scripps Institute of Berkeley Oceanography, UC San Diego Former Executive Vice-Chancellor, Leonard Kleinrock (NAE, National UCLA Medal of Science Laureate) Distinguished Professor, Department of James P. Kennett (NAS) Computer Science, UCLA Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Department of Earth Judith P. Klinman (NAS) Science and Marine Science Chancellor’s Professor, Departments of Institute, UC Santa Barbara Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

U. Fred Kocks (NAE) William A. Kuperman (NAE) Retired Fellow, Los Alamos National Professor, Scripps Insitution of Laboratory Oceanography, UC San Diego Affiliate, UC San Diego Director, Marine Physical Laboratory, UC San Diego Mary Anne Koda-Kimble (IOM) Professor and Dean, School of Pharmacy John Kuriyan (NAS) TJ Long Chair in Community Pharmacy Chancellor’s Professor, Departments of Practice, UC San Francisco Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry, UC Berkeley Richard Kolodner (NAS) Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Professor of Medicine, Ludwig Institute Institute for Cancer Research, UC San Diego Sydney Kustu (NAS) Professor, Department of Plant and Stephen Kowalczykowski (NAS) Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Molecular and J. Clark Lagarias (NAS) Cell Biology, UC Davis Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Davis Leon Knopoff (NAS) Professor Emeritus, Institute of James S. Langer (NAS) Planetary Physics and Research Professor, Department of Department of Physics and Physics, UC Santa Barbara Astronomy, UCLA Former Vice President, NAS

Robert Kraft (NAS) Robert Langridge (IOM) Professor Emeritus, Department of Professor Emeritus, UC San Francisco Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz L. Gary Leal (NAE) Katharine and Warren Schlinger Edward J. Kramer (NAE) Distinguished Professor, Professor, Departments of Materials and Department of Chemical Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Engineering, UC Santa Barbara Barbara Ronald Lee (NAS) Arnold R. Kriegstein (IOM) Professor, Department of Demography John G. Bowes Distinguished Professor Jordan Family Professor, Department of in Stem Cell and Tissue Biology Economics Director, The Eli and Edythe Broad Director, Center for the Economics of Center of Regeneration Medicine Demography and Aging, UC and Stem Cell Research, UC San Berkeley Francisco

George Leitmann (NAE) Steven G. Louie (NAS) Professor Emeritus, Department of Professor, Department of Physics, UC Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley Berkeley Noel C. MacDonald (NAE) Stephen R. Leone (NAS) Professor Emeritus, Department of Professor, Departments of Chemistry Mechanical Engineering, UC and Physics, UC Berkeley Santa Barbara Director, Chemical Dynamics Beamline, Advanced Light Source, John D. Mackenzie (NAE) Lawrence Berkeley National Professor Emeritus, Department of Laboratory Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA Peter Li (NAS) Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Arun Majumdar (NAE) Mathematics, UC Irvine Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professor, Departments of Thomas M. Liggett (NAS) Mechanical Engineering and Professor, Department of Mathematics, Materials Science and UCLA Engineering, UC Berkeley Director, Environmental Energy Robert P. Lin (NAS) Technologies Division and Professor, Department of Physics Associate Laboratory Director Director Emeritus, Space Sciences for Energy and Environment, Laboratory, UC Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dan L. Lindsley (NAS) Research Professor of Biology, UC San M. Brian Maple (NAS) Diego Bernd T. Matthias Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, UC San Kuo-Nan Liou (NAE) Diego Distinguished Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Geoff Marcy (NAS) Sciences Professor, Department of Astronomy, Director, Joint Institute for Regional UC Berkeley Earth System Science and Engineering, UCLA Michael A. Marletta (NAS, IOM) Aldo DeBenedictis Professor of Elizabeth Loftus (NAS) Chemistry Distinguished Professor of Psychology Professor of Biochemistry and and Social Behavior, Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley Criminology, Law and Society, and Cognitive Sciences, School of Law, UC Irvine

Ida M. Martinson (IOM) William H. Miller (NAS) Professor Emeritus, UC San Francisco Kenneth S. Pitzer Distinguished Professor, Department of Claire E. Max (NAS) Chemistry, UC Berkeley Astronomer, University of California Observatories C. Bradley Moore (NAS) Professor, Department of Astronomy Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz Chemistry, UC Berkeley Director, Center for Adaptive Optics J. W. Morris, Jr. (NAE) James L. McGaugh (NAS) Professor, Department of Materials Research Professor, Department of Science and Engineering, UC Neurobiology and Behavior, UC Berkeley Irvine Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient Robert McMeeking (NAE) Professor, Departments of Mechanical William Munk (NAS) Engineering and Materials, UC Secretary of the Navy Chair in Santa Barbara Oceanography, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego Christopher F. McKee (NAS) Professor, Departments of Astronomy Richard S. Muller (NAE) and Physics, UC Berkeley Professor in the Graduate School, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley John P. McTague (NAE) Director and Co-Founder, Berkeley Vice President Emeritus for Lab Sensor and Actuator Center Management, UC Editor-in-Chief, IEEE/ASME Journal of Professor Emeritus, UCLA and UC MEMS Santa Barbara Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Systems James C. McWilliams (NAS) Professor and Chair, Department of William Murdoch (NAS) Atmospheric and Oceanic Charles A. Storke II Professor of Sciences and Institute of Ecology, Department of Ecology, Geophysics and Planetary Evolution, and Marine Biology, Physics, UCLA UC Santa Barbara

Michael Merzenich (IOM) Professor Emeritus of Otolaryngology, UC San Francisco

Barbara J. Meyers (NAS) Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Alexandra Navrotsky (NAS) Jerrold Olefsky (IOM) Director, NEAT REU Distinguished Professor of Medicine Edward Roesller Chair in Mathematical Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs, and Physical Sciences School of Medicine, UC San Distinguished Professor of Ceramic, Diego Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry, Peter A. Robert M. Oliver (NAE) Rock Thermochemistry Professor Emeritus, Department of Laboratory and NEAT REU, UC Industrial Engineering and Davis Operations Research, UC Berkeley Andrew R. Neureuther (NAE) Professor Emeritus, Department of José Nelson Onuchic (NAS) Electrical Engineering and Professor and Co-Director, Center for Computer Science, UC Berkeley Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) Hiroshi Nikaido (NAS) Professor, Department of Physics, UC Professor, Department of Molecular and San Diego Cell Biology, UC Berkeley Stanley Osher (NAS) Masayasu Nomura (NAS) Professor, Deparments of Mathematics, Grace Bell Professor of Biological Computer Science, and Electrical Chemistry, Department of Engineering, UCLA Biological Chemistry, UC Irvine Director of Special Projects, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jane S. Norbeck (IOM) UCLA Professor and Dean Emerita, Department of Community Health Systems, George Oster (NAS) UC San Francisco Professor, Departments of Environmental Science, Policy, Robert L. Nussbaum (IOM) and Management and Molecular Holly Smith Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley Chief, Division of Medical Genetics, UC San Francisco Larry E. Overman (NAS) Distinguished Professor, Department of Donald Olander (NAE) Chemistry, UC Irvine James Fife Chair in Engineering, Emeritus Bernhard O. Palsson (NAE) Professor, Graduate School Galetti Professor, Department of Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Bioengineering, UC San Diego Engineering, UC Berkeley

David A. Patterson (NAE, NAS) David Pines (NAS) Pardee Professor, Department of Distinguished Professor, Physics Electrical Engineering and Department, UC Davis Computer Science Director, Reliable Adaptive Distributed Albert P. Pisano (NAE) Computing Laboratory Professor and Chair, Department of Director, Parallel Computing Mechanical Engineering, UC Laboratory, UC Berkeley Berkeley

Stanton J. Peale (NAS) Joseph Polchinski (NAS) Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Physics Department, UC Professor, Department of Santa Barbara Physics, UC Santa Barbara Permanent Member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Saul Perlmutter (NAS) Professor, Department of Physics, UC Karl S. Pister (NAE) Berkeley Dean and Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley Eliseo J. Perez-Stable (IOM) Chancellor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco Mu-Ming Poo (NAS) Chief, Division of General Internal Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Medicine, UCSF Medical Center Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Linda Petzold (NAE) Berkeley Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of P. Buford Price (NAS) Mechanical Engineering, UC Professor, Graduate School, UC Santa Barbara Berkeley

Theodore L. Phillips (NAS, IOM) Louis J. Ptáček (IOM) Wun-Kon Fu Distinguished Professor of Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Radiation Oncology, UC San Institute Francisco Coleman Distinguished Professor of Neurology Alexander Pines (NAS) Director, Division of Neurogenetics, UC Glen T. Seaborg Professor, Department San Francisco of Chemistry, UC Berkeley Faculty Affiliate, California Institute for Stanley B. Prusiner (IOM, NAS, Nobel Quantitative Biomedicine, UC Laureate) Berkeley Professor, Department of Neurology Senior Scientist, Materials Sciences Director, Institute for Nondegenerative Division, Lawrence Berkeley Diseases, UC San Francisco National Laboratory

Peter H. Quail (NAS) David L. Rimoin (IOM) Professor, Department of Plant and Director, Medical Genetics Institute, Microbial Biology Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Director of Research, Plant Gene Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Expression Center, UC Berkeley Medicine, and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Yahya Rahmat-Samii (NAE) Medicine, UCLA Distinguished Professor, Northrup- Grumman Chair in Jasper Rine (NAS) Electromagnetics, Department of Professor, Department of Molecular and Electrical Engineering, UCLA Cell Biology Director, Center for Computational Alexander S. Raikhel (NAS) Biology, UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor, Department of Entomology, UC Riverside Michael Rosenfeld (NAS) Professor, School of Medicine, UC San V. Ramanathan (NAS) Diego Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences John Roth (NAS) Victor C. Alderson Professor of Applied Distinguished Professor, Department of Ocean Sciences Microbiology, UC Davis Chairman, Atmospheric Brown Clouds Project (UNEP sponsored) Abraham M. Rudolph (IOM) Director, Center for Clouds, Chemistry, Professor Emeritus, Department of and Climate, UC San Diego Pediatrics, UC San Francisco

Marina Ratner (NAS) Donald G. Saari (NAS) Professor, Department of Mathematics, Distinguished Professor, Departments of UC Berkeley Economics and Mathematics Director, Institute for Mathematical Ken Raymond (NAS) Behavioral Sciences, UC Irvine Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley Jerome L. Sackman (NAE) Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Arthur L. Reingold (IOM) and Environmental Engineering, Professor and Division Head, School of UC Berkeley Public Health, UC Berkeley S. Shankar Sastry (NAE) Paul L. Richards (NAS) Dean of Engineering Professor, Department of Physics, UC Director, Richard C. Blum Center for Berkeley Developing Economies Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Michael A. Savageau (IOM) Peter Shearer (NAS) Distinguished Professor, Department of Professor, Scripps Institution of Biomedical Engineering, UC Oceanography, UC San Diego Davis Stephen M. Shortell (IOM) Robert F. Sawyer (NAE) Dean and Professor, School of Public Class of 1935 Professor of Energy Health Emeritus, Department of Blue Cross of California Distinguished Mechanical Engineering, UC Professor of Health Policy and Berkeley Management, UC Berkeley Randy Scheckman (NAS) Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley Paul H.Siegel (NAE) Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Director, Center for Magentic Recording Institute Research Editor-in-Chief, Proceedings of the NAS Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein (NAE) Diego Distinguished Professor Bioegineer, Department of S. Jonathan Singer (NAS) Bioengineering and Medicine, University Professor Emeritus UC San Diego Professor Emeritus of Biology, UC San Diego Thomas W. Schoener (NAS) Distinguished Professor, Department of R. Paul Singh (NAE) Ecology and Evolution, UC Distinguished Professor of Food Davis Engineering, Department of Biological and Agricultural Gerald Schubert (NAS) Engineering, UC Davis Distinguished Professor of Geophysics Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Food and Planetary Physics, Engineering Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Institute of Robert Sinsheimer (NAS) Geophysics and Planetary Professor Emeritus of Biology, UC Physics, UCLA Santa Barbara Chancellor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz James A. Sethian (NAE) Professor, Department of Mathematics William A. Sirignano (NAE) Director, Center for Pure and Applied Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Mathematics, UC Berkeley Engineering Head, Mathematics Department, Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Lawrence Berkeley National Engineering, UC Irvine Laboratory

Frank E. Talke (NAE) Brian Skyrms (NAS) Professor, Department of Mechanical Distinguished Professor of Logic and and Aerospace Engineering, UC Philosophy of Science and Berkeley Economics, UC Irvine Palmer Taylor (IOM) Soroosh Sorooshian (NAE) Sandra and Monroe Trout Chair in Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology Civil and Environmental Dean, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Engineering Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC Director, Center for Hydrometeorology San Diego and Remote Sensing (CHRS), UC Irvine Shelley E. Taylor (IOM, NAS) Distinguished Professor, Department of Hyron Spinrad (NAS) Psychology, UCLA Professor, Department of Astronomy Mark Thiemens (NAS) and Astrophysics, UC Berkeley Professor, Department of Chemistr, UC San Diego Larry R. Squire (NAS, IOM) Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, Matthew Tirrell (NAE) and Psychology, UC San Diego Richard A. Auhil Professor and Emeritus Dean, College of Engineering, Kirk R. Smith (NAS) UC Santa Barbara Professor of Global Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Waldo Tobler (NAS) UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara Brian Staskawicz (NAS) Maxine J. Elliot Professor and Chair, George H. Trilling (NAS) Department of Plant and Professor Emeritus, Department of Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley Physics, UC Berkeley

Daniel Steinberg (IOM) Ming T. Tsuang (IOM) Professor Emeritus of Medicine, UC San Behavior Genomics Endowed Chair and Diego University Professor Distinguished Professor, Department of Judith Stern (IOM) Psychiatry Distinguished Professor, Departments of Director, Center for Behavioral Nutrition and Internal Medicine, Genomics, UC San Diego UC Davis J. Anthony Tyson (NAS) Michael P. Stryker (NAS) Professor, Department of Physics, UC Professor, Department of Physiology, Davis UC San Francisco

Pravin Varaiya (NAS) David B. Wake (NAS) Professor, Department of Electical Professor in the Graduate School in Engineering and Computer Integrative Biology Science, UC Berkeley Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Biology, UC Berkeley James W. Valentine (NAS) Professor Emeritus, Department of Douglas C. Wallace (NAS) Integrative Biology, UC Donald Bren Professor of Molecular Berkeley Medicine Director, Center for Molecular and Joan Selverstone Valentine (NAS) Mitochondrial Medicine and Professor, Department of Chemistry and Genetics (MAMMAG), UC Biochemistry, UCLA Irvine

Ajit P.Varki (IOM) Peter Walter (NAS) Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry, UC San Cellular and Molecular Medicine Francisco Co-Director, Center for Academic Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Research and Training in Institute Anthropogeny (CARTA) Co-Director, Glycobiology Research and Diane W. Wara (IOM) Training Center Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UC Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist San Francisco Training, UC San Diego James A. Wells (NAS) Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli (NAE) Professor and Chair, Department of Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department of Electrical Professor, Department of Cellular and Engineering and Computer Molecular Pharmacology, UC Science, UC Berkeley San Francisco

Paul A. Volberding (IOM) Arthur Weiss (IOM) Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Medicine, UC San Francisco Professor Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for Chief, Division of Rheumatology, AIDS Research Department of Medicine, UC San Chief, Medical Service, San Francisco Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center Howard Hughes Medical Investigator

Kenneth W. Wachter (NAS) Jonathan Weissman (NAS) Professor, Departments of Demography Professor, Howard Hughes Medical and Statistics, UC Berkeley Institute, UC San Francisco

John B. West (IOM) Eli Yablonovitch (NAE, NAS) Professor, Department of Medicine, UC Professor, Department of Electrical San Diego Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley Oliver E. Williamson (NAS) William W-G. Yeh (NAE) Professor of the Graduate School Distinguished Professor, Department of Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Business, Economics and Law, Engineering, UCLA Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Keith R. Yamamoto (NAS, IOM) Professor, Department of Cellular and Tim D. White (NAS) Molecular Pharmacology Professor, Department of Integrative Executive Vice Dean, School of Biology Medicine, UC San Francisco Director, HERC, UC Berkeley T. Yilma (NAS) Distinguished Professor of Virology Michael Witherell (NAS) Director, International Lab of Molecular Professor, Department of Physics, UC Biology, UC Davis Santa Barbara Patricia Zambryski (NAS) Jack Keil Wolf (NAE) Professor, Department of Plant and Professor, Department of Electrical and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley Computer Engineering, UC San Diego S. Lawrence Zipursky (NAS) Professor, Department of Biological Stanford E. Woosley (NAS) Chemistry, UCLA Professor, Department of Astronomy Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz Institute

Bruno Zumino (NAS) Professor, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley

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