UC SANTA CRUZREVIEW Spring 2009 inventing a greener future Game, Match, Love “I support UCSC’s tennis program All of UCSC’s teams help attract because it’s an important part of great students to the school and the school’s excellence—talented enrich campus life. Athletics UC SANTA CRUZR E V I E W scholar athletes and dedicated deserves strong alumni support. “ Spring 2009 coaches who year after year achieve national success. —Philip McLeod (Merrill ’76) The Spring 2009 Review contemplates the timely topic of sustaining...ourselves...the food we eat... the energy we use ...our campus...our planet. LETTers A Sustaining HAPPENINGS 20 News Vision The UCSC campus was planned as a 2 marriage of academic endeavor with an extraordinary site. This visual essay paints a portrait of that dynamic relationship. 8 Fiddling while the planet burns What if...? 10 We have what it takes to fight global You could fill up your warming, says Alan Richards, professor tank with a garden of environmental studies. hose? Power your iPod with your shirt? These sustainable energy innovations and more are being invented by researchers at UCSC. 14 Change 16 To support —on a fork UCSC athletics, UCSC’s Dining Services—among the most alUMN I NOTES & please go to cutting-edge in the nation—is cooking up new ways to serve tasty, sustainable food PROFILES PicturedPictured (l–r) (l–r) are are men’s men’s tennis tennis coach coach Bob Bob Hansen, Hansen, alumnus alumnus and while aiming for zero waste. athleticsand athletics donor donor Philip Philip McLeod, McLeod, women’s women’s tennis tennis coach coach Erin Ness Erin review.ucsc.edu/giving (CollegeNess (College Eight ’06), Eight and ’06), scholar-athlete and scholar-athlete Brandt Bates.Brandt Bates. or contact [email protected] 18 24 YOUR TURN HAPPENINGS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA A sampling of reader reaction to recent issues of the UC Santa Cruz Review. SANTA CRUZ E-mail us at [email protected]. April Summer Chancellor George R. Blumenthal ANNUAL REUNION WEEKEND SHAKESPEARE SANTA CRUZ ergy sources and the technology Save THE BarN Vice Chancellor, Politics, power, trust—these are the University Relations that will give us access to them, Is there a plan to demolish In today’s economy, it may well be time themes explored in the three plays selected Donna Murphy not to expand or even main- the barn at the entrance to the to do some career networking and make tain our living standard but to campus? That is what seems new contacts. At this year’s reunion, you for the 2009 Shakespeare Santa Cruz sea- UC SANTA CRUZ REVIEW bridge the transition period to a implied in the story of Sam can do both, plus see old friends and son by artistic director Marco Barricelli. Volume 46, Number 4 lower, sustainable standard. the goat in the winter 2008–09 SSC will present two contrasting plays Spring 2009 learn how you and UCSC can help shape —James Pesout issue (“Your Turn”). a better world. by William Shakespeare in the outdoor Publisher Father of Trevor, ’10, and I think that historic build- UCSC Reunion is April 24–26. See Sinsheimer-Stanley Glen: the ethereal, Barry Shiller Sarah Pesout, ’12 ings like the remains of the the complete lineup of events and register fantastical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Editors Cowell Ranch give a three- at www.review.ucsc.edu/alumni. Dream and the edgy, political tragedy Mary Ann Dewey dimensional picture of history. Gwen Mickelson REFlectiONS ON KapaNY Events include: Julius Caesar. By preserving them we under- Art Director/Designer I enjoyed reading the story R Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking on The indoor Theater Arts Mainstage will stand better where we are and be the venue for the Bay Area première Jim MacKenzie “Celebrating innovation, ideas, where we are going. “Our Environmental Destiny” notes & errata: Review Designer and ideals” (winter 2008–09). R All-alumni picnic lunch, featuring of the family-friendly Shipwrecked! An neglected to credit worldle.net —Tom Fagan Garrison Keillor Linda Knudson I completed a course taught by alumni-crafted wines and beers Entertainment—The Amazing Adventures in the winter 2008–09 issue Porter, ’78 Associate Editor Narinder Kapany during the R Young alumni party of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) (pictured). We used the online winter quarter of 1980 at UC May Robert deFreitas R ’04, ’99, ’94, ’89, ’84, ’79, and ’74 by Pulitzer-prize winning playwright application to create the word Santa Cruz. This economics Writers class reunions, and the pioneer class Donald Margulies. Subscriptions and collage that formed the basis course provided insight into GARRISON KEILLOR Victoria Bolam, Jennifer McNulty, 40th anniversary celebration single tickets for the 2009 season are on Gwen Mickelson, Tim Stephens, of that issue’s cover design. the innovation and entrepre- Two million Americans tune in We regret the omission. R A variety of campus tours sale now. Peggy Townsend neurial processes for students weekly to their local NPR stations to R College receptions For more information, visit SSC on the Feature Photogaphers contemplating careers in the listen to A Prairie Home Companion DwiNDliNG Oil R Presentation of the Alumni web at www.shakespearesantacruz.org Phillip Carter (class of ‘10), business or technical sector. and are transported to Lake Wobegon r. r. jones, Don Kenny, Jim I hope you were serious when We also learned about “total Association’s teaching and staff awards or call the UC Santa Cruz Ticket Office through the wise reflections of radio MacKenzie, Alison Manning you asked what we think the internal reflection,” the scien- (see page 6) at (831) 459-2159. personality Garrison Keillor and his Cover illustration new president should do (“Mr. tific concept that made Kapany R Intellectual forum panel discussion: renée flower (crown ’79) (crown flower renée understated commentary on human Dennis Harms President …,” fall 2008). famous for his research that “Shaping Our Environmental Destiny” I was pleased with the nature. The charming, witty, and Production coordinator demonstrated light could be ed. note: The letter writer Janice Tetlow thoughtful advice the faculty always entertaining author and humorist passed through bent optical simply meant that time and the members offered our new Produced by UC Santa Cruz fibers without any loss of trans- elements are taking their toll on comes to Santa Cruz in a one-man show, president, but I was dismayed Public Affairs mission. the barn, not that there’s any on Wednesday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. 1156 High Street that none of them mentioned —Paris Everett Merriam plan to tear it down. However, at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 the main crisis facing the new College Eight, ’81 a new group on campus, Friends Go to www.santacruztickets.com or Voice: 831.459.2495 administration: What to do of the Cowell Lime Works call (831) 459-2159 for tickets. Fax: 831.459.5795 about waning global petro- YOU saY YOU waNT Historic District (limeworks. E-mail: [email protected] leum resources. Why is no one A revOlutiON Web: review.ucsc.edu ucsc.edu), is working to restore talking about this? Millions and millions of the buildings in the historic 4/09(0809-392/web) Here would be my advice to dollars...from wealthy donors lime-producing area near the the new president: Come clean to UCSC. fitt matt base of campus. UCSC reunions draw hundreds of alumni. with all Americans. Admit that Why doesn’t UCSC funnel Sign up for the 2009 reunion online. we are in a period of declining some of those millions you re- oil resources, and technology ceive and build an Earth center R Soccer games of alumni vs. students in and of itself will not save us. on the campus? So we can save R Annual meeting of the Alumni jones r. r. Admit that our standard of liv- (what’s left of) our planet! Association Stephen Bel Davies (Mercutio), Charles ing cannot be sustained, and It’s time for a global green Stay connected with UCSC and Pasternak (Romeo), and Erik Hellman admit that global population revolution. We welcome your letters (Benvolio) in SSC’s 2008 production of growth is out of control. Then —Steve Jones and reserve the right to select alumni—update your e-mail. It’s easy Romeo and Juliet. start looking for alternative en- College Eight, ’84 and edit for space. and fast at review.ucsc.edu/alumni. 2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2009 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2009 3 Around UCSC More details on these and other news features are available at: review.ucsc.edu/news century Arab newspapers in Syria; Timothy In other words, how they learn to Town and gown got together in January Eight Slugs win Krupnik, who is researching farming sys- “think like scientists,” said Callanan. to show their support for students at the tems to improve rice production and natural The project is a collaboration among campus’s annual Scholarship Benefit Fulbright grants resource conservation in Senegal; Michelle Children’s Discovery Museum, UCSC, and the Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley, Dinner. The event spotlighted the role of Olsgard, who is investigating the sustain- Chancellor Emeritus Karl S. Pister and his UC Santa Cruz had eight Fulbright Program with funding from the National Science ability of a fungus important to Chinese wife, Rita Olsen Pister (pictured below grantees in 2007–08—a feat it’s only accom- Foundation. traditional medicine on the Tibetan Plateau; with Chancellor Blumenthal), in increas- plished twice before in the past 15 years, and Elizabeth Orr, who is studying the impact Callanan, who has collaborated with ing support for undergraduate scholar- a higher ratio of accepted candidates versus of global warming on insect populations in Children’s Discovery Museum for nearly a ships—with special focus on the applicants than many prominent private Sweden; Leah Samberg, who is researching decade, is also helping designers plan the Karl S.