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About the Program

In celebration of the bond between the written word and the achievement of scholars, the UCSC Library, the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, and the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences are proud to sponsor the Honored Faculty, Honored Books Program. This joint initiative recognizes the achievements of faculty in the school who have attained tenure and/or received promotion. The occasion is marked by the celebration of both the scholar and a book they select as having most influenced them as a scientist and educator. The faculty and their selected books are celebrated with a gala reception held in the Science & Engineering Library. The honored book is added to the library collection and inscribed with a personalized bookplate in their honor. This commemorative Web site showcases the titles that the faculty members selected along with their description of the significance of the book to their lives and careers.

2006 Honored Faculty

Andrew Chisholm

Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology


Don Croll

Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cormac Flanagan

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Lindsay Hinck

Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Raphe Kudela

Associate Professor, Ocean Sciences

Greg Laughlin

Associate Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Onuttom Narayan

Professor, Physics

Karen Ottemann

Associate Professor, Environmental Toxicology


Jie Qing

Professor, Mathematics


Christina Ravelo

Professor, Ocean Sciences


Holger Schmidt

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering


Ali Shakouri

Professor, Electrical Engineering


Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Alan Zahler

Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology



The Honoring Ceremony

The faculty and their selected books will be celebrated with a gala reception in the Science & Engineering Library Current Periodicals Room on Wednesday, February 8th, at 2:30 in the afternoon.

 

Program:

 

Welcoming Remarks and Introduction

University Librarian Virginia Steel

 

Opening Remarks

Chancellor Denice D. Denton

EVC & Campus Provost David S. Kliger

 

Recognition of Faculty

Interim Dean Stephen S. Thorsett, Division of Physical and Biological Sciences

Associate Dean Darrell Long, Baskin School of Engineering


Reception immediately following

Pictures of the ceremony

Honored Books

Advice to a Young Scientist by Peter B. Medawar

selected by Andrew Chisholm


The Elements of Classical Thermodynamics by A.B. Pippard selected by Onuttom Narayan

Inward Bound by Abraham Pais

selected by Greg Laughlin


Lectures on Differential Geometry
by S. S. Chern, W. Chen and K. Lam

selected by Jie Qing

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry selected by Lindsay Hinck

Men of Mathematics by E.T. Bell

selected by Cormac Flanagan


Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif

selected by Karen Ottemann

The Physicists by Friedrich Duerrenmatt

selected by Holger Schmidt


Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology
by Park S. Nobel

selected by Raphe Kudela


Reflections on Gender and Science by Evelyn Fox Keller selected by Christina Ravelo

Science and the Myth of Progress by Mehrdad M. Zarandi selected by Ali Shakouri

The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen selected by Don Croll

The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education by Robert L. Sinsheimer

selected by Alan Zahler

The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids
by Ronald G. Larson

selected by Hongyun Wang

 

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