EPA ranks UCSC sixth CAMPUS UPDATE for ‘green energy’ vote by uc santa cruz of sterling planet courtesy Engineering school celebrates 10 years of innovation Astudents to boost their own courtesy of shakespeare santa cruz santa of shakespeare courtesy fees to enhance campus support for “green power” has brought that cross disciplinary bound- Open house, lecture national recognition from the matt fitt matt aries, pioneering new areas of series, symposium research and creating exciting U.S. Environmental Protection opportunities for students. New Agency (EPA). mark anniversary buildings completed in 2004— The EPA’s College and Students voted last spring to pay $3 per the award-winning Engineering University Green Power Partners, quarter more in tuition to purchase he baskin school of 2 and the Baskin Engineering Paul Whitworth as Henry Higgins and Julia Coffey as Eliza Doolittle in which promotes purchases of renewable energy from Sterling Planet, Engineering is celebrating Auditorium—have greatly Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s 2006 production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. renewable resources, has named including wind, solar, and geothermal. T UCSC its sixth largest green its 10th anniversary and its expanded the school’s research hakespeare Santa Cruz announces a slate of four plays for power purchaser in the country. emissions associated with nearly emergence as a vibrant and and teaching facilities. summer 2007, each one a unique exploration of serious The list is based on purchases 3.6 million gallons of gasoline innovative center for research In the months ahead, the comedy. The Festival Glen will play host to two Shakespeare S through the end of 2006. annually,” said James Critchfield and education. Baskin School will be hosting offerings: Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest. The indoor “Based on national average of the EPA’s Climate Protection At an open house in February, Jack Baskin (left) and Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal at the 10th a distinguished lecture series, stage will be the setting for a duet of classic Irish plays, Samuel Jack Baskin, whose $5 million anniversary open house at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering in February a research poster symposium, Beckett’s Endgame and Playboy of the Western World by John utility subregion emissions rates, Partnerships Division. gift helped launch the school and other events to celebrate Millington Synge. According to SSC artistic director Paul Whitworth, the U.S. EPA estimates that “I want to thank our students a decade ago, said he was im- more than $8 million. Departments of Computer 10 years of achievements and “All four plays are considered trailblazers for the types of comedy UC Santa Cruz’s purchase is for their generosity and the UC pressed by the school’s rapid “The engineering school has Science and Computer the creation of an engineering they introduced in their time.” The plays will be in repertory equivalent to avoiding the car- Santa Cruz Physical Plant for its progress. Baskin’s most recent flourished beyond our wildest Engineering. It has since grown school poised to tackle the from July 17 through September 2. For ticket information, go bon dioxide emissions of nearly effectiveness in making this rec- gift to the campus includes dreams,” Baskin said at the to include five departments, challenges of the 21st century. to shakespearesantacruz.org or call the UCSC Ticket Office at 7,000 cars per year, or avoiding ognition possible,” said Acting $500,000 for an endowed chair celebration. with more in the planning For more information about (831) 459-2159. the equivalent carbon dioxide Chancellor George Blumenthal. in technology and information Established in 1997, the stages, and the number of fac- upcoming events, visit the management (see story, page 6), Baskin School of Engineering ulty has grown from 25 to 72. 10th anniversary web site at bringing his contributions was built on the foundation Engineering faculty have www.soe.ucsc.edu/events/tenth/ Scientists help shape biggest marine conservation Group focuses on “There’s a growing desire to the engineering school to of two strong programs—the developed innovative programs calendar. issues not only in California, on campus to explore issues policy in plan for but the whole world,” Carr said. science and justice of science and society and to Astronomer wins state’s marine reserves As a member of the MLPA ini- build more reflective under- Assistant arts dean information to Muscutt, an tiative’s Science Advisory Team, apitalizing on UCSC’s standings of the embedded- expert on the Chachapoya Packard Fellowship Carr plays a pivotal role in en- Cstrengths in scientific ness of science and technology reports discovery of and author of the 1998 book ark carr’s office looks suring decisions are made based and social justice research, in our lives,” said Reardon. Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost he david and lucile Mout on a stretch of pound- on sound science and providing Assistant Professor Jennifer A faculty affiliate of the ancient ruin in Peru Packard Foundation has Reardon of sociology has Center for Biomolecular courtesy of keith muscutt courtesy Civilization in the Upper T ing surf, kelp beds, and tide guidelines on how to design a Amazon of Peru. Muscutt trav- awarded a Packard Fellowship pools that represents not only network of marine protected created a new Science & Engineering, eith muscutt, assistant eled to Peru in late August for Science and Engineering to his research interest in marine areas to best conserve and Science and Reardon specializes in the Kdean of the arts at UCSC, to make a preliminary survey Constance coastal ecology, but also his protect marine ecosystems. Justice Work- social, cultural, and historical reported the existence of a of the site, dubbed “Huaca Rockosi, involvement at the intersection ing Group jennifer mcnulty study of genomics. previously unknown pre- La Penitenciaria” (The tim stephens assistant of science and policy. Mark Carr is helping to implement on campus. “Many scientists think the Columbian ruin in Peru at Penitentiary) because of its professor of Carr, an associate professor California’s Marine Life Protection Act. Established problem lies with society and the annual Institute of A Chachapoya stone sculpture that formidable appearance. It is of astronomy of ecology and evolutionary in the fall, the how it uses new information,” Andean Studies conference represents the chewing of coca leaves particular interest because of and astro- biology, serves on the Science new group she said. “I maintain that as tim stephens held at UC Berkeley in its size, distinct design, and physics. The Advisory Team that is helping to brings we’re doing science, social January. to the 15th centuries. There remote location, said Muscutt. fellowship is implement California’s Marine together Jennifer Reardon decisions are being made, Constance Rockosi Located in the remote and is little evidence of the culture Muscutt is working with one of the Life Protection Act (MLPA). faculty and and we need to talk about densely forested eastern slope left today, except for the ruins the Discovery Channel to nation’s most prestigious honors Passed by voters in 1999, the graduate students from all that. Without that discussion, of the Andes Mountains, of ancient settlements and plan a full-scale archaeologi- for young faculty members. MLPA is moving toward the es- five academic divisions on we’re living in an unreflective the massive ruin is thought well-preserved mummies cal investigation of the newly Rockosi will receive $125,000 tablishment of an unprecedent- campus—arts, humanities, society.” to be a remnant from Peru’s recovered from cliff tombs. discovered site. The ruin will per year for the next five years ed network of marine protected social sciences, engineering, Reardon is organizing a vanished Chachapoya people, The ruin was first discov- be featured in a Discovery to support her research on the areas along the entire California and physical and biological conference on genomics and who flourished in the upper ered by three local Peruvians Channel documentary to be old and distant stars in the coast. sciences—to promote justice that will take place at Amazon region from the ninth last August who relayed the aired next year. Milky Way and the clues they “The establishment of interdisciplinary discussion. UCSC May 17–18. hold to the galaxy’s formation. marine reserves is one of the 2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2007 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2007 3 by her family’s archive in Special Physics, space r. r. jones r. r. jones r. r. Collections of the University Three receive top manner for almost four de- Library. sciences, toxicology, way terry cades,” noted his department Julie Packard and Robert awards from Alumni chair, Paul Koch, professor of courtesy robert stephens robert courtesy Stephens are spouses and gradu- music get top rankings Earth and planetary sciences. ates of UCSC. They have helped Association Despite his administrative UCSC as volunteers and finan- n a new analysis of research pioneering medical duties as director of the cial supporters of a number of Ipublications from top U.S. A researcher, an influential Institute of Marine Sciences campus programs, including the universities, UC Santa Cruz professor of Earth and plane- for 15 years, Griggs has always Arboretum, Shakespeare Santa ranked first for the impact of its tary sciences, and an academic chosen to carry a full teaching Anne Neufeld Levin Julie Packard Robert Stephens Cruz, and the Seymour Marine faculty in the field of physics adviser known for her personal load, probably reaching more Discovery Center. and fifth in the field of space touch were selected to receive than 10,000 students. Supporters of UCSC The campus awarded two Packard is executive director sciences. The new rankings were the UCSC Alumni Association’s In her career as academic Fiat Lux (“Let there be light”) of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, reported in Science Watch, a highest honors for the 2006–07 preceptor at Cowell College, honored at Scholarships Awards at the event: one to which she helped found in 1975, newsletter published by year.