Lawrence Andrews
Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media

Lawrence Andrews is a nationally recognized filmmaker and artist whose interests include installation, media art, and documentary. His works have been displayed at the Whitney Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, as well as the Museum of Modern Art and the Capp Street Project in San Francisco. In 1997 he received a Eureka Fellowship Award, which is presented every three years to outstanding young Bay Area artists. San Francisco Focus magazine describes his videotapes and installations as “stark, fearless explorations of race, class, and history.”

Bettina Aptheker
Professor, Feminist Studies

Professor Aptheker's historical and feminist work focuses on the U.S., with an expertise in African American women's history and a strong emphasis on women of color, race, sexuality, and movements for political, social, and economic justice. Her book Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience is a classic in women's studies. She also has a national reputation for her pedagogical talents and as a builder of women's studies and has won many awards for her teaching.

Phillip Crews
Professor, Chemistry

Using bioassay-guided isolation, Professor Crews researches marine natural products with the goal of discovering natural products potent against human diseases such as cancer or viruses. His research has far-reaching implications in areas such as chemical ecology, marine natural products biosynthesis, and the relationship between secondary metabolite chemistry and taxonomy.

Sandra Faber
University Professor and Chair, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomer, UC Observatories/Lick Observatory

Professor Faber is well known for having helped discover the Great Attractor, a massive supercluster of galaxies. She also helped plan the Keck Telescope on Hawaii and designed the Deep Extragalactic Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS), which can read high-quality spectra from over 100 galaxies at once. In 2003, Discover magazine named her one of the 50 most influential women scientists.

Russell Flegal
Professor, Environmental Toxicology

The primary focus of Professor Flegal's research is on the biogeochemical cycles of pollutant metals in the environment. This includes studies of the global lead cycle, mercury in San Francisco Bay, and hexavalent chromium in groundwater. These and other investigations are designed to determine the sources of toxic metals, the processes governing their transport and fate in the environment, and their impact on environmental and human health.

Alison Galloway
Professor of Anthropology, Interim Vice Provost of Academic Affairs

Professor Galloway is one of about 50 highly trained forensic anthropologists in the country who regularly investigate crime scenes and analyze skeletal remains to gather evidence. Her academic research focuses on decay and decomposition of human remains, changes in the skeleton due to age and life events, and the legal responsibilities of the anthropologist in forensic cases. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology.

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
Professor, Computer Engineering

Professor Garcia-Luna-Aceves specializes in computer communication and holds the Baskin Chair of Computer Engineering. He has coauthored the book Multimedia Communications: Protocols and Applications and has published more than 240 technical papers. A former Center Director at SRI International, he has consulted for Sun Labs as a visiting professor and as a Principal of Protocol Design for Nokia Wireless Routers.

Claire Gu
Professor, Electrical Engineering

Claire Gu's specialty is the use of photonic materials and devices in information systems, including fiber sensors, optical fiber communications, volume holographic data storage, liquid crystal displays, nonlinear optics, and optical information processing. She is currently exploring the possibility of combining nano materials and photonic technologies for chemical and biological detection.

Craig Haney
Professor, Psychology

Professor Haney, who holds both a Ph.D. and a law degree, is an expert on incarceration and capital punishment in the U.S. whose testimony has proven critical in numerous court decisions. He has taught at UC Santa Cruz for over 25 years, and students have honored him with both the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Distinguished Teaching Award.

David Haussler
Professor, Computer Science; Scientific Co-Director, QB3

Professor Haussler leads the UC Santa Cruz Genome Bioinformatics group, well known for the computer assembly and analysis of the human genome and comparisons with other genomes. These can be viewed at the UC Santa Cruz Genome Browser. He is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a consulting professor for Stanford Medical School, and an adjunct professor in the UCSF Biopharmaceutical Sciences Department. Professor Haussler received the 2004 Allen Newell Award from the Association for Computing Machinery and was named R&D magazine's 2001 Scientist of the Year. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

David Hoy
Professor, Philosophy

Professor Hoy is known for initiating interdisciplinary approaches to critical thinking. Books that he has authored and edited include Critical Resistance (MIT Press, 2004), Critical Theory (with Thomas McCarthy), Foucault: A Critical Reader, and The Critical Circle. He has directed seven National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes at UC Santa Cruz. Professor Hoy was awarded a UC Presidential Chair in 2000 and the title of Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in 2004.

Harry Noller
Sinsheimer Professor, Molecular Biology

Professor Noller is well known for his ground-breaking research on ribosomes, the protein factories of all living cells. Winner of the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research and the Newcomb Cleveland Prize, he is director of the Center for Molecular Biology of RNA and belongs to the National Academy of Sciences.

Paul Ortiz
Associate Professor, Community Studies

Paul Ortiz, associate professor of community studies, has published extensively on the Jim Crow era of U.S. Southern history. In 2002, he joined the ranks of Roots author Alex Haley and Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier when he won the 2002 Lillian Smith Book Award for his work on Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South, a book of oral histories of African Americans who lived in the segregated South.

Nicole Paiement
Professor, Music; Coordinator, UCSC Ensembles

Professor Paiement specializes in 20th-century French music and new music. In addition to leading the UCSC Ensembles, she keeps a busy schedule of guest conducting and special appearances worldwide. Professor Paiement has published widely, including a catalog of the works of composer Henri Collet; and she has participated in over 20 recordings, most of which focus on world premieres.

Ali Shakouri
Professor, Electrical Engineering

As technical director of a team of top researchers from other institutions, Professor Shakouri contributed to a project that used nanostructured semiconductor material to create new microrefrigerator devices for overheated computer chips. He is the head of a team of researchers from UC Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, and three other universities who were recently awarded a $6 million grant to apply that technology to creating more efficient direct thermal to electric energy conversion systems.