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 Berman
Professor and Chair, Biomolecular Engineering

Professor Berman is a pioneer in the development of recombinant vaccines for AIDS and other infectious diseases and has nearly 25 years of experience in the biotechnology industry. He spent 15 years at Genentech, where he led research on recombinant proteins, vaccine development, and monoclonal antibodies and cofounded VaxGen, where he served as senior vice president for research and development. In 2004, Professor Berman cofounded Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, a nonprofit research organization that addresses infections disease problems in the developing world.

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. Professor Crews is also director of UCSC's ACCESS program, which is an academic bridge program for community college students interested in pursuing a career in research science.

Sharon Daniel
Professor, Film and Digital Media

Dr. Daniel is an Internet artist and activist who works with members of disenfranchised communities to give them a voice. She is a winner of a 2008 Media Arts Fellowship from the Tribeca Film Institute for artists “whose work is innovative, creative, and pushes boundaries.” In 2007 she was named an Official Honoree in the Activism category at the 11th annual Webby Awards, which have been described as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times.

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 designed the Deep Extragalactic Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS), which can read high-quality spectra from over 100 galaxies at once. In 2009, Professor Faber received the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which includes a gold medal and a cash prize of $250,000.

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, 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.

Wentai Liu
Professor, Electrical Engineering

Professor Liu directs UCSC's Integrated BioElectronics Research (IBR) Group, which develops miniaturized electronics for interfacing with biological systems and replacing lost biological functionality. For example, the group has pioneered development of retinal prostheses to restore vision in blind patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) and Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) through development of next generation retinal implants. The group's goal is to create implants that will enable facial recognition and independent mobility.

Nathaniel Mackey
Professor, Literature

Professor Mackey is an internationally known poet, literary critic, fiction writer, and journal editor who is considered one of the most innovative contemporary American experimental authors. Of his nine books of poetry, the latest, Splay Anthem, received the 2006 National Book Award, and Eroding Witness (1985), was published in the National Poetry Series. He has received the Whiting Writer’s Award and was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Professor Mackey has also authored two volumes of literary criticism and has served as editor of the literary journal Hambone for 30 years.

Michael Mateas
Associate Professor, Computer Science

A lead faculty member in UCSC's computer game design program, Dr. Mateas is a leading researcher in the area of artificial intelligence for computer games. He is considered a pioneer for his work as codeveloper of Façade, hailed as the first in a new genre of interactive games that involve computer-controlled characters with rich emotions, dialogue, and interactions with their environment. Dr. Mateas runs the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz, which explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, art, and design.

Claire Max
Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Professor Max is a pioneer in the field of adaptive optics, a technology that removes the blurring effects of turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere, allowing telescopes on the ground to see as clearly as if they were in space. She directs the Center for Adaptive Optics, a Science and Technology Center funded by the National Science Foundation and headquartered at UCSC. In 2008 Professor Max was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished achievements in original research.

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.

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.

Raquel Prado
Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Dr. Prado is a statistician whose research deals with developing sophisticated Bayesian models and methodology to analyze data that arise in various biomedical applications. She is currently working on statistical genetics and non-stationary time series modeling. Her areas of application include studying the effect of natural selection in DNA sequences from malaria antigens that are candidates for vaccine development, and modeling biomedical signals such as electroencephalograms.

Daniel Press
Olga T. Griswold Professor and Chair, Environmental Studies

Professor Press is an expert on environmental politics and policy. As a member of the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, one of the nine regional boards that oversee water quality protection in California, Professor Press is directly involved with complex environmental issues in the Santa Cruz area. The author of Saving Open Space: The Politics of Local Preservation in California (2002), he also won a Social Sciences “Golden Apple” Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008.

Alan Richards
Professor, Environmental Studies

Professor Richards has taught at UCSC for 32 years, first in the Economics Department and more recently in Environmental Studies. His experience living in the Middle East and working at the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Agency for International Development informs his teaching, as does his interdisciplinary approach to scholarship. A Political Economy of the Middle East, which he coauthored with John Waterbury,was named one of the "21 Best Books in Middle Eastern Studies" by the American University in Cairo, Egypt. In 2005, he was invited to the Pentagon to brief top officials there about the sources of instability in the Middle East and beyond.

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.

Shelley Stamp
Professor and Chair, Film and Digital Media

Professor Stamp is an expert on silent films and women filmmakers who was named a 2003 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her publications include the book Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon (2000), which was named as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. She also co-edited “Women and the Silent Screen” (2006), a special issue of Film History, with UCSC Assistant Professor Amelie Hastie.

Georges Van Den Abbeele
Dean, Division of Humanities

A scholar of French literature and philosophy with a wide expertise in public humanities programs and education, Dean Van Den Abbeele was awarded a 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Social Sciences by the European Academy of Sciences. Dean Van Den Abbeele was chosen "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the rethinking of human and social studies in a contemporary context, including philosophy, anthropology, and the impact of cognitive studies on the 'digital divide.'" He was also recognized for his original research on comparative francophone cultures and on the history of the idea of Europe.

Patricia Zavella
Professor and Chair, Latin American and Latino Studies

Professor Zavella is a well known scholar of Chicana/o-Latina/o studies. She has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in Hispanic Business magazine and received the 2002-03 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar Award. She also co-authored, with the Latina Feminist Group, the award-winning Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. In 2007, she co-edited the new book Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader.