- David Haussler
David Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; scientific co-director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research; and a consulting professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and UC San Francisco Biopharmaceutical Sciences Department. - Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, … - Joel Primack
Joel Primack is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and works at the Lick Observatory. Dr. Primack received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970. According to his web site at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dr. Primack's specific field of study is relativistic quantum field theory, cosmology and particle astrophysics. - George Blumenthal
George Blumenthal is an American professor and astronomer and the Acting Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is known particularly for his work with Santa Cruz colleagues Sandra M. Faber and Joel Primack and with Martin Rees of Cambridge University on dark matter. Their theory of cold dark matter, developed in the 1980s, remains the standard explanation of the formation of galaxies and galaxy clusters. - Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway, born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. She is the author of "Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology" (1976), "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science" (1989), "Simians, Cyborgs, … - Jim Kent
Jim Kent is an American research scientist and computer programmer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a major contributor to genome database projects. While a graduate student in biology there, he wrote the program that allowed the publicly funded Human Genome Project to assemble and publish the human genome database before the commercial effort by the company Celera Genomics. - Denice Denton
Denice Dee Denton was the seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She held the position from February 14 2005 until her suicide 16 months later on June 24, 2006. Denton also held a UCSC appointment as Professor of Electrical Engineering. - Ellen Moir
Ellen Moir is the founder and executive director of The New Teacher Center, based at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Established in 1998, the Center is devoted to the development, induction, and mentoring of beginning teachers. - G. William Domhoff
G. William (Bill) Domhoff (born August 6, 1936) is a Research Professor in psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is best known for his controversial 1960s bestseller, "Who Rules America?", which argued that the country was dominated by the elite classes, both politically and economically. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of George William and Helen S. (Cornet) Domhoff. - David Cope
David Cope (b. San Francisco, California, United States, May 17, 1941) is an American author, composer, scientist, and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involves artificial intelligence and music; he writes programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. - Rychard Bouwens
Rychard Bouwens is a postdoctoral astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a member of the Advanced Camera for Surveys Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) team. He works on the interpretation of high redshift starbursts. He created the Bouwens' Universe Construction Set (BUCS), which can simulate arbitrary galaxy fields and calculate any galaxy observables. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry, and mathematics from Hope College. - Martin Abadi
Martín Abadi is a computer scientist, currently working at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987 as a student of Zohar Manna. He is well-known for his work on computer security and on programming languages, including his paper (with Burrows and Roger Needham) on the "Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic" for analyzing authentication protocols, and his book (with Luca Cardelli) "A Theory of Objects", … - Hayden White
Hayden White (1928-) is an historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work "Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe" (1973). He is currently professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. White rejected the post-Collingwoodian philosophy of history by brushing away previous distinctions and debates, … - John Laird
John Laird is a politician from California, currently representing the 27th district in the California State Assembly as a Democrat. Laird and Mark Leno were the first gay men to serve in the California legislature. Laird become one of the United States first openly gay mayors in 1983. Laird's 27th district stretches from Santa Cruz County down through the Monterey Bay and down the coast to the San Luis Obispo county line. - Chris Brown
Chris Brown (b. 1953) is a composer, pianist, and electronic musician, who creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. Born and raised in Chicago, he moved to California to study electronic music with Gordon Mumma and composition with William Brooks at University of California, Santa Cruz, and with David Rosenboom at Mills College. - Stephen Thorsett
Stephen Erik Thorsett (b. December 3, 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professor and astronomer. His research interests include radio pulsars and gamma ray bursts. He is best known for measurements of the masses of neutron stars and for the use of binary pulsars to test the theory of general relativity. In 2004, with collaborators Ingrid Stairs and Zaven Arzoumanian, he made the first measurement of gravitational spin-orbit coupling in a binary system. - Ralph Abraham
Ralph H. Abraham (b. July 4 1936, Burlington, Vermont) is an American mathematician. He has been a member of the mathematics department at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1968. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1960, and held positions at Berkeley, Columbia, and Princeton. He has also held visiting positions in Amsterdam, Paris, Warwick, Barcelona, Basel, and Florence. - Manfred K. Warmuth
Manfred K. Warmuth is a researcher and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His main research interest is computational learning theory with a special focus on online learning algorithms. - Judy Yung
Judy Yung is professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in oral history, women's history, and Chinese American and Asian American history. She is author of "Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940" (1980), … - Sandra M. Faber
Sandra Moore Faber (1944 -) is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and works at the Lick Observatory. In 1972 she received her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University, prior to that she obtained a B.A., with high honors, in physics from Swarthmore College, in 1966. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society on 29 April 2001. - Teresa de Lauretis
Teresa de Lauretis is an Italian born author and Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of several books on semiotics, feminist theory, film theory, and literature, best known for her work in narratology, such as her book "Alice Doesn't". Her account of subjectivity as a product of "being subject/ed to semiosis" (i.e., … - Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. She has made major contributions to post-Foucaultian political theory and feminist theory. In particular, she uses the ideas of Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Frankfurt School theorists, Foucault, and contemporary continental philosophers to address problematics of political power, political identity, citizenship, and political subjectivity. - Page Smith
Charles Page Smith (September 6, 1917 - August 28, 1995), who was known by his middle name, was a U.S. historian, professor, author, and newspaper columnist. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Smith graduated with a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1940. He then worked at Camp William James, a center for youth leadership training opened in 1940 by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, a Dartmouth College professor, as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps. - Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin (born 1941) is an artist and a writer. Burgin was born in Sheffield in England. He studied art at the Royal College of Art, in London,from 1962 to 1965 (A.R.C.A., 1st Class, 1965) before going to the United States to study at Yale University (M.F.A. 1967). He has taught at Trent Polytechnic from 1967 to 1973 and at the School of Communication, Polytechnic of Central London from 1973 to 1988. - Julian Bleecker
Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and the Near Future Laboratory where he investigates emerging social practices around new networked interaction rituals. He focuses on hands-on prototyping as a way to make new things. He lectures and leads workshops on the intersections of art, design, technology and the near-future possibilities for new social-technical interaction rituals. - Karen Tei Yamashita
Born January 8, 1951 in Oakland, California, Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese American writer and Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches creative writing and Asian American Literature. Her works, several of which contain elements of magic realism, include "Circle K Cycles" (2001), "Tropic of Orange" (1997), "Brazil-Maru" (1992), and "Through the Arc of the Rainforest" (1990). - Alison Galloway
Alison Galloway is a forensic anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is best known for her work in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial. She co-edited a book called "The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective" with Mary Morbeck and Adrienne Zihlmann. ("Politics and the Life Sciences" Mar2000, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p119, 2p) - David Deida
David Deida is an American author. Deida focuses on his theories about the different ways that men and women grow emotionally and sexually. Deida has designed and developed a program of practices that addresses his concepts. He is a founding associate of the Integral Institute and has taught and conducted research at the University of California Medical School in San Diego, University of California, Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, … - Dean McHenry
Dean E. McHenry was the founding chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA in 1932; he also received a master's degree (Stanford University, 1933) and a Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1936). He taught government at Williams College and political science at Pennsylvania State College, and became a member of the faculty of political science at UCLA. - Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano has established a reputation as a gifted interpreter of both the operatic and symphonic repertoire. The 2006-2007 season is the first he heads as Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal. He is officially the eighth music director of the OSM. In April 2007, he made his first coast-to-coast Canadian tour with the OSM. - B. Ruby Rich
B. Ruby Rich (born 1948) is an American scholar, critic of gay films, and an assistant professor of community studies at UC Santa Cruz. She has also taught documentary film and queer studies during spring semesters at UC Berkeley. She is credited with coining the term New Queer Cinema. Rich began her career in film exhibition, in 1972, as founder of the Woods Hole Film Society. She then became associate director of the Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago. - Norman O. Brown
Norman Oliver Brown (1913, El Oro, Mexico - 2002, Santa Cruz, California) was an American intellectual of wide ranging interests. His father was an Anglo-Irish mining engineer; his mother was a Cuban of Alsatian and Cuban origin. He was educated at Clifton College, then Balliol College, Oxford (BA, MA, Greats; his tutor was Isaiah Berlin), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD, Classics). - John Dizikes
John Dizikes Ph.D. (born 1932) is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz who served as Cowell College provost and who is a recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association's "Distinguished Teaching Award." Professor Dizikes is the author of a number of articles and books and won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award. With an interest in thoroughbred horse racing, in 2000 he wrote the life story of Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan - Madison Nguyen
Madison P. Nguyen in an American politician from California, currently serving on the San Jose, California City Council, representing District 7. Born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States in early 80s, she received her BA in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and her MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago.She used to teach sociology and Vietnamese American Culture at De Anza and Evergreen colleges, San Jose, CA. - Ron Gonzales
Ronald R. Gonzales (born 1951) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, who served as the 63<sup>rd</sup> Mayor of San Jose, California. Gonzales was the first Hispanic Mayor of San Jose since California became a U.S. state in 1850. Gonzales grew up in the Santa Clara Valley, and graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, … - Sage Weil
Sage Weil is the creator of the Webring concept. In May 1994 he designed the original WebRing concept, using his own centralized cgi-script. This idea eventually became what is now known as "Webring". It was later sold to GeoCities. Meanwhile Sage continued his work at DreamHost (New Dream Network, LLC). There he helped to develop tools such as DreamBook (A Guest Book tool). Presently he is working towards his PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz, … - John B. Simpson
John B. Simpson is the current president of the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system. He assumed this position on January 1 2004, after leaving his position as executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of California, Santa Cruz. - Tom Banks
Tom Banks is a theoretical physicist at University of California, Santa Cruz and an emeritus professor at Rutgers University. His work centers around string theory and its applications to high energy particle physics and cosmology. He received his PhD in Physics from MIT in 1973. Along with Fischler, Shenker, and Susskind, he is one of the 4 originators of M(atrix) theory, or BFSS Matrix Theory, an attempt to formulate M theory in a nonperturbative manner. - Robert Trivers
Robert L. Trivers, (born 19 February 1943, pronounced as) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), and parent-offspring conflict (1974). Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an adaptive view of self-deception (first described in 1976) and intragenomic conflict. - Patricia Nelson Limerick
Patricia Nelson Limerick (born May 17 1951) is an American historian, considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West. She was born and raised in Banning, California. Limerick received a B.A. in American Studies in 1972 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1980 from Yale University. She worked at Harvard University as an Assistant Professor from 1980 to 1984.
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