CHANCELLOR GEORGE BLUMENTHAL AND THE
UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION BOARD INVITES YOU FOR DINNER AND AN EVENING OF SPIRITED CONVERSATION, WITH LEADING UCSC FACULTY, OUTSTANDING STUDENTS AND ENGAGED ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2013 | 6:30 PM
MILLENNIUM BILTMORE HOTEL
CRYSTAL BALLROOM
560 SOUTH GRAND AVE., LOS ANGELES
COCKTAIL ATTIRE
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David Haussler is a UC Santa Cruz distinguished professor of biomolecular engineering and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His team built the computer method to assemble the first full working draft of the human genome and then created the UCSC Genome Browser--used by hundreds of thousands of biologists and biomedical researchers worldwide for sophisticated cross-species genome analysis. He now applies the same platform to cancer genomes, collaborating with researchers at medical centers nationally to discover molecular causes of cancer and pioneer a new personalized, genomics-based approach to cancer treatment.
Terrie Williams is a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, co-founder of the Center for Ocean Health, and director of the Marine Mammal Physiology Project at UCSC. A wildlife biologist, she investigates how large animals, from elephants to killer whales, survive on our changing planet. Williams has written two popular books, The Hunter's Breath, about her studies of Weddell seals in Antarctica, and The Odyssey of KP2, about her work with endangered Hawaiian monk seals.
John Weber is the founding director of UCSC's new Institute of Arts & Sciences. He was formerly Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College—one of the country's top university teaching museums. Prior to that he spent over a decade at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, spearheading their education efforts and public programs, and founding SFMOMA's interactive educational technologies program.