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see uc santa cruz (no notes 9/17, bak is text recover)
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founder: https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/10/hal-hyde-in-memoriam.html
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Emails show UC Santa Cruz police used military surveillance to suppress grad student strike
UC police used "friendly force trackers" and FBI tech to surveil grad student strikers protesting for a living wage
MAY 18, 2020 11:45PM (UTC)
The University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) Police Department, with assistance from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office and the California National Guard, used military surveillance to suppress the UC Santa Cruz graduate student wildcat strike earlier this year, according to emails acquired through the California Public Records Act.
Vice first reported the content of the emails on May 15 which provided insight into the coordinated efforts between the UC Santa Cruz Police Department, Alameda County Sheriff's Office, and the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, to police the protests. As Salon has previously reported, police and campus officials reacted to the nonviolent labor action with threats, arrests, firings, and violence from the police with batons, according to grad students at the strike, for months as grad students demanded a Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) to help alleviate the rent burden of living in a pricey coastal California town.
The new emails, which have been reviewed by Salon, dive deeper into the efforts to police the protests that went beyond what the grad students observed on the picket line. They show the UC Santa Cruz Police Department requested mutual aid from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office to police the protests as early as December 31. Notably, UC Santa Cruz is located in Santa Cruz County, not Alameda County — which is about 40 miles north.
"It's disturbing to be part of a labor action like this and to see the militarized nature of the university's response," Will Parrish, a PhD student in UCSC's History of Consciousness program, told Salon in an interview. "I felt disturbed to see both the level of militarization and the casualness of their discussions in their email threads."
Specifically, the UCSC Police Department requested deputies, trucks and vans in the case of arrests. All expenses, including food and lodging, were paid for by UCSC police for at least 65 officers. At the time, grad students were on a wildcat strike, withholding final grades for the fall quarter until their demand for a Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) was met. Withholding grades evolved into a full wildcat teaching strike in February, meaning they withheld teaching, grading, and office hours, as their demands continued to be dismissed.
According to emails dated February 11 and 13, the California National Guard provided "friendly force trackers," which is a military surveillance technology, as part of the effort. Police also had access to a federal surveillance portal operated by the FBI called LEEP, an acronym for "Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal." The FBI's page on LEEP describes it as "a secure platform for law enforcement agencies, intelligence groups, and criminal justice entities" that "provides web-based investigative tools and analytical resources" to help said groups "collaborate in a secure environment, use tools to strengthen their cases, and share departmental documents." Some of the sample use cases for LEEP that the FBI cites include "active shooter incidents," "child abductions" and "takedown operations."
The emails don't specify exactly how these technologies were used, nor do they specify the amount spent on the efforts. However, grad students believe that it could be in the millions.
"Rather than meet us at the bargaining table the UC instead spent close to five million dollars in deploying dozens of UCPD from across the state, California Highway Patrol, and Alameda County sheriffs, and even solicited assistance from counterterrorism intelligence agencies," UCSC Literature PhD student Hannah Newburn said in a statement. "Since when did asking for a raise become a threat to Homeland Security?"
Carlos Cruz, a UCSC PhD student in the history department, told Salon he was given evidence, and an audio clip that Salon listened to, to add to speculation that he was being surveilled by police during the protests. In the audio clip, presumably a police officer is stating Cruz's whereabouts and said his name "Carlos." He also had an alarming in-person encounter with a sergeant.
"I had a sergeant who was able to identify me by first, middle and last name and date of birth," Cruz said, adding there were racist undertones to the exchange. "It's really scary to see how they got my info and knew who I was."
In an emailed statement to Salon, Scott Hernandez-Jason, the Director of News and Media Relations at UC Santa Cruz, told Salon: "Throughout the strike, UC Santa Cruz police officers were focused on supporting the safety of our community on and off campus and protecting the rights of everyone in our campus community, including those engaged in expressive activity."
Hernandez-Jason said the department used the trackers "to know the location of on-duty officers who were helping keep people safe."
"To infer anything else about the use of the trackers would be erroneous. UC Santa Cruz is built across 2,000 acres of hilly land with two entrances, so understanding the location of officers was vital to coordinate their efforts," Hernandez-Jason said. "There was no tracking of students or strikers."
The emails also revealed that after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tweeted on February 19 in support of striking graduate students at UC Santa Cruz, an officer from the Governor's Office of Emergency Services emailed the California State Threat Assessment Center commander Eli Owen to request assistance to "verify/validate Mr. Sanders schedule." The email referred to the tweet as "intel" that Sanders might appear on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
Hernandez-Jason said about this email that "UC Santa Cruz was paying attention to his publicly posted campaign schedule so that it could begin planning in case he chose to visit the campus."
This isn't the first time military tactics have been used to spy on protesters. The Intercept previously reported on how FBI emails and intelligence reports suggested federal surveillance of Black Lives Matter protests. Similar surveillance happened in the 1960s and 1970s during anti-war protests. Sara Hinkley, a Policy Research Specialist at UC Berkeley Labor Center, told Salon in an emailed statement that whether such a move was worth it for UCSC will be calculated by how tarnished its reputation is for the handling of the wildcat strike.
"In the case of UC, the loss of reputation and academic stability will likely have repercussions for many years," Hinkley said. "It's unfortunate that they chose to treat their own students and employees as an enemy meriting military surveillance."
Hinkley added: "I think it's likely that decision will end up costing them much more than if they had recognized the students' demands and fairly bargained a solution to the real financial stress that graduate students are experiencing."
NICOLE KARLIS
Nicole Karlis is a news writer at Salon. She covers health, science, tech and gender politics. Tweet her @nicolekarlis.
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Alex Garland, the brilliant mind behind the Academy Award–winning sci-fi thriller Ex Machina and acclaimed films Annihilation and 28 Days Later, brings his unique perspective to television for the first time with FX’s Devs.
This mind-bending tech thriller, filmed on
the
UC Santa Cruz campus, follows a young software engineer as she
investigates the secret development division of her employer, which she
believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend. Join
writer/director Alex Garland for a screening and Q&A about this
highly anticipated limited series.
How many familiar campus spots can you find in the trailer?
Admission is free, seating is limited; first come, first served.
Devs premieres March 5 exclusively on FX on Hulu.
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ucsc
https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/08/patents.html
UC Santa Cruz researchers were awarded 26 new patents in the last fiscal year, a record number for the campus. The new patents include novel compounds with potential medical uses, innovations in computer chip architecture, and new methods for genome assembly and analysis of genomic sequencing data.
“Thanks to the outstanding efforts of our campus innovators, this represents a new high water mark for the UCSC campus, 27% more than our previous best of 20 patents in a single year,” said Vice Chancellor for Research Scott Brandt.
Brandt also credited this milestone to the Office of Research’s recent innovation and entrepreneurship initiative, funded by the AB2664 grant from the State of California, and the proactive leadership of the Industry Alliances and Technology Commercialization office led by director of intellectual property management Jeff Jackson and senior intellectual property officer Christopher Reed.
“The quality of the innovation at UCSC is reflected in the fact that about half of these issued patents are licensed to companies working to develop them into products. The majority of those companies are startups based in Santa Cruz,” Jackson said. “While issued patents are one indication of the health of the IP portfolio, another is the number of new inventions disclosed, and the last fiscal year also was an all-time high in new inventions disclosed (up 10% over last year.)”
Several faculty members received multiple patents, including Mark Akeson, professor of biomolecular engineering, with five patents related to nanopore DNA sequencing, a concept invented and pioneered at UC Santa Cruz for analyzing DNA and other molecules as they pass through a tiny pore called a "nanopore." The technology has been commercialized by Oxford Nanopore Technologies (U.K.), whose cell-phone-sized DNA sequencing device has been used at remote sites such as the Arctic, rural West Africa, and the International Space Station.
Patents with potential applications in clinical medicine include bacterial inhibitors discovered by Victoria Auerbuch Stone, professor of microbology and environmental toxicology, that could lead to the development of new antibiotics effective against multi-drug resistant bacteria.
The following UCSC researchers were lead inventors on patents issued last year:
• Mark Akeson, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering (5 patents)
• David Haussler, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering (4 patents)
• Matthew Guthaus, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (2 patents)
• William Sullivan, Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (2 patents)
• David Bernick, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biomolecular Engineering (2 patents)
• Ted Holman, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry (2 patents)
• Victoria Auerbuch Stone, Professor of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
• Ed Green, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
• JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
• David Deamer, Research Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
• Phil Berman, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
• Ricardo Sanfelice, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Bakthan Singaram, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Chris Vollmers, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
• William Scott, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
More information about patents awarded to UCSC researchers is available on the web site of the Inventor Recognition Program, created by the Office of Research to acknowledge researchers on a quarterly basis for their U.S. patent awards and to showcase the groundbreaking research that is conducted on the UCSC campus every day.
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indep film, performance art? riot grrrl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_July
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actor criminal minds
tisch school
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Matthew_Gray_Gubler
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12/19
https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/12/tedx-santacruz.html
Nine UCSC affiliates will join novelist Jonathan Franzen and a host of other speakers for TEDx Santa Cruz, a daylong extravaganza focused this year on the "Art of Hope," on Saturday, Dec. 7.
TEDx Santa Cruz is an independently
organized event that builds on the popularity of TED Talks, which
feature expert speakers addressing topics as diverse as education,
business, science, technology, and creativity.
Each speaker delivers an impactful,
curated talk or performance intended to inspire those in the audience.
The event takes place at the Rio Theatre from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets
are available online.
Speakers with a UCSC affiliation include:
- Roxanne Beltran, postdoctoral fellow in ecology and evolutionary biology
- Ryan Coonerty, lecturer in politics and chair of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors
- David Deamer, research professor of biomolecular engineering
- Sylvanna Falcón, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies and founder of the Human Rights Investigations Lab
- Phil Hammack, professor of psychology and director of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Laboratory
- David Lee, assistant professor of computational media
- Kyle Robertson, lecturer in philosophy and co-founder of The Center for Public Philosophy
- Karelle Silliez, postdoctoral researcher in astronomy
- Barry Sinervo, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology
Nada Miljkovic, the lead organizer of
TEDx Santa Cruz, is also an alumna (MFA '09, digital arts and new
media) and an instructor on campus.
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11/19
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has joined the
Association of American Universities, an achievement that underscores
the impact and quality of the campus’s research and graduate and
undergraduate education. Membership in the AAU provides UC Santa Cruz
greater opportunity to shape and advocate for the future of higher
education. more »
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New Human Rights Lab trains students to investigate wrongdoing
Students use high-tech sleuthing tools to help hold perpetrators accountable
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tool:
https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/ucsc-campus-history
srch University of California, Santa Cruz--History
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Renner, Martin; University of California, Santa Cruz. History 2012
Dissertation Abstracts International 74-02A(E)
Introduction to the UCSC Campus History & Current Affairs Guide
The purpose of this guide is to help all types of researchers discover and use local and related printed and online collections when researching UC Santa Cruz campus history and current affairs. Also included are links to relevant research tools.
hayden white, dizikes sp
Freeman, Carol, interviewee.; Rabkin, Sarah, interviewer, editor.;University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.;University of California, Santa Cruz. Regional History Project. ==
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https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/04/martin-fieldguide.html
This spring's wildflower "superbloom" is good news for residents of Santa Cruz County, where impressive displays of California poppies, Sky lupine, and Douglas iris are popping up in grasslands from Davenport to Watsonville.
Dozens of less familiar blooms will emerge in coming weeks and months, and a beautiful, full-color Field Guide to Plants of UC Santa Cruzmakes exploring the landscapes of the campus—and the county—fun and rewarding.
The guide was a labor of love for author Nathalie Martin (College Nine '17, environmental studies), who hopes the 173-page volume filled with photographs, maps, and tips will inspire others to build their knowledge of local plants "and all the curiosities and wonders that accompany them."
"This project was sort of like a botanical treasure hunt for me," said Martin, who became involved with the project during a winter-quarter internship her sophomore year, during which she explored, identified, and photographed plants all over campus....
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ronnie l fall 2018 plenary talk on UC history (and future, a bit): https://opencast-player-1.lt.ucsc.edu:8443/engage/theodul/ui/core.html?id=86eac6f4-f6e7-4664-a70f-5f309696269b
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Climate scientist Nicole Feldl wins NSF Award: Grant includes funding for climate research and for a cross-disciplinary environmental game project for students to develop a learning game about climate science 6/18.
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Renee Fox, an assistant professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz, was not quite sure what to expect when she offered a class on Harry Potter for the first time this winter. Then the course became a surprise hit with students.
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4/18 alums
Created in 1968, just three years after the university itself was founded, KZSC was initially called KRUZ. The studios were in the basement of Stevenson College dormitories. The station’s studios had relocated to the Communications Building on Science Hill by the time the FCC gave the station a toehold on the FM radio band, with a 10 watt signal at 88.1 FM. The studios moved to its current location above Crown College in 1980 and starting broadcasting at 10,000 watts in 2002 before amping up to its current 20,000 watts in 2007.
But along with celebrating its technical evolution that has facilitated the station’s broad reach on California’s Central Coast, KZSC is reaching out to alumni and collect the stories of the innumerable students that passed the radio station—and its unique student-run culture—from one year to the next down through the decades.
“We keep discovering amazing things about the people who passed through these doors, who helped make KZSC into something special,” Rozendal said as he digs through several boxes of fading paper files.
Those unorganized records have gradually yielded a directory of KZSC alumni, who have been invited back to the station’s 50th Anniversary celebration—set for Alumni Weekend April 27–29.
Throughout the weekend, alumni programmers will return to the airwaves to spin some classics and share personal reflections about their glory days on the air. KZSC takes over the Quarry Amphitheater at 7 p.m. on April 28 to present a live radio variety show featuring personalities, artists, and other creative types who were part of the 50-year history of student radio at UCSC. It’s a free event, open to the public to celebrate KZSC’s mission and history. A Sunday brunch, by invite only, will celebrate the more than 40 year history of the Women’s Radio Collective—currently broadcasting as Breakfast in Bed, Sundays at 9 a.m. on KZSC.
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Medicinal
chemist Thomas Webb and physicist and entrepreneur Susanne Hering are
being honored by the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical and Biological
Sciences (PBSci) as the recipients of the PBSci Distinguished Alumni
Awards.
The
division established the awards to honor graduates of the division who
have gone on to extraordinary accomplishments in diverse fields and
whose careers are characterized by sustained and exemplary contributions
to society through research, practice, education, policy, or service.
The Physical and Biological Sciences Distinguished Alumni Awards will be
presented annually to a former graduate student and a former
undergraduate student.
Webb, who earned a Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from UC Santa Cruz in 1980, is being honored for the impact of his work in
basic science and drug discovery. He is currently the director of
medicinal chemistry in the Center for Chemical Biology at SRI
Biosciences, where he leads small-molecule drug discovery for cancer and
influenza. His accomplishments include development of an innovative
anti-tumor drug which will enter clinical trials in 2019.
Before
joining SRI, Webb worked on discovery of new cancer therapeutics in the
Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics at St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital, where he held a senior faculty position and directed
the high-throughput chemistry center. He has also held key positions at
ChemBridge Corporation, Neurocrine Biosciences, Corvas International,
and Genentech, Inc. An active inventor, Webb holds 32 U.S. patents. He
has written two book chapters and 72 peer-reviewed publications, and he
has served as a reviewer for more than 30 major scientific journals.
Hering, the founder and president of Aerosol Dynamics in Berkeley, is being honored for
her impact as both a scientist and a developer of novel instruments
that are advancing atmospheric science. She entered UC Santa Cruz with
the pioneer class in 1965 and graduated in 1969 with a joint major in
physics and history.
“Both
inside and outside the classroom, Santa Cruz heightened my joy of
learning and showed me the thrill in intellectual discovery,” Hering
said. “UCSC gave me the idealism and the academic background to pursue
an unusual career, and enabled me to focus on one specific, small way in
which I felt I might contribute to a better world.”
Hering
continued her education at the University of Washington, earning a
Ph.D. in low temperature physics in 1974. She studied atmospheric
aerosols as a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of
Technology and continues to focus her research on the fine airborne
particles that create haze in the atmosphere.
In
1991, Hering founded Aerosol Dynamics to develop effective methods to
measure and characterize these particles. She and her team have
developed a host of new measurement techniques that have been broadly
used in air quality monitoring and research. They are currently working
on a miniature system that could be worn or deployed on unmanned aerial
vehicles.
Hering
is a past-president of the American Association for Aerosol Research
(AAAR), a founding AAAR Fellow, and a recipient of AAAR’s Benjamin Y. H.
Liu Award. She edited the 1989 edition of Air Sampling Instruments, a guide for industrial hygienists, and most recently she was an editor for the journal Aerosol Science and Technology.
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Arts Dean's Lecture Series on Creative Entrepreneurship Spring 2018.
Admission details:
Lectures begin at 5:20PM, every Tuesday evening during Spring quarter.
FREE and open to the public.
Parking $4 by permit (available from paystation vending machine in the Arts parking lot #126 after 4:30PM).
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https://news.ucsc.edu/2015/09/pioneer-faculty-still-at-work.html
a January day in 1969, Gary Griggs, then 25, donned a coat and tie
and entered a lecture hall on the nascent UC Santa Cruz campus.
What he found inside were 260 scruffy but idealistic students — most
of them long-haired, many with dogs. Griggs, who had finished his Ph.D.
in three years and never taught before, stepped up and began his
oceanography lecture. When he was finished, the entire room stood and
applauded.
Almost five decades later, Griggs, now director of the Institute of
Marine Sciences, has shed the coat and tie in favor of jeans and a
button-down shirt. But at 71, Griggs is still youthful-looking and still
at work.
This will be his 48th year teaching oceanography and 40th year teaching coastal geology: 14,000 students and 72 grad students by his count.
“What is amazing now is to think back about those first few years of
flower children and realize that they are now 60-65 years old and have
careers and families," Griggs says. "In some cases, they've already
retired, but I can’t find any reason to.”
Griggs is one of 18 pioneer faculty who came to UC Santa Cruz before
1970 and who are still actively involved in the campus. They continue to
work, they say, because they love opening students’ eyes to the world
around them, because they are excited by discovery, and because they
believe being a professor is one of the best jobs around.
“A businessman can come home and say I made a million dollars today,”
says G. William Domhoff, emeritus professor of psychology and sociology
who has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz for 50 years. ”For me, the
gratification is when a student comes up to me and says, ‘I think I
learned something today.’”
Harry Noller: The excitement of the lab
Stand under the redwoods outside the Sinsheimer Labs building most
mornings and you will see bushy-haired Emeritus Professor of Molecular,
Cell and Developmental Biology Harry Noller heading to work.
At 76, Noller has retired from teaching, but the excitement of what
is happening in his lab draws him like a thirsty man to water.
Noller, who came to UC Santa Cruz in 1968, is a decorated scientist
who studies the ribosome, a kind of bilingual molecule that bridges the
gap between DNA and RNA on one hand and proteins on the other. It is one
of the core mysteries of science and is essential to all forms of life.
Over the years, Noller’s research has turned the understanding of the
mysterious ribosome on its head.
He discovered that the RNA component carries out key functions of the
ribosome — the inverse of what most scientists believed. He has done
atomic-level mapping of the structure of the ribosome, a basis for the
development of targeted antibiotics. Now, he is piecing together the
actual movements of the ribosome as it does its job.
“The thing is alive as you look at it,” Noller says, enthusiasm
seeping into his words. “It is flexing and reaching to grab things and
pulling them through at the atomic level. This is the basis of life.
This is how the genetic code is read in all of our cells every minute.
“That’s what excites me,” Noller says. “That’s why I go to work every day.”
Adrienne Zihlman: The exhilaration of discovery
It is that same sense of excitement that keeps Professor of
Anthropology Adrienne Zihlman on the job, three years after her supposed
retirement.
Zihlman, 74, first shook up the field of anthropology with research
that showed female gathering activities could just as easily account for
our big brains as men’s hunting behaviors did. Then, at a time when the
common chimpanzee was considered the model for the human-ape ancestor,
she proposed that the rare pygmy chimpanzee was a better model in its
anatomy and behavior.
While both these ideas were met with strong opposition at first, more
evidence has made them generally accepted in academia today.
Now, Zihlman is pulling together decades of that research into a
beautifully illustrated text — a kind of “Gray’s Anatomy” for apes.
Working with illustrator and former UC Santa Cruz student Carol
Underwood, Zihlman’s tome will tell an evolutionary and anatomical tale
designed for both scientists and lay people.
It’s the exhilaration of discovery, of shining a light on apes and evolution, that keeps Zihlman working.
Quoting Freud that “anatomy is destiny,” Zihlman added, “It’s also the key to the mystery of human evolution.”
David Kaun: The joy and pleasure of teaching
At 83, Emeritus Professor of Economics David Kaun is quick to laugh about why he will soon embark on his 50th year of teaching.
“I’m a labor economist,” he says. “I spent my entire career trying to figure out why people work.”
Kaun came to the campus in 1966 from a teaching job at the University
of Pittsburgh, drawn by the beautiful setting and the offbeat
experiment that was UC Santa Cruz. Like Griggs’s students, Kaun would
usually bring his dog, a long-legged basset hound named Greta, to class.
But long after most retirees are lounging on cruise ships and driving
across the country in motor homes, Kaun will be teaching two classes
this year: one on the Political Economy of Capitalism and the other on
the Economics of the Arts, a course born out of his love for music and
his talent on the clarinet.
Kaun will also lead his popular Labor Wars in Theory and Film class,
which leaves most of its students saying they can never quite watch a
movie the same way again.
“I have been extremely fortunate, blessed, and lucky to wind up doing
something that has been such a joy and pleasure,” says Kaun of his
work.
“Besides, if you spend your life around 20-year-olds,” he says, “how can you possibly get old?”
G. William Domhoff: Explaining concepts leads to deeper insights
Psychology professor Domhoff feels much the same way.
Twenty-one years after his alleged retirement, the 79-year-old
academic most known for his study of dreams and his work on the
psychology of power, says student inquiries and the need to explain
concepts in his field often bring new insights.
“In a dialogue with students, trying to explain something, makes you
understand the subject better,” Domhoff says, “and that really matters
to me."
It’s part of the reason, besides being a member of an academic
community, that Domhoff will teach two courses this year. He is also
continuing work on a book that presents his theory of dreams as “a form
of intensified mind-wandering that dramatizes an individual’s main,
personal concerns.”
As one of only two working professors who began teaching the same
year UC Santa Cruz was born — Emeritus Professor of Literature Harry
Berger will teach a course on Plato in the spring — Domhoff finds
satisfaction in his profession.
It’s the same gratification that became clear to Griggs when he
learned that one of his students, a former language major named Kathryn
Sullivan, credited part of her success to him.
Inspired by his oceanography course and Griggs’s answers to her many
questions, she got her Ph.D. in that subject, went on to become the
first American woman to walk in space, and is now undersecretary of
commerce for oceans and atmosphere and administrator of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Sullivan will be master of ceremonies at UC Santa Cruz's Founders Celebration Fiat Fifty dinner on September 26.
“It made … me appreciate how critically important our roles are at
UCSC, or any university,” Griggs says. “It has been the rewards and
satisfaction of events like this, and others, that continue to inspire
and motivate me.”
Other pioneer faculty who continue to work at UC Santa Cruz include:
- Ralph Abraham
- Frank Andrews
- Murray Baumgarten
- Edmund Burke
- Robert Coe
- Walter Goldfrank
- John Jordan
- Peter Kenez
- H. Marshall Leicester
- Michael Nauenberg
- Harold Widom
- Donald Wittman
Pioneer staff and faculty will receive the Fiat Lux Award at this year's Founders Celebration Fiat Fifty dinner.
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Gabby Rivera spoke at UCSC 2/18 is currently writing the plot for America Chavez — the first Latinx and queer Marvel superhero.
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https://specialevents.ucsc.edu/kraw-lecture/
VIDEOS archived online
From research to patents and products: UC Santa Cruz faculty and
students are an innovation powerhouse. Their inventions and research
breakthroughs deliver social and economic benefits to our local—and
global—communities. On January 31, we will hear from three professors
whose research is driving real-world innovation in early-stage startups:
Holger Schmidt, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Narinder Singh
Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics and the Associate Dean for Research,
Baskin School of Engineering
Nader Pourmand, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
Richard E. Green, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, Co-director of the Paleogenomics lab
UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Cancer Initiative
Making
precision medicine personal for kids: How researchers and doctors are
giving new hope to kids with cancer using big data genomics
There are several truisms about childhood
cancer: it tends to be aggressive, differs from adult cancers, and when
treatments fail, time runs out quickly. Precision medicine powered by
big data becomes personal when university researchers and doctors team
up. The Treehouse Cancer Initiative at UC Santa Cruz uses comparative
cancer genomic analysis to help doctors treat kids with few options.
Learn more about how a new project partnering our Treehouse researchers
with Stanford doctors is bringing new hope to families.
Featuring members of the UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Cancer Initiative:
Olena Morozova, co-founder
David Haussler, co-founder
Isabel Bjork, director
Lauren Sanders, Ph.D. student
UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara
View the lecture
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Nov 1
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Jun 22
Exploring Biology’s Dark Matter: RNA
Recognizing Harry Noller, winner of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize
Noller,
professor emeritus of molecular, cell, and developmental biology,
recently received the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his
discoveries about ribosomes, the tiny structures of the cell that Noller
calls the “mothership of life.” His insights are taking us right to the
brink of understanding the very origins of life on the planet.
From his unexpected discovery of the role RNA plays in the functioning
of the ribosome has grown the world’s premier center for RNA research.
The 16 research labs that comprise the UC Santa Cruz Center of Molecular
Biology of RNA are forging new discoveries in the treatment of diseases
like rheumatoid arthritis and cancer and developing new technological
tools to advance the sciences.
Noller will be joined on stage
by three Center researchers, Jeremy Sanford, Susan Carpenter, and Daniel
Kim, who will discuss their work in the frontiers of molecular biology
and the implications of RNA research on treating diseases and saving
lives.
Silicon Valley Capital Club
50 W San Fernando Street, San Jose
View the lecture
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May 16
Mark Akeson: Sequencing DNA from Remote Villages to the Space Station: The Nanopore Revolution
Akeson is a professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He earned
his B.A. in History from UC San Diego, and his Ph.D. in Soil
Microbiology from UC Davis, then came to UCSC following a post-doctoral
fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. Akeson is
one of the pioneers of nanopore sequencing and leads the UC Santa Cruz
nanopore group. The nanopore group has made important advances in
nanopore sequencing technology by analyzing DNA molecules directly from
the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. Nanopore
technology brings modern genomics out of the lab and into the
field—think Ebola or Zika outbreaks—with tremendous potential for human
health.
UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara
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Mar 22
Jonathan Fortney: How Common is the Earth? The Discovery and Characterization of Rocky Planets Around Other Stars
Fortney is an astrophysicist who focuses on understanding the
structure and composition of planets in our solar system and
"exoplanets" around other stars. He has been involved with NASA's Kepler
spacecraft since its prime mission. He is also one of 15 principal
investigators for a new NASA initiative, the Nexus for Exoplanet System
Science (NExSS), which is a quest to find life on planets around other
stars. Fortney is one of four new participating scientists NASA has
chosen for the last phase of the Cassini Mission to Saturn, as the
spacecraft dives between the planet's rings and its atmosphere to
collect unprecedented data.
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https://senate.ucsc.edu/committees/caf-committee-on-academic-freedom/index.html
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book, We Will Not be Silenced, teach us about activism and academia
http://mondoweiss.net/2017/07/palestine-academic-repression/
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics
Edited by William I. Robinson and Maryam S. Griffin
Forward by Cynthia McKinney and Preface by Richard Falk
280 pp. AK Press, 2017. $19.95.
There are many ways to try to
silence people whose ideas you don’t like. You can bully, blackmail,
violate, isolate, punish, and smear them until they shut up, back down,
and/or lose the platform upon which they were speaking.
It’s not just autocratic despots
or crooked attorneys who wield such strategies with tyrannical
efficacy. The forces of the pro-Israel lobby have long carried out
systematic campaigns of vilification and repression with a pugnacious
energy that rivals even the mob’s. Anyone in the public eye who dares to
level a critique of the State of Israel could find themselves targeted.
And if you are a prominent and vocal Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
(BDS) activist: fuggedaboutit.
This climate of censorship is especially hard felt on college and university campuses where a historic upsurge in successful pro-Palestine activism
has led to a corollary increase in McCarthyist pressure by the dozens
of Zionist organizations who have formed into a network called the
Israel on Campus Coalition. Characterized by their shameless meddling in
internal university proceedings, well-organized groups like the AMCHA
Initiative, Stand With Us, Campus Watch, Canary Mission, and ADL are the
most visible tip of a slander-industrial complex whose mission is to
purge professors and students who challenge their own narrative.
When fear of reprisal has become
the norm, speaking out becomes an act of courage and resistance. This
is the premise of “We Will Not Be Silenced,” AK Press’s excellent
new collection of first-hand testimonial accounts penned by
pro-Palestinian scholars who have been targeted on U.S. campuses. With
more than a dozen essays by some of the luminaries in the movement such
as Richard Falk, Saree Makdisi, Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Nadia Abu
El-Haj, Steven Salaita, Joseph Massad, members of the Irvine 11, and
many others—”We Will Not Be Silenced” serves as an instructive
compendium of the pro-Israel lobby’s bag of underhanded tricks and an
invaluable playbook for how to preempt and defeat them.
Across the breadth of these
infuriating yet illuminating essays, a consistent pattern of tactics
emerges. Most of these tactics are predicated on the lobby’s willingness
to breach basic standards of academic freedom and common decency to
achieve their aims.
In their helpful opening essay, David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi discuss the alarming implications of the Hasbara Handbook
that is distributed by organizations like StandWithUs to help train
pro-Israel campus activists to be effective propagandists. The handbook
explicitly encourages its acolytes to avoid legitimate argument and
debate with pro-Palestinian activists in favor of deceitful strategies
like point scoring, emotional manipulation, and name calling—to create
negative connotations “without allowing a real examination of that
person or idea.”
The direct and damaging results
of these methods are on full display in the pages of “We Will Not Be
Silenced” where victim after victim narrates the life-altering
consequences they have faced for their criticism of Israel.
William Robinson, one of the
co-editors of the book, was brought up on spurious charges at UCSB for
circulating a photo-essay that juxtaposed images from Operation Cast
Lead in Gaza with the images of the Warsaw ghetto, accompanied by a text
condemning Israel’s human rights record. After a strenuous fight,
Robinson was cleared of all charges, but at a steep cost to his research
and reputation.
David Delgado Shorter, whose only “crime” was to offer his students the option of
researching the BDS movement as a case study in his “Tribal Worldviews”
course, survived a demoralizing ordeal at UCLA at the hands of AMCHA
that included death threats and false accusations of anti-Semitism that
damaged his professional and personal life.
David Klein, a math professor at
Cal State, Northridge and prominent BDS activist, was subjected to a
similar coordinated campaign of censorship that stretched out for years
and may not even be over yet. Unlike most of the scholars in this
collection, Klein was fortunate that Harry Hellenbrand, the president of
CSUN at the time, was an outspoken supporter of Klein’s academic
freedom.
Most of these political witch
hunts have been instigated and/or vigorously pursued by outside
lobbyists, powerful politicians, or alumni donors. While these forces
hold no contractual or professional affiliation with the universities,
they often interfere with impunity in internal governance procedures. In
some cases they help pro-Israel students file official complaints
against pro-Palestinian faculty members, but often dispense with even
that “nicety.”
What is especially disturbing is
the alacrity with which many upper administrators quickly cave and
often collude with pressure groups who have no interest in research and
knowledge production, but rather have a vested interest in censorship
and knowledge suppression.
The Israel on Campus Coalition
has shown few scruples about smearing its opponents as supporters of
terror, self-hating Jews, or anti-Semites. Groups like AMCHA, Hillel,
StandWithUs have worked with political allies around the clock to cement
the erroneous notion that opposition to Zionism is tantamount to
anti-Semitism, and that a hatred of Israel’s policies of racism, ethnic
cleansing and dispossession is the same as hatred of Jews qua Jews.
Given the horrific history of
anti-Semitism, and the deplorable reality of its continued existence,
even among some who identify as “supporters” of Palestinian rights, the
grave charge of anti-Semitism is not to be taken lightly. As several of
the essayists in this book point out, this highly fraught context gives
the lobbying groups the perfect straw-man weapon to combat its
opponents; and they wield it with a vengeance, in reckless disregard of
the lives and livelihoods ruined in the process, and in reckless
disregard of the important task of defanging the real anti-Semites.
The question becomes why—why are
these extra-academic interests given such wide berth to operate on U.S.
campuses? The answer, in part, has to do with the rise of the
neoliberal university and the decline of faculty protections across the
board. Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton, a doctoral candidate at the CUNY
Graduate Center, situates his own persecution within the broader context
in higher education—the increasing reliance on vulnerable adjunct
labor, the steady elimination of tenure, and a prevalent “boardroom
mentality” where administrators have become chiefly concerned with
protecting “carefully cultivated brands.”
Lisa Rofel and Steven Salaita
both draw pointed and sustained attention to the decline of the public
university and its traditional commitment to the common good. In an era
of “neoliberal graft,” where students are viewed as consumers, adjunct
labor is exploited, and administrators command exorbitant salaries, we
see a sharp increase in the profit-motives of upper management. In such a
climate, wealthy donors, lobby groups, and board members are able to
sway and even dictate hiring decisions and curriculum.
Though the death knell of
academic freedom is tolling, all is not lost. The apt title of this book
“We Will Not Be Silenced” indicates that the tables are beginning to
turn. Despite cause for anger and outrage, these stories are leavened
with encouraging lessons. In nearly every case, some small victory has
been snatched from the jaws of defeat. With the unwavering support from
scores national and international progressive and civil rights
organizations, most of these scholars were eventually vindicated.
Despite appearances, the
pro-Israel lobby is not winning these campus skirmishes. All of us who
work for social justice should take heart and fight smart. We should
embolden ourselves to speak out and assert our rights. We should donate
and build stronger alliances with the organizations like the AAUP, the
National Lawyers Guild, the ACLU, FIRE, Palestine Legal, and many others
that have been steadfast in support of civil rights. We should denounce
anti-Semitism where we find it, and strenuously educate on the immense
difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
Those of us working in academia
should purchase the book, read it, and lend it our colleagues and
administrators so they too can strengthen their resolve to defend our
campuses from these unseemly and costly attacks. Rather than squelching
discourse and avoiding “controversy,” campus leaders—whether students,
faculty, staff, or administrators—should help cultivate an atmosphere of
intellectual debate based on time-tested principles of academic
freedom.
Professors and students have a
right to engage in research and to disseminate that research, even it
challenges long-cherished dogma. Colleges and universities are sites
traditionally dedicated to the dialogical process of learning where
ideas are put forth, tested, and debated, then accepted or rejected on
the merit of the arguments. The misuse of money and power to warp this
process is not just damaging to the brave individuals who refuse to be
silent, but to the entire project of participatory democracy.
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In the latest analysis of the world’s top universities published by Times Higher Education (THE), UC Santa Cruz ranked third in research influence as measured by the number of times its faculty’s published work is cited by scholars around the world.
Published as part of the THE World University Rankings 2018, the analysis measured overall research influence based on the average number of citations per paper, using a database of almost 62 million citations to more than 12.4 million research publications published over five years, from 2012 to 2016.
With a citation score of 99.9, UC Santa Cruz is tied for third place with Stanford University. St. George’s University of London and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were tied for first. UC Berkeley ranked just behind UCSC and Stanford with a citation score of 99.8.
The 2018 rankings list the top 1,000 universities in the world, comparing them in five areas: teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income, and reputation); citations (research influence); international outlook (staff, students, and research); and industry income (knowledge transfer).
The research influence indicator looks at the role of universities in spreading new knowledge and ideas. As explained on the website for the World University Rankings, "The citations help to show us how much each university is contributing to the sum of human knowledge: they tell us whose research has stood out, has been picked up and built on by other scholars and, most importantly, has been shared around the global scholarly community to expand the boundaries of our understanding, irrespective of discipline."
UCSC’s overall ranking in the THE World University Rankings 2018 was 162 out of 1,000 institutions worldwide. In the United States, UC Santa Cruz ranked 55 out of 154 institutions.
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https://alumni.ucsc.edu/year-of-alumni/index.html
Year of Alumni
UC Santa Cruz has designated 2018 as the Year of Alumni, a time to savor, celebrate, and promote the legacy of proud Banana Slugs who have made their mark as they've gone on to successful careers. Below we share profiles of alumni who embody the values and qualities that represent UC Santa Cruz—social justice, public service, environmental stewardship, a dedication to exploring the human condition, and a determination to change the world.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
AXEL ALONSO: DIVERSITY’S SUPERHERO
Axel Alonso was editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics from 2011–2017, where he built a legacy by making comic book characters and their creators reflect the diversity of our world.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
JOHN LAIRD: A TRAILBLAZING PUBLIC SERVANT
John Laird has watched his political capital rise over the years. In 1983, while serving on the Santa Cruz City Council, he became one of the first openly gay mayors in the United States.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
JULIE PACKARD: SAFEGUARDING THE SEA
Julie Packard helped found the Monterey Bay Aquarium and has served as the aquarium's executive director since it opened in 1984.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
KENT NAGANO: THE MAESTRO
Kent Nagano is an internationally acclaimed opera and symphony conductor who is renowned for interpretations of clarity, elegance, and intelligence.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
KATHY SULLIVAN: FROM THE SEA TO THE STARS
A scientist, astronaut, and award-winning educator, Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space and is the former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
KEVIN BEGGS: TELEVISION VISIONARY
As chairman of the Lionsgate Television Group, Kevin Beggs places a high premium on creativity, risk, and, in his own words, “going where others won’t.”
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
KRIS PERRY: STANDING FOR EQUALITY
Kris Perry never intended to become a civil rights icon. As an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, she explored the themes of social justice that would shape her career as an advocate for children.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
M. SANJAYAN: THE FACE OF CONSERVATION
A prominent ecologist and Emmy-nominated television personality, M. Sanjayan is CEO of the nonprofit Conservation International—the first new CEO of the organization in 30 years.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
ADILAH BARNES: HOLDING THE STAGE
An award-winning actor with over 50 years of film, television, and stage credits, Adilah Barnes is probably best known to television audiences for her role as Anne Marie on ABC's Roseanne for six seasons.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
MARTHA MENDOZA: WRITING WRONGS
Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Associated Press reporter and author Martha Mendoza had a life-changing moment early in her UC Santa Cruz career.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
REYNA GRANDE: DOCUMENTING THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
Award-winning novelist and memoirist Reyna Grande attended UC Santa Cruz after her junior college English teacher urged her to leave the urban confines of Los Angeles and try living somewhere different.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
SAGE WEIL: OPENING DOORS FOR OPEN SOURCE
As the founder of web hosting company DreamHost, Sage Weil was already a successful entrepreneur when he came to UC Santa Cruz in 2004 to study data storage systems.
Axel Alonso portrait illustration.
SUSAN WOJCICKI: THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN ON THE INTERNET
Susan Wojcicki is CEO of YouTube, the ubiquitous video-sharing website that in 2017 was ranked as the second most popular site in the world—only behind its parent company Google.
Artist Tom Killion (Cowell ’75, history)
TOM KILLION: A LIFE IN COLOR
Alumnus Tom Killion, whose intricate woodcut prints have captured scenes of rugged beauty for decades, brings his traveling exhibit to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in January.
A Seal Named Patches cover
SCIENCE COMES ALIVE WITH 'A SEAL NAMED PATCHES'
A new children’s book by a pair of alumni scientists is making a splash.
Dr. Greg Olsen
FISHING PHYSICIAN
Alumnus Greg Olsen not only leads a successful medical practice, but also a booming commercial fishing business
Brycen Swart and fellow scientists are honored with and award for helping Chinook salmon.
GIVING FISH A FIGHTING CHANCE
Alumnus Brycen Swart identified how warmer river temperatures were hurting Chinook salmon fry—and he earned a medal for conserving them.
Archival photo of Dolores Huerta with a bullhorn
ALUM AND INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER PETER BRATT DIRECTS, WRITES, AND PRODUCES DOCUMENTARY ABOUT LABOR ACTIVIST DOLORES HUERTA
Independent filmmaker Peter Bratt, a 1986 politics graduate of Cowell College, has written, directed, and produced a new documentary about legendary labor activist Dolores Huerta.
Bob Coomber travels the Kearsarge Pass trail in his wheelchair.
TELLING STORIES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD
Filmmaker and alumnus Tal Skloot aims to show a different perspective with eclectic, meaningful subject matter.
Photo of the cover of book by Kris Perry and Sandy Stier
PROP. 8 PLAINTIFF KRIS PERRY RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED SOCIAL SCIENCES ALUMNI AWARD
"You only win your civil rights by fighting for them," says alumna Kris Perry, who will be honored at a reception on Friday, April 28.
Photo of Daniel Mountjoy being interviewed by CNBC news crew.
WATER WIZARDS: BUILDING AN UNDERGROUND SAVINGS ACCOUNT TO BOLSTER WATER SUPPLY
An innovative water-conservation strategy diverts water from overflowing rivers to fallow farmland, where it seeps into the soil and replenishes depleted aquifers.
Photo of Daniel Mountjoy being interviewed by CNBC news crew.
NWADIUTO “DT” AMAJOYI: LEADERSHIP LEARNED
Born in Nigeria, Nwadiuto “DT” Amajoyi (College Nine ’13, psychology) has written speeches for a senator and prepared case files for Ugandan inmates. Now she’s pursuing an international law degree.
During his tenure as editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, alumnus Axel Alonso has overseen th
AXEL ALONSO: DIVERSITY’S SUPERHERO
Alumnus Axel Alonso, editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, has worked to make comic book characters and their creators reflect our diverse world.
Photo of psychology Ph.D. Artie Konrad
USING MEMORY TO FOSTER WELL-BEING
Psychology Ph.D. Artie Konrad has found his dream job at Facebook, where he is a user experience researcher on the On This Day project.
Barbara Garcia
ALUMNI PROFILE / 1984: BARBARA GARCIA: HEALTH MISSION
When the opportunity came to help start Salud Para La Gente, a tiny health clinic for those same low-income residents in Watsonville, Barbara Garcia gave up her goal of being a teacher and jumped at the chance. Little did she know where that decision would lead.
Mark Lipson
FARM TO LABEL: HOW ALUMNUS HELPED BRING ORGANIC LABELING POLICY TO THE NATION
Mark Lipson, now a research associate at Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, was instrumental in standardizing organic farming in the U.S. Now back at UCSC, he continues the mission of institutionalizing public policy support for organic farming.
Alumna Kris Perry, left, and wife Sandy Stier were the named plaintiffs in a lawsuit that
ALUMNI PROFILE / KRIS PERRY: STANDING FOR EQUALITY
Kris Perry (Merrill '86) doesn’t think about the way historians will tell her story. Instead, she thinks how life will be different for children nationwide because of her fight for marriage equality.
Alumni volunteer Jerry Ruiz
VOLUNTEER PROFILE: JERRY RUIZ
It is a deep emotional connection I feel toward UC Santa Cruz that drives me to volunteer each year.
Andrea Maechler
UC SANTA CRUZ INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS PH.D. NAMED FIRST WOMAN ON SWISS NATIONAL BANK BOARD
Andréa Maechler, who earned masters and Ph.D. degrees in international economics at UC Santa Cruz, has been named the first woman to sit on the governing board of Switzerland’s central bank.
doc/undoc exhibition poster
FIVE ARTISTS COLLABORATE ON EXPERIMENTAL BOOK ART
When fully opened, Felicia Rice’s book literally unfolds like an accordion along the length of a 30-foot table...
Jim Meskimen
UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI PERFORM AT KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER
UCSC alumni filled the Kuumbwa Jazz Center last week for an upbeat evening of music and comedy from their multi-talented fellow banana slugs.
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Ron Yerxa at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival
UCSC ALUMNUS RON YERXA UP FOR ‘BEST PICTURE’ ACADEMY AWARD
"Election," "Cold Mountain," "King of the Hill," "Little Miss Sunshine"…these are just a few of the high-quality films produced by Ron Yerxa since he left UC Santa Cruz with a masters degree in 1976...
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Abousalem is responsible for the management of UC Santa Cruz patent
portfolio and licensing
activities along with the development of
industry alliances and technology transfer and
commercialization
programs. In accordance with the Industry Alliances and Technology
Commercialization Office's
mission, Mohamed is leading the initiative to
foster a vibrant, entrepreneurial culture on
campus which will
accelerate the adoption of UCSC inventions and cultivate sustainable
strategic partnerships.
Mohamed brings to UCSC over 25 years of
technical and business management experience. Most
recently, he established
and built TECTERRA Inc., a not–for–profit innovation support
organization supporting start-up
and small companies across Canada to
develop and commercialize innovative technologies.
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history by decade:
ucsc 60's 70's UFW
page 18 elfland
founders dean and mchenry
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http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/social-affairs/20150410/ucsc-suspends-highway-1-protesters-until-2016
4/15
On March 3 on Highway 1 near the Fishhook, the group chained themselves together with pipes, concrete and trash cans, shutting traffic for about five hours, to protest UC tuition increases.
The two men and four women face misdemeanor charges, up to 18 months in jail and potential restitution of about $19,000 for the roughly 85 law enforcement officers who responded to the highway shutdown.
Despite public outcry for their expulsion, including a 4,300 signature online petition, UCSC initially gave the students a 14-day interim suspension. These suspensions are given before final disciplinary decisions are made, and when the campus believes the student’s presence or participation will lead to abuse, a safety threat or disruption, according to UCSC’s student handbook.
In a campus message on March 12, Chancellor George Blumenthal decried the highway protest, saying it not only created a heavy burden on the community but also detracted from important dialogue about UC tuition.
...
student protesters are Ethan Jacob Pezzolo, 19, of Santa Cruz; Janine Victoria Caceres, 21, of Los Angeles; Alexander Bryant Pearce, 19, of San Francisco; Sophia Jeanne DiMatteo, 19, of Sherman Oaks; Lori Leigh Nixon, 28, of Santa Cruz; and Sasha Lee Petterson, 19, of Oakland.
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campus paper, including partial rollbacks of suspensions
Nearly a month after five of the “Highway 6” students were sentenced to 30 days in jailwith eligibility for custody alternative programs like house arrest and three years of informal court probation, the last defendant was handed the same sentence in court on July 27.
Co-defendant Rosa Petterson, whose attorney was out of the country during the original sentencing date, said she plans to apply for house arrest. The final restitution hearing, which was expected to occur July 27, was pushed back to Aug. 18 because Petterson’s attorney requested additional live testimony with the UC Santa Cruz police department representatives, Lt. Glen Harper and business manager Jimmy Wise, who were present during the first restitution hearing.
On Aug. 18 the six students’ final restitution cost will be finalized. Last month Judge Denine J. Guy tentatively assigned about $28,000 — $22,335.22 for UCPD, $2,301.83 for the California Highway Patrol and $3,294.44 for the Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD) — for the total restitution costs. Criminal restitution is the amount of money awarded to victims of cases, which in this case are the government agencies responsible for responding to the March 3 protest at the freeway fishhook. The prosecutors and the attorneys of the six co-defendants will also present their final arguments after further testimony is given.
Dmitry Stadlin, defendant Janine Caceres’ attorney, made his final argument early in court because he is unable to appear for the new sentencing date. He fought for a total restitution cost of about $10,000, calculated by subtracting costs not directly associated to the six student’s actions between the hours of 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Stadlin said California Highway Patrol and SCPD charged for officers who didn’t respond to the protest, and overtime pay beyond the scope of the defendants’ actions.
He made the case for a significant drop in UCPD’s restitution — from about $22,000 to $8,000 — by saying Harper couldn’t differentiate the UC vehicles used on the highway or used for normal patrol. Wise testified that the extra vehicles were requested before the demonstration on the freeway.
“The UC police gave no reason to show that these costs are reasonable besides that they paid for them,” Stadlin said in court. “What is the total restitution from the students’ actions, [Wise] was unable to answer.”
On January 22, after final restitution is set, the students will reappear in court to update Guy on their payments.
After the short court appearance, co-defendants Ethan Pezzolo, Sophia DiMatteo, Janine Caceres and Alexander Pearce briefly held a press conference to address the increasing inaccessibility of public higher education and the state’s focus on funding the prison system over education systems.
“In direct response to rising student protests across the state, the UC regents announced a two year in-state tuition freeze,” Dimatteo said. “We do not take [responsibility] for those actions for ourselves, but to benefit the collective good. This is about making education accessible for all people, this is about reversing the school-to-prison pipeline.”
Pearce also spoke on the criticism of their action by community members.
“Through this process we are learning how to best serve our fellow community members and enact real social change,” he said. “We are facing serious consequences. We did not intend to harm anybody, and we deeply sympathize with those who were disrupted by our action.”
With UCSC’s judicial process completed, DiMatteo, Cacares, Pearce and Pezzolo are eligible to return as students this fall, instead of fall 2016 as originally determined. Lori Nixon and Petterson are eligible to return in winter 2015.
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aug 2015
The six students who took the highway on March 3rd have met unprecedented repression by the state and the university, including several violations of constitutional rights by the UC administration during the judicial process. The Hwy 6 will be filing a civil suit against the university with the goal of minimizing further repression of student activists across the UC.
Here in Santa Cruz last March, the repression started immediately after the 6 students took the highway as part of the state-wide call for UC students to participate in the “96 hours of Action” against police violence and tuition increases. Upon entering jail, each student received a letter making it illegal for them to return to campus, for an unspecified period of time, on the grounds that they were a “health and safety threat to the community,” immediately making four of the students who lived on campus homeless and stripping them all of their healthcare and access to food.
Since then, two attacks on the students ensued: the criminal trial over civil disobedience, and UC's quasi-judicial process for student conduct charges. After a prolonged process, UC administrators decided that a “fair and just” punishment would be 100 hours of community service and a one-quarter suspension for four of the students and 150 hours of community service and a two-quarter suspension for the other two.
The final sentencing and restitution hearing in the criminal case is anticipated any day now. Under the expected outcome of that court hearing, the 6 students will be sentenced to 30 days in jail, and required to collectively pay $28,000 in restitution for law enforcement costs, primarily for time spent by UCSC police and also the CHP and Santa Cruz police.
But while these two cases are coming to a close, the battle moves to a new front. Along with fundraising for their restitution, the Hwy 6 are ramping up to file a civil suit against the University of California, challenging the legality of the University’s judicial process.
The goal of the lawsuit would be to systematically change the student code of conduct and how it is enforced through the student judicial process, eliminating the ambiguity in the student code of conduct that allows University administrators to claim jurisdiction over whatever student behavior they choose, on or off campus.
The arbitrary way the administration exercises its authority is demonstrated by the current Title IX investigation of UCSC for slack enforcement of the student code of conduct regarding sexual harassment and rape on campus, clearly showing how the University is not actually taking action on the real “threats to the health and safety of the community.”...
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https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/09/times-higher-ed.html
rank #3
In the latest analysis of the world’s top universities published by Times Higher Education (THE), UC Santa Cruz ranked third in research influence as measured by the number of times its faculty’s published work is cited by scholars around the world.
Published as part of the THE World University Rankings 2018, the analysis measured overall research influence based on the average number of citations per paper, using a database of almost 62 million citations to more than 12.4 million research publications published over five years, from 2012 to 2016.
With a citation score of 99.9, UC Santa Cruz is tied for third place with Stanford University. St. George’s University of London and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were tied for first. UC Berkeley ranked just behind UCSC and Stanford with a citation score of 99.8.
The 2018 rankings list the top 1,000 universities in the world, comparing them in five areas: teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income, and reputation); citations (research influence); international outlook (staff, students, and research); and industry income (knowledge transfer).
The research influence indicator looks at the role of universities in spreading new knowledge and ideas. As explained on the website for the World University Rankings, "The citations help to show us how much each university is contributing to the sum of human knowledge: they tell us whose research has stood out, has been picked up and built on by other scholars and, most importantly, has been shared around the global scholarly community to expand the boundaries of our understanding, irrespective of discipline."
UCSC’s overall ranking in the THE World University Rankings 2018 was 162 out of 1,000 institutions worldwide. In the United States, UC Santa Cruz ranked 55 out of 154 institutions.
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david horowitz calls most dangerous school in US b/c does not allow military recruiters?
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http://digitalcollections.ucsc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16019coll3
This collection includes publications from the early years of the University produced by UC Santa Cruz students, staff members and departments, as well as local press publications such as the Santa Cruz Sentinel that focus on the University.
You may find additional related materials in other Digital Collections:
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50th
50th Leadership Committee is comprised of distinguished alumni who exemplify the qualities of a UCSC education and who will be instrumental in shaping the culminating events of the 50th celebrations.
Hilary Bryant Hilary Bryant, Porter College, 1994
Hilary Bryant was a member of the Santa Cruz City Council from 2010-2014, and served as Mayor in 2013. A UCSC graduate, she earned her BA in Biology (Porter College) in 1994. Hilary and her husband, David Shuman (UCSC, 1989), own Westside Animal Hospital, and have two young children. She currently sits on several local boards, including the Coastal Watershed Council, Digital NEST and the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce. She enjoys competing in triathlons, biking and surfing. In 2013, Hilary co-chaired the UCSC Scholarship Benefit Dinner Volunteer Committee.
Fernanda Coppel, Merrill College, 2007
Fernanda Coppel is a New York playwright. Her plays, including the most recent, Chimichangas and Zoloft, have been developed at Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Pregones Theater, INTAR Theatre, The Juilliard School, The Lark Development Center, the Flea, the Old Vic (London), and Naked Angels. Fernanda is a member of the MCC Playwrights’ Coalition and was a member of the Old Vic’s US/UK TS Eliot Exchange Program in 2010. Her work has won the Asuncion Queer Latino Festival at Pregones Theater, the 2012 HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and the 2012 Helen Merrill Award. She was a three-year Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School and a member of INTAR Theatre’s Maria Irene Fornes Playwrights Lab. Fernanda received her MFA from New York University.
James Edmund Datri James Edmund Datri, Stevenson College, 1989
James Edmund Datri is President and CEO of the American Advertising Federation, representing nearly 100 corporate members comprised of the nation’s leading advertisers, advertising agencies, and media companies, and putting on major industry events such as the Advertising Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies and the American Advertising Awards. Also well known for his leadership in government, politics, and public policy, James formerly served as executive director of the Democratic Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was named five times to Roll Call’s “Fabulous Fifty” list of the 50 most influential advisers and strategists on Capitol Hill. He sits on several major boards, including The Ad Council, The Washington Ballet, and the Advisory Board of the Annapolis Film Festival, and serves as Vice Chair of the Harvard Law School Annual Fund. A New York City native, and previously a partner at two large international law firms, James earned his Juris Doctor in 1992 from Harvard Law School.
Charlie Eadie Charles Eadie, Cowell College, 1974
Charlie Eadie is Principal Associate at Hamilton Swift & Associates, a firm specializing in land use and environmental planning. He has 30 years of public agency and consulting experience in planning and redevelopment, including work as Director of Campus and Community Planning at UCSC from 1999 to 2004. He also served as the project manager for the Santa Cruz Downtown Recovery Plan following the Loma Prieta Earthquake, played a key role in housing and economic planning in Watsonville. He has assisted in the earthquake recovery planning for Christchurch, New Zealand, and Kobe, Japan, as well as in tsunami recovery efforts in Japan. Charlie has a long record of civic involvement, including serving as President of the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce, President of the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, Chair of Leadership Santa Cruz, Chair of the Economic Development Council and Vice President of the Pajaro Valley Performing Arts Association. He has been an Alumni Council member for six years and was appointed President on 7/1/13; he also served on the Scholarship Benefit Dinner Committee.
Reyna Grande Reyna Grande, Kresge College, 1999
Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains (2006) and Dancing with Butterflies (2009), for which she received an American Book Award (2007) and an International Latino Book Award (2010). Her most recent book, The Distance Between Us (2012), is a memoir about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican immigrant experience,” it was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in addition to being a published author, Reyna is an active promoter of Latino literature and is a sought-after speaker at high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation. Currently, she serves as a UCLA Extension Writers’ Program instructor.
David Graves, Crown College, 1974
David Graves is the co-founder and co-managing partner of Saintsbury, a winery located in the Carneros region in Napa County. Established in 1981, Saintsbury is famous for its distinctive Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays. David is a professional member of the American Society for Viticulture and Enology. He has also served on the board of the Land Trust of Napa County and is a current board member of the Friends of the Napa River and the Oxbow School. As member of the Napa County Planning Commission nearly 8 years, David served two terms as commission chair. He formerly served on the UCSC Foundation Board and the Alumni Council and has been very generous with wine donations over the years.
Jim Gunderson James Gunderson, College Eight, 1977
Jim Gunderson is the founder and CEO of Governance and Transactions, LLC, a governance and compliance advisor to US, European, Middle East, and Australian based multinational businesses with operations throughout the world. He is chair of the PBSci Dean’s Council and chair emeritus of the National Association of Corporate Directors' New York Chapter. He has a wide variety of interests in other fields, including theater, education and the environment. Jim and his wife, architect Valerie Boom, have two children, Maxine and Henry. Jim established a collection of comic books at UCSC Library Special Collections with his fellow alumnus Peter Coha, and the Gunderson Family Coastal Ecosystems Research Fund at UCSC with his wife Valerie. They have hosted university events in New York and are helping to build our network there.
Paul Hall Paul Hall, Merrill College, 1972
Paul Hall is a lawyer and a partner of DLA Piper LLP (US) in San Francisco, where he specializes in complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on class actions involving financial institutions, e-commerce, unfair competition and labor cases. Paul graduated from UCSC in 1972 with highest honors in Politics and college honors from Merrill College, and he received his J.D. from the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law in 1975. Paul formerly served as a Regent of the University of California and as president of both the UCSC and Boalt Hall Alumni Associations. He is currently President of the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board of Trustees, and also a member of the Social Sciences Dean’s Council.
Teri Jackson Teri Jackson, Stevenson College, 1977
Teri Jackson spent many years as a highly respected trial attorney, and in 2002 she was the first African American woman appointed to the Superior Court bench in San Francisco. She has served as chair of the State Bar of California Committee of Bar Examiner, president of the Black Women Lawyers Association and a board member of the Peninsula Community Foundation. From 2010-2014, Teri served on the Judicial Council and, in 2014, was voted to be the Superior Court of CA, County of San Francisco Assistant Presiding Judge, making her the first African-American woman in this position. Throughout her career, Teri has been dedicated to encouraging increased participation by women and people of color in the legal profession. She has also been active in education, serving as a mentor and encouraging young people to pursue higher education. Currently, she is an Adjunct Law Professor at UC Hastings School of Law and USF Law School.
John Laird John Laird, Stevenson College, 1972
John Laird was appointed California Secretary for Natural Resources by Governor Jerry Brown in January 2011. He has spent 40 years in public service, including 23 years as an elected official. John served from 2002 to 2008 in the California State Assembly, representing the 27th District (Santa Cruz and Monterey counties). A Democrat, he was appointed chair of the Assembly Budget Committee early in his tenure and had 82 bills signed into law, including the landmark Laird-Leslie Sierra Nevada Conservancy Act. He has also been a strong supporter of state funding for higher education, and in 2008 was named Legislator of the Year by the Alumni Associations of University of California. John previously served as mayor and city council member of Santa Cruz and on the Cabrillo College Board of Trustees. He was one of the first openly gay mayors in the U.S. and also one of the first to serve in the California legislature. A recipient of the 2003-04 Alumni Achievement Award, John has been recognized as one of UCSC’s “45+5 Prominent and Influential Alumni.”
Gail Michaelis-Ow Gail Michaelis-Ow, Cowell College, 1974
Gail Michaelis-Ow helped open the first Planned Parenthood Clinic in Santa Cruz in 1976; she was the center’s first nurse practitioner—a title she still holds at the Westside Planned Parenthood today. Gail has also been active in both residential and commercial real estate and continues to hold her broker’s license. A longtime community volunteer, Gail has served on the boards of Temple Beth El and Battered Women’s Assistance, as well as the UCSC Foundation Board of Trustees and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Gail and her husband, local businessman George Ow, Jr., were honored with UCSC’s 2012 Fiat Lux Award for their involvement in the community and their generous giving to scholarships and the arts.
Shree Murthy, Graduate Division, 1996
Shree Murthy received her B.S. in Computer Science from Bangalore University in 1990, she graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1993 and earned her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 1996. Shree is a Senior Principal Engineer at Dell/Force10 Networks. Prior to joining Dell in 2013, she was a Principal Engineer at FutureWei Technologies for 2 years and was a senior Technical Lead at Cisco Systems for 10 years. She has several publications and holds 17 patents in Networking field. Shree formerly served on the Baskin School of Engineering Alumni Advisory Committee.
Ezequiel Ezequiel Olvera Jr., Oakes College, 2005
Ezequiel founded and runs the Gumball Foundation, a social entrepreneurial venture that teaches the values of creativity and entrepreneurship while helping students earn money for college. Using a hands-on approach, Olvera partners the students with local small businesses and corporate offices to manage their micro-venture. Olvera founded the organization in 2009 and it has already garnered prestigious awards including the California Community Foundation’s 2013 Unsung Heroes of Los Angeles Award, the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2012 Social Enterprise of the Year and was nominated for an L.A. Emmy Award in 2013. The Gumball Foundation won the Social Innovation Fast Pitch competition presented by Los Angeles Social Venture Partners and Annenberg Foundation in 2011, and was the national semi-finalist for the 2010 Yoshiyama Young Entrepreneur Award. He is also a lifetime member of the UCSC alumni association and part of UC Santa Cruz 50th Anniversary Leadership Committee, UC Santa Cruz Social Science Board.
Julie Packard Julie Packard, Crown College, 1974
Julie Packard is founding executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2014. With a mission to inspire conservation of the oceans, the Aquarium has hosted nearly 56 million visitors since opening and is acknowledge as a leader among aquariums worldwide. Along with her role leading the Aquarium, Julie chairs the board of the independent Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, a research institute dedicated to deep ocean science and technology. She also serves on the board of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and is a former trustee of several conservation organizations including the World Wildlife Fund and The California Nature Conservancy. Julie serves as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was named a California Coastal Hero by the California Coastal Commission and has received the Audubon Medal for Conservation. She also served as a member of the Pew Oceans Commission which published a blueprint for improving governance of America’s ocean waters in 2004; and currently serves on the California Parks Forward Commission, an independent commission charged with developing a sustainable path for California’s state parks.
Jock Reynolds Jock Reynolds, Stevenson College, 1969
Jock Reynolds is both a visual artist and the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale Art Gallery, America’s oldest university teaching museum. Jock assumed his current position at Yale in 1998, where he has since overseen a major expansion of the art gallery’s facilities, staff, collections, and educational programs, while also continuing to produce numerous exhibitions and publications. In 2010, Jock and fellow Arts Advisory Board member Peder Jones established the UCSC Pioneer Faculty Endowed Fund–A Legacy for the Future of the Arts. Jock was also the recipient of the 2013 Alumni Achievement Award.
M. Sanjayan M. Sanjayan, Graduate Division, 1997
M. Sanjayan is the lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy, where he specializes in human well-being, Africa, wildlife ecology and media outreach and public speaking on conservation issues. Sanjayan’s work has received extensive print media coverage — from Vanity Fair to National Geographic Adventure, Outside to The New York Times. He frequently speaks at internationally recognized venues and has co-hosted documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the BBC. Sanjayan is a Catto Fellow with the Aspen Institute, has a research faculty appointment with the Wildlife Program at the University of Montana, and serves as Science and Environmental Contributor to CBS News.
Nikki Silva, Porter College, 1973
The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson) are producers of the duPont-Columbia Award-winning NPR series Hidden Kitchens, and the two Peabody Award-winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound, and The Sonic Memorial Project. Their most recently projects include The Hidden World of Girls, a series on NPR exploring the lives of girls and the women they become, and The Making Of… What People Make in the Bay Area and Why with KQED. They are currently producing a new season of Hidden Kitchens stories from around the world for NPR’s Morning Edition. Nikki has also worked as History Curator at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz and as a freelance curator and exhibit consultant specializing in regional history.
Sabrina (Solin) Weill Sabrina Solin Weill, Stevenson College, 1992
Sabrina (Solin) Weill is the co-founder and creative director of Weill Media (WeillMedia.com), a content marketing studio that produces videos, websites, and articles for major brands. Sabrina spent 15 years in editorial positions, including editor-in-chief of Seventeen, editor-in-chief of Warner Bros’ MomLogic.com, executive editor of CosmoGirl!, and senior editor of Redbook. Sabrina is the author of three books: We’re not Monsters (HarperCollins), The Seventeen Guide to Sex and Your Body (Simon & Schuster) and The Real Truth about Teens and Sex (Penguin), which was excerpted in TIME. She has appeared on the Today Show, The Early Show, USAToday and in The Washington Post, among others. Sabrina has a BA in Creative Writing from UCSC and lives in Santa Monica with her husband and two children.
Danielle Soto, College Ten, 2008
Danielle Soto received a BA in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. As Chair of Pomona’s Environmental Stewardship Sub-Committee, she worked on water issues for the city involving costs, conservation, and efficiencies that provided both environmental and financial benefits to the city. She also worked on obtaining over $1 million dollars from the Department of Energy’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for energy efficient streetlights throughout the city. Danielle served on the Pomona City Council and is currently a member of the City of Pomona’s Community Life Commission and employed by the Public Affairs Department of the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Danielle was the recipient of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee 2010 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Democrat of the Year Award for the California 61st Assembly District. In 2011, she was recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential and Prominent UC Santa Cruz alumni.
Alec Webster, College Eight, 2002
Alec Webster formerly served as a machinist and designer at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. After retiring in 2001, he returned to UCSC as a student, earning a degree in Environmental Studies. He is a board member of his family’s Helen & Will Webster Foundation, which gives $6M annually to education and community services. Alec has directed substantial support from the foundation towards Environmental Studies, CASFS, College 10 programs, Life Lab/Food What!?, and The South Campus Vision Fund. Alec and Claudia Webster have supported The Grateful Dead Archive, The Gabrielle Zimmerman Fund, and the Apprentice Housing Project. Alec is currently serving as Chairman of the Dean’s Social Sciences Board of Councilors at UCSC.
Lisa Witter, Stevenson College, 1995
Lisa Witter is an experienced executive, social entrepreneur, communications strategist, writer, and commentator. Lisa is the co-author of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them and is partner and Chief Change Officer of Fenton Communications, the largest public interest communications firm in the country. She focuses on behavior change, innovation, women’s issues, and global affairs for clients including Desmond Tutu’s The Elders and The Ford Foundation. She was named by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2010. Lisa and her husband, technology consultant Christopher Brem, have two young sons.
Michael WooMichael Woo, Cowell College, 1973
Michael Woo has served as Dean of Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Environmental Design since 2009. A planning expert who has worked in the for-profit, nonprofit and government sectors, he was the first trained urban planner and the first Asian American elected to the Los Angeles City Council, where he served for eight years. A native of Los Angeles, Mike taught the undergraduate introduction to urban planning and development at USC for seven years and led a seminar at UCLA on urbanization in China prior to joining Cal Poly. He was honored with the 1993-94 Alumni Achievement Award; he served on the UCSC Foundation during 1995-98.
Ron Yerxa Ron Yerxa, Graduate Division, 1974
Independent film producer Ron Yerxa (Grad Div ‘74) formed Bona Fide Productions with Albert Berger in 1993. Their producing credits include King of the Hill, Election, Cold Mountain, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Children, Ruby Sparks, The Switch, and most recently Nebraska. Ron has a B.A. from Stanford University but gravitated toward UCSC for graduate school. After working as a journalist and teacher, he became a film executive and producer. Ron is a member of the UCSC Arts Dean’s Leadership Board and the 50th Anniversary Leadership Committee
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http://45years.ucsc.edu/plus5/index.html
50th timeline: http://50years.ucsc.edu/1975-1984/
Institutional Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz: (see whole list below)
http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/ucsc
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special collections has oral history and exhibits
http://exhibits.library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/show/chancellor-dean-mchenry--the-p
Activism in the Archives: Radical Imaginaries in the Papers of Ruth-Marion Baruch, John Thorne, and Karen Tei Yamashita
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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#_Syllabus_for_the_70
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The University of California, Santa Cruz (also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC), is a public,collegiate university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system. Located 75 miles (120 km) south of San Francisco at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay.
Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz began as a showcase for progressive, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture. Since then, it has evolved into a modern research university with a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate programs, while retaining its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student political activism. The residential college system, which consists of ten small colleges, is intended to combine the student support of a small college with the resources of a major university (this concept is not unlike that at southern California's private Claremont Colleges, which was implemented 40 years earlier with five small colleges).
History[edit]
Although some of the original founders had already outlined plans for an institution like UCSC as early as the 1930s, the opportunity to realize their vision did not present itself until the City of Santa Cruz made a bid to the University of California Regents in the mid-1950s to build a campus just outside town, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.[7] The Santa Cruz site was selected over a competing proposal to build the campus closer to the population center of San Jose. Santa Cruz was selected for the beauty, rather than the practicality, of its location, however, and its remoteness led to the decision to develop a residential college system that would house most of the students on-campus.[8] The formal design process of the Santa Cruz campus began in the late 1950s, culminating in the Long Range Development Plan of 1963.[9] Construction had started by 1964, and the University was able to accommodate its first students (albeit living in trailers on what is now the East Field athletic area) in 1965. The campus was intended to be a showcase for contemporary architecture, progressive teaching methods, and undergraduate research.[10][11][12] According to founding chancellor Dean McHenry, the purpose of the distributed college system was to combine the benefits of a major research university with the intimacy of a smaller college.[13][14] UC President Clark Kerr shared a passion with former Stanford roommate McHenry to build a university modeled as "several Swarthmores" (i.e., small liberal arts colleges) in close proximity to each other.[13][15] Roads on campus were named after UC Regents who voted in favor of building the campus.
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1971 map and landmarks http://people.ucsc.edu/~rosewood/guidebook/
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Initially built and still managed by Jim Kent, then a graduate student, and David Haussler, professor of Computer Science (now Biomolecular Engineering) at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000, the UCSC Genome Browser began as a resource for the distribution of the initial fruits of the Human Genome Project. Funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute, NHGRI (one of the US National Institutes of Health),
the browser offered a graphical display of the first full-chromosome
draft assembly of human genome sequence. Today the browser is used by
geneticists, molecular biologists and physicians as well as students and
teachers of evolution for access to genomic information.
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mchenry obit http://www1.ucsc.edu/oncampus/currents/97-98/03-23/release.htm
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may 8 1980 buckminster bucky fuller santa cruz ucsc
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list of experts: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/spanishexperts/campuses/ucsc.html
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Statewide Initiative and Referendum
After accomplishing the placement of I&R in his local charter, Haynes turn his attention to gaining statewide I&R. The odds against him were daunting. The entire state government had for decades been under the control of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Bribery was the accepted method of doing business in the state capitol. Realizing the hopelessness of dealing with the current officeholders, Haynes and other reformers began a campaign to get rid of them and remake state government from top to bottom. In May 1907 they founded the Lincoln-Roosevelt League of Republican Clubs, and elected several of their candidates to the state legislature. Once elected, these legislators worked for a bill to require the nomination of party candidates through primary election rather than the backroom deals of state party conventions.
Taking back the legislature
The bill passed, and the League's 1910 gubernatorial candidate, Hiram Johnson, ran in the state's first primary election. Johnson won the primary and the general election and swept dozens of other reformers into the legislature on his political coattails.
Johnson and the new Progressive majority in the legislature made the most sweeping governmental changes ever seen in the history of California. Among these were the introduction of initiative, referendum, and recall at both the state and local levels. Voters ratified these amendments in a special election on October 10, 1911.
1911 to Present
Free Speech
Reformers in Los Angeles won voter approval, in December 1911, of a unique local initiative to create a municipally owned, yet editorially independent, newspaper to compete with the anti-labor, anti-reform Los Angeles Times and provide unbiased news and an equal forum for all political views. Each political party was given a column in every weekly edition.
This bold experiment in free speech attracted the state's top newspaper talent and got off to a highly successful start. After less than a year, however, it failed because of the harassment of vendors and an advertiser boycott organized by the Los Angeles reformers' arch-enemy, Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the Times.
Anti-initiative forces
The first significant statewide initiative in California abolished the poll tax in 1914, and a construction bond initiativefor the University of California [Its first campus, UC Berkeley, was founded in 1868, while its tenth and newest campus, UC Merced, opened for classes in fall 2005. ] also won voter approval that year. Immediately thereafter, anti-initiative forces launched their first counterattack, in the form of a constitutional amendment passed by the legislature to make it more difficult to pass initiative bond proposals. Haynes mobilized his pro-initiative forces and defeated the amendment at the polls in 1915.
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http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/History_of_Initiative_and_Referendum_in_California
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Governor Frederick Low favored the establishment of a state university based upon the University of Michigan plan, and thus in one sense may be regarded as the founder of the University of California. In 1867, he suggested a merger of the existing College of California with the proposed state university. On October 9, 1867, the College's trustees reluctantly agreed to merge with the state college to their mutual advantage, but under one condition — that there not be simply a "Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College," but "a complete university," within which the College of California would become the College of Letters (now the College of Letters and Science). Accordingly, the Organic Act, establishing the University of California, was signed into law by Governor Henry H. Haight (Low's successor) on March 23, 1868.[5]
The University of California's second president, Daniel Coit Gilman, opened the Berkeley campus in September 1873. Earlier that year, Toland Medical College in San Francisco had agreed to become the University's "Medical Department"; it later evolved into UCSF. In 1878, the University established its first law school in San Francisco with a US$100,000 gift from Serranus Clinton Hastings; it is now Hastings College of the Law.[rancher , lawyer, AG? bnenicia, went w/ seward to check out Alaska]
In 1905, the Legislature established a "University Farm School" that would be located at Davis, and in 1907 a "Citrus Experiment Station" at Riverside as adjuncts to the College of Agriculture at Berkeley. In 1959, the Legislature promoted the "Farm" and "Experiment Station" to the rank of "general campus," creating, respectively, UC Davis and UC Riverside.
In 1919, the Legislature arranged for an existing normal school in Los Angeles to become the University's "Southern Branch." In turn, the Southern Branch became UCLA in 1927. In 1944, the former Santa Barbara State College—renamed UC Santa Barbara--became the third general-education campus of the University of California system.
In 1932, Will Keith Kellogg donated his Arabian horse ranch in Pomona, California to the University of California system. However, the land remained largely unused and ownership was transferred to the California State University system in 1949. Kellogg's old ranch became the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).[6]
The San Diego campus was founded as a marine station in 1912 and became UCSD in 1959. Campuses were established at Santa Cruz and Irvine in 1965. UC Merced opened in fall 2005.
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Will Keith Kellogg, generally referred to as W.K. Kellogg (April 7, 1860 – October 6, 1951) was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company, which to this day produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and practiced vegetarianism as a dietary principle taught by his church.[1][2][3] Later, he founded the Kellogg Arabian Ranch and made it into a renowned establishment for breeding of Arabian horses. Kellogg started the Kellogg Foundation in 1934 with $66 million in Kellogg company stock and investments, a donation that would be worth over a billion dollars in today's economy. Kellogg continued to be a major philanthropist throughout his life.[4]
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In fairness, the campus did not bring the counterculture to Santa
Cruz. At the end of 1965, shortly after UCSC admitted its first
students, author Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and a band then
known as the Warlocks (soon to become the Grateful Dead) conducted
the first of the fabled "acid tests"--a ritual combining psychedelic
drugs with experimental music and free-form dance--at a farmhouse
near Santa Cruz, in neighboring Soquel. This was not a university event.
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Merrill was founded in 1968 as the fourth college at UCSC. The college takes its name from Charles E. Merrill Jr., former Headmaster of the Commonwealth School in Boston. In 1968, Merrill was the chairman of the Charles E. Merrill Trust, named for his father, Charles E. Merrill, Sr., the founder of Merrill Lynch. It was in this year that the Trust elected to donate funds for the construction of the hitherto-named College Four at Santa Cruz. [2]
The first three colleges at UCSC all had clearly identified academic specialties before their founding: Cowell in the humanities, Stevenson in the social sciences, and Crown in the natural sciences. However, Merrill allowed its early faculty and students to determine its theme. The college originally intended to focus on international studies, but an early shift towards global poverty led to its eventual emphasis on the developing countries and their cultures, as well as the impact of the United States in the developing world.
With a progressive theme, Merrill quickly attracted liberal and radical faculty and students. It offered ethnic studies classes as well as student housing with ethnic studies emphases, and attracted progressive visitors, including Herbert Marcuse in 1975.
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http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Slugs_in_Action#Students
Alumni
Social Entrepreners: Janneke Lang
Social Entrepreneurship UCSC alum, organized Cruz Cares Pitch competition ($10K). Civinomics
is a technology start-up based in Santa Cruz, founded in 2011 by UCSC
GenY-ers who are passionate about being involved in their government and
social institutions and making them better, includes
Kelsey Grimsley (Obama, Waxman, Farr, Ban-the-Bag) and Robert Singleton
(the SMART commuter train, urban sprawl. Rob Forbes (aesthetic studies
from Porter 1974). PUBLIC urban bike design company; every bike he sells
is a consumer good and a purchase for the public good.
Skye Leone, Dean Alper, John Razz Cohn, Eric Dazey, Michael Freund, Ken Hart, David Paul, and Glen Price formed Friends Foundation International
which gives micro-grants. They are a group of UCSC alumni who were so
inspired by a single class they shared in 1975 that they've spent the
last 20-plus years funding environmental and social projects around the
world (nearly $200K). More.
Orson Aguilar
('96 C8) in his role at the helm of the Greenlining Institute, focuses
on private and public policies that promote investments and equity in
low-income and minority communities like East Los Angeles where he grew
up. Prior to the Greenlining Institute, he was a fellow with the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. He recently testified before
Congress.
Bill Allayaud is California Director of Governmental Affairs for EWG.
Formerly analyst with the California Coastal Commission; urban planner,
state director of Sierra Club California with particular expertise in
water quality and supply, land use planning, and conservation of
forests, farmland, and wetlands.
Robert Aston
President at Ocean Presence Technologies:
This sysyem is capable of being viewed and controlled over the Internet
and permits continuous monitoring of underwater sites without the
influence of divers. Biologists around the world will be able to access
cameras as part of their work to understand and conserve our oceans.
"Telepresence" is the experience of being fully present at a live, real
world location at a distance from one's own physical location. Someone
experiencing telepresence would therefore be able to behave, and receive
stimuli, as though at the remote site. This new technology will
dramatically increase our ability to educate people on need for ocean
conservation. See Ocean.
Kenny Baker
(Kresge '07, cultural anthropology and environmental studies), who
started Lonely Mountain Farm, sells in Bay Area farmers' markets.
Miguel Aznar, Executive Director at KnowledgeContext, nanotechnology.
Tony Bautista, a CUIP intern, worked on green issues like climate change.
Lisa Belenky, Senior Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity,
works on protecting rare and endangered species and their habitats
under state and federal law. Lisa holds a law degree from the University
of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and a bachelor’s in
philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Gena Bentall studies sea otters with USGS.
Peter Berg, founder of PlanetDrum Envisioning Sustainability
Maxwell Boykoff
has worked in North America, Central America, South Asia and Europe. He
was a Peace Corps volunteer when Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras, where he
continued to work for a week before being evacuated by helicopter. This
sparked his research
in climate change policy at UCSC,the Center for Science and Technology
Policy Research, Colorado-Boulder Environmental Change Institute (ECI)
as well as the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. He
co-authored an important study on how press misrepresented climate change.
Cassandra Brooks
is a PhD student with the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in
Environment and Resources at Stanford University who is studying
international ocean policy, particularly focusing on marine protection
in the Antarctic. She is currently blogging from a National Science
Foundation research cruise in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.video her National Geographic blog. See Arctic page
Shannon Brownlee (College Eight, biology ’79) is a nationally known writer and essayist whose book, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer was named the best economics book of 2007 by the New York Times. Recent Atlantic article Link
Martin Case (business management economics, '08) will soon join
the Banana Slug tradition of service. Case departs June 1 to train for a
two-year assignment in Cameroon. He will work in small business
development. Case says he is drawn to the Peace Corps to for a "grasp
of the bigger picture of world economics through hands-on experience."
An active member of his community, Case sang opera at UCSC and
volunteers at Santa Cruz's Homeless Garden Project and the Resource
Center for Nonviolence. With 47 alumni in service, UC Santa Cruz ranks No. 21 on the annual list of "Peace Corps Top Colleges and Universities," released last week.
Jim Cochrane,
founder of Swanton Berry Farm, famous as the first certified organic
farm in the United States to sign a labor contract with the United Farm
Workers (UFW). Swanton Berry Farm offers their workers low income
housing on site, health insurance, vacation and holiday pay, a pension,
and other benefits including an employee stock ownership program. Interview part of McHenry Library oral history of central coast green pioneers in agriculture. 2011 update.
Joseph Collins' (MRL '73) teenage experiences volunteering in
Latin America and the Philippines four decades ago led to a lifetime
researching, writing and lecturing on the impact of U.S. policies and
institutions on the lives of the world's poor majority. He is the
co-founder of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food
First), a Guggenheim Fellow recognized for his work on issues of
inequitable development, and has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor
at the University of California. His books include Food First, World
Hunger: Twelve Myths, Chile's Free-Market Miracle: A Second Look, and
Aid As Obstacle. Collins is a consultant in Africa, Asia and Latin
America to the United Nations and international NGOs. He currently
co-directs the program on the Development Context of AIDS of the United
Nations Research Institute in Social Development (UNRISD). Together with
his boyfriends, he lives and surfs (big) waves in Santa Cruz,
California. book on Peace Corps.
Steve Collins
(Porter '85, physics and theater arts) guided the Mars Rover.
Besides his work at the Jet Propulsion Lab, he is a dancer/
choreographer, a soccer player, an autocross racer and a musician in an
indie-rock band. "I'm curious about things in a cross-disciplinary
way," he said simply.
His adviser allowed him to do a rather unorthodox senior thesis on
orbital rendezvous, which required him to learn computer programming.
"He was very self-motivated to do unusual things, and to do them well,"
Scott said of Collins. His job as an "attitude control" engineer is to
keep spacecraft pointed in the right direction, perform trajectory
corrections, and figure out "what the heck just happened," he said. On
the Deep Space One project, for instance, Collins helped fly the
revolutionary, ion-propelled spacecraft toward the comet Borrelly. On
the way, however, the spacecraft's star-tracker instrument failed,
basically blinding those guiding it. Over the next months, Collins and
five others cobbled together a way to successfully fly the craft without
the crucial sensor. During his career, Collins has helped deliver twin
rovers to the surface of Mars, capture spectacular photos of Jupiter
and its moons, send a spacecraft on a flyby of the Hartley-2 comet, and
pilot the rover, Curiosity, to Mars with an innovative "sky-crane"
landing system that allows spacecraft to settle in smaller and more
discovery-rich areas.
Wesley Colvin Deputy Director of Ecological Services at New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
Brent Constantz developed technology to make "green" cement
that could help slow global warming and ocean acidification based on a
revolutionary product for healing broken bones inspired by the research
on coral reefs he had conducted as a UCSC graduate student.
Brooke Crowley,
now an assistant professor of anthropology and geology at the
University of Cincinnati, conducted the study of lemurs in Madagascar
for her doctoral thesis at UC Santa Cruz, where she earned a Ph.D. in
ecology and evolutionary biology (as well as master's degrees in Earth
sciences and anthropology).
Kevin T. Dann, College Eight '79 Traces on the Appalachians: A
Natural History of Serpentine in Eastern North America, Rutgers
University Press, 1988
Kevin Danaher Co-founder of Global Exchange (trips) and internships) and an expert on globalization and green economy, co-author of the book Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots. (video interview) He often writes for Alternet.
Sheila Davis is Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition,
which has played a valuable role in shaping environmental policy in the
high-tech industry. Her research, advocacy and policy development led
to a successful ban on hazardous electronic waste (e-waste) from the
California municipal landfills and the subsequent passage of the first
electronic recycling legislation in the nation. Sheila holds a
Bachelor's Degree from the University of California and served as a
journalist, state legislative aide and community development specialist
before joining the staff of SVTC.
Sean Vidal Edgerton (2011) B.S. Evolution & Ecology and Plant Sciences uses his art to illustrate nature.
Joseph DeRisi
(Crown '92, B.A. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
has been called a "virus detective", a "scientific polymath", and a
"rock star of the science world." A UCSF Associate Professor of
Biochemistry and Biophysics, he gained international attention in 2003
when his laboratory deployed its state-of-the-art "gene chip" to
identify the unique "coronavirus" that caused the Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic. DeRisi led the development of the
microarray, wrote its software, and even built the robot that imprints
it. One of his career goals is to find a cure for malaria; his research
may help battle cancer and even the common cold. His lab has also been
looking at bee disease. TEDtalk video.
Cristina Diaz
began at the Universidad Central de Venezuela , then PhD at UCSC,
specializing in studying, identifying and classifying intertidal and
tropical sponges.She works with Save Our Shores, leading groups of
school children on beach cleanups and tours in Santa Cruz. Christina Diaz
is one of a handful of experts in the world specializing in studying,
identifying and classifying intertidal and tropical sponges. (video).
Brock Dolman (College Eight '92, Environmental Studies/Biology),
Director of The WATER Institute Ecologist Permaculture Program. Bioneers interview video. Bio TEDx video: Watershed City 2.0 (Re-thinking and Retrofitting for Resilience).
Rob Forbes
(aesthetic studies from Porter 1974). PUBLIC urban bike design company;
every bike he sells is a consumer good and a purchase for the public
good.
John Francis, vice president of research, conservation, and exploration for the National Geographic Society works with Crittercam.
Cary Joji Fukunaga has created a Sundance award winning film about migration, Sin Nombre. Interview.
Patty Fung works in a school garden.
Dawn Gable holds a double BA in Environmental Studies and Biology
from UCSC. She spent 2+ years living and working as a field
ornithologist in Venezuela where she became acquainted with the
Bolivarian Revolution and the Chavez program as well as with Venezuelan
culture. The coup attempt of April 11, 2002 that mobilized the Chavez
supporting majority, catalyzed her involvement in the movement as well.
Dawn is the founder of the International Bolivarian Circle:
Cyber-Solidarity, the co-creator and co-manager of the Bolivarian
Circles official website. She has been instrumental in organizing
internships with Venezuela NGOs for US university students and
cooperates with Global Exchange Venezuela programs and is a member of the Santa Cruz Cuba Study Group.
Tim Galarneau was recently profiled in Mother Jones news on sustainable food. A leader in student food movement.
John Gamman literally wrote the book on environmental mediation. Overcoming Obstacles in Environmental Policymaking: Creating Partnerships Through Mediation, State U. of New York Press, 1994
Laurie Ann Garrett, Merrill '75. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. Betrayal of Trust: the Collapse of Global Public Health, Hyperion, 2000 NPR interview 2009 on swine flu.
Drew Goodman (College 8), organic farmer.
Randall Grahm,
founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard, is a legend in the U.S. wine industry
for his biodynamically produced, adventurous wines. He was influenced
by systemic meta-thinkers Gregory Bateson and Norman O. Brown at UCSC.
UCSC alum Reyna Grande has written two acclaimed novels about the Mexican immigrant experience, her new memoir--The Distance Between Us.
Nina Grove, formerly of Genentech, works on malaria in Africa.
Victor Davis Hanson (Cowell '75, B.A. in Classic Literature) has
attracted scholarly as well as public attention for his provocative
perspectives on the demise of the family farm, the humanities and their
place in the intellectual health of the nation, military history, and
the global role of the United States. Hanson received his Ph.D. in
Classics from Stanford University, and has been a professor of Classical
Studies in the School of the Arts and Humanities at CSU Fresno for 12
years. He operates his family's raisin farm in the San Joaquin Valley.
The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer, Free Press,
2000. ISBN 0-684-84501-6. The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization, Free Press, 1995. ISBN 0-02-913751-9
Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea, Free Press, 1996. ISBN 0-684-82299-7.
Richard Harris covers science and environmental issues for National Public Radio. updatealso video biography
Shawn Harrison, a 1997 graduate of the CASFS Apprenticehip, is helping develop a new local food system project in Sacramento.
Jennifer Helfrich, a recent graduate of UCSC, developed and
installed dashboard technology at various residential halls across
campus. This dashboard technology will monitor energy efficiency and
translate it into tangible terms to be displayed in selected dining
halls. This will spread awareness and foster sustainable behavior for
campus residents. More.
Dan Heller (College 8, 1985, computer and information sciences), founder and executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship (C4E), a cross-disciplinary program with UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering and economics department. It has a business design competition ($10K).
Laura Helmuth (’98) formerly associate news editor at Science Magazine; current job: senior science editor at Smithsonian.
Marc Robert Herman, Oakes '91. Searching for El Dorado: A journey into the South American Rainforest on then Trail of the World's Largest Gold Rush, Doubleday, 2003.
Eric Holt-Gimenez Executive Director at Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. See Food.
Carol Howard (’85)author of Dolphin Chronicles (Bantam, 1996) a
popular account of her graduate work with dolphins. Current job: science
writer and communications coordinator for the Johns Hopkins University
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.
Brad Keitt is director of Island Conservancy, which grew out of pioneering work by UCSC's Don Croll and Bernie Tershy.
Jim Kent
played a crucial role (with UCSC's David Haussler) in sequencing the
human genome. Kent created the UCSC Genome Browser, an open-source,
web-based tool now used by biomedical researchers throughout the world.
(NYT Article) and Metroactive.
Michael Levitin
(Cowell, '98, history), a freelance journalist, has helped pull
together five issues of the Occupied Wall Street Journal, a printed
newspaper and web site that chronicles the occupy movement.
The Kitchen Sisters(Davia
Nelson & Nikki Silva) are producers of the duPont-Columbia
Award-winning NPR series Hidden Kitchens, and the two Peabody
Award-winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial
Project. Their current project is The Hidden World of Girls, a year-long series on NPR exploring the lives of girls and the women they become.
Melissa Ng
of San Jose is the next to join this Banana Slug tradition of Peace
Corps service. The 2009 UCSC grad departs in March to begin a Peace
Corps assignment in Belize. She will serve 27 months as an advisor to
nongovernmental organizations in the Central American country. UC Santa
Cruz ranks 6th on Peace Corps's 2011 rankings of the top
volunteer-producing colleges and universities (medium-size schools
category). 51 UCSC undergraduate alumni, up from last year's 46.
Mason Inman (’04) Winner of a 2008-09 Middlebury Fellowship in
Environmental Journalism to report on the monsoon floods in Bangladesh. Link
Teresa Ish helps consumers find sustainable fish.
John Jeavons worked with pioneer organic gardener Chadwick (see below) and founded Ecology Action, which now has partners all over the world. Article "The Man Who Would Feed the World"
Charity Kenyon, 1974 "a Sacramento lawyer emphasizing protection
of freedoms of speech and press for over 30 years.... also prosecutes
environmental law cases on behalf of petitioners... [including]in the
Central Valley... More recently I have been active with food justice and
security issues and am heading up a Slow Food Sacramento Committee
working to highlight hunger in Sacramento, advocate for a meaningful
urban agricultural policy, and showcase the work of our urban farmers."
Sora Kim,
now at the University of Wyoming, did a study that shows surprising
variability in the dietary preferences of individual white sharks.
John Laird,
secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, is a UCSC alumnus
and former three-term member of the state Assembly, who authored 82
bills that were signed into law, including the landmark Sierra Nevada
Conservancy and significantly expanded water conservation. Most
recently, he taught state environmental policy at University of
California Santa Cruz (a senior seminar in environmental studies,
"Methods in Environmental Policy Analysis").
Osprey Orielle Lake,
College 8, is a lifelong advocate of environmental justice and societal
transformation, Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, on
the governing Board of Praxis Peace Institute and an advisor to the
International Eco-Cities Standards initiative. Osprey has traveled to
five continents studying ancient and modern cultures while making
presentations at international conferences and universities. She is the
Founder/Artist of the International Cheemah Monument Project, creating
18 foot bronze sculpture monuments for locations around the world.
Miriam Landman, 1995, is an environmental writer, editor, and
advisor with expertise in green building and sustainability. She is the
owner of M. Landman Communications & Consulting (www.MLandman.com),
and she publishes The Green Spotlight weblog. In the past, she was a
producer and reporter for the national public radio program Living on
Earth. She was a contributing author for the book Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing (Island Press, 2007). Miriam has a master's degree in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University.
Frans Lanting
presents The LIFE Project, a collection that tells the story of our
planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Hoping
for a glimpse of the world the way it was in the age of
photosynthesizing stromatolites, "back before the sky turned blue,"
Lanting journeyed to a remote lagoon in Australia, the only place in the
world where stromatolites still exist. The story moves forward from
there, via a lyrical collection of photographs set to a soundtrack from
Philip Glass. TEDtalk video.
Rebecca Lawton
was one of the first women river guides in the West. For millions of
Americans and foreign visitors who have navigated America's great rivers
by raft or boat - and for those who wish they could - this book will
help them understand rivers and their impact on the human emotional
landscape in a deeper sense. It offers such seekers, not only the thrill
rides and vacation destinations of our rivers - but also their rich
ecosystems and spiritual wellsprings.
Taal Levi
discovered a continued increase of Lyme disease in the United States,
once linked to a recovering deer population, may instead be explained by
a decline of the red fox, along with his UCSC co-authors, A. Marm
Kilpatrick, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology;
Marc Mangel, distinguished professor in applied mathematics and
statistics; and Chris Wilmers (see below).
Lopez, Anna A , who obtained her PhD in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz, wrote The Farmworkers' Journey
brings together for the first time the many facets of this issue into a
comprehensive and accessible narrative: how corporate agribusiness
operates, how binational institutions and laws promote the subjugation
of Mexican farmworkers, how migration affects family life, how
genetically modified corn strains pouring into Mexico from the United
States are affecting farmers, how migrants face exploitation from
employers, and more. (also Google book). She now runs Center for Farmworker Families based in Felton. See Environmental Justice.
Community Studies graduate Jen Lopez ('07) talking about her career and working as a line producer with The Yes Men on their recent movie. video interview
Bruce Lyon uncovers "Soap opera in the marsh": Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors.
Deborah Madison
was the founding chef of the legendary Greens Restaurant in San
Francisco, one of the earliest restaurants to have a farm-driven menu.
She is the author of 10 highly acclaimed cookbooks. She worked with
food pioneer Alan Chadwick (see below).
Ernestine Louise McHugh, Kresge '76. Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture, U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Sean McStay Reserve Steward at University of California Natural Reserve System.
Andrew Mersmann wrote Frommer's 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference see Google booksand audio and text interview. His blog is changebydoing.com/
Basho Mosko, 1999 - is currently the Program Manager for the Flip Video Spotlight Program.
Flip Video Spotlight is the charitable outreach of Flip Video and our
mission is to help nonprofits and charitable organizations share the
stories of their work through video. We provide a deep discount on
camcorders, and I work daily with organizations ranging from the World
Food Programme and Witness to local chapters of Habitat for Humanity and
Kiva, to help them leverage the power of video to support their
programs. In addition, I have been volunteering at Kiva for over a year to deepen their use of video on the website and help lenders feel more connected to the entrepreneurs they are lending to.
Dustin Mulvaney, received a doctoral degree in Environmental
Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He previously
worked as the engineering group leader for a venture capital start-up
that designed and produced environmental remediation technology, as well
as for a Fortune 500 specialty chemical manufacturer as a process
engineer. His research and consulting experience includes policy
analysis in alternative energy and agrifood systems, life cycle
assessment (LCA), and projects that utilize Geographic Information
Systems (GIS). Formerly College 8 faculty. Dustin Mulvaney is now
Senior Research Scientist & Switzer Environmental Leadership Fellow
at Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.
Ana Maria Murillo served as Executive Director for the U’wa Defense Project, founded by Terry Freitas,
UCSC alum killed in Columbia. Ana is of Indigenous Colombian ancestry
and has worked for twelve years with Native communities in the U.S. and
Latin America, primarily in Indigenous-led community development,
cultural survival and women’s rights. Ana currently serves on the board
of Amazon Watch
and also volunteers as Co-Director for the Mujer U’wa Initiative; a
giving circle supporting Indigenous U’wa women in the jungles of
Colombia to build female leadership, resist destructive petroleum
extraction and contribute to peace building amid a war zone in their
sacred land.
Roberto Nájera (Merrill '79, B.A. in Sociology, a graduate of
Harvard Law School, is the child of a widowed farmworker, and spent much
of his childhood picking vegetables on the Monterey coast. Now a Contra
Costa County deputy public defender, Nájera was an unlikely choice to
argue a case before the Supreme Court, where those who actively
represent indigent clients are rarely seen. Nájera successfully argued
that a California law unconstitutionally deprived his client's right to
due process, thereby setting free many individuals who had been
unconstitutionally convicted.
Melissa Nelson
serves as the executive director and president of The Cultural
Conservancy, an indigenous rights non-profit organization based in San
Francisco, Native Land.
Nell Newman, Founder of Newman's Own Organics and Santa Cruz local interviewed by Josh Kornbluth (iTunes podcast video)Grist interview 2004
Aire Celeste Norell, poet
Julie Packard,
Executive Director, Monterey Bay Aquarium, which Julie Packard helped
found and has led as executive director since it opened 20 years ago, is
among the world’s most popular attractions. A recent national survey
ranked it the best aquarium and one of the top family destinations of
any kind, ahead of Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo.
Joe Palca
is a science correspondent for National Public Radio. Palca began his
journalism career in television, then left television for a seven-year
stint as a print journalist, first as the Washington news editor for
Nature, and then as a senior correspondent for Science Magazine.
Example: Scientists Probe 'Glue' That Keeps Oysters Together.
Geologist/Historian Frank Perry (College 8 ‘77) has studied the natural history of Santa Cruz, but also its history of Cowell family
(lime kilns), including naturalists Laura Hecox and James Graham Cooper
(for whom the hawk was named). He is Curator at the Capitola Historical
Museum.
Drummond Pike
founded Tides Foundation which has helped increase the capacity and
effectiveness of thousands of social change organizations. He is
currently Chairman of the board, Environmental Working Group, a really important and effective group.
Benjamin Oberhand is a Sustainability Analyst at EcoShift Consulting and Marketing Specialist at Ecology Action.
Hoyt Peckham
studies endangered turtles. Peckham has been awarded a 2014 Pew
Fellowship in Marine Conservation to expand on his work with coastal
communities in Mexico to support sustainable fishing practices link.
John Reid (Merrill '78, B.A. Economics)is the founder and former
executive director of "A Grassroots Aspen Experience," a nonprofit
organization in Aspen, Colorado. Reid helped inner-city youth experience
an outdoor adventure far from their urban neighborhoods. The outdoor
challenges are designed to teach kids how to overcome obstacles. video.
Edward Rico, (Biology and Community Studies 1990)did
"environmental and animal rights work for international organization,
then founded and directed a project doing educational work with
children, focusing on issues of animals and the environment. I returned
to school to pursue a law degree and during that time I worked doing
enforcement work for the Environmental Protection Agency....hired on at
Community Foundation for Monterey County (http://www.cfmco.org/), directing a project in the Salinas Valley, Poder Popular para la Salud del Pueblo (http://www.poderpopularca.org/index.html).
Matt Riese, philosophy alum made a hovercraft in the shape of a Delorean. He showed it at Maker Faire.
Gordon Ringold,
head of Silicon Valley Initiatives, a set of educational and research
activities that increase the presence of UC in Silicon Valley, earned
his bachelor’s in biology from UCSC in 1972. He has started a handful of
companies in genetics and biofuels, including Codexis, which
manipulates enzymes to improve the conversion of sugar cane into fuel.
Dan Roam
(fine art and biology) contends that these skills are needed more than
ever in business and politics. Creativity under constraint, sound
judgment in uncertain environments, rigorous thinking amid complex ideas
-- these are the skills taught by the arts. Dan runs a
management-consulting firm that uses visual thinking to solve complex
problems. Saving the World with Art (video).
Susanne Rust (’03) Winner of several major awards for "Chemical Fallout,"
an investigative series on BPA: as well as 2008 John B. Oakes Award for
Distinguished Environmental Journalism from Columbia University.
The Nature Conservancy's Lead Scientist, Dr. M. Sanjayan.The Atlas of Global Conservation is being published by UC Press and The Nature Conservancy is resented here at Google.
M. Sanjayan (biology Ph.D., '97), executive vice president and senior
scientist for Conservation International and host of EARTH A New Wild,
will give the Alumni Weekend keynote in April 2015, a talk entitled, "A
New Wild: Saving Nature in a Human-Dominated World."
Alex Sassoon's
goal is "to build a healthy, nature-integrated and environmentally
sustainable community out of currently existing urban areas, and to make
the towns I love the most economically and ecologically sustainable
communities without compromising their unique character." (portfolio).
Chuck Savitt, Pres. and co-founder of Island Press
in 1984, was able to unite his passion for the environment and the work
of the nonprofit community with his business sense for publishing. With
more than 800 books in print and publishing 40 new titles annually,
Island Press (their blog) is the nation’s leading environmental publisher. Recently a book on forage fish led to new policy. He also works with CAKE, along with Slugs Lara Hansen (BA Biology 1991) and Eric Mielbrecht (BA Biology and MS Ocean Science) on adapting to climate change. (video discussions with authors).
Environmentalists Go Pro-Nuclear in 'Pandora's Promise', includes UCSC alum Michael Shellberger.
Stephen I. Schwartz,
Cowell '87 Brookings Institute. Later publisher of The Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists, Schwartz says his interest in nuclear policy dates
back to his days at UCSC. As a freshman, he planned to major in theater
and film, but was hooked instead by the Adlai E. Stevenson Program on
Nuclear Policy, since renamed the Stevenson Program on Global Security. bio.
Jason Scorse, international environmental policy program director at Monterey Institute of International Studies. [Blog.
Cheryl Scott runs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) office in East Africa.
Will Scott, 2002 "I've been teaching and mentoring individuals
(in environmental studies, ecopsychology, wilderness and survival
skills, and nature awareness). I've continued working in the wilderness
(www.wildernesswithin.com), leading excursions and diving deeply into
the work of facilitating rites of passage (www.schooloflostborders.org,
www.wildernessreflections.com). My learning journey has gone on to
include years of natural history and nature-based mentoring, as well as
graduating form a permaculture and regenerative design program, which I
continue ...I am currently pursuing a Masters in Adventure Education
through Prescott College.
Nicole Silk is co-leader of The Nature Conservancy's Global Freshwater Team. B.A. in economics and ecology (1986).
Sarah Skenazy is Program Manager at The Buckminster Fuller see Eco-heroes Institute, including the awesome Challenge, see also Design Challenges.
Catherine Sneed
worked with Allan Chadwick and (inspired by Steinbeck's Grapes of
Wrath) established a garden for prisoners in San Francisco, and then one
in Hunter's Point.
Starry Sprenkle, tropical forest researcher, works in Haiti.
Bruce Stein maps biodiversity.
Paul Stith Electric Vehicles "EV" | Energy Storage | V2G | V2X | Smart Grid
San Francisco Bay Area Renewables & Environment.
Evelyn Strauss (’98) executive director of Scientists Without Borders,
a web-based collaborative community dedicated to generating, sharing,
and advancing innovative science and technology-based solutions to the
world's most pressing global development challenges.
Kathryn Sullivan--oceanographer, astronaut, educator wins Global Oceans Award,
which recognizes Sullivan for her outstanding contributions to the
understanding and conservation of the oceans. The primary goal of the
first of her three shuttle missions was to survey the Earth, the
atmosphere, and the oceans. She worked on the 2003 Pew report
on the oceans. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) has appointed UCSC alumna Kathryn Sullivan to serve as administrator for NOAA. 3/14.
J. Scott Turner, College Eight '76. The Extended Organism: the Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, Harvard University Press, 2000.
Donald J. Usner, College Eight '81 The Natural History of Big Sur, U of California Press, 1993
Kennan Ward leading wildlife photographer.
Karen Washington, a 2008 graduate of the apprenticeship class at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems-+* at UC Santa Cruz was honored at the White House December 17 for her work with urban gardens in the Bronx.
Michael Wilson
is a pioneer in the emerging field of sustainable or "green" chemistry.
With 74 billion pounds of industrial chemicals produced and imported
each day in the U.S. (much of it toxic or ecotoxic) Wilson's work
focuses on transforming the nature of chemical design and production.
Gordon Wiltsie National Geographic photographer has worked everywhere from Peru to the North Pole.
Shaye Wolf, Staff Biologist, at the Center for Biological Diversity,
works with the Center’s Climate Law Institute. She graduated with a
bachelor’s in biology from Yale University and received a doctorate in
ecology and evolutionary biology and a master’s in ocean sciences from
the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she examined the effects
of ocean climate change on seabird populations. During her graduate
studies, Shaye worked with the biodiversity protection groups in México
and California; before that she was a wildlife biologist on projects
with seabirds, songbirds, raptors, and spiders.
Alec Webster (College Eight, 2002, Environmental Studies), is funding converting the hay barn to an environmental center.
Michael Woo
(College 8, Politics and Urban Studies) is Dean for the College of
Environmental Design at CalPoly in Pomona. He served as the first Asian
American on the Los Angeles City Council from 1985 to 1993, ran for
mayor, and was GM for Flexcar (which merged with Zipcar).
Kiea Spake Wright, 2001 is finishing a Masters in Education
program, focusing on Environmental Education. Kiea manages an
environmental education program at a local elementary school and has
started a nature awareness program for homeschool students. After UCSC,
she spent many years working in the Mojave Desert on conservation
biology projects.
George Kenneth Wuerthner, Grad. Div. '85. Yosemite: the Grace & Granduer, Voyageur Press, 2002
Fulbright scholarships Five UCSC students are winners of
Fulbright scholarships for a year of research and study abroad. Three
are doing environmental studies. Joanna Ory will travel to Italy to
research the effects of policies that limit herbicide use and promote
sustainable pest management on corn farms. Carolina Reyes will study
the genes and microorganisms involved in iron reduction in natural
sediments may lead to the discovery of novel organisms and gene products
with potential applications in biotechnology. Devon Sampson has been
working in Mexico since January, researching the agro-biodiversity
methods of Mayan farmers. Sampson, a life-long gardener, said he
enrolled in UC Santa Cruz because of its agroecology program and
professor Steve Gliessman. link 10/11.
Bacteria inhibit bat-killing fungus, could combat white-nose syndrome.
Bacteria found naturally on some bats may prove useful in controlling
the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome, which has
devastated bat populations throughout eastern North America and
continues to spread across the continent. Joseph Hoyt (he's batman!), a UC Santa Cruz graduate student who leads the study. 4/15
Mollie King (College 8) Small Mammal Undergraduate Research in the Forest, Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group at UCSC, NOAA: Gaia UCSC eco-magazine. Currwent research entails analyzing how individuals from Indigenous Amazonian communities view oil extraction.
Sarah Angulo, coordinator for the Student Environmental Center’s Drop Your Own Drip
campaign, a project that focuses its efforts towards the production of
simulated monthly water statements for on-campus apartment residents at
UCSC. Included in the project is a competition among students with
incentives to reduce water use, as well as a celebration event upon
completion.
Tamara Ball, Post-Doctoral Researcher & IDEASS instructor.
Adelia Barber
(Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) hiked the Continental Divide, worked
on a conservation project in Tanzania, and studied environmental
science as an undergraduate at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Because she's also a self-described math geek, Barber decided to explore
a relatively new area of plant ecology that uses computer models to
understand plant populations. At UCSC, she found a terrific advisor:
Daniel Doak, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. And she
found the perfect species to study: bristlecone pines, the oldest living
things on the planet. Ultimately, the research could lead to
predictions about how global warming might affect the trees in the
future. She was an early and featured partner with Google Earth.
Heather M. Briggs, Bee research 7/13.
Graduate student Honghan Fei and Prof Scott Oliver have now
developed a new type of material that can soak up negatively-charged
pollutants from water. The new material, which they call SLUG-26, could be used to treat polluted water through an ion exchange process similar to water softening. 9/11
Gabi Kirk and Cameron Fields, and UCSC sustainability director
Aurora Winslade, traveled 6,449 miles to Taiwan, where they led a
two-day workshop on June 29 and 30 for the Taiwan Green University
Program. More.
Chaos Cabal was pioneers of chaos theory. It included Robert
Stetson Shaw, a physicist who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for
his work in Chaos theory, also in a group of maverick physicists who
were attempting to create a computer capable of predicting the outcome
of a game of roulette.Chaos book chapter.
College Eight students roll up their sleeves for the planet. Delia Bense-Kang works for Powersave.
Evelyn Castle, a junior health sciences major at UC Santa Cruz, has received a $10,000 public Strauss service scholarship
to support her efforts to improve health care in Nigeria. Castle spent
three months at a health clinic in Nigeria through the UCSC Global Information Internship Program.
Molly Church
(Environmental Toxicology) In 1982, the total population of California
condors was just 22 birds. Four years later, as the wild population
continued to plummet, biologists decided to capture the remaining wild
condors and breed them in captivity. Now, 140 captive-bred California
condors are flying free in California, Arizona, and Baja California. But
life in the wild is still full of hazards for this critically
endangered species. Lead poisoning is one of the most serious and
persistent threats to wild condors.
Church was able to match the lead in blood samples from condors to the
lead in ammunition obtained from a variety of sources throughout central
California. She used a proven “fingerprinting” technique based on the
unique isotope ratios found in different sources of lead. Donald Smith,
professor and chair of environmental toxicology, testified at several
hearings in Sacramento: “Had it not been for the outstanding science in
Molly’s paper, the professional lobbyists for hunter-advocacy groups
testifying in opposition to the bill would have gone unchallenged,”
Smith says.
Graduate student Peter Cook trained Ronan, a California sea lion, to bob her head in time with a rhythm. Scientists once thought that the underpinnings of musical ability were unique to humans. 4/13.
Tela Favalor, Electrical Engineering NANOSTRUCTURING THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS FOR WASTE ENERGY RECOVERY AND POWER GENERATION
Elaine Gan, Digital Arts & New Media CONSIDERING RICE: VISUAL EXPERIMENTS IN MAPPING WORLDS OTHERWISE (2011 award winner).
Artist Diana Gilon recently led a crowdsourced project to paint an Oxfam-inspired mural on a California college campus College 9 mural leads Oxfam to ask, Can Art change the world? see Art page.
Global Brigades wins Chancellor Award. They do medical, dental, economic and water development in Third World countries, often during summer.
Brian M. Dowd-Uribe
is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Studies at UCSC. His
primary expertise is in agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa,
and he has been a lecturer in environmental science at Santa Clara
University and in sustainable development and environmental
interpretation at UCSC, as well as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo. His
research explores both the agro-ecological and social impacts of
alternative agrifood movements, including organic and fair trade cotton
production, and the social impacts of the introduction of genetically
engineered crops.
Undergraduates Laurel Hunt and Galen Licht saw the effects of climate change during a research expedition to the Peruvian Andes.
College 8 student Catalina Sanint is completing an internship in DC with Rep. Jerry McNerney, a wind energy entrepreneur who defeated a powerful incumbent Pombo, intent on essentially eliminating the Endangered Species Act, one of the most important green laws ever created. Pombo is currently trying to make a [1]
Chris Darimont,
a postdoctoral researcher in environmental studies, and his co-authors
found a dramatic acceleration in trait changes among species heavily
hunted or fished by humans, which could inform hunting policy.
UCSC Fullbright scholars study global warming, agroecology, and biodiversity.
Adelia Barber is using Google Earth to map research on Bristlecone Pines.
Sean Dugan is garden coordinator for the Program in Community and Agroecology (PICA).
Gemma Givens
will attend the United Nations international conference on climate
change as a "backpack journalist, will also represent the Indigenous
Environmental Network as part of their Native Youth Delegation. Youth
Grabbing the Wheel: Young Leaders Speak Up on Driving Down Carbon Commonwealth Club talk 5/4/10
Chris Darimont does research on human super-predatory activities on fisheries.
Katie Roper
has done internships in Kenya, and spent a year living in a
"sustainable community" on campus. She she single-handedly produced a
six-minute video documentary called Thirsty Trees: And the Search for Better Alternatives.
Adelia Barber helps fight local battle against logging.
Camila Cribb Fabersunne
had the enviable dilemma of deciding among medical school offers from
Stanford, UC San Francisco, and Harvard. She chose Harvard, where she
also plans to pursue a master's in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy
School. Fabersunne spent summer 2009 in Uganda as an intern with the Uganda Village Project, working to improve women's health.
Myra Finkelstein studies marine bycatch and how lead affects raptors like condors.
Melinda Fowler tags very large elephant seals
Lara Hale works on energy issues.
Robert Dewey Helvestine
meshed his fascination with engineering and his love of the natural
world. His senior project was a system to remotely monitor endangered
seabird populations at Año Nuevo Island.
Hopkins research finds Yosemite bears and human food shifts 3/14. Also research in China.
Gabi Kirk (Kresge ‘12, environmental studies and history), Office
of Sustainability events coordinator, helped start a campaign to end
the sales of single-use plastic water bottles on campus. The campaign,
“Take Back the Tap,” is now the subject of her senior thesis. See Plastic.
“It’s been a great experience for me to meld together social
movement theory, facts about water privatization and plastic, and
community organizing skills into one project,” Kirk says.
Carolyn Kurle
(Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) found that colonies on islands are
highly vulnerable to introduced rats, which find the ground-nesting
birds to be easy prey. But the ecological impacts of rats on islands
extend far beyond seabird nesting colonies.
Christopher Lam was part of a student team that designed and built a robotic device to filter plastic debris out of the ocean.
Fulbright Awards: Timothy Krupnik, Michelle Olsgard, and Anna Zivian have received 2008-2009
Allison Luengenstudies toxins in the ocean
Chris Bacon studies sustainable coffee, and co-edited Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America.
Anna Gonzales studies Chromium-6.
Rehan Iftikhar, of GIIP
worked at a number of NGOs in Africa, Latin America and the U.S.,
including the National Development Project and the Center for Democracy
and Development. He now works as a WiserEarth programmer.
Intrepid Kate Langwig doesBat disease research 12/14.
Jennifer Maresh
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: THE ECONOMICS OF MOVEMENT IN 3
DIMENSIONS: THE AT-SEA BIOMECHANICS AND ENERGETIC COSTS OF SWIMMING IN A
MARINE TOP PREDATOR.
Marine Biology students get grant to study seagrass with European collaborators. 3/13.
Queralt Vallmajo Martin,
an exchange student from Spain,created a calcium detector, importsnt in
many bodily functions including pregnancy and diseases such as
osteoporosis.
Emily Martinez,
Digital Arts & New Media: MAPPING ASTHMA RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL
CHANGE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING AIR QUALITY
Sara Maxwell
studies the relationship between seamounts and other large bathymetric
features and the migratory and foraging patterns of large pelagic
animals, such as seals, seabirds and whales. She am working with the
Tagging of Pacific Pelagics (www.toppcensus.org) program, and won the
2010 Graduate Research Prize as did Valerie Brown for statistical study of fish populations.
Amy Morris looks at the governance of conservation easements, which which has environmental justice aspects.
Engineering students develop a coral reef monitoring system
Esther Rojas-Garcia’s first GIIP
internship was with United Farm Workers in Watsonville. After
facilitating a technology training workshop for International Health
Programs Latin America, she interned with the World Bank on a
micro-credit project and is now working in the Conflict Prevention and
Reconstruction Unit.
Dee Rossiter studies clouds.
Gabriel Sady wins UCSC enviro scholarship to study forests in Costa Rica.
Joe Sapp's research is on the socially parasitic "slave-making" or "amazon" ant's fascinating and bizarre system:
workers conduct raids on nearby Formica nests. Because of chemical
signals, stolen brood work in the parasitic slave-maker nest as if it
was their own.
Christian Schwarz--a fun guy, leader of mushroom enthusiasts club.
Rosie Spinks,
ENVS, College 8, UCSC's City on a Hill Press and co-founder of UCSC's
first environmental magazine, Gaia. This work helped win her a coveted
editorial internship at Sierra magazine, the national publication of the
Sierra Club. A story she wrote
for Sierra (about the teenage daughter of a Watsonville farm worker
family fighting the use of the pesticide methyl iodide) was published on
the magazine's website.
GIIP student Roslyn Wang
served an internship with Kiva. Kiva was the world’s first
micro-lending site, giving individuals the opportunity to make small
loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Rhys Thom, also GIIP,
served as the project director for Delta Info Initiative, a rural
information technology project in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. He earlier
interned at the Office of the Ombudsman of Namibia working on human
rights and environmental projects. He is currently employed at the World
Resources Institute (WRI). As the Program and Communications
Coordinator for EMBARQ, he researches and implements environmentally and
financially sustainable urban transport solutions.
Paul Viotti,
contrary to the stereotype of Americans as self-interested
individualists, has found that the majority care more about growing
economic inequality than we've been led to expect, and many would
sacrifice personal gain for the well-being of others, according to
research by politics doctoral candidate.5/13.
[http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/10/rev-fall-13-great-responsibility.html
Carson Watts (Oakes '13, sociology)who studied the slums of Old Fadama
in the capital city of Ghana, not only wrote his senior thesis from
research gathered during the five-month trip with EAP but he is also
writing a position paper to send to Ghanaian officials outlining what he
discovered.
Amy E. West
"left a landlocked state to study the ocean, joined Peace Corps to live
among cannibals, moved to New Zealand for graduate school without first
being accepted, and racked up research experience worldwide in subjects
ranging from sifters (phytoplankton) to drifters (whales) without
climbing any career ladder...channeling Sylvia Earle, Jacques Cousteau,
and Rachel Carson collectively to publicly demonstrate the relevance of
marine science."
She interned at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and recently
published an article on recycling plastic in the Pacific Gyre.
Mele Wheaton
just received a Switzer Fellowship for improving teaching about the
environment. She has worked on conservation, including sea otters.
Lillian Wilson won a Strauss Award for Creating a Sustainable Future: Greening America's Jobs for At-Risk Youth.
Tiffany Wise-West Environmental Studies. Greenwharf MOBILIZATION OF THE SANTA CRUZ WHARF COASTAL ENERGY RESEARCH FACILITY. (UCSC Carbon Fund).
Shaye Wolfe
(Marine Sciences, , Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) The Coronado
Islands are located off the coast of Baja California, just south of the
Mexican border. As part of her research for a master’s degree in ocean
sciences, graduate student Shaye Wolf documented the large and diverse
populations of seabirds that nest on the Coronado Islands. These include
the largest known colony of the rare Xantus’s murrelet, a small seabird
listed as endangered under Mexican law and threatened in California.
While she was doing her research, Wolf learned that Chevron was planning
to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal less than 700 yards
from the south island, which hosts the Xantus’s murrelet colony. The
murrelets and four other species that nest on the island are nocturnal,
and Wolf was especially concerned about the effects of the terminal’s
lights.
Alan York, a Chadwick apprentice, pioneers organic/bio-dynamic wine growing.
Sustainability list (pdf).
Elliot Anderson and Jennifer Parker are
featured artists in Groundswell.
Parker and Barney Haynes present a new media installation that
interactively engages gallery viewers with solar wind data. Anderson
examines the technological landscape with a hydroponic garden that
phytoremediates water polluted with mercury and other heavy metals left
from 19th century mining operations. Elliot Anderson, an Associate Prof.
of Art & Electronic Media in the Art Department and Digital Arts
and the New Media (http://eanderson.ucsc.edu/),
is seeking student researchers to work with him on his "Silicon
Monuments: An Augmented Reality Tour of Silicon Valley Superfund Sites" (http://www.siliconmonuments.org/). If you are interested, please contact Professor Anderson at: ewanders AT ucsc.edu. 10/13.
Rachel Barnett-Johnson, a fisheries biologist, investigates salmon population.
James Barsimantov
is an expert in corporate sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions.
He received his doctorate in Environmental Studies from the UCSC with a
focus on environmental economics, policy, and natural resource
management. Dr. Barsimantov’s work focuses on developing sustainability
reporting and certification frameworks, including defining appropriate
protocols, metrics, and tools. He currently sits on the energy advisory
committee for the Santa Cruz desalination plant, and leads the Monterey
Bay Regional Climate Action Compact. Dr. Barsimantov also teaches
environmental policy and economics, and sustainability project design in
the Environmental Studies and Electrical Engineering departments,
including IDEASS.
Giacomo Bernardi
is in Evolutionary Biology. His Post Doc was at Stanford University’s
Hopkins Marine Station at Pacific Grove. His research focus is on the
molecular ecology and evolution of coral reef fishes. He does his
research in California, the Sea of Cortez, French Polynesia, the
Caribbean, the Philippines, Indonesia, South Africa and the Mozambique
Channel. His research areas include speciation, population genetics, and
ecology of coral reef fishes. (video of fish tool use).
Barbara Benish, Open Lab SS Palo Alto ocean art project.
Emily Brodsky
is a geophysicist whose research focuses on rapid phenomena like
earth-quakes and volcanic eruptions. She is best-known for her work on
earthquake triggering, including geo-thermal power plants.
Edmund Burke co-edited The Environment and World History with Kenneth Pomeranz.
Linda Burman-Hall, Professor of Music, did sound collage composition and videography for "Mentawai: Listening to the Rainforest".
Jeffrey Bury studies privatized conservation efforts, ecotourism, and livelihood transformations in the Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru. personal webpage.Undergraduate ENVS students Laurel Hunt and Galen Licht saw the effects of climate change during a research expedition to the Peruvian Andes.
Melissa Caldwell,
food policy expert, will be discussing the global food crisis at
international conference sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation.
Mark Carr and Peter Raimondi, professors of ecology and evolutionary biology, lead ocean monitoring effort. PBS NewsHour video segment on new marine reserves 3/11. starfish disease 11/13.
Sue Carter, a professor of physics, is developing cheaper and more efficient solar cells. She was awarded five new grants this year totaling more than $1 million to fund her research.
Patrick Chaung studies pollution in the atmosphere, which may help refine global warming models.
Nancy Chen breaks down divisions between food and medicine, and she underscores that medicinal foods are the "front line of healing."
[2] has researched environmental history, and wrote The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals 2009.
Dan Costa
and his students are tagging marine life to send back realtime
information never before available. You can follow activities at TOPP and see Video from KQED's Quest as well as PBS's Ocean Animal Emergency. video from Antarctica. See An-Arctic page.
Ben Crow studies inequality around water and land issues.
Sharon Daniel, James Davis and their students at Digital Arts and New Media are creating Social Cost Tracker,
an open-source mobile technology designed to promote just labor and
ecological practices by informing consumer choices at the point of
purchase. The phrase "social cost" refers to both the human capital
exploited and the natural resources expended in the production of
consumer goods. They are in the early stages of development and
conceptualization and are looking for organizations and companies
interested in collaboration.
Nathaniel Dominy
helped document that he legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that
terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely
consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135
victims.
Robin Dunkin,
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, LML Marine Mammal Stranding
Network. Latex balloons are a major cause of death in marine turtles,
birds, dolphins, seals, and sea lions as well as other wildlife.
Despite claims to the contrary, there has been very little work to
quantify the degradation time of latex in the environment. Open Lab.
Melanie DuPuis is the author of the book Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink
(McHenry GT2920.M55 D86 2002) and numerous scholarly articles on food
and food-related topics. She is currently co-editor of an issue of the
current special "politics of food" issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture
James Estes and John Terborgh in a new book explore the importance of predators in Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature.
They explain how top predators play an essential role in maintaining
ecosystem well-being, and how this natural regulatory system is often
drastically disrupted by human interventions-when wolves and cougars are
removed, for example, populations of deer and beaver become
destructive. classic but accessible essay on trophic cascades with Soule et al (see below). Important work on sea otters and climate change (see Wilmers).
Myra Finkelstein, an environmental toxicologist says she hopes that her recent findings will help spur cleanup efforts on Midway Atoll, where lead-based paint from abandoned military buildings contaminates nearby albatross nests. On Condors and lead.
Andrew Fisher,
professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, leads
UCSC's participation in the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere
Investigations (C-DEBI). He will be a co-chief scientist (with Takeshi
Tsuji of Kyoto University) on an expedition
this summer to the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the
coast of British Columbia, where he has been studying the flow of water
beneath the seafloor since the mid-1990s. Also he is working at an
infiltration pond in California's Pajaro Valley that has become a
laboratory where scientists are working to improve techniques for
recharging the region's depleted aquifer More. Here's video from expedition.
Russ Flegal does research on mercury e-tox case study on malformed amphibians. Congressional testimony 10/13.
Dana Frank one of top academic experts on Honduras, and has written on women in banana labor unions(includes pesticides). audio interview on wave of child immigrants from Latin America 6/25/14.
Winifred F. Frick (B.A. ENVS Porter '98), in a study published in the August 6 issue of Science,
writes that a disease is spreading quickly across the northeastern U.S. and Canada and now affects seven bat species. NPR.org interview Update: NSF grant 12/14 update with A.M. Kilpatrick who has tracked effect of global warming on West Nile virus. Update 5/12 effects of wildfires 3/13.
Environmental Studies professor Greg Gilbert established a research and teaching site in 2007 in the mixed-evergreen coastal forest on the north campus. The nearly 15-acre Forest Ecology Research Plot
(FERP) has been accepted into the global network of the Smithsonian
Institution's Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) / Global Earth
Observatory (SIGEO).More.
Steve Gliessman works to improve organic agriculture and Fair Trade. City on a Hill article on his work with coffee. Also excerpts from his book Agroecology : The Ecology Of Sustainable Food Systems / Steven R. Gliessman
2007 S&E Stacks S589.7 .G58 2007. He co-edited Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. McH Stacks HD9199.M62 C66 2008
Global Warming research is being done by Christina Ravelo, a professor of ocean sciences and James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences. Ravelo is part of an international team that is using ocean floor sediment samples to compile data on past periods of global warming in order to understand today's climate changes. 4/13.
Gary Griggs has a new book that offers a fascinating guide to the beaches and coast of California, published by UC Press, Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast. He helped create a guidebook for local government agencies to help them make the difficult the decisions ahead regarding sea level rise. More Congressional testimony 10/13.
R. Edward Grumbine is the author of Ghost Bears
(Island Press, 1992). He teaches environmental studies at Prescott
College and directed the Sierra Institute, University of California
Extension, Santa Cruz, for more than a decade. He has written a new book
on China, Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River
Julie Guthman (Kresge, '79, sociology), researches organic agriculture. audio interview on her new book Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism UC Press, 2011. Overview. Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California, the first social science study of organic foods in the United States, has been updated.
Roberto Gwiazda and Don Smith, environmental toxicologists at UCSC, track uranium exposure.
Brent Haddad is an authority on water issues, and in 1999
published the book Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets to Allocate Water
in California (HD1694.C2 H23 1999). He is currently working on a new
book in which he will discuss the issue of worldwide potable water.
David Haussler,
professor of biomolecular engineering, said development of the Genome
browser was driven by the needs of cancer researchers, who are now using
powerful technologies for genome analysis and DNA sequencing in their
efforts to understand cancer at the molecular level.
Brent Haddad establishes water study program at UCSC.
Bill Henry and Myra Finkelstein are researching plastic in the oceans.
Daniel Hirsch heads the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a non-profit nuclear policy organization focusing on issues of nuclear safety, waste disposal, smart meters.
Kathleen Kay, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has found California's status as a plant biodiversity hotspot to low rates of extinction, rather than high rates of speciation.
Marm Kilpatrick (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) researches climate change impact on West Nile Virus. 7/10 update. Bat disease research
A Fierce Green Fire by Slug filmmaker Mark Kitchell is in production. It is a history of US environmentalism.
Nobuhiko Kobayashi,
associate professor of electrical engineering in the Baskin School of
Engineering is principal investigator on a project based on a unique
thin-film waveguide that collects sunlight and transforms it to match an
optical fiber with minimum losses compared to traditional
light-concentrating optics.A $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department
of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will
support research at UC Santa Cruz on the development of an innovative
optical device for harvesting concentrated sunlight into an optical
fiber for applications such as thermal storage, photovoltaic conversion,
or solar lighting.
Paul Koch
has done some great research on pre-history which may have implications
for our time, such as helping condors survive in the wild.
Joel Kubby,
associate professor of electrical engineering, works on Quantum Dots to
increase the efficiency of Silicon solar cells, as well as development
of a renewable-energy microgrid at NASA Ames.
Raphael Kudela,
professor of ocean sciences, participated in a study that links seabird
deaths to soap-like foam produced by red-tide algae. His team is
trying to predict when toxin-producing algae will strike again with computer models. 9/10 update. 11/11: UCSC leads $4 million NOAA project to monitor harmful algal blooms. NASA award 7.12. Congressional testimony 10/13
Ken Laws
does HF radar sensing of ocean surface phenomena, autonomous ocean
surface vehicles and passive microwave measurements of ocean surface
vehicles.
Genome Browser Project researchers have developed an Ebola genome browser to speed global efforts to develop a vaccine for the deadly virus after working around the clock for a week. Director Jim Kent fourteen years ago developed the first working draft of the human genomesome assembly required
(icing his hands to continue a coding marathon) and helped create a
genome browser 11 years ago for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or
SARS, during an outbreak.
Yat Li,
associate professor of chemistry, and team developed the
solar-microbial device which harnesses sun and sewage to produce
hydrogen fuel, using only sunlight and wastewater to produce hydrogen
gas could provide a sustainable energy source while improving the
efficiency of wastewater treatment. The hybrid device combines a
microbial fuel cell (MFC) and a type of solar cell called a
photoelectrochemical cell (PEC). In the MFC component, bacteria degrade
organic matter in the wastewater, generating electricity in the process.
The biologically generated electricity is delivered to the PEC
component to assist the solar-powered splitting of water (electrolysis)
that generates hydrogen and oxygen.
Ronnie Lipschutz,
College 8 Provost, teaches courses on international politics, foreign
policy, politics and popular culture, global environmental politics,
green philosophy and ethics, capitalism, empire, sustainability
engineering and other topics. He has been Director and Co-Director of
the UCSC Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (CGIRS), and is a co-founder of the faculty group in Sustainability Engineering and Ecological Design (SEED).
He has published widely; his most recent book is Political Economy,
Capitalism and Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
Wentai Liu, professor of electrical engineering has won Popular
Mechanics Magazine's 2010 Breakthroughs Award. For more than two
decades, Liu has been working with a team of doctors and engineers to
develop a retinal implant that can restore vision to people who have
gone blind from degenerative retinal diseases, which is now being tested
in clinical trials.More
Deborah Letourneau
has done research into GMO's along with Joy Hagen and Ingrid Parker.
She also studies plant-insect interactions, biodiversity, and
environmental risk in the context of decision-making in managed systems
(example, forests and agriculture).
Suresh K Lodha, Computer Science, has contributed to the Atlas of Global Inequality with Ben Crow, and The Atlas of California: Mapping the challenge of a new era (2013).
Michael E. Loik,
(environmental studies )investigates how changing precipitation
patterns will affect the ecosystems that help to feed, fuel, and house
us.
Scott Lokey
of the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry works with the Chemical
Screening Center which does houses high-throughput screening(HTS)
robotics that are used to search for biologically active compounds (up
to 30,000 chemical compounds per day for biological function and/or
usefulness in fighting diseases).
Chip Lord was founding member of the Ant Farm, a collective that did art and architecture, including ferro cement and inflatable structures, as well as a Dolpin Embassy. Influenced by Buckminster Fuller.
Marc Los Huertos investigates nitrogen in river and ocean systems including the Pajaro River.
Flora Lu
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at
UC Santa Cruz. Since 1992, Flora has been conducting research with the
Huaorani Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon, a predominantly
subsistence-based population of hunter-gatherer-horticulturalists,
especially effects of extraction (oil , logging).ENVS faculty Flora Lu,
accompanied by her former UCSC advisees Néstor Silva, Leah Henderson,
and Yukari Shichishima, traveled to Yasuní National Park as part of Lu's
National Science Foundation funded research project investigating the
daily, lived experiences of local families living in zones of oil
extraction. ENVS faculty Flora Lu, accompanied by her former UCSC
advisees Néstor Silva, Leah Henderson, and Yukari Shichishima, traveled
to Yasuní National Park as part of Lu's National Science Foundation
funded research project investigating the daily, lived experiences of local families living in zones of oil extraction. See also Environmental Justice.
Paul Lubeck leads the Everette program
(formerly GIIP), whose goal is create a new generation of “info-savvy”
advocates using information technology to overcome informational
exclusion. examples of projects.
Robert Ludwig works on Renewable bioenergy: hydrogen production by direct photoconversion.
Marc Mangel,
distinguished professor in applied mathematics and statistics
discovered a continued increase of Lyme disease in the United States,
once linked to a recovering deer population, may instead be explained by
a decline of the red fox, along with his UCSC co-authors, A. Marm
Kilpatrick, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology;
Taal Levi, and Chris Wilmers (see below). Whales, Science, and
"Scientific Whaling" in the International Court of Justice
Marc Mangel, Distinguished Research Professor, Mathematical Biology and
Director, Center for Stock Assessment Research at UCSC leads a
compelling discussion about using science as the foundation to interpret
international law. Mangel discusses his involvement in the March 2014
International Court of Justice ruling that has effectively ended Japan's
annual killing of almost 1,000 whales a year (a win for both whales and
for science).
Pradip K Mascharak does "green chemistry" that could help with targeting medicine delivery.
Matthew McCarthy,
associate professor of ocean sciences and partners have found
compelling evidence for an extensive biological community living in
porous rock deep beneath the seafloor. The microbes in this hidden world
appear to be an important source of dissolved organic matter in deep
ocean water, a finding that could dramatically change ideas about the
ocean carbon cycle. More 12/10. Deep-sea corals record dramatic long-term shift in Pacific Ocean ecosystem 12/13. see Corl Reefs.
Marcia McNutt
is head of the US Geological Survey; she studied geophysics at the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, where she earned a
Ph.D. in Earth sciences. Her research includes studies of ocean island
volcanism in French Polynesia, continental break-up in the Western
United States, and uplift of the Tibet Plateau. She has participated in
15 major oceanographic expeditions, and served as chief scientist on
more than half of those voyages. Formerly head of MBARI.
McNutt is a NAUI-certified scuba diver and she trained in underwater
demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team.
Adam Millard-Ball, UCSC assistant professor of environmental studies, co-authored a study that predicts oil demand to peak around 2035. He also studies climate change and carbon trading. See Fossil Fuels.
John Mock works to remove landmines and preserve wildlife in Afghanistan.
David Palleros works in Green Chemistry.
Ingrid Parker has taught in the College 8 Core series, studies invasive plant species, and has helped save an endangered wetlands plant species.
Adina Paytan does research on how dust affects algae in oceans. Her recent work looks at ocean acidification which affects coral.
Ken Pedrotti co-teaches a green energy course EE/CLEI 81C.
Donald Potts,
a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is studying increasing
ocean acidification, which has often focused on its potential effects on
coral reefs, but broader disruptions of biological processes in the
oceans may be more significant.
Ravi Rajan's
research focuses on environmental issues in governance, corporate
responsibility, globalization, entrepreneurship, technology choice, and
risk and disaster management. Rajan has served with Environment and
History, American Society for Environmental Historyand National Science
Foundation. Rajan has also served as the President of the Board of
Directors of Pesticide Action Network, North America(PANNA).
Environmental rights lecture (video). As a student journalist, he was an eyewitness to Bhopal.
Peter Raimondi, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology, studies marine reserves' effects on fish. Starfish wasting disease 12/14.
Greg Rau, a senior scientist in the Institute of Marine Sciences and his team have found a carbon capture technique that produces hydrogen fuel, offsets ocean acidification 5/13.
Annalisa Rava:
Human-Animal Studies, Science Fiction Studies, Animals in Science
Fiction, Science Fiction and the Post-Human Body. She observed of wild
chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, for the purpose of
enriching the teaching of her writing class.
Christina Ravelo,
professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa
Cruz, is coauthor of a study that indicates that the sensitivity of
Earth's temperature to increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is
greater than has been expected on the basis of climate models that only
include rapid responses. Update: Ravelo led a nine-week expedition of
the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea last
summer. Deep sediment cores retrieved from the Bering Sea floor
indicate that the region was ice-free all year and biological
productivity was high during the last major warm period in Earth's
climate history. "Evidence from the Pliocene Warm Period is relevant to
studies of current climate change because it was the last time in our
Earth's history when global temperatures were higher than today," Ravelo
said. More 12/10. Update 6/12.
Colleen Reichmuth
has worked with marine mammals since 1990, conducting research in the
areas of comparative cognition, bioacoustics, and behavioral ecology.
Alan Richards teaches a popular course Blood and Oil on the Middle East.Current sustainability course Spr 08
William Satterthwaite wrote the best publication
for 2009 in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. The
paper, "Steelhead life history on California's Central Coast: Insights
from a state-dependent model," presents a mathematical model for the
life histories of steelhead in small coastal streams. Steelhead are
rainbow trout that migrate to the sea and repeatedly return to their
home streams to spawn.
Beth Shapiro,
associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and her
colleagues analyzed genome-wide DNA sequence data from bears, and found
that polar bears are a remarkably homogeneous species with no evidence
of brown bear ancestry, whereas the ABC Islands brown bears show clear
evidence of polar bear ancestry. She's also working with a project
within Long Now called “Revive & Restore,” which is pushing to make de-extinction a reality, starting with the fabled passenger pigeon and moving on to the woolly mammoth. See “TEDxDeExtinction”
Mary Silver researches algae blooms.
Barry Sinervo and students are creating games to teach about lizard behavior. Recent research shows early effects of global warming 5/10. More links(audio) on Sinervo's work. He also co-wrote a paper showing how rock-scissors-paper dynamic works in biology. Investigation of disappearing amphibians 3/13.
Lisa C. Sloan, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Director of the Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory, has a new paper on effect of irrigation cooling, and a map of Santa Cruz sea level rise.
Don Smith
and graduate student, Molly Church, who is now at the University of
Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine have established lead poisoning in condors from ammunition 11/13 update.
Mark Snyder researches climate change. Radio interview 09
College 8 instructor Glenn Stewart
worked on Exxon Valdez cleanup and is breeding and releasing hawks,
falcons and other predatory birds. History of saving the falcon from DDT
extinction video.
Elizabeth Stephens The Listening to the Earth,
research cluster, brings together graduate students and faculty at both
UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz to explore the diverse creative
possibilities that promise to emerge out of conscious collaboration
between environmental studies, landscape architecture, the visual arts
and performance studies. video
Sean Swezy, College 8 instructor, works on organic sustainable farming techniques.
Ali Shakouri works to make energy use more efficient. his website.
Andy Szasz also studies Environmental Justice. New book on Inverted Quarantine is Shopping Our Way to Safety [3].
UC Santa Cruz biologist [http://werc.ucsc.edu/Grad%20Students/Nicole/thometz.html Nicole Thometz
set out to quantify the energy demands of a growing sea otter pup], as
it accounts for high mortality rates among female sea otters in some
areas. 6/14 See also Marine Mammals.
John Thompson's research may help us learn to cope with ecological change, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. In Relentless Evolution, Thompson argues that species must be able to evolve constantly or they will not persist.
Tim Tinker researches sea otters. Video Info on otter mortality. 8/10 update on work with Hatfield. Otters clean water 8/13.
Jonathan Trent
is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in
floating offshore pods that eat wastewater from cities. He has done
prototypes in Santa Cruz. Energy from floating algae pods Call it "fuel without fossils": (TEDtalk 9/12). TEDxSC talk (video). TEDxSan Jose.
Slawek Tulaczyk investigates effects of global warming on ice sheets in Anarctica.
Tulaczyk and Andrew Fisher, both professors of Earth and planetary
sciences, will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial
Lake Whillans and study hidden processes that govern the dynamics of the
West Antarctic ice sheet. Link. 9/12 update on frozen methane, which could set up global warming feedback loop. Scientists drill through half mile of Antarctic ice for data on ice sheet stability
UC Santa Cruz glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk is a chief scientist of the
WISSARD project, which has just reached another milestone. 1/15. See Arctic.
John Vesecky Electrical Engineering is working on Greening the Wharf
in Santa Cruz. He also does HF radar design and construction and
observation of ocean surface winds, waves and currents with applications
to coastal and deep water ocean processes; project MEDSAT.
Erin Vogel studies primate population.
Kerstin Wasson
is adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and research
coordinator for the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.
In the 1920s, San Francisco oystermen harvested Olympia oysters from
Elkhorn Slough by the bushel. Overharvesting, however, soon decimated
the population of these tasty little oysters, the only native oyster on
the Pacific coast. They are now rare in Elkhorn Slough and in danger of
going locally extinct. Kerstin Wasson, research coordinator for the
reserve and an adjunct associate professor of ecology and evolutionary
biology at UC Santa Cruz. UPDATE:
According to a paper by Wasson and grad student Brent Hughes, excessive
nutrient levels in Elkhorn Slough cause algal blooms and degrade the
habitat for fish and wildlife in many parts of the slough. 10/11
Terrie Williams, professor of biology and director of the Marine Mammal Physiology Project (MMPP, (video)
working with animals that are trained to voluntarily cooperate in the
data collection process, Dr. Williams seeks to answer the important
question of what it costs these animals to survive in the ocean) at
UCSC's Long Marine Laboratory sprang into action and were ready when an
oil-soaked otter arrived from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where she had
been stabilized. Williams has also done research on seals during the Antarctic winter, the harshest season in the harshest environment on Earth. Rare Monk seal rescue. new book on endangered monk seals. (image). Williams looks back at otter rescue at the Exxon Valdez spill 25 years ago. 3/14.
Chris Wilmers and Terrie Williams', a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCSC, will team up to explore questions of puma behavior, physiology, and ecology using radio collars. Cougar GPS story. Story of Atlas, who crosses Hwy 17. With Jim Estes, Sea otters fight global warming, 9/12 audio interview.UCSC students get first-hand scientific experience while monitoring the elusive big cats
as part of the Puma Project.(video). In the first published results of
more than three years of tracking mountain lions in the Santa Cruz
Mountains, UC Santa Cruz researchers document how human fragmentation of habitat affects the predators' habits. 4/13.*** UCSC helps capture and safely release puma near downtown 5/13.
James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences. is doing Global Warming research with Christina Ravelo, a professor of ocean sciences and more.
Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSC,
showed that nano-thin film this combination of techniques has a
synergistic effect, markedly enhancing the performance of photovoltaic
cells (see earlier story). In a new study, Zhang teamed up with Yat Li, assistant professor of chemistry. 2/10
Jonathan Zehr,
professor of ocean sciences and his team has found an unusual
microorganism in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their
understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems.
This may have implication for global warming.
Terry Burke and Kenneth Pomeranz (eds), The Environment and World History.(review) University of California Press, 2009.
Jean Langenheim, a professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, is an eminent plant ecologist and leading authority on plant resins. She broke new ground for women in science, and worked with Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard, his images founder of ethno-botany.
Burney Le Boeuf has conducted extensive research on the
behavioral ecology and physiology of marine mammals. In particular, he
is known for his work on sharks and elephant seals,
as well as their diving, foraging, and migratory behavior. While much
of his research was conducted at nearby Año Nuevo Island Reserve, Le
Boeuf has led expeditions to research sites throughout the world,
including Mexico, Argentina, the Galapagos Islands, and Japan. He is the
author of three books and more than 157 peer-reviewed articles.
Manuel Pastor studies Environmental Justice issues.
John Pearse,
a pioneer in ocean research, studies temporal patterns of reproduction
in marine invertebrate. Works with NOAA Limpets, high school monitoring
program link. More, includinghis role as President of the California Academy of Sciences.
UCSC and the Academy recently established links which allow graduate
students with interests in systematic biology to be co-sponsored by
Academy scientists.
Michael Soule (short bio), one of the founders of conservation biology, Paul Ehrlich's student, and currently an advocate of Rewilding, that is bringing back extinct ecosystems and even species This idea has been picked up by Stewart Brand.A Soule Interview. Co-author of Ghost Bears. tropic cascades. See also Wildlands Network, working to connect islands of bio-diversity. web, new Collected papers.
Stuart A. Schlegel Wisdom from a Rainforest: The Spiritual Journey of an Anthropologist.
Lincoln Taiz,
professor emeritus of molecular, cell and developmental biology, gave
the Emeriti Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday, November 19.
"Agriculture, Population Growth, and the Challenge of Climate Change video. He explains and supports GMO's.
Powerful video: She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite...Hurting...Worth dying for. More Than 900 Environmental Advocates Slain In A Decade As Concern For The Planet Grows. 4/14 (See Terry Freitas below).
Camila Lee, College Eight environmental studies, was from
Fallbrook in San Diego County. She wrote an excellent study of the
environmental health aspects of Maquiladoras.
Alan Chadwick
helped establish organic farming at UCSC and propagate the ideas
widely. He came to UCSC at the behest of his friend, a countess who was
the widow of a member of the Resistance who was killed in the
retribution after the failed Hitler assassination. Film on him at
McHenry VT8996 called Garden Song History of organic farming at UCSCArticle. A play based on him. video of his garden today.
Richard Cooley founded the Environmental Studies department and was important in protecting the polar bear and Alaska wilderness, and funded Rachel Carson so she could finish Silent Spring.
Ray Dasmann
was one of the pioneers in developing the the conservation concepts of
"eco-development," and "biological diversity," and identified the
crucial importance of recognizing indigenous peoples and their cultures
in efforts to conserve natural landscapes. These concepts over the last
thirty years have coalesced in American and international environmental
thinking as "sustainable development," the key dynamic concept informing
contemporary conservation efforts. Dasmann pleaded to grant legal
rights to Nature nearly half a century ago, and it has been the subject
of numerous "deep ecology" and some law articles and books Article. A remembrance.
Tony Fink,
UCSC's distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, passed
away on March 3, 2008, following a year-long illness. During Tony's
forty-year career in academia, he made many contributions to the field
of biophysical chemistry. With more than 200 scientific publications, 20
book chapters, and three books, he was a world authority on protein
folding. Mistakes in this molecular process lead to degenerative
diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease. Tony's research was to understand
what goes wrong and to design treatments to repair the damage or prevent
it from happening. He worked tirelessly towards the goal of designing
potential drugs and therapeutic methods to combat Parkinson's and
Alzheimer's diseases. Tony was elected to the American Association for
the Advancement of Sciences in 2004, won the BioSTAR Outreach Ambassador
of the Year Award in 2002, as well as the Division of Physical &
Biological Sciences' Outstanding Faculty Award in 2007. Those who wish
to honor Professor Fink may do so by making a donation to the Tony Fink
Memorial Fund to support students and research in Chemistry and
Biochemistry. Donations can be sent to Attn: Tony Fink Memorial, 1156
High Street, MS: PBSci Development, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064.
Physicist Stanley Flatté,
whose work on wave propagation led to important contributions in the
fields of atmospheric optics, ocean acoustics, and seismology, is
important to oil exploration.
Terry Freitas, UCSC grad student killed trying to stop Indigenous people from being harmed by oil company.Article.
In choosing to honor Freitas, who exemplified "the highest UCSC ideals
of service to others," the Alumni Association made its first posthumous
award. A cafe has been named for him.
Ken Norris, cetologist who helped establish Natural Reserves and Long Marine Lab oral history
online and in Science Library QH31.N67 J37 1999. "His pioneering
investigations in marine mammalogy confirmed dolphin echolocation skills
in a series of elegant experiments. Much of what is now known about
whales and dolphins, specifically their social and familial interactions
is due to his work. His expertise in marine mammalogy also resulted in
his strong influence on public policy in the crafting of the Marine
Mammal Protection Act in 1972. His leadership and research were also
instrumental in the national campaign to reduce the dolphin kill in tuna
fishing. Norris was the author of over a hundred scientific papers and
several books on dolphins and porpoises."
Don Rothman: Avoiding the Humiliation of Silence in the Face of Cruelty and Injustice.VIDEO (.mov download). Many students said his talk was a highlight of the Core course. Sadly, Don passed away in his sleep in early December 2012; he will be much missed. Don hosts a dynamic discussion with Oakes College founding provost and emeritus Professor J. Herman Blake (2012).
Ph.D. student Jessica Roy
was struck and killed by a car while walking in Nairobi in 2004. She
was studying women and water use in Kenya. Ben Crow and others have
continued her work, using GPS, and found that women invest their
freed-up time in income-generating activities such as raising seedlings
for coffee and tea growers in the region or raising livestock.
Not a Slug, but Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford played a key role in the global warming debate.Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate. Sadly, Dr. S passed away in July 2010, a remembrance. Video of recent talk (and some remembrances).
Ronald Schusterman,
a pioneering marine mammal scientist and an expert in animal behavior
and comparative psychology, his work led to some of the first, most
creative, and most enduring approaches to training and studying marine
mammals in captivity.
Stephen D. Vance
(College 8, '79, American studies) was killed by gunmen during an
ambush in Pakistan, where he directed a U.S.-funded job creation and
workforce development project in the country's FATA region.
Kenneth V. Thimann
– Founding Crown Provost and Arboretum, a pioneering researcher in the
field of plant physiology; in 1934, isolated pure auxin, an important
plant-growth hormone and proved that auxin promotes growth, discoveries
that led to the development of a widely used synthetic auxin, 2,4-D. Use
of this chemical prevents the premature falling of fruit and stimulates
cut stems to grow abundant roots. Because high concentrations of auxins
are toxic to most plants, synthetic auxins are effective weed killers,
leading to the Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange.
Bill Walton, Predatory Bird Research Group leader, was instrumental in saving the Peregrine Falcon, the fastest animal in existence, from extinction. Article on falcon comeback The history of falcon recovery is told by him in this 42 minute video.
Gabriel Zimmerman
(STV '02), "community outreach director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,
D-Ariz. Zimmerman, 30, graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2002 with a
degree in sociology. He was one of six people fatally wounded in Tucson,
Ariz., in the shooting rampage that left his boss critically wounded. A
room in the Capitol has named in his honor. He was also remembered at a ceremony marking one year. His father Ross is determined that Gabe be remembered for how he lived, not how he died (including a charity a footrace). Gabe's fiancee
supports banning large ammo clips that made the shootings possible.
Gabe took a course with Prof. Paul Lubeck on globalization information
and social change, part of UCSC’s Global Information Internship Program
(GIIP), which mobilizes UCSC students to work for civil rights,
sustainable development, and social justice causes, while immersing them
in the skills they need to succeed as organizers, from social
entrepreneurship to web design. This ambitious young man was in good
company among UCSC alumni; he was part of a group of former GIIP
students who Lubeck described as a 'Washington crew.' Another UCSC grad
from the program, Daniel Weiss, is chief of staff for Congressman George
Miller (D-Calif.). Another graduate is Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Dana Priest." More. The Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center was dedicated
(video) in honor of “Gabe”, killed at the January 8, 2011, shooting in
Tucson, that left then Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ)
severely injured. Astronaut Mark Kelly, who spoke for his wife, remarked
that Gabe, ran toward the victims when the gunman opened
fire. He was the only legislative staff member ever killed in the line
of duty and Speaker Boehner (who has done nothing to reduce gun
violence) pointed out that the meeting room named in his honor was the
first room in the Capitol complex to be dedicated to a staff member.
Vice President Biden (who has taken the lead on gun control) also spoke,
along with Gabe's parents.
Malaria Resistant Mosquitoes: UC Irvine Scientists Create New Genetically Modified Mosquito. A non-GMO approach for Dengue Fever (audio) 6.12
Eric Berlow
is an ecologist and network scientist who specializes in not
specializing. He helped found, and directs, the University of
California’s first environmental research center in Yosemite National Park.
After radio-collaring wolves in Alaska and tending bar in Paris, he got
his Ph.D. in marine ecology studying the interconnectedness of species
in nature. As a research scientist with the USGS he focuses on building
better links between science and management of protected mountain
ecosystems. Eric is helping apply network approaches to sustainable
ecotourism development in the Arctic, and is co-owner of a green café in
Oakland, California. He is currently spearheading ‘ecomimetic’
approaches to corporate sustainability by visualizing and modeling energy consumption through complex, interconnected supply chains. Here's a brilliant TEDtalk on data visualization, and the simplicity beyond complexity. He co-authored an important paper on bio-diversity.
Physicist Steven Chu
as the Secretary of Energy, and the first Nobel Prize winner to be
appointed to a U.S. Cabinet, was given the job of turning the dusty
Department of Energy into the incubator for tomorrow's clean-power
solutions. Named 2009 Hero of the Planet by Time Magazine. interview about CA
Read more. His blog
Livermore Labs makes stoves to help protect women in Darfur. Video from KQED Quest.
U.S. Representative Sam Farr (video bio)
has been a champion of organic farming since his service in the Peace
Corps in Colombia in 1964. While in the California State Assembly, Farr
authored the 1990 California Organic Standards Act, the first state law
defining organic agriculture. This legislation became the basis for the
National Organic Program’s federal organic standards. Farr now serves
as co-chair of the National Organic Caucus in the House of
Representatives and is vice chair of the House Agriculture
Appropriations Subcommittee, which funds the Department of Agriculture
and the Food and Drug Administration. See UCSC food movement history
Professor Tyrone Hayes
at the University of California, Berkeley, and in ponds around the
world, studies frogs and other amphibians. He's become an active critic
of the farm chemical atrazine, which he's found to interfere with the
development of amphibians' endocrine systems. TEDtalk video. PBS Frontline Thin Green Line in Salinas Valley CA #1 in use of pesticides. Hayes has been viciously attacked by industry hacks (video) 2/14. See Amphibians.
State Architect and UC Berkeley professor
emeritus Sim Van der Ryn was championing innovations like solar roof
panels and rainwater catchment systems before most people had even heard
of them. The former state architect of California has a new book, "Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting to People, Nature and Self." audio interview and links. See Sustainable Architecture.
Joby Energy is a local company looking for people to create high altitude wind. images and video. Its founder is also working on an electric flying car. Its CEO is a College 8 Fellow. More.
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ucsc green departments
UCSC clearly has an amazing commitment to the environment!
This is a partial list of campus and community organizations. Links
marked with * have links to affiliates. If you would like to add an
entry, please email mailto:pmmckerc@ucsc.edu. See also UCSC people involved in green initiatives)
List of all UCSC student-led organizations. Sustainability office list of student projects
Categories
Food Organizations
Marine Biology
Sustainability Organizations
Transportation
A-Z Index
Arboretum (video)Seeds from UCSC Arboretum may help threatened species in aftermath of recent fire. 10/13.
Banana Slugs for Animals
The Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department
within the Jack Baskin School of Engineering features an
interdisciplinary blend of engineering, biology, chemistry, and
statistics designed to foster collaboration with other departments.
Trent is working on algae biofuels.
CALPIRG
is an independent statewide student organization that works on issues
like environmental protection, consumer protection, and hunger and
homelessness.
The Center for Integrated Spatial Research
(CISR), formerly the GIS/ISC Laboratory, is the central facility for
spatially-focused research and training at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. CISR is focused on integrating state-of-of-the-art spatial
technology and methods (geographic information systems, global
positioning systems, remote sensing, spatial modeling/statistics) with
pressing interdisciplinary research and fostering cross-domain
cooperation in the application of these tools, for example of The Farm
Center for Global, International, & Regional Studies
Innovation
Sustainability
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS video overview. Offers annual $30K design competition.
Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community Sadly, being discontinued due to budget cuts.
Center for Remote Sensing (CRS)
Center for the Study of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Land-Sea Interface
Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems update on partnership with Hartnell.
Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture, and Development (CenTREAD)
Chadwick Garden begun by Alan Chadwick (se also Slugs in Action) video
Chemical Screening Center robotics, which looks at chemicals in the ocean, for example. video
Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory
College Eight has numerous green entrepreneur and design initiatives and College Eight Sustainability Office.
Common Ground Center
(Kresge) The mission of Common Ground is to create cultural change for
social justice, environmental regeneration, and economic viability. We
act as a catalyst and facilitator of systemic change through
undergraduate action-education, research, advocacy, and civic
engagement.
Community Agroecology Network (CAN)
Demeter Seed Library
You can borrow seeds by attending a bi-monthly seed exchange or by
simply contacting us and arranging a day to meet. The physical Library
is located at the Oakes offices, room 307. Staff can be found in Oakes
309 and 311.
Digital Arts and New Media is creating Social Cost Tracker,
an open-source mobile technology designed to promote just labor and
ecological practices by informing consumer choices at the point of
purchase. They have also done eco-art. Associated with OpenLab.
Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
EcoLogic Design Lab
Seeking to innovate, create and educate, the EcoLogic Design Lab was
formed to facilitate a transition from ego-centric to eco-centric in the
built environment – from detached ecological awareness to expansive
connection with the local ecology and environment using evolutionary
awareness and design tools to create high performance design.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology *
Electrical Engineering, including Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems
Environmental Studies Department *
Environmental Toxicology Department
UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program (TSR&TP)
is a University of California Multicampus Research Unit supporting
research on toxic substances in the environment and teaching of
graduate students through funding of grants, fellowships, and lead
campus programs.
Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP)
Food Systems Working Group*
GIS Lab Geographic Information Systems and Interdisciplinary Sciences Computational Laboratory (GIS/ISC)
Global Information Internship Program is working with the World Resources Institute
(WRI) and the UCDC program. WRI is an environmental think tank based in
Washington, D.C., that focuses on objective research and analysis to
produce real solutions to environmental and human problems. The UCDC
program provides housing and credits for UC students to live for a
school quarter in Washington, D.C. and intern with a governmental or
non-governmental organization.
Green Technology
Greenhouse
Institute of Marine Sciences*
Greg Rau, a senior scientist in the Institute of Marine Sciences and his team have found a carbon capture technique that produces hydrogen fuel, offsets ocean acidification 5/13.
Long Marine Lab video tour.
AffilatesVolunteer opportunities(video)
Marine Biology major
Museum of Natural History Collections (MNHC)
(article). The collections are organized for research and classroom
use, but the museum has opened its collections for public view once a
year since 2009. Randall Morgan's, a 1970 UCSC grad, plant and insect
collections are the centerpiece of the museum and provide an invaluable
resource for understanding local biodiversity and a unique opportunity
for further research into plant/pollinator dynamics. Museum of Natural History Collections
(location/hours) houses collections of plants, fungi, lichens, marine
algae, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and
skeletons, for use by researchers, teachers, students, and the
community.
Ocean Sciences Department courses
UCSC Natural Reserves the larger system includes live webcams. UCTV series profiles. Yosemite station has internships. Yosemite article. The nearly 15-acre Forest Ecology Research Plot (FERP) located within the UC Santa Cruz Campus Natural Reserve has been accepted into the global network of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) / Global Earth Observatory (SIGEO). Younger Lagoon as outdoor classroom.
The OpenLab Network
is a new UCSC research initiative which targets a complex education
issue of national significance regarding the ability of art and science
researchers to collaborate on research endeavors. The goal of the
OpenLab Network is to help change the current status by providing shared
research facilities and create a network for collaborative discourse
fueled by academic communities, arts and science communities, and
industry. Ocean Scales on plankton. See Art
Path to a Greener Stevenson
Predatory Bird Research Group
Program in Community Agroecology (PICA)
Recycling Program
New Robotics major.
Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, founded in 1903 and joined the University
of California in 1912. The Innovative Marine Technology Laboratory (IMT
Laboratory) is a research group of the Marine Physical Laboratory. As
part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ENtNt-kb3o&feature=relmfu A talk by
research oceanographer and photographer Dale Stokes
for a global photographic journey featuring ships, submarines,
underwater habitats, and both poles. This presentation includes a decade
of images documenting exotic locations underwater and topside and a
variety of unusual vessels and research instruments.
Sociology
STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research
was established in 2002 as a campus-wide effort to facilitate
interdisciplinary environmental research across the university’s
Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, Division of Social
Sciences, and Baskin School of Engineering. Provides funding for
student research.
Student Environmental Center
Students for Organic Solutions
Studies of Food and the Body Multicampus Research Program is provided by the University of California Office of the President and by the Institute for Humanities Research
Sustainability, Campus*
UCSC Green Campus Program
White Mountain Research Station near Bishop CA, alpine research. Google Earth project
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Institutional Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz:
http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/ucsc
Andrews, Frank
A Dual Teaching Career: An Oral History with UC Santa Cruz Professor Frank Andrews
Armstrong-Zwart, Julia
Adding a Plank to the Bridge: Julia Armstrong-Zwart's Leadership at UC Santa Cruz
Baumgarten, Murray
Murray's Universe: An Oral History with UCSC Professor Murray Baumgarten, 1966-2014
Berger, Harry, Jr.
The Critical World of Harry Berger, Jr.: An Oral History
Blake, J. Herman
"Look'n M' Face and Hear M' Story": An Oral History with Professor J. Herman Blake
Bottoms, Rita
Rita Bottoms, Polyartist Librarian, 1965-2003
Cabrera, Rosie
With Conocimiento, Love, Spirit, and Community: Rosie Cabrera's Leadership at UC Santa Cruz, 1984-2013
Castillo, Pedro
Professor Pedro Castillo: Historian, Chicano Leader, Mentor
Clark, Donald T.
Donald T. Clark: Early UCSC History and the Founding of the University Library
Clifford, James
James Clifford: Tradition and Transformation at UC Santa Cruz
Cowan, Michael
"It Became My Case Study": Professor Michael Cowan's Four Decades at UC Santa Cruz
Cowell Press
Cowell Press and Its Legacy: 1973-2004
Dasmann, Raymond F.
Raymond F. Dasmann: A Life in Conservation Biology
Dizikes, John
John Dizikes: Reflections on a Life of Learning and Teaching at UC Santa Cruz, 1965-2000
Domhoff, G. William
G. William Domhoff: The Adventures and Regrets of a Professor of Dreams and Power
Dyson, Allan J.
Allan J. Dyson: Managing the UCSC Library, 1979-2003
Fackler, Louis F.
Louis F. Fackler: Founding Campus Engineer, UC Santa Cruz
Freeman, Carol
Teaching Writing in the Company of Friends: An Oral History with Carol Freeman
Friedland, William
Community Studies and Research for Change: An Oral History with William Friedland
Greenwood, M.R.C.
From Complex Organisms to A Complex Organization: An Oral History with UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood, 1996-2004
Griggs, Gary
From the Ground Up: UCSC Professor Gary Griggs as Researcher, Teacher, and Institution Builder
Gruhn, Isebill "Ronnie" V.
Professor Isebill "Ronnie" V. Gruhn: Recollections of UCSC, 1969-2013
Haraway, Donna
Edges and Ecotones: Donna Haraway's Worlds at UCSC
Hyde, Harold A.
Harold A. Hyde: Recollections of Santa Cruz County
Kerr, Clark
Clark Kerr and the Founding of UC Santa Cruz
Kliger, David
Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor David Kliger
Laporte, Leo F.
Leo F. Laporte: Professor of Earth Sciences: Recollections of UCSC, 1971-1996
Le Boeuf, Burney
Burney J. Le Boeuf, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Recollections of UCSC, 1966-1994
Lynch, John Patrick
John P. Lynch: Campus Citizen, Community Educator, Classics Professor
McFadden, Daniel H.
Daniel H. McFadden: The Chancellor Mark Christensen Era at UCSC, 1974-1976
McHenry, Dean E.
Dean E. McHenry: Founding Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz
McClellan, Douglas
An Artist with Shoes On: An Oral History of Founding UC Santa Cruz Professor of Art Douglas McClellan
Martin Shaw, Carolyn
"Faculty and Students Together in the Redwoods": An Oral History with Carolyn Martin Shaw
Moglen, Helene
Helene Moglen and the Vicissitudes of a Feminist Administrator
Nájera-Ramírez, Olga
Crossing Borders, Crossing Worlds: An Oral History of UC Santa Cruz Professor Olga Nájera-Ramírez
Nauenberg, Michael
Michael Nauenberg: Professor of Physics: Recollections of UCSC, 1966-1996
Newberry, Andrew Todd
Andrew Todd Newberry, Professor of Biology: Reflections on UCSC, 1965-1994
Norris, Kenneth S.
Kenneth S. Norris, Naturalist, Cetologist and Conservationist, 1924-1998: An Oral History Biography
Oakes College
Oakes College: An Oral History
Pepper, Jim
Jim Pepper: The Evolution of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz
Pister, Karl S.
Karl S. Pister: UCSC Chancellorship, 1991-1996
Rotkin, Mike
Mike Rotkin and the Rise and Fall of Community Studies at UCSC, 1969-2010
Sánchez, Elba R.
A Lifetime Commitment to Giving Voice: An Oral History of Elba R. Sánchez
Scott, Peter
Peter Scott, Professor of Physics: Recollections of UCSC, 1966-1994
Shaw, Priscilla "Tilly"
Professor Priscilla "Tilly" Shaw: Poet, Teacher, Administrator
Sinsheimer, Karen
Karen Sinsheimer: Life at UC Santa Cruz, 1981-1987
Sinsheimer, Robert
Robert Sinsheimer, Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz 1977-1987
Smith, Page
Page Smith: Cowell College and UCSC: A Decade of Educational Innovation
Solomon, Ruth
"Everything was a Stage": An Oral History with Ruth Solomon, Founding UCSC Professor of Theater Arts and Dance
Stevens, Robert
Robert Stevens, UCSC Chancellorship, 1987-1991
Taylor, Angus E.
Angus E. Taylor: UCSC Chancellorship, 1976-1977
Thimann, Kenneth V.
Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Crown College
UCSC Arboretum
The UCSC Arboretum: A Grand Experiment
UCSC Farm and Garden Project
The Early History of UCSC's Farm and Garden Project
UC Santa Cruz in the Mid-1970s: A Time of Transition, Volume I
An Oral History with John Marcum, Sigfried Puknat, Robert Adams, John Ellis, and Paul Niebanck
UC Santa Cruz in the Mid-1970s: A Time of Transition, Volume II
An Oral History with Professor George Von der Muhll
UCSC Student Interviews
Student Interviews, 1967 and 1969
UCSC Women's Center
Crossing Borders: The UCSC Women's Center, 1985-2005
White, Hayden
Hayden White: Frontiers of Consciousness at UCSC
Wilkes, John
Creating a World-Class Graduate Program on a Unique Campus: An Oral History with John Wilkes, Founder of UCSC's Science Communication Program
Willson, F.M. Glenn
F.M. Glenn Willson: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Stevenson College
Zavella, Patricia
Patricia Zavella: Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Zwart, Frank
Growth and Stewardship: Frank Zwart's Four Decades at UC Santa Cruz
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UC Santa Cruz’s second chancellor, Mark N. Christensen, served the campus from July 1974 to January 1976. Christensen arrived at UCSC during a tumultuous point in the campus’s history. Founding Chancellor Dean McHenry had brought to fruition his singular vision for UC Santa Cruz as an innovative institution of higher education which emphasized undergraduate teaching centered in residential colleges, each with a specific intellectual theme and architectural design. McHenry oversaw the planning and building of UCSC from 1961 until his retirement in June 1974. In the early years, UCSC drew high caliber students and earned a reputation as a prestigious and unique university. But by the mid-1970s, enrollments were falling. Internally, the campus was fracturing along fault lines between the colleges and the boards of studies (now called departments), as UCSC experienced the political and economic pressures of trying to establish a decentralized, innovative campus within the traditional University of California.
Christensen’s tenure as chancellor rather tragically ended in controversy after only eighteen months. Although most of the faculty liked Christensen as a person, they lost confidence in his ability to govern the campus. The Regional History Project never conducted an oral history with Mark Christensen, and he passed away in 2003. But in 1980, former director Randall Jarrell interviewed Christensen’s special assistant, Daniel McFadden, about the Christensen era. McFadden’s oral history is a perceptive and balanced reflection on the political climate of UCSC in 1976, just as what McFadden characterizes as a “Bicentennial Rebellion” was taking place.
The Regional History Project published this transcript in 2012, nearly forty years after the interview was recorded (on May 20, 1976), because McFadden was only able to turn his attention to editing and approving the transcript after his retirement. Dan McFadden holds a BA and MA in intellectual history and a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Pittsburgh. Before coming to UCSC, McFadden served as assistant chancellor for public affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. After leaving UCSC, McFadden held a variety of administrative positions, including deputy city manager for the city of San Jose, California.
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This page lists notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz; alumni may have attended without graduating.
Notable alumni[edit]
Academia[edit]
- William Drea Adams – President of Colby College, Waterville, Maine
- Chester Dunning, - B.A. 1971 - Historian at Texas A&M University who specializes in Russian studies
- Kristen R. Ghodsee, - B.A. 1993 - Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College. Winner of 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Alexander Gonzalez, Ph.D 1979 – President of California State University, Sacramento
- Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, artist and writer, School of Visual Arts
- Steven G. Krantz, B.A - Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Chauvenet Prize.
- Caren Kaplan, Ph.D. - Professor of American Studies at UC Davis
- Annette Lareau, B.A. 1974 - Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania
- Tod Machover – MIT Media Lab
- Lisa Lowe, Ph.D. - Professor of Literature at Tufts
- Patricia Nelson Limerick - Professor of History at University of Colorado and a leading historian of the American West
- Austin E. Quigley, Ph.D - Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University
- John R. Rickford, B.A. 1971 - Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and African American Vernacular English or Ebonics expert.
Arts and letters[edit]
- Will Bagley, BA 1971 - historian of 1800 West
- Michael A. Bellesiles, BA 1975 - controversial historian
- Susie Bright - Writer, sex activist and sex therapy focus leader
- Gail Carriger, MA 2008 - Steampunk author
- Laurie Garrett, BA 1975 - Newsday science reporter and author, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Philip Kan Gotanda - playwright
- Reyna Grande, BA 1999 - author, American Book Award winner
- bell hooks, PhD 1983 - feminist social critic
- Miranda July[1] - filmmaker and writer
- Jayne Ann Krentz BA 1970 - New York Times best selling author
- Katerina Lanfranco, BA 2001 - artist
- Deborah Madison BA 1968 - cookbook author, founding chef of the Greens Restaurant
- Steve Martini, BA 1968 - best-selling mysteries author
- Kent Nagano, BA 1974 - conductor of the Los Angeles Opera and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
- Larry Polansky, BA 197 - composer
- Dana Priest, BA 1981 - Washington Post reporter and author. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
- Michael Schennum BA 2000 - photojournalist
- Lore Sjöberg[1] - writer
- Andrea Smith, PhD 2002 - Cherokee activist and author
- David Talbot - BA - Founder of Salon.com, author, journalist
- Mark Teague - BA 1985 - author and illustrator of children's books
- Hector Tobar - BA - Los Angeles Times columnist, author, winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
- Bernt Wahl, BA 1984, BS 1986 - author and entrepreneur, Fulbright Fellow. November 1985 coined UC Santa Cruz motto "Fiat Slug".
- Annie Wells, BA 1981 - photographer, filmmaker, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1997
- Lawrence Weschler, 1974 - author
- Richard White (historian) – historian of American West, Native American history, and environmental history; MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 1995
- Daniel James Wolf, BA 1983 - composer
- Laurence Yep – author
Business[edit]
Entertainment and broadcasting[edit]
- Lorin Ashton, a.k.a. Bassnectar - free-form electronic music artist and DJ
- John Brown, BA - entity who appeared on ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show
- Jello Biafra[1] - singer and songwriter of the Dead Kennedys
- Brannon Braga[1] - award-winning film writer for Star Trek Generations and an Executive Producer of 24 (TV series)
- Bill Carter, BA, Politics, Economics - documentary film director and author
- Rick Carter, BA, Oscar-winning art director and production designer
- Dennis Delaney, BA Anthropology 1976 - writer and actor
- Brett Dennen, Singer, songwriter
- John Craigie, BA Mathematics 2002 - folk singer
- Jacob Aaron Estes, BA 1994 - Film Screenwriter and Director
- Anne Flett-Giordano, BA 1976 - Television writer and producer (Kate & Allie, Frasier, and Desperate Housewives)
- Cary Joji Fukunaga, BA 1999 - Sundance Award winning filmmaker (Sin Nombre)
- Matthew Gray Gubler,[1] BA – Actor (Criminal Minds), and Director
- Richard Gunn, BA 1997 - Actor ("Dark Angel", "Granite Flats", and "For the Love of Money")
- Richard Harris - National Public Radio science reporter
- Antony Hegarty, attended in late 1980s - Composer and singer for Antony and the Johnsons, and visual artist
- Alice Inoue - Former television presenter and author
- Victor Krummenacher[1] - Bassist for Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom, etc.
- David Lowery, BA 1984 - Singer and songwriter for Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker
- Camryn Manheim, BA 1984 - Actress
- Barry Mendel - Film Producer (Rushmore, Sixth Sense, Munich, Funny People)
- Stephen Mirrione, BA - Academy Award-winning film editor
- Marti Noxon, BA - TV Producer
- Bradley Nowell,[1] Singer and songwriter with Sublime
- Joe Palca, PhD 1982 - National Public Radio science reporter
- Jack Passion, BA 2006 - Competitive Beard Grower and star of IFC's Whisker Wars
- Chuck Ranberg, BA 1977 - Television writer and producer (Frasier, Desperate Housewives)
- Rebecca Romijn[1] - Supermodel, actress
- Maya Rudolph, BA 1995 - SNL cast member
- Jonathan Segel, BA 1985 - Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist for Camper Van Beethoven, etc.
- Andy Samberg,[1] BA - SNL cast member
- Tim Schafer[1] - Game designer for LucasArts and founder of Doublefine Productions
- Akiva Schaffer, BA -SNL writer, filmmaker
- Stuart Schuffman, a.k.a. Broke-Ass Stuart BA 2003 - noted travel writer, poet, host of IFC's Young Broke & Beautiful
- Nikki Silva, BA 1973 - One half of The Kitchen Sisters, who are regularly featured on NPR
- Chris Tashima[1] - Actor, Academy Award-winning filmmaker
- Jesse Thorn, BS - Host of NPR's Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
- Rubén Valtierra, BA - Keyboardist for "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Ally Walker, BS - Actress known for roles in Profiler, Sons of Anarchy, and The Protector
- Gillian Welch, BA 1990 - Singer and songwriter
- Rich Wilkes, BA 1988 - Writer, Filmmaker (Billy Madison, Stoned Age, Beer Money, XXX, Airheads)
Politics and public life[edit]
- Bettina Aptheker PhD - leader in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
- Katherine Canavan, BA - former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana and United States Ambassador to Lesotho
- John Doolittle, BA 1972 - Member, U.S. House of Representatives, California 4th Congressional District
- Ron Gonzales, BA - Mayor of San Jose, California, 1999–2006
- Victor Davis Hanson, BA 1975 - Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
- John Laird, BA 1972 - California Natural Resources Agency Secretary, former California Assemblyman, and Mayor of Santa Cruz
- Azadeh Moaveni, BA - journalist and writer
- Huey P. Newton, BA 1974, PhD 1980 - Co-founding member of the Black Panther Party
- Aaron Peskin, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member
- Drummond Pike, BA 1970 - Tides Foundation founder, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur.
- Art Torres, BA 1968 - California Democratic Party Chairman, former California State Senator
- James Charles Kopp, BA Biology 1976 - murderer of Buffalo abortion doctor Bernard Slepian in 1998; convicted in 2003 and serving sentence of 25 years to life
- Andréa Maechler, Phd - Swiss National Bank board
Science[edit]
- Richard Bandler MA 1975[2] - co-creator of Neuro Linguistic Programming
- Joseph DeRisi, BA 1992 - Molecular biologist, Professor at UC San Francisco, MacArthur Fellow, known for work on SARS and malaria
- Alan Dressler, PhD 1976, Staff Astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences, cosmologist, author
- J. Doyne Farmer, PhD 1981 - Pioneer in Chaos Theory, Prediction Company, Santa Fe Institute
- Debra Fischer, PhD 1998, Professor of Astronomy at Yale University, planet finder
- Yoav Freund, PhD 1993 - Computer Scientist, Professor at University of California, San Diego, Invented AdaBoost
- John Grinder - PhD 1971 - Linguist, co-creator of Neuro-linguistic programming[3]
- Steven Hawley, PhD 1977 - Astronaut, and Professor of Physics Kansas University
- Geoffrey Marcy, PhD 1982 - Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, planet finder, and member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Marc Okrand, BA 1972 - Linguist, creator of the Klingon language
- Mark M. Phillips, PhD 1978 - Staff Astronomer Las Campanas Observatory, inventor of the Phillips Relationship, and pioneer in supernova cosmology
- Rob Shaw, PhD 1980–1988 MacArthur Award for work on Chaos Theory
- Pamela Silver, BA 1974 - Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, first Director of Harvard University Systems Biology Graduate Program, Synthetic Biologist
- Kathryn D. Sullivan, BS 1973 - Astronaut, science museum CEO (COSI Columbus), Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA Administrator
- Nicholas B. Suntzeff, PhD 1980, Professor of Astronomy at Texas A&M University, cosmologist, co-founder of High-Z Supernova Search Team which discovered Dark Energy
Notable faculty[edit]
- Ralph Abraham - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; notable for founding the Visual Mathematics Institute and for his pioneering work on Chaos Theory
- Bettina Aptheker - Professor of Feminist Studies and History
- Elliot Aronson - Professor Emeritus of Psychology, author of The Social Animal and Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion after Columbine, creator of the Jigsaw Classroom model, and one of the few psychologists to win the American Psychological Association's highest honor in all three fields.
- Reyner Banham - late Professor of Art History and a pre-eminent architectural historian, in particular of the modern era.
- Tom Banks - Professor of Physics. Known for work on string theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology.
- Gregory Bateson - late lecturer and fellow of Kresge College. Anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist.
- George R. Blumenthal - Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Norman O. Brown - late Professor Emeritus of Humanities
- William L. Burke - late Professor of Physics (Cosmologist); Chaos Theory 'God father'.
- James H. Clark - Assistant Professor of Information Science, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape.
- James Clifford - Professor of History of Consciousness, known for publications of postmodernist and postcolonial interpretations of anthropology and ethnography
- David Cope - Professor of Music; notable for his experiments in A.I. and computer-created musical compositions
- Angela Davis - Professor of History of Consciousness; writer and activist
- John Dizikes - Professor Emeritus of American Studies, author, won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Frank Drake - Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Proposed the Drake Equation; member of the AAAS (elected 1974).[4]
- William Everson - late lecturer and poet-in-residence.
- Sandra M. Faber - Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics. Instrumental in inventing Cold dark matter theory and fundamental work in the field of Galaxy formation and evolution. Member of the NAS (elected 1985), the AAAS (elected 1989),[4] and the American Philosophical Society (elected 2001).
- Alison Galloway - Forensic Anthropologist who worked in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial [4]
- Donna Haraway - Professor of History of Consciousness. Doctorate in biology. Often cited author of feminist history of science and culture studies of cyborg
- David Haussler Professor of Biomolecular Engineering. He and his team assembled the public draft human genome and developed the UCSC Genome Browser as part of the Human Genome Project; member of the AAAS (elected 2006)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences.
- George Herbig, emeritus Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, pioneer in the study of star formation, discoverer of the Herbig Ae/Be stars and Herbig-Haro Objects, member of the National Academy of Sciences
- George Hitchcock - late lecturer, poetry and theater.
- David A. Huffman - Deceased. Founding faculty of the Information and Computer Science Board. Developed the famous Huffman coding
- Frederic Jameson—Professor of History of Consciousness; cultural critic and theorist of the post-modern. Published the essay, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, a significant investigation into contemporary culture and the political economy.
- Jim Kent—Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering. Directs the genome browser development and quality assurance staff of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group; created the computer program that assembled the first working draft of the human genome sequence; participates in the public consortium efforts to produce, assemble, and annotate genomes.
- Robert P. Kraft - Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, stellar astronomer, member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Tom Lehrer - lecturer in American Studies and Mathematics. Also well known for his satire and songwriting.
- Chip Lord - Professor of Film and Digital Media. Member of Ant Farm, a groundbreaking, experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels.
- Nathaniel Mackey - poet and editor.
- Dominic W. Massaro - Professor of Psychology and Computer Engineering. Originator of the fuzzy logical model of perception, one of the leading theories of speech perception.
- Claire Ellen Max – Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, member of the AAAS (elected 2002)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences.
- Gordon Mumma - Professor Emeritus of Music, composer
- Richard Abel Musgrave – member of the AAAS (elected 1961).[4]
- Jerry Nelson - Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics. The scientist who pioneered the use of mirror segments, making the Keck telescopes possible, member of the NAS.
- Harry Noller - Professor of Biology. RNA research; member of the AAAS (elected 1969)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1992).
- Donald E. Osterbrock – member of the AAAS (elected 1968)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1966).
- Micah Perks - Fiction writer and Memoirist.
- Joel Primack - Professor of Physics, noted cosmologist; renowned for Cold Dark Matter Theory proposed along with Sandra Faber (see above) and Sir Martin Rees.
- Geoffrey Pullum - Professor of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor of Humanities. Co-author of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ISBN 0-521-43146-8; member of the AAAS (elected 2003).[4]
- Adrienne Rich - (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) Late Professor and noted poet and essayist.
- Michael Ellman Soule – member of the AAAS (elected 2005)[4]
- Ben Stein – Former professor of economics more notable for his work as a comedian, actor and political commentator
- Stephen Thorsett - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Dean of Physical and Biological Science. Known for work on properties of compact stars.
- Noah Wardrip-Fruin - Associate Professor of Computer Science, digital media and interactive fiction researcher
- Hayden White – member of the AAAS (elected 1991).[4]
- Jim Whitehead - Chair of Computer Science and creator of WebDAV
- Harold Widom – member of the AAAS (elected 2006).[4]
- Stanford E. Woosley - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts. Member of the NAS (elected 2006) and AAAS (elected 2001).[4]
- Karen Tei Yamashita - author and playwright.
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