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May 2005 TO ALL UC SANTA CRUZ FACULTY:
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UC Santa Cruz has raised $65 million in our Cornerstone Campaign, powering past our original goal of $50 million with a few weeks remaining in our two-year effort. Chancellor Denton announced the Campaign's success, our first campuswide initiative, at a UC Regents meeting held in Los Angeles on March 16. Included in this landmark figure is an increase in student support, topping the $5 million mark. Alumni giving has reached an all-time high, totaling $2.7 million as of May 7, compared to $1.1 million at the same time last year. At $3 million, total giving from UC Santa Cruz Foundation trustees also is substantially up. More specific examples of recent major gifts, plus other information about fundraising, communications, and relationship building, can be accessed by clicking on the links at right. As always, I thank you for your dedication and hard work on behalf of UC Santa Cruz. With all best regards, Ronald P. Suduiko
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- $1 million from Kumar Malavalli to establish a chair in Storage Systems Research in the Baskin School of Engineering.
- Nearly $1 million from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to support the Bridging Multiple Worlds Alliance (BMWA) and the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community (CJTC).
- $300,000 grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation for the New Teacher Center.
- $240,000 from the Searle Scholars Program to Melissa Jurica, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology.
- $200,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Erika Zavaleta, assistant professor of environmental studies.
- Grants from the Elkhorn Slough Foundation and the Community Foundation of Monterey County, totaling $113,000, to Marc Los Huertos, research manager for the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems.
- $100,000 from Michael (Cowell ’70) and Sally Graydon to endow a new Library Instruction and Outreach Room in the McHenry expansion project.
- $74,000 award package grant from Hewlett-Packard’s Technology for Teaching program, which includes HP products and faculty stipends for the Baskin School of Engineering.
- $50,000 grant from Oracle Corporation to the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group.
- $50,000 from the Hugh Stuart Center Trust to support the James D. Houston archive in University Library Special Collections.
- $50,000 from the Santa Cruz Seaside Company to endow scholarships for students who are graduates of a Santa Cruz County high school and transfer to UCSC from Cabrillo College.
- $42,000 renewed grant from the Heinlein Trust to support the Heinlein Scholar working in University Library Special Collections.
- $15,000 gift from Pacific Investment Management Company to support the work of the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics. Economics professor Michael Dooley facilitated this gift.
- $10,000 from Carol Weisskopf (Crown ’72) to endow science fiction collections in the University Library.
Selected Notable Achievements and Activities
Paul Lubeck, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies, presided over an April 17 memorial brunch on campus celebrating the life of Rick Hooper, a UCSC 1985 alumnus who died in the bombing of the UN's Baghdad headquarters in August 2003. Professor Lubeck announced that Shawn Ebrahimi is the first winner of the Rick Hooper Scholarship, which recently achieved endowed status.
M. Victoria González Pagani, lecturer in Spanish language, won the Alumni Association’s 2004-05 Distinguished Teaching Award and was honored at the February 2005 Alumni Association Awards Luncheon. Also enjoying the event, which drew 250 alumni, faculty, staff, and students, were Outstanding Staff Award winner Cheryl Perazzo, scholarships adviser in the Financial Aid Office; and Alumni Achievement Award winner Roberto Nájera (Merrill ’79, B.A., sociology), a deputy public defender in Contra Costa County who prevailed in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. González Pagani, Perazzo, and Nájera each received a $500 check and a formal tribute. Also honored were 31 students who received cash awards funded by the Alumni Association: 21 need-based undergraduate scholarship winners and 10 recipients of College Service Awards.
Banana Slug Spring Fair – Most Successful Reunion Ever
Banana Slug Spring Fair 2005 was our most successful alumni reunion weekend in history. Academic divisions, departments, the colleges, and alumni affinity groups hosted 37 alumni events. At least 73 faculty members reconnected with 2,641 alumni, a record attendance.
The largest amount ever donated by reunion classes was collected this year--$1,706,030.
The success of the reunion weekend is a direct result of active collaboration among UCSC's alumni, staff, and faculty. We are grateful for the leadership role our faculty take in this partnership.
Faculty provided several key presentations during the reunion, including the following:
Craig Haney, professor of psychology, presented the Distinguished Faculty Lecture. He spoke about "Prisonworld: What 25 Years of Overincarceration Has Done to Prisoners and to the Rest of Us," to an overflow crowd of 200 alumni, faculty, and friends.
David Anthony, associate professor of history, delivered an inspirational keynote address at the 2005 African American Alumni Reunion Dinner.
Mary Silver, professor of ocean sciences, was the expert guide for "A Day on the Bay" whale-watching cruise that benefited the Lionel Cantú Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Intersex Resource Center.
Women's studies professor Bettina Aptheker spoke to UCSC alumni in Boston on February 28.
Los Angeles chapter board and Alumni Councilors met with Chancellor Denice D. Denton on April 9.
State Senator Jackie Speier visited UCSC on April 24. She is gathering information for a series of hearings she is conducting in Sacramento with the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Jack Scott. Senator Speier wants to demonstrate how important the state's investment is in UC, examples of excellence at UC, and what is at risk if budgets keep declining.
Among other campus members, Senator Speier met with sociology professor Dana Takagi, codirector, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community; David Haussler, professor of biomolecular science and engineering; philosophy professor Ellen Suckiel; EVC/Provost David Kliger; Dean Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang, Vice Chancellors Robert Miller, Meredith Michaels, and Francisco Hernandez; interim assistant provost and dean of undergraduate education William Ladusaw; and representatives of the Student Union Assembly, Graduate Student Association, and Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Program.
Alumni Invite Faculty to Speak around the Country
Alumni groups around the country are eager to host faculty speakers. If you are traveling to Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Washington, D.C., New York, or Boston and would be willing to fit a talk into your schedule, please contact Allison Garcia in the Alumni Office at acgarcia@ucsc.edu or 459-3966.
Showcasing Faculty in the News
Faculty achievements are regularly chronicled in Currents Online (http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/) and via news releases produced in UR’s Public Affairs unit.
Among recent headliners are the following representative examples:
United Press International and Canada's Leader-Post were among the media outlets that covered research by psychologist Mara Mather, who found that older people make decisions differently from younger people.
Biologist Steven Berkeley was featured in stories about fish populations and fisheries management that appeared in the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald, Guardian (London), Irish Independent, and the Greenwire and Press Association wire service reports.
The San Francisco Chronicle cited a book cowritten by American studies professor emerita Judy Yung, Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940, in an article about Asian American history.
Physicist David Smith was quoted in stories about his research on terrestrial gamma-ray flashes in New Scientist magazine, the Washington Times, and online news sites Discovery News, MSNBC, Science Daily, SpaceRef, and Space Daily.
Sociologist Hiroshi Fukurai was quoted in a San Francisco Daily Journal article about charges that anti-Semitism influenced the makeup of jury panels in capital cases in Alameda County from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. The New York Times picked up the story, bringing national attention to claims of bias in the juror selection process, which is Fukurai's specialty.
Economist Michael Dooley continues to garner media attention for his views regarding foreign investment in the U.S. economy, most recently in Newsweek's cover story about the falling dollar.
Research by biologist Donald Croll on the effects of foxes introduced to the Aleutian Islands was covered in the Christian Science Monitor, Miami Herald, Duluth News Tribune, Ventura County Star, Lincoln Journal Star, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, and online news sites Live Science and Science Daily.
The San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, and Good Times all ran feature stories on UCSC's 2005 Pacific Rim Music Festival, quoting artistic director and associate music professor Hi Kyung Kim and music professor Nicole Paiement. Metro Santa Cruz also ran a story on the festival quoting music lecturer John Sackett.
The media were on hand when research associates Glenn Stewart and Brian Latta banded four peregrine falcon chicks in a nest on the PG&E building in San Francisco. Coverage included the San Francisco Chronicle, Contra Costa Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Associated Press, and KPIX TV.
Literature professor Nathaniel Mackey was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about jazz musician Cecil Taylor and the opening of a new documentary film titled Cecil Taylor: All the Notes.
A report of faculty featured in the international, national, state, and regional news media is posted every month at http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/media_highlights/