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*[[Cary Joji Fukunaga]], BA 1999 - [[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]] Award winning filmmaker (''[[Sin Nombre (2009 film)|Sin Nombre]]'') |
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*[[Matthew Gray Gubler]], BA – Actor ([[Criminal Minds]]), and Director |
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*[[Richard Harris]] - National Public Radio science reporter |
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*[[Victor Krummenacher]]<ref name="Non-Grad"/> - Bassist for [[Camper Van Beethoven]], [[Monks of Doom]], etc. |
*[[Victor Krummenacher]]<ref name="Non-Grad"/> - Bassist for [[Camper Van Beethoven]], [[Monks of Doom]], etc. |
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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
Academia
- 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
- Dan Friedman - Ph.D - Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz
- Alexander Gonzalez, Ph.D 1979 – President of California State University, Sacramento
- Steven G. Krantz, B.A - Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Chauvenet Prize.
- Annette Lareau, B.A. 1974 - Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania
- Tod Machover – MIT Media Lab
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Deborah Madison BA 1968 - cookbook author, founding chef of the Greens Restaurant
- Martha Mendoza, BA 1987 – AP reporter; shared the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism in 2000 for her team's work on the No Gun Ri story[2][3]
- Kent Nagano, BA 1974 - Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
- Alan Phinney, BA 1986 - Sunset (magazine), Managing Editor
- 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 Scherer, BA 1998 -- TIME Washington correspondent
- Lore Sjöberg[1] - Writer
- Andrea Smith, PhD 2002 - Cherokee activist and author
- Jeremy Strick - BA - Director, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA)
- 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".
- Kennan Ward, BA 1980 - Wildlife photographer and author
- 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
- Belle Yang - Author
- Laurence Yep – Author
Business
- Andrew "Drew" Goodman, BA, Founder and CEO, Earthbound Farm
- Herb W. Morgan, BA, 1988 Economics - Notable Alumnus, Founder & CEO Efficient Market Advisors
- Vaughn Stakes, BA, Politics - CEO at The Triathlete Store, President at Metropolis Research
- Susan Wojcicki, MS - Vice President, Product Management at Google
Entertainment and broadcasting
- Ashkon, BA - Rapper
- Michael Beardsley, BA 1998, Theater Arts - Actor
- 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, award-winning film writer for Star Trek Generations
- Bill Carter, BA, Politics, Economics - Documentary film director and author
- Brett Dennen, Singer, songwriter
- Cary Joji Fukunaga, BA 1999 - Sundance Award winning filmmaker (Sin Nombre)
- Matthew Gray Gubler, BA – Actor (Criminal Minds), and Director The best actor ever
- Richard Harris - National Public Radio science reporter
- 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
- Paul David Magid, BA 1976 - Founding Member of The Flying Karamazov Brothers
- Camryn Manheim, BA 1984 - Actress
- Stephen Mirrione, BA - Academy Award-winning film editor
- Marti Noxon, BA - TV Producer
- Davia Nelson, BA 1975 - One half of The Kitchen Sisters, who are regularly featured on NPR
- Bradley Nowell[1], Singer and songwriter with Sublime
- Joe Palca, PhD 1982 - National Public Radio science reporter
- Howard J Patterson - Founding Member of The Flying Karamazov Brothers
- 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
- Akiva Schaffer, BA -SNL writer, filmmaker
- Tim Schafer[1] - Game designer for Lucasarts and founder of Doublefine Productions
- John D. Scott, BA 1987 - Singer, songwriter, voice instructor
- 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 PRI's The Sound of Young America
- Ally Walker, BS - Actress
- Gillian Welch, BA 1990 - Singer and songwriter
- Rich Wilkes, BA 1988 - Write, Filmmaker (Billy Madison, Stoned Age, Beer Money, XXX, Airheads)
Law
- Ellen Leonida, defense attorney for Scott Dyleski
- Joan E. Donoghue, BA 1978 - judge on the International Court of Justice
Politics and public life
- 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
- Azadeh Moaveni, BA - journalist and writer
- Timothy Morgan, BA - Republican National Committee Treasurer
- Huey P. Newton, 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
Science
- Richard Bandler MA 1975[4] - 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
- J. Doyne Farmer, PhD 1981 - Physics Researcher at Santa Fe Institute
- 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[5]
- Steven Hawley, PhD 1977 - Astronaut
- Geoffrey Marcy, PhD 1982 - Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley and planet finder
- Marc Okrand, BA 1972 - Linguist, creator of the Klingon language
- Julie Packard, BA 1974 - Executive Director, Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Cheryl Scott, BS 1974 - Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention operations in Tanzania from 2001 to 2005
- 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
Sports
- Anton Peterlin, soccer player
- Matt Seeberger, tennis player
Notable faculty
- Ralph Abraham - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; notable for founding the Visual Mathematics Institute and for his pioneering work on Chaos Theory
- Luca de Alfaro - designer of reliability rating software that closed Wikipedia from the notion that "anyone can edit" it.
- 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.
- Harry Berger, Jr. – member of the AAAS (elected 2006)[6]
- Norman O. Brown - late Professor Emeritus of Humanities
- Joseph Frederick Bunnett – member of the AAAS (elected 1959)[6]; see Radical-nucleophilic aromatic substitution
- James Clifford - Professor of History of Consciousness. Renowned for groundbreaking publications of postmodernist and postcolonial interpretations of anthropology and ethnography: Writing Culture and The Predicament of Culture and Routes.
- 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)[6].
- 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)[6], 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 [6]
- Donna Haraway - Professor of History of Consciousness. Doctorate in biology. Often cited author of feminist history of science and culture studies of cyborg. Books: Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science and Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.
- 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)[6] and the National Academy of Sciences.
- 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 Paul Kraft – member of the AAAS (elected 1974)[6].
- Tom Lehrer - lecturer in American Studies and Mathematics. Also well known for his satire and songwriting.
- Douglas N. C. Lin – member of the AAAS (elected 2002)[6].
- Christopher Macann - philosopher, author of the metaphysical system, 'Being and Becoming'.
- 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 – member of the AAAS (elected 2002)[6].
- Gordon Mumma - Professor Emeritus of Music, composer
- Richard Abel Musgrave – member of the AAAS (elected 1961)[6].
- 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)[6] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1992).
- Donald E. Osterbrock – member of the AAAS (elected 1968)[6] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1966).
- Ira Pohl - Professor of Computer Science, Fellow of the ACM; well known for the theory of heuristic search. Author of many CS books, including A Book on C.
- 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)[6].
- Nirvikar Singh - Professor of Economics. Notable for research on federalism, governance, and economic reform in India.
- Robert L. Sinsheimer - Professor Emeritus of Biology and former Chancellor.
- Michael Ellman Soule – member of the AAAS (elected 2005)[6]
- Ben Stein – Former professor of economics more notable for his work as a comedian, actor and political commentator
- Elizabeth Stephens - Performance artist and longtime partner of artist/sex expert Annie Sprinkle [1]
- Roland G. Tharp - Professor Emeritus of Education. Considered to be the most influential expert in modern social constructivist theories in education.
- Stephen Thorsett - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Dean of Physical and Biological Science. Known for work on properties of compact stars.
- Hayden White – member of the AAAS (elected 1991)[6].
- Harold Widom – member of the AAAS (elected 2006)[6].
- 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)[6].
Notes and references
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Attended but did not graduate.
- ^ Tad Whitaker, Marin Independent Journal, August 10, 2007, "Local crowd hears Marin reporter discuss book on AP coverage", accessed August 19, 2007
- ^ Jim Burns, UC Santa Cruz Sentinel Online,"" April 10, 2000, "UCSC graduate wins Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism", accessed August 19, 2007
- ^ BA from UCSC in 1972, MA - Lone Mountain College, 1975
- ^ John Grinder (1971). On deletion phenomena in English. Thesis (PhD. in Linguistics). University of California, San Diego. OCLC 17641707
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Bulletin of the American Academy, Fall 2006, pp 66 - 104, "List of Active Members by Classes", accessed July 17, 2007