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Letter from the Dean

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A Legacy of Excellence and Diversity

In early December 2003, UC President Emeritus Clark Kerr died at the age of 92. He was an iconin higher education, perhaps the most important figure in the field in the second half of thetwentieth century. For us, he was the architect of The California Master Plan, created in the 1960s,the vision that created the best public university in the nation.

The cornerstones of that vision were excellence and diversity. A great university needed both,he believed — one without the other would not produce greatness. Berkeley, as the flagship of theUC system, has, in my opinion, gone further than any other major research university in thecountry in achieving that goal.

Excellence is measured in many ways, but by all national rankings, the graduate programs atBerkeley are at the top among major research universities. We offer 105 graduate programs —almost all are in the top ten and most are among the top five. We award the most doctorates in thecountry (930 per year is the current pace) — representing a veritable smorgasbord of intellectualactivity, but more importantly, according to the National Research Council, we have moretop-ranked doctoral programs than any other university anywhere in the world.

Diversity takes many forms, and can be subtle. But as you walk down Sproul Plaza, you seefaces of many hues — none of them making up a majority. Today, no single ethnic or racial groupcomprises more than 30 some percent of the entire student body.

The undergraduate population is diverse in a different way than the graduate student body.The most gifted high school students in California, from all backgrounds, compete to come toBerkeley. These are incredibly smart and hard-working students — and 60 percent of them have atleast one parent who was not born in this country.

Graduate students have a far wider geographical base. They are superbly talented studentsfrom all over the country and the world. The great majority are not Californians; about 30 percentare minority students and another 20 percent are international students.

This diversity in our student population is critical to the excellence of our university because itprovides the best possible learning environment: critical thinking honed by different perspectives.If all students came from the same cultural and intellectual background there would be few ideas toexchange.

Both excellence and diversity are facing severe challenges, right now and in what we can see ofthe future. Our efforts to preserve them will shape the university for generations to come.

These are difficult economic times for our society and unusually stringent budget times for theuniversity. In order not to lose the greatness that Berkeley has achieved, we must all rise to thechallenge and work harder. In particular, it is vital that we retain our stellar faculty and we stillmust recruit the best, brightest, and most diverse graduate students in the world.

Friends of the university are stepping up to help support this mission. We recently received amajor bequest for graduate student support from a loyal and generous alumnus, William V. Power.We are using it to provide a competitive edge in attracting the best graduate students. Our surveyshave shown that one factor, a small difference in stipend, can make the difference as to whether astudent chooses Berkeley over another university. The Power Award will allow all departments tomake that difference.

Finally, we must remember Clark Kerr’s vision — a great university is built on a foundation ofboth excellence and diversity.

Mary Ann MasonDean of the Graduate Division

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FEATURES

By the Power Vested 4An unpretentious alum’s gift to graduatestudentsBy Lisa Harrington

Opening the “Gateway” to TalentedGrad Students 5Cabello family endowment honors avictim of the Chilean coupBy Cathy Cockrell

Gritty Journey to Kashmir Leads toSundance Honor 6Shilpi Gupta’s documentary reveals thespoils of warBy Lauren Gard

Local Hero 14Carmen Foghorn looks for the best inpeople — and often finds itBy Lisa Harrington

They Come in Peace 17Rotary Scholars, not otherworldy at all,are here to save the planetBy Dick Cortén

ON THE COVERNemea: Berkeley’s Greek Revival 8Buried for millennia, the ancientOlympic site yields trash and treasuresBy Dick CorténCover photo by Stephen Miller

Graduate DivisionUniversity of California, Berkeley

Mary Ann Mason, Dean

Joseph J. Duggan, Associate Dean

Carlos A. Fernandez-Pello, Associate Dean

Andrew Szeri, Associate Dean

Stephanie A. Smith,Chief Administrative Officer

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Contents The Graduate • Fall 2005

DEPARTMENTSLetter from the Dean 2

Grad Central: news & events 18

Alumni notes 22

Back page 24

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William V. Power

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Dean Mary Ann Mason and Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl accept William V. Power’s gift from Bob Bridges(center), Power’s classmate, good friend, and executor of his estate.

William V. Power, Class of l930,donated $25 to the university notlong after he graduated. In August2003, he capped a lifetime of givingwith a $46.5 million bequest — one ofthe largest gifts in Berkeley’s history.

important with the introduction ofhigh school exit exams that includealgebraic competencies, notes Lewis.“The Power Award has helped makethis pursuit possible.”

Born and raised in San Francisco,Bill Power had a deep respect foreducation and was determined to goto college. A motivated child, hebegan earning money at age seven asa caddy. His classmates at Berkeley,Bob Bridges and Hubert “Denny”Eller, knew him to be a hard-workingstudent, fine baseball player, and verypersuasive fellow.

After graduation, Power startedan insurance company with classmateJim Dalziel. It was the Depression,without doubt a most challengingtime to start a new business, but “Billconvinced us that now was the timeyou need insurance,” recalls Bridges,laughing. In the following years,Power would build the company intoone of the most successful brokerageson the West Coast, merging with Marsh& McLennan, the largest insurancebrokerage in the world, in the 1970’s.

After he “retired,” Power continuedworking to raise millions for variouscharities and the university. When theClass of 1930 endowed a chair for its50th anniversary, Power was the leaddonor on the project. Later, he gavefunds to create the William V. PowerDistinguished Professorship in Bio-science and left his Portola Valleyhome to the university.

Power’s philanthropy will providesupport for Berkeley graduate stu-dents, faculty, and research for manyyears to come through the WilliamPower Faculty Excellence Fund, theHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute,and the Graduate Division.

William V. Power died on August17, 2003, at the age of 94.

Don McQuade, Vice Chancellorfor University Relations, says, “BillPower’s life and magnificent generos-ity exemplify how the opportunitythat a Cal education creates for onestudent can come full circle andcreate life-changing opportunities forothers.” — Lisa Harrington

An unpretentious alum’s gift to graduate students

Power asked only that his gift beapplied toward the university’s mostpressing needs, designating $5 millionto establish a new endowment forgraduate student awards. An addi-tional $1 million from the Powerestate will provide matching gifts toencourage others to donate funds forfellowships and other support.

Last fall, 118 Berkeley studentsrepresenting more than 100 graduateprograms — from African AmericanStudies to Vision Science — receiveda Power Award, a $2,000 supplementto basic fellowship offers for enteringstudents. For some, the award was akey factor in accepting Berkeley’soffer of admission.

“It makes a huge difference as anincoming graduate student to havethis additional financial assistance,”says Katherine Lewis, a student ineducation. Lewis came to Berkeley toresearch the difficulties studentsexperience when learning algebra, inhopes of identifying and correctinglearning problems, increasingly


Opening the ‘Gateway’to Talented Grad Students

Getting accepted to a selective Berkeley graduate programis only one hurdle for many first-rate students here andabroad. The next big question is how to fund their educa-tion, especially in light of rising fees.

Talented candidates from around the world now havean improved shot at a Berkeley education with the adventof the Gateway Fellowship Program, a creative partnershipbetween the university, the Graduate Division, and Interna-tional House. The Gateway Fellowship includes campusfunding for two years of doctoral level work, room and

By Cathy Cockrell

After Winston’s body was exhumed from a commongrave in 1991, the Cabello family was eventually able tobring civil charges against his murderer in a U.S. court. InOctober 2003, a Florida jury found former army officerArmondo Fernandez Larios liable for torture, crimesagainst humanity, and extra-judicial killing in Winston’s case.It was the first time a Pinochet government figure has beentried in the United States for human-rights abuses in Chile,and the first jury verdict in the U.S. for crimes against human-ity. The jury awarded the family $4 million in damages —though, according to Manuel, they are unlikely to ever collect.

The Cabello family has deep ties to Cal. Manuel andhis wife Dana (both of them Cal students at the time of thecoup), and sisters Zita and Karin all earned degrees atBerkeley, as did three nieces and nephews. Niece DaniaCabello is currently a Cal varsity soccer player.

Manuel praises I-House as “a nurturing place and asymbol of internationalism.” The Gateway Fellowship, hesays, is “a great opportunity” to stretch his family’s contri-bution to I-House through the matching agreement withthe university. The Cabello family also hopes to identifyindividuals in Chile and elsewhere who will contribute tothe endowment in Winston’s memory. They are working toestablish a board of scientists and academics in Chile tohelp identify promising Chilean scholars and guide them inapplying for the Winston Cabello International HouseFellowship at Berkeley. Additional information can befound on the Web (http://www.WinstonCabello.org).

Cathy Cockrell is a wrter for the Public Affairs Office at Berkeley.

Among the first nine recipients of the newly established Gateway Fellowship are(from left) Onur Filiz, from Turkey; Giovanni Gonzalez, from Guatemala; CarolynnRoncaglia, from the United States; and Sener Akturk, from Turkey. Photo courtesy ofInternational House.

Winston Dwight Cabello. Photo courtesy ofthe Cabello family.

board at the Interna-tional House, and astipend from theGraduate Division. Thecampus has pledged toprovide its share of asmany as 25 of thesematching scholarshipseach year; I-House iscurrently fundraising tomatch the offer, as partof its 75th-anniversarycampaign.

In 2003–2004, five first-year doctoral students from theU.S. and four international students received GatewayFellowships. The I-House board’s long-term goal is to fundroom and board for 25 Gateway fellows each year from theinterest generated in perpetuity by 25 named endowmentsof $250,000, or combined contributions in smaller amountsto support the program.

The campaign got off to a resounding start with a half-million-dollar pledge from Cal alumnus Manuel Cabelloand his family. Their gift is in memory of his youngerbrother Winston Dwight Cabello, a Chilean economist whowas killed following the 1973 coup against PresidentSalvador Allende led by Augusto Pinochet. Winston was a28-year-old regional planning official in northern Chilewho worked for the coalition Popular Unity government atthe time of the coup. He was arrested the day after thecoup and killed five weeks later, along with 12 othercivilian prisoners. The junta allowed “big names” to leavethe country, explains Manuel Cabello, director of anOakland-based international student-exchange program.But they set out to kill “middle-level people” who couldpotentially lead resistance efforts.


“I was so adamant that a documen-tary wouldn’t win,” the 26-year-old saida few days later at a cafe near herBerkeley home. “I never expected evento be at Sundance, much less to win.”

Gupta’s passion for filmmaking isrelatively new. The Brown Universitygraduate didn’t spend countless hoursplaying with her parent’s video cameraas a kid; she didn’t even pick it up. Itwasn’t until she enrolled in a photogra-phy class at age 15 that she thought atall about the kind of stories she couldtell through a lens. Eight years later,Gupta began classes in the documentaryprogram at Berkeley’s Graduate Schoolof Journalism, having nixed law schoolat the last minute.

Gupta’s parents emigrated fromIndia before she was born, but the LongIsland, N.Y., native spent six weeksthere every summer as a child. Still, shedoesn’t speak Hindi, and she never setout to do her masters’ project in India.In fact, she was so wary about beingtypecast as an Indian American film-maker that she hesitated when shetripped across the idea for “When theStorm Came” during a trip to India in2002. She’d won a Berkeley Human

Rights Center fellowship to documentthe ways in which women and childrensuffer in regions of conflict. Tensionsbetween India and Pakistan overcontrol of Kashmir had been mountingfor decades and paramilitary groupswere growing increasingly visible alongthe border. Within a few days of herarrival in Srinagar, the summer capitalof Jammu-Kashmir, she caught wind ofa mass rape that had occurred morethan a decade earlier in Kunnan

Pushpora, a tiny village at the foothillof the Himalayas.

“They were known as the rapevillage,” she recalls. “It was the mosttalked-about story in the valley.” Andalthough numerous local social serviceagencies had promised, at the time, tohelp the village heal, none had. Anestimated 36 women had been raped inone night, purportedly by IndianSecurity Force officers in search ofmilitants. Finding none, villagers say,the officers dragged the men out of thehouses and raped the women. Guptaspent a day in Kunnan Pushpora andpromised to return.

Four months later, she arrived withher three-person crew — classmateTuraya Bryant, a translator, and a driver— and stayed in a hut with a family ofnine. For two weeks they slept on thinmattresses on the mud floor and didn’tbathe for a week. The single lightbulbin the small room where some inter-views took place was so weak that a gaslantern and flashlight were needed tofilm the shots. The experience, she says,was amazing. The women performedthe hard work in the village, trekkingthrough the surrounding hills to the

Gritty Journey to KashmirLeads to Sundance Honor

By Lauren Gard

When Shilpi Gupta didn’t receive an honorable mention at the2004 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony, she was disappointed.But moments later, the first-time filmmaker found herself on stage,behind the podium. Never mind an honorable mention — she’d won theJury Prize. Gupta’s 24-minute documentary, “When the Storm Came,”tied for top honors in the short filmmaking category, besting 82 films.

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jungle, climbing trees and cuttingwood. Gupta and Bryant went withthem, struggling to keep up. Gupta saysshe was amazed by both their mentaland physical strength.

“These were mostly women whowere 30 years older than us, but wewere dying. I was trying to run in frontof them and shoot, but it was hard,”Gupta says. Her relationship with herhost family proved the most fascinatingpart of her journey, even in moments oftrepidation — like the time when anaunt from a more militant region ofKashmir paid a visit. When Guptaasked her translator what the familywas talking about, he turned to her andsaid: “The aunt asked if you are fromthe same America as Osama bin Ladendid his great act in.” Gupta often toldpeople outside the village she wasCanadian.

Gupta felt the stigma of being anAmerican — ironic because the filmitself is largely about the stigma of thatone brutal night. “The whole worldheard that scream,” says a man whosewife and daughters were raped. In aculture where arranged marriage is thenorm, finding a husband for a rapevictim is nearly impossible. Manywomen who married outside the villagereturn, unable to tolerate their tauntingin-laws. Even young boys, not yet bornin 1991, struggle to maintain theirdignity beyond Kunnan Pushpora.

Sundance’s Mike Plante, one of threeshort-film programmers who watched

3,500 entries in order to whittle thenumber to 83, described Gupta’s film as“one of those things you are looking for,and it is finally there.”

“For somebody in film school inAmerica to be doing something like thisis pretty amazing,” he says. “Her

student Emmy Awards. But she isn’tfinished yet. Gupta admits that atSundance, with thousands of strangersbearing witness to the intimate detailsof the Kashmiri subjects’ lives, she felt abit like she was exploiting them.Although she completed the film overtwo years ago, no one in KunnanPushpora has seen it.

There are no televisions in thevillage. Gupta is applying for grants soshe can go back and share the film withthe residents, perhaps even documenther subjects’ reactions to it and expandit into a feature-length film. Funding ishard to come by — Gupta estimatesshe’s spent about $10,000 out of pocketto produce the film. If she’s lucky, it willbe picked up for national broadcast andpad her pockets for her next venture. Ifshe returns to Sundance, Gupta will nodoubt get slightly different treatment.

During her 10-day stint at Sundanceshe got a lesson in humility whenevershe entered the filmmakers’ lodge.“Nobody believed I was a director,” shesays with a laugh. “People kept asking,

documentary wasabout one of theforgotten subjects,and she knew howto present it. Youcould see she had adeep respect for thepeople.”

Jon Else, headof the documentaryprogram at theGraduate School ofJournalism atBerkeley, calls“When the StormCame” an astonish-ingly important film.

“It’s importantbecause those villages in Kashmir andthose women have long ago fallen offthe international radar, and certainlythe radar in America,” says Else, whoworks with about 10 students a year ontheir documentary masters’ projects.“Shilpi’s great accomplishment is thatwhen no one else would, she got herselfto that village and told their story.”

Gupta’s film has also been awardedthe silver prize in the student AcademyAwards and the second prize in the

‘Are you a volunteer or an actress?What film are you in?’”

“Getting into Sundance has beenmy dream since I made this film,” saysGupta. “And now my goal is to get backthere again before I’m 30.”

Lauren Gard received her MJ from UCBerkeley’s Graduate School of Journalismin May 2004. Her article originallyappeared in The San Francisco Chronicle.

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That takes us back to roughly 435A.D., when a faction of humans, forByzantine reasons of their own, system-atically knocked down the temple’s 31other columns. Together, they hadstood for some 770 years, ever since theParthenon-like structure was com-pleted, 330 or so years before theChristian era began.

The three still-standing columnshave defied gravity and earthquakes formore than 2,500 years. How they didthat, in a seismically volatile region, isworth study for Californians, similarlybeset.

And study they are receiving, by UCBerkeley faculty and graduate students,as they have for the last 30 years. At thesame hands, they have gained compan-ions: two nearby columns, reassembled,reach once again for the sky.

The temple has been the landmark,but is only part of a 40-acre archaeo-logical dig in the Nemean Valley on theGreek Peloponnesus, off the beatenpath. In ancient times Nemea was one

of the four major sites of the originalOlympic Games. In those days, as now,the location migrated — but then, thevenues were limited to Olympia, Delphi,Isthmia, and Nemea. Olympia set thefour-year interval used today. Nemeawas twice as active, an athletic fair-

been found, mainly by graduatestudents and hired Greek workers, andelevated to the status of artifacts, fromwhich a great deal can be learned aboutancient Greek political unity and thedaily life of people at the time.

In summer of 2004, another Berkeleycrew was in Greece, celebrating the30th digging season at Nemea andhelping re-create the ancient NemeanGames just weeks before the modernSummer Olympic games returned, inAthens, to the land of their birth.

How this campus got into thebusiness of digging trenches an ocean andnine time zones away is a matter of someplanning and a goodly measure of luck.

In 1937, the Ph.D. program inClassical archaeology was instituted atBerkeley. Over the next 30 years, itbecame clear that our eastern competi-tors had a decided advantage: estab-lished, even famous, sites wherestudents could learn the basics ofarchaeology in the field.

Berkeley’s Greek RevivalBy Dick Cortén

If talking to plants helps them survive, then maybe,similarly, a kind word or two every few centuries helped the remaining threecolumns of the Temple of Zeus at Nemea stand their watch without toppling. They’ve been there, tall and lonely — visited rarely, but complimented ontheir grandeur by those who stared at them — essentially by themselves formore than 1,550 years.

In the trenches of learning at Nemea

ground for Greeks from everywhere,who would come every two years and,literally and figuratively, drop theirmoney — and their bowls and drinkingvessels, which would break. They wroteon walls. Like their thunder-lizardpredecessors millions of years before,they even left tracks in mud.

Vast quantities of these forgottentraces — garbage at the time — have

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Eventually, Berkeley’s bright mindscame up with a countervailing force:Nemea, a nearly virginal place men-tioned frequently in Classical history,where students could have a guaranteedopportunity for hands-on excavationexperience with excellent prospects forfinding and/or analyzing “new” arti-facts, even buildings, for theses anddissertations.

The campus administration boughtin, a proposal went to the AmericanSchool of Classical Studies at Athens,the umbrella under which all Americanarchaeological research takes place onGreek soil, and Berkeley was given thenext available permit to excavate atNemea.

But before the project could breakground, it needed someone to run it.

This is where Stephen G. Millerenters the picture. Miller, whose Ph.D.is from Princeton and who had studied,as it happens, at the aforementionedAmerican School in Athens, waslooking for a project and a job. Hefound that and more: a career and areputation, with an extended family —colleagues, students, alumni, benefac-tors, Greeks in Greece and Greeks inAmerica, and tourists — to whomNemea initially seemed mildly interest-ing and morphed into a lifelong cause.

Miller signed on in the early 1970s as aBerkeley faculty member in Classics andas director of the Nemea excavation.

Meanwhile, Albert Bowker,Berkeley’s chancellor at the time, facingthe twin horsemen of Reality andNecessity head on, was about to changethe funding landscape at Berkeleyforever.

By 1973, it had become clear that

public backing for higher education haderoded. Clark Kerr had been fired in1968, his nemesis Ronald Reagan wasthen in his second term as Governor,and the UC budget had become a much-played political football. The University’speriod of expansion was over. A newphrase crept into the popular wisdom: theUniversity was changing its status frompublicly supported, as it had been fromits founding, to “publicly assisted.”

To Bowker, that meant findingreplacement money for cuts in UC’sstate allocation, so that the campuscould maintain its excellence. If lessfrom the public, then more from theprivate: corporations, foundations, andindividuals.

He transformed a small gifts andendowments operation into a centraldevelopment office and invited alumnito play a larger and more consistent rolein keeping and enhancing the strengthsof the campus.

He needed, at that point, projectsthat A) couldn’t be funded with statemoney, and B) had the kind of pizzazzand romance that would be attractive todonors.

Bowker thought Nemea might fitthese new requirements. With anuntried project director and an officialblessing, Nemea was launched into thefuture to test its magnetism.

Fortunately, people were drawn byits pull, some to go there and work,some to visit, some to donate. Nemeahelped get Berkeley’s fundraising ballrolling, though it has never been arecord-breaker. Every year has been a

The vault: Stephen G. Miller, director of the Nemea excavations, in the projectarchive in Dwinelle Hall with undergraduate research apprentice Gloria Bath andgraduate student Jorge Bravo.

scramble to makeends meet. Sincethe first diggingseason in 1974,Steve Miller,students, andfaculty fromBerkeley and otherinstitutions havebeen on site for atleast four monthsof every year,pulling ancientNemea out of theground.

Once the troveof unearthedtreasures and trash,

all requiring cataloguing, had grownnoticeable, it was clear that the projectwould quickly outgrow its rented spacein part of a grape warehouse. What wasneeded was a building designed to be awork area, storage zone, and museum.And an angel.

Like an answered prayer, the angelappeared, in the form of Rudolph A.Peterson, Berkeley Class of 1925, andformer chairman of the Bank ofAmerica. For years a benefactor of thecampus, he indicated his intent to givea good-sized amount to a then-unspeci-fied program. Chancellor Bowker

offered a menu of five choice alterna-tives, and Peterson opted, in 1974, forNemea. The periodic internationalpeace that prevailed during its ancientgames appealed to him and coincidedwith his wishes for the modern world.

By 1984, the museum was planned,constructed, and in operation. Petersonremained a steadfast supporter of themuseum annually until his death at 98last December, and to keep the projectgoing he planted the seeds of anendowment.

Internationalist: Rudolph A. Peterson at the NemeaMuseum’s 10th anniversary

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There are now over 12,000 artifactsin the museum, each with an index cardrecording the exact grid, stratum, anddate it was uncovered, documenting theexcavation, but also providing scholarswith clues and even solutions to mysterieshidden for millennia — among them thefailure of Panhellenism, the reasonsGreek unity sputtered and died.

That first digging season broughtword on the excavation’s antiquatedcrank-style telephone that a group ofUC alumni were on their way to Nemeaas part of a tour. Steve Miller made surethat the Greek and American flags wereflying over the site. The group, discon-certed by anti-American feeling else-where, felt welcome in Greece, and letloose cheers and tears at the sight of theflag. Before leaving, one member of thetour quietly handed Miller a $1,000 checkfor the excavation fund. He was Thomas

each other had worn or crumbled andbecome unstable. We devised a paste ofthe same minerals that compose thestones and spread it like frosting tobuild up the surface, and that workedwell. Later, in excavating and examin-ing other drums, we found traces ofvery similar material that clearlyperformed the same function 2,400years earlier.”

The analyst and consultant forputting the columns back together wasNicos Makris, a professor of civilengineering at Berkeley. As Nemeaenters a new phase, Makris will becomethe director of reconstruction, the firstmajor stage of which will be rebuildingthe Temple of Zeus.

In December, after delivering hislast annual report on campus to theFriends of Nemea, Steve Miller retiredas project director, devoting himself toguiding and contributing to futureNemea publications. An overall directorof the Nemea excavations to succeedMiller has yet to be chosen.

Back in Greece, the third Nemead, amodern re-enactment of the ancientrituals, open to all skill levels, tookplace on July 31, 2004, complete withcompetitors in bare feet and olive-oiledbodies — but clothed in tunics; no onehas competed, so far, in the nude, aswas the norm in the ancient games.More than 700 participants took part,representing 34 countries and rangingin age from 8 to 97. Competitorschanged clothes (in a tent) at the site ofthe ancient “locker room,” then enteredthe stadium through the restored tunnel,exactly as their predecessors did in thefourth century B.C. A wealth of otherinformation is available on the project’swebsite (http://www.nemea.org).

That’s the capper:the top, or

capital, is addedgingerly to the

shaft of one of thetwo reconstructed

columns of theTemple of the

Nemean Zeus.

“We had to invent as we went along, to solve problems,only to find that the ancient Greeks had been there beforeus, facing the same obstacles, and overcoming them withequal or better resourcefulness.” — Steve Miller

physically demanding, but highlyeducational as well. Most of us wouldguess that these uprights were mono-lithic, carved out of a big hunk of stoneand tilted on end. That was one method

used, but not with much success inGreece, because they tip so easily, whatwith frequent earthquakes and invadingarmies. A major alternative, used inNemea, Athens, and elsewhere, was tomake the columns in sections, or drums.The stacked-drum method turns out to bestructurally more able to flex, to absorbshock, and therefore to withstandearthquakes violent even by Californiastandards. The inspiration for thisinnovation? Possibly the piled verte-brae of the human spine. (Linguisticevidence: the Greek word for columndrum is spondylos, which is also theword for vertebra.)

J. Long ‘32, who in 1938, with his brotherJoe, opened the first store in what becamea chain known as Longs Drugs.

Tom Long, in that same low-key way,became over the years Nemea’s largestsingle supporter. He died in 1993, buthis legacy continues to support theproject through the Thomas J. LongFoundation.

To date, Nemea has attracted a totalof more than $4 million throughfoundations and the National Endow-ment for the Humanities.

What has been found: stadium,track, the ancient world’s first-found“locker room,” a tunnel, a “hotel,” ahero shrine, coins, iron spits forroasting meat, bronze swords, daggers,arrowheads, helmets, inscriptions,graffiti, terra-cotta lamps, pots, jars,pitchers, ladles, reservoirs, baths,houses, altars, shrines, structures fromprehistoric, pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic,Christian, Byzantine, and other eras,and a hippodrome (for horse andchariot races), the first ever discoveredin an ancient Greek site.

Reassembling the companioncolumns to the lonesome sentinels thatstood watch for so long was not only

Tom and Billie Long’s daughter Sidne(wearing sunglasses) ran in the 2000

Nemean Games.

“As has been the caseso often at Nemea,” saysSteve Miller, “we had toinvent as we went along,to solve problems, only tofind that the ancientGreeks had been therebefore us, facing the sameobstacles, and overcomingthem with equal or betterresourcefulness. Inreconstructing the col-umns, we found that thecontact surfaces of someof the drums that sit atop


Being There

Graduate student RebeccaKarberg in 2001, documenting

the unpredictable ritual ofdiscovery, one spadeful at a time.

In myth, the modelfor this bronzewas the infant

Opheltes, son of aNemean king,

tragically slain bya serpent. A

sizeable shrine tohis memory has

been uncovered at Nemea. Accordingto folklore, the first Nemean games

were held for his funeral.

Jorge Bravo (at Nemea in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, and2003) is a doctoral student whose dissertation is on the HeroShrine of Opheltes.

I enjoy the feeling of discovery, of seeing objects that haven’tbeen seen for a couple of thousand years. Wherever I end upafter my Ph.D., I’d like to keep fieldwork as part of my career.Nemea has also given me the topic of my dissertation, whichis on the hero shrine that I helped excavate.

James Clauss (at Nemea in 1978) received his Ph.D. in 1983and is a professor of Classics at the University of Washington,and also a self-confessed “docustar” via a Discovery Channelprogram and BBC documentaries.

Before going, I did not realize that much of what we weregoing to do would require me to take almost complete chargeof a trench, for which I had no experience. This concernedme considerably, especially given the fact that Steve wouldcasually say that we could destroy history completely andforever if we weren’t careful. What I found by the end of thedig was the courage that comes from necessity.

Randall Colaizzi (at Nemea in 1983) earned an M.A. in 1979and a Ph.D. in 1986 and is a senior lecturer in Classical studiesat Wellesley College.

I had planned to go, at the end of my stay, to Italy, my realinterest (or so I thought). But by the end of the dig thatsummer, I didn’t want to leave Greece. Living in that land-scape overwhelmed me. This was 1983: there were no cellphones or computers there, no ATMs. All day long the cicadasshrill pulsing rose up and down in the heat. It was the mostvivid three months of my life.

Rebecca Karberg (at Nemea in 2001) is working toward her Ph.D.

When we laid out our pottery, which had been washed, that’swhen the research part of the day began. In the field, whiledigging was going on, we recorded finds, took levels ofvarious layers, updated plans, and made notes on anything ofinterest in the trench. Our time in the museum was devotedto looking up and confirming (or refuting, as they case mayhave been) hunches that we had about things earlier in theday. Museum work ended late in the afternoon, and then itwas back to the house for a shower.

My trench, much to everyone’s surprise, turned up twostarting-line blocks. These blocks, laid side-by-side in a layer offlat, well-packed clay, marked the start of a practice track, wherethe athletes could train before the races of the actual games.We found the blocks after days and days of digging sand andgravel finding almost nothing, not even pottery — which onlyadded to the excitement and unexpectedness of it all.

Jeannie Marchand (at Nemea in 1990) received an M.A. in1990 and a Ph.D in 2002. She spends every summer in Greeceand works at two nearby sites.

The work routine: We got up early, had a quick coffee, andhopped in the truck to be up at the stadium by 7. We thenspent all day there excavating, until around 3:30, with a breakfor lunch, eaten on site. It was very hot by around 10 in themorning, and very dry. I spent most of the time writing in thenotebook and talking to the workmen, trying to learn Greekand trying to learn archaeology from them. They were greatabout explaining what they were doing. After the day’sdigging, we went back to the dig house and had some down

Three decades of Nemea throughthe eyes of its grad students


Moment of discovery: in 1986,graduate student Anne Stewart andtwo local Nemean workmen carefullycleaned off a marble dedicatory reliefthey had just found.

time. In the late afternoon, we had afew hours in the museum.

Professionally, it gave me a sense ofa relationship to Greece which made medecide to continue for the Ph.D. It alsoled indirectly to my dissertation at thenearby and related Kleonai, where Inow conduct excavations of my ownalong with a colleague.

Sarah Stroup (at Nemea in 1994 and1997) received an M.A. in 1994 and aPh.D. in 2000 and is now an assistantprofessor of Classics at the University ofWashington and a co-director (withAndrew Stewart, a history of art professorat Berkeley, and Ilan Sharon, of HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem) of the ongoingexcavations at Tel Dor, Israel, “a directoutgrowth of my time at Nemea.”

In 1994 I worked with another graduatestudent in excavating the remainingareas of the tunnel that led from theancient apodyterion (“un-dressingroom”) into the ancient stadium. Wealso learned how to plot, measure, andrecord (draw!) the architectural detailsat the far end of the stadium, and Iworked on the numismatics collectionat Nemea. In 1997 I led a team excavat-ing the area south of the bath house.

My work at Nemea changed me asboth a person and a scholar. There isreally nothing like it to be had in the“regular” structure of on-campus gradstudent work or grad/faculty interac-tion. I truly believe that even the mosthighly “textual” of literary scholars ismade better — more interesting, morecritical, and sharply analytical — by abit of time in the dirt.

Athena Trakadas (at Nemea as anundergraduate research apprentice in1997 and as a graduate student in 2000)received a B.A. from Berkeley in 1997and graduate degrees (one complete, onein progress, from institutions in Texas andDenmark, respectively). She has directeda coastal archaeological survey of Moroccofor three years, examining remains ofearly shipwrecks and anchorages.

I knew that excavating includes long,hot days surrounded by dirt andnumerous pottery shards, but at NemeaI got to experience more readily theentire archaeological field process.Nemea is a small site, with only several

graduate students every summer, andabout 40 local workmen. In the field,you’re not only involved in part of thedigging, but are directing what happensin your own trench: you’re responsiblefor deciding what will be dug when andhow (and when to ask Professor Millerfor help), mapping your trench,keeping your daily trench notebook,doing pottery readings, artifact conser-vation, and writing up artifact descrip-tions. Because this process is directedby you, you have a much clearer ideanot only of the archaeological processesof the site, but also the chronology ofyour trench in particular and how itrelates to other trenches, past andpresent, on the site.

Favorite Memories

The astonishing ability of many of theworkers, some of whom had beenemployed at Nemea for a decade at thatpoint. They often taught the gradstudents what to look for. The mostimportant thing in archaeology isstratigraphy, recognizing where onelayer of earth begins and another ends.Layers mean a change of time orsubstance. Recognizing the color andconsistency of the soil, and thendescribing it accurately, is thereforecrucial. But the same soil may look

three dimensions, not just flat layers butshapes of one color barely discernible inanother. This could show, for example,an organic object that had disappeared.— Randall Colaizzi

A rainstorm breaking suddenly oneafternoon late in the season, beingcaught out by my trench, and huddlingunder the umbrella that served as mysunshade with about six of the workmen,who put me at the center so that Iwould get least wet. — Rebecca Karberg

The very first day I was in Nemea,which is so rural you could still seepeople using donkeys, I went out alonein the afternoon for a walk; no one wasout, because it was still hot. I was walkingdown the only main road in town whenan old man came out of his house, andwithout saying a word he went over tohis rose bushes, pulled off handfuls ofrose petals, walked over to me, andsprinkled them all over my headwithout making a sound or even reallysmiling. Then he turned and went backinto his house. That was my introduc-tion to Nemea. Working there changedmy life, since I met my husband — whois from Archaia Nemea — while diggingin the stadium. — Jeannie Marchand

Tree frogs in the shower. You’d hardlynotice them at all until you turned thething on after a dusty day of diggingand they’d start greeting you with ahappy little chorus — a huge highlight,almost as good as finding that big goldcoin. A pit viper in the courtyard. Alarge earthquake in the middle of thenight. The very voice of heaven in thesilence of a Nemea valley sunset.— Sarah Stroup

I remember hanging upside down in awell we were excavating, examiningarchitectural fragments that were buriedin mud and several feet of water.— Athena Trakadas

different when dryor wet; on a sunnyor a cloudy day; inthe morning or inthe afternoon. Someworkers (and SteveMiller) could tellyou exactly whenthe soil was chang-ing, and often thechanges were in

Mycenaen vases found at the site.

Q: All of the Berkeley chancellorssince the Nemea excavations began —Albert Bowker, Ira Michael Heyman,Chang-Lin Tien, and yourself — havebeen to the site. As the most recentvisitor, what was your reaction?

A: I am a historian, so nitty-gritty,down-to-earth, get-your-hands-dirtyresearch is something that fascinates me.Literally being in touch with the past isone of the things that is most fun aboutbeing a historian.

So it was fascinating to me to be atNemea, trying to imagine what this spacewas like in the ancient world — withoutthe many documents and archival recordsthat help us piece together so much ofmodern history. Some of what has beenexcavated there is truly fascinating. It’sliterally uncovering history. What SteveMiller has created there is a spectacular,visible presence of the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, in Greece, command-ing the respect, encouragement, andsupport of Greek authorities, and providinga wonderful opportunity for students tolearn the art of archaeological excavation.

Q: Like Chancellor Tien in the firstmodern revival of the Nemean Gamesand traditions, you participated in thesecond Nemead in the summer of 2000— in a footrace.

A: It was fun to get out there and run,literally in bare feet, although I felt alittle self-conscious because I’m not arunner. Just not finishing at the tail endof the pack was a source of great satisfac-tion. That, and not pulling a muscle.

Q: Competitors change in theapodyterion — literally “undressingroom,” because the ancient athletescompeted in the nude — and then enterthe stadium through a 120-foot vaulted-arch tunnel. What was that like?

A: Going through that tunnel that wasone of the most stunning aspects of thevisit. As you go through and see graffitithat were scratched on those walls by theathletes of that ancient time, there’s a veryintimate sense of being in touch withhistory. Just realizing that so many centu-ries ago, people entered that same stadium,through that same tunnel, onto that sametrack — people very much like us, with allthe hopes and aspirations, ambitions,conflicts, and fears, that help define us ashumans today — I found it quite moving.

Q: Where do you see Nemea and itsworth in the context of education in themodern world?

A: I think the fact that ChancellorBowker recognized the importance ofthis, and helped highlight it initially, andthat subsequent chancellors have done soas well, is important. Overall, as a societyand culture, we invest a very smallportion of our resources in the arts and thehumanities, and to understanding histori-cal places and historical times. Everyonewho goes to Nemea, I believe, comes awaywith an appreciation of how important thisproject is, not just for the University, but assomething for Greece as well. It’s a projectthat has been a singular passion of SteveMiller’s, and wouldn’t have happenedwithout his vision, leadership, andperseverance. And it wouldn’t havehappened if it hadn’t been for some reallygenerous benefactors, like Rudy Peterson,who saw its importance, cared about it,and put resources into it.

Nemea isn’t flashy. It isn’t economicdevelopment or high-tech, it isn’t thenew, new thing — it’s the old, old thing.So it doesn’t immediately capture theworld of the venture capitalist. But itcertainly captures the affection of anybodywho goes there. If you go to Greece, youcan’t escape a sense — as in Athens, wherethe Socratic dialogues were held, whereSocrates was tried, the place of Plato andAristotle — that this is the fountainhead ofwestern civilization, in fundamental ways.

These days, people tend to think ofuniversities just in terms of their contribu-tions to economic development. It seems tome that it’s important for us to maintainour commitment to human development aswell as economic development, andBerkeley has done that, by continuing to beso strong. One of our faculty once said thatyou can judge the quality of a university bythe quality of its humanities departments.

Nemea from the perspective of Robert M. Berdahl, Chancellor 1997–2004A Microcosm of Berkeley’s Strength


And that’s because most universities arecommitted to building strong scienceprograms, which are extremely important,but only great universities are committed tobuilding strength in the humanities and thesocial sciences.

Nemea is a representation of thestrength we have in Classics, in archaeol-ogy, in history, in engineering, and more,and in that sense it is a physical manifes-tation of Berkeley’s determination tocontinue to be strong across the board.

Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien drew his lane assignmentfrom a Macedonian helmet before running in the 1996Nemean Games.

Through the tunnel:Chancellor Berdahl

at the 2000 NemeanGames.


Local HeroBy Lisa Harrington

Last fall, in celebration of American Indian Heritage Month, KQED PublicBroadcasting in San Francisco honored four local heroes, including CarmenFoghorn, coordinator of the American Indian Graduate Program (AIGP) at

Berkeley. Her fellow honorees were Lisa Carrier andQuirina Luna-Costillas, of the Mutsun LanguageFoundation, and Martin Waukazoo, of the NativeAmerican Health Center.

In its tribute, KQED noted: “Foghorn devotes amajority of her time supporting, encouraging, andconnecting Native American students throughout theirgraduate school experience at Berkeley. Many of herstudents have never been away from the reservationand need help making the transition; others seekassistance with housing, financial aid, or finding other

Indians on campus. Whenever possible, Foghorn goes above and beyond the call ofduty to assist Native American students.”

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Carmen Foghorn, the heart and spirit of AIGP.

AIGSA co-chairs Danika Medak-Saltzman (left) and Dory Nason (right) with CarmenFoghorn (center).

This fall, Carmen Foghorn will receive one of the university’shighest honors, the Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award.

“Carmen has a wealth of knowledge, spirit and energy,” saysCarla Trujillo, director of the Graduate Diversity Program. “Sheworks tirelessly to advance the AIGP program and assistsstudents in unique and innovative ways. Carmen also works toassist American Indians at the local level by doing everythingfrom giving dinners, conducting toy and clothing drives,participating in powwows, and so much more.”

Off campus, Foghorn serves on the board of directors of theNative American Health Center, the largest urban AmericanIndian health care provider in the country. She leads by ex-ample, inspiring graduate students and others to get involved.There are 30 agencies in the Bay Area where AIGP studentsvolunteer, in addition to the national AIDS Project. In 2003, theAmerican Indian Graduate Student Association (AIGSA), whichorganizes community service projects, lectures, and confer-ences, received the Chancellor’s Community Service Award.

“As grad students, we owe Carmen a lot,” says Dory Nason,co-chair of AIGSA. “She’s always been there for us 24/7,supporting the logistics of AIGSA events and writing grantswhich kept us alive when we were small and couldn’t have donethis on our own. She found the resources to help us.”

Nason, a Chippewa Indian from Nebraska and doctoralstudent in Ethnic Studies, didn’t know what kind of NativeAmerican community she would find here until Foghorn

contacted her after she was admitted. “Knowing that there was aperson who knew I was coming and was excited about it was alarge part of why I chose Berkeley,” says Nason.

Phenocia Bauerle, a member of the Crow Nation, also creditsFoghorn for her encouragement and support. “Carmen hasconfidence in us and puts us in leadership positions. She believeswe can do things before we even believe it ourselves,” says Bauerle,a graduate student in education who plans to return to her homein Montana after graduation. “Carmen has been very helpful tome because of her ties to the community. She connected me with

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Carmen Foghorn looks for the best in people, and often finds it.


education programs in Oakland. Sheknows what’s going on in the Bay Area.”

Foghorn came to the Bay Area 17years ago from Albuquerque, NewMexico, where she grew up as IsletaPueblo and Navajo. In high school,Foghorn was recruited to attend theUniversity of New Mexico and becamethe first in her family to attend college.

Her father, who served as a Navajocode talker in World War II, was a daylaborer; her mother didn’t go beyondhigh school for her education.

Foghorn returns to New Mexico oftento visit family and friends. Her daughterlives in Taos. “She’s very talented withcomputers and works in the TaosPueblo’s computer lab. She also writesthe pueblo’s newsletter,” says Foghorn.

Her son is in the Air Force and wasstationed not long ago in Germany, whereFoghorn had the opportunity to visit,also touring Paris and Amsterdam. “Itwas wonderful,” says Foghorn. “It gaveme a chance to see how other people live.Travel makes you stronger. The more youknow about others, the more youunderstand yourself.”

This fall, she will be on the road again,attending conferences and meetings tospread the word about graduate opportu-nities at Berkeley and reach out to others.We recently had the chance to talk withher about her own path to AIGP andwhere she sees the program going.

Q: The choice you made to leave NewMexico for the Bay Area has changed not

only the course of your life — but thelives of hundreds of students at Berkeley.Why did you decide to leave home?

A: I was getting older and it was mytime to see what I could be. I wasworking for the gas company inAlbuquerque and decided that I didn’twant that to be all, so I brought my sonand daughter to San Francisco, where Ilearned how to interview for jobs —and (laughs) how expensive SanFrancisco was compared to NewMexico.

Q: Had you been here before?

A: Yes, and I found so much oppor-tunity here, especially for women ofcolor. The women I’ve met here are soconfident. I’ve found you can doanything you want to do here and findsupport from women and men.

Q: What have you found at Berkeley?

A: At Berkeley, people look insideyou to see what you can offer. Some-times in the corporate world women arejudged by the way they look, or aresupposed to look. Here, you candiscover your strengths and achieveyour goals.

Q: How did you establish new rootsin the Bay Area?

A: When I first arrived, I located theNative American community and beganworking at the American Indian ChildResource Center. I worked with theirfoster care program.

Q: When did you become involvedwith AIGP?

A: I was hired 10 years ago by FeliciaHodge, the former director, to manageoutreach and retention activities. AIGPbegan in the School of Public Healthmore than 30 years ago due to the needfor public health administrators inNative American health centers. Ittrained Indians as health professionalswho would then return to their reserva-tions to provide much-needed services.Later, the program grew to include theSchool of Social Welfare. So the major-ity of our graduates have degrees inpublic health and social welfare.

Q: How has the program changed?

A: Today AIGP is part of the Gradu-ate Diversity Program, serving all ofBerkeley’s graduate programs. Ourstudents are enrolled in programs asdiverse as comparative literature,engineering, law, and ethnic studies.

Q: How many new students will youwelcome this year?

A: This fall, we’ll have 26 new Ameri-can Indian and Alaska Native studentsenrolled in graduate programs at Berkeley,bringing the total number to 90.

Q: By revamping outreach effortsand using the website to reach far-flung communities, you’ve manage todouble the enrollment over the pastfour years. Even so, the budget crisisnearly ended AIGP a year ago. How didyou manage during that time?

A: I never lost hope. We have a greatadvisory committee with faculty andstudents and alumni, and the deansreally pulled for us. I believe that goodthings happen to good people and goodprograms, so I never lost hope. I lookfor the best in people.

Q: What’ do you enjoy most aboutyour job?

A: Working with Native Americanstudents — thinking how they’ll make adifference after Berkeley. AIGP hashelped more than 400 Native Americanscholars graduate with academic andprofessional degrees. Most of our studentsfinish their degree programs. Last spring24 Native American students receivedtheir graduate degrees from Berkeley.

Q: How have AIGP alumni made adifference after Berkeley?

A: Some have gone on to becomeprofessors and practitioners in the

New and continuing Native American and Alaska Native students meet at the AIGP reception.

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professional fields. Many others serve asleaders in urban, rural, and reservationcommunities.

Q: What does the future hold forAIGP?

A: I hope the program will continue togrow. I hope there will be more fellow-ships available to our students. I wouldlike to see the AIGP lecture series expand.Last fall we hosted Simon Ortiz, a scholar

and poet from the Acoma Pueblo. I wouldalso like to do more to promote the springresearch conference, “New Voices inIndigenous Research.” The 2005 eventtook place over three days and was thebest conference on indigenous research inthe nation. The keynote address by Dr.Phil Deloria, the author of Playing Indian,was televised nationally. Our students didan amazing job coordinating the programand raised all of the money for it.

Q: How has KQED’s Local Heroaward influenced your work?

A: Well, it was wonderful to berecognized, but I feel there are so manymore who are also deserving — thesingle parents raising their children, thesocial workers helping the homeless,the staff in our clinics who serve thecommunity, and the students whocontribute to our education. Everybodyin my book is a hero.

With tribal drum in hand, John-Carlos Perea (MescaleroApache) offered a Native American song of welcome to guestsat the American Indian Graduate Program (AIGP) new studentreception a few weeks ago. Over the next few minutes, Perea’spowerful vocals transported us to Indian Country and visions

AIGP: A Song of Welcomeare held. “You can always find us there. We live in that room,”said Medak-Saltzman. Student groups also included theNative American Law Students Association (NALSA), theAmerican Indian Education Student Association (AIESA), anda new group in engineering.

Throughout their graduate careers, Native American andAlaska Native students who sign up for AIGP’s listserv will benotified about programs for professional development, careeropportunities, networks in the community, powwows, andother events. Among other things, AIGP sponsors programsand events to promote Native American history, culture, andperspectives at Berkeley.

One of the best examples of the spirit of AIGP is thegraduation ceremony held each spring for all Native Americanstudents graduating from Berkeley. It’s an opportunity forAIGP families and friends to come together to celebrateacademic achievement, and many Native American traditionsare woven into the event. At the ceremony last May, PomoIndians performed tribal dances. Environmentalist and humanrights activist Chief Oren Lyons of the Onandaga Nation deliv-ered the commencement address. And, to remind them of theiryears at Berkeley, AIGP offered each graduate a gift — a colorfulblanket of Native American design.

Says Foghorn, “It’s my favorite event of the year. This isthe last step in their journey through Berkeley, and, for me, it’salmost mystical.”

of windswept plains.Perea, a graduatestudent inethnomusicology atBerkeley, is anaccomplishedmusician and com-poser who performsthroughout the BayArea.

As studentsmingled and enjoyedIndian tacos, AIGPCoordinator CarmenFoghorn (IsletaPueblo, Navajo)

introduced a number of faculty, staff, and student leadersrepresenting the Native American community at Berkeley.

Larri Fredericks (Alaska Athabascan/Nenana), a graduatealumna, museum scientist, and member of the AIGP AdvisoryBoard, said, “You will find a strong support system here.”Academic resources and support also include the Native AmericanStudies department, the Native American Studies Collection/Ethnic Studies Library, the Graduate Diversity Program, theGraduate Assembly, and the Graduate Minority Project.

Berkeley graduate Lakota Harden (Minnecoujou/Yankton,Lakota, HoChunk, adopted Tlinget, Quechua), a poet andactivist who hosts the Bay Native Circle radio show on KPFA,encouraged students to get involved with the local Native Ameri-can community, to attend gatherings at the Intertribal FriendshipHouse, and said, “If you get lonesome or homesick, we’re here.”

Dory Nason (Chippewa) and Danika Medak-Saltzman(Chippewa), co-chairs of the American Indian GraduateStudent Association (AIGSA), invited students to join them inAIGP’s student lounge, 597 Barrows Hall, where AIGSAmeetings, study groups, informal gatherings, and office hours

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They Come in PeaceRotary scholars, not otherworldly at all, are here seekingknowledge they hope to use in saving parts of the planet fromthe ravages of war and other forms of conflict.

Sergio Rapu can trace the history of hispeople, the Rapanui of Easter Island, toaround 400 A.D., when Polynesianexplorers arrived, stayed, and eventu-ally built the mysterious giant stoneheads (moai) that captured the world’simagination.

Later encounters with otherexplorers were less constructive — froma high in the tens of thousands when

agroecological development plan thatwould combine traditional farmingknowledge with elements of modernagricultural science (excluding mostchemical fertilizers and pesticides), togrow what Easter Island needs locallyand for export.

The other major element of hisplan is to harness education to thealready large sector of tourism, so thatinternational groups and governments,and tourists themselves, will helprestore some 20,000 archaeological siteson the island (which Rapu calls “abeautiful, open-air museum”), and localfarmers and students will learn toappreciate more about their heritageand directly help with preservation andrestoration, especially of the 800 or soemblematic moai. (Most lay brokenuntil a Japanese executive heard Raputalking about their plight in 1988 on ashow broadcast in Japan. He called withthe offer of a million-dollar crane andinstruction on how to use it. Many ofthe rock figures are now repaired andback in sentinel position.)

Rapu also advocates bilingualeducation, in Rapanui and Spanish, tohelp his people interact with theoffshore government in Chile and themodern world in general.

Rapu’s class of World PeaceScholars was joined by a second groupof ten, one of whom was Sarah Williams,who worked for years as a lawyer inBritain’s music business — “a naturalbackground for conflict, not necessarilyresolution,” she says — before decidingto help change the way internationalinstitutions craft their laws in ways bothidealistic and realistic. Inspired by afriend and associate who worked onlegal problems stemming from the warsin Kosovo and Iraq (in the latter he wasnearly blown up), Williams believes thatpreventing war’s horrors means facingthem with courage. “Humanitarianismhas to be hard-core,” she says, “it can’tbe of a fluffy-kitten type. My goal is notto live a long life, but to do something

worthwhile.” Her World Peace Scholar“classmates,” each with different butworthwhile goals, were from Argentina,Belgium, Brazil (2), India (2), Korea, andthe Phil-lipines (2). Each Peace Scholar issponsored by a local Rotary group in hisor her part of the globe.

World Peace Scholar Sergio Rapu.

the Dutch landed there in 1722, theRapanui population nosedived to a mere111 in a century and a half, during whichdisease, Peruvian slavers, and overgrazingby Chilean sheep led the depredations.

Today, another century later, theRapanui have bounced back to the lowthousands, and have been represented forthe last two years on the Berkeley campusby Rapu, a former governor of theirterritory (and the first native Rapanui tohold that office). Trained as an archaeolo-gist, Rapu came here in the fall of 2002 asone of ten members of Berkeley’s firstclass of Rotary World Peace Scholars.

None of these scholars is exactly atypical graduate student. Virtually all arereturning to the student experience after asubstantial hiatus. Rapu, in his mid-fifties,is older even than most of his classmates.But, like them, he has a mission.

In order to build a lasting economicsystem for his remote Pacific islandhomeland, Rapu hopes to use expertiseacquired at Berkeley to employ an

The Rotary World Peace Scholar-ships are the result of a partnershipbetween Berkeley’s International andArea Studies and Rotary International’sRotary Foundation, which promotesworld understanding through interna-tional humanitarian service programs,cultural exchanges, and scholarshipprograms. Scholars are selected by aninternational committee to study at oneof Rotary’s seven worldwide centers.

Berkeley’s Rotary Center, adminis-tered by IAS, provides the most sought-after such program in the world,according to its director, ProfessorEdwin Epstein. The global reputation ofthe campus is a factor, and so is the wayBerkeley encourages the students toadapt the program across departmentaland discipline boundaries to fit theirindividual needs.

The program exists in part throughthe labors and deep familiarity withBerkeley of Cliff Dochterman M.A.’50, aformer assistant to the late UC Presi-dent Clark Kerr. Dochterman went onto head the University of the Pacific,and served as Rotary International’spresident in 1992–93.

While at Berkeley, the Rotary WorldPeace Scholars tend to be heavilyinvolved in the array of activities atInternational House, where it’s convenientfor them to get to know each other andnetwork with other students from allover the world. — Dick Cortén

World Peace Scholar Sarah Williams.

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Transitions can be dicey, but RobertBirgeneau, Berkeley’s new chancellor,fit in right from the start. In his thirdweek after taking over from RobertBerdahl, he found himself in thecurious symbolic position of repre-senting the “other side,” the campusadministration, in welcoming cel-ebrants who filled Sproul Plaza for the40th anniversary of the Free SpeechMovement (FSM).

As this was a legal, authorizedgathering, he was spared decisionsabout who should be arrested. But hefaced an instant image decision.Though a lectern awaited him (fullymiked and ready for his formal re-marks) on what are now designated asthe Mario Savio steps, this FSM reenact-ment came complete with a platformatop a police car. As Birgeneau stood inthe wings, current ASUC PresidentMisha Leybovich addressed the crowdfrom atop the car, having removed hisshoes as his rebellious but consideratepredecessors had done four decadespreviously. When Birgeneau’s turncame, he bypassed the lectern andmounted the platform, shoes on butinformal in shirtsleeves.

He surprised many listeners byrecalling the FSM’s influence on hisown life. As a graduate student at Yalein the ‘60s, he did volunteer work in

New Haven’s inner city, then went tothe American South to register voters.He admitted to being naïve until hereceived a practical political educa-tion when he roomed there with twoFSM veterans.

The FSM rally took place last fallon October 8. Seven days later,Birgeneau and his wife Mary Catherine

69,000 students, more than twiceBerkeley’s enrollment), whereBirgeneau had served as presidentsince 2000. At UT, Birgeneau doubledthe size of its two campuses andincreased the amount of researchconducted there. He raised thenumber of faculty women with tenureby 50 percent and brought greaterdiversity to the administration. Healso oversaw a fundraising campaignthat brought in $750 million.

The Birgeneaus are Torontonatives, she from a middle-classneighborhood, he from a poor one.Support he received from his commu-nity at key points in his educationmade his upward path possible, andleft him committed “to inclusion andto access for people from any kind ofbackground, for people who arefinancially disadvantaged . . . I couldnot have done this on my own.”

Birgeneau’s brilliant record ofachievement began as an undergradu-ate in math at UT and continued atYale with a Ph.D. in physics. Afterworking at Bell Labs in New Jersey, hewent to MIT as a physics professorand administrator for 25 years. At BellLabs he worked with, among others,another Canadian, Robert Dynes, nowpresident of the University of Califor-nia, and Steven Chu, Berkeley Ph.D. ’76and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize inPhysics, who in August 2004 becamedirector of the Lawrence BerkeleyNational Laboratory.

Birgeneau looks forward to themany challenges the campus faces,both evident and emerging. He haslong been a fan. “I genuinely believethat UC Berkeley is simply the bestpublic teaching and research facility inthe world,” says the new chancellor,adding that the breadth of its excellencewill be needed in the coming years.“Most of today’s problems will not besolved by the next Einstein, but bypolymaths,” he points out. Beingpreeminent in many fields givesBerkeley “an edge over the rest insolving the world’s problems.”— Dick Cortén

Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau stands on a borrowed police car to address the crowd assembled tocommemorate the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement.

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were thoroughly decked out in blueand gold for a marathon of Home-coming and Parents Weekend activi-ties, cheerful and indulgent goodsports in their newly adopted culture.

They came here fresh from theUniversity of Toronto, Canada’s bestand largest public university (with

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Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn

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The GSI Teaching and Resource Center staff, back row, left to right, Linda Miyagawa, Robin De Lugan, MaggieSokolik, Stefanie Ebeling, and Ellen Rosenfield; front row, left to right, Sargam Shah, Marilyn Seid-Rabinow, Lindavon Hoene, the GSI center director, and Kathryn Vulic.

Each semester, approximately 1,600Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs)enter classrooms to teach, mentor, andevaluate undergraduates in discussionsections, labs, and stand-alonecourses. To ensure that they would bewell-prepared for their teachingresponsibilities, the Graduate StudentInstructor (GSI) Teaching and ResourceCenter provides an orientation confer-ence for new GSIs. Center programsalso include teaching conferences andworkshops, individual consultationsand classroom videotaping, courseimprovement grants, the LanguageProficiency Program for GSIs who donot speak English as a native lan-guage, awards for outstanding GSIs;awards for faculty who mentor GSIs;and a Summer Institute for PreparingFuture Faculty.

The GSI Teaching and ResourceCenter, led by Linda von Hoene, iswidely applauded by graduate stu-dents, faculty, and the campus admin-istration. In 2004, the center receivedthe Educational Initiatives Award.

“While we in the GraduateDivision know and appreciate thecrucial training and mentoring that

sections on student engagement, andthe implications of grading policiesand practices for student motivation.

Heather McCarty, a GSI in history,says, “Each program I’ve participatedin at the center has taught me a newtechnique, which I’ve applied in theclassroom. The amazing staff not onlyhelped to prepare me for teaching as afirst-time GSI; they also offeredprograms to aid in my continuinggrowth as an instructor throughoutmy graduate studies. My experienceswith the center have been nothingshort of phenomenal.”

Attentive to the pivotal role thatfaculty and departments play inproviding GSIs with mentorship inteaching, the center also developed anannual seminar for faculty teachingwith GSIs that’s reached approxi-mately 140 faculty members, many ofwhom teach the largest courses oncampus. Faculty who’ve attended theseminar report significant improve-ments not only in their mentoringskills but also in their teaching ofundergraduates and have said thecenter’s contributions to undergradu-ate education cannot be overstated.

In November, Maggie Sokolik andRobin De Lugan, of the GSI Center,and other members of a cross-unitteam will receive the Chancellor’sOutstanding Staff Award for creatingan online course for GSIs on profes-sional standards and ethics.

During the campus’s recentaccreditation by the Western Associa-tion of Schools and Colleges (WASC),the review team also took note of thecenter’s impact on students and facultyand wrote: “An especially importantpart of the teaching infrastructure atBerkeley is the Graduate StudentInstructor (GSI) Teaching and ResourceCenter, which in the team’s opinion is amodel for GSI development programseverywhere.”

Linda von Hoene and her team havegiven to graduate students (and, byextension, faculty and undergradu-ates) over many years, it’s gratifyingthat the GSI Teaching and ResourceCenter has received this high-profilerecognition,” notes Mary Ann Mason,Dean of the Graduate Division

Mason, who has congratulatedhundreds of GSIs for outstandingteaching during her tenure as dean,said, “It is vitally important that theindispensable contributions ofgraduate students be understood andrecognized by the entire campuscommunity and beyond, includingdonors, regents, and legislators whoultimately determine levels ofsupport available for graduatestudents.”

Going well beyond the nuts andbolts of teaching, the center’s pro-grams forge a research-based, reflec-tive approach to teaching andlearning. Over the past four years,the center has convened researchgroups on teaching and learning, inwhich faculty, graduate students, andundergraduates have studied suchissues as the impact of discussion

A Most Memorable Lady

Announcement of the Ida Louise Jackson Graduate House at the Graduate Fellowships Reception. Left to right:Kathleen Sterling (recipient of the Ida Louise Jackson Fellowship); Inez Dones, Christine Hill, and Alice Jacobs(Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors and friends of Ida Jackson); Nonyelum M. Agu, Aundreia M. Cameron, Dolann M.Adams, Jennifer L. Arceneaux, Lauren Peebles (members of the Rho Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority);Mary Ann Mason (Dean of the Graduate Division).

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Eighty-four years ago, a precocious teenage girl from Vicksburg,Mississippi, enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley,planning to become a teacher. She was one of only 17 African-American students on campus — eight women and nine men. As astudent, she often felt invisible, unspoken to by classmates anduncalled upon by professors. But the Biggest Man on Campus,

Mason added that the facility is alsothe first at Berkeley to be devoted solelyto housing graduate students, anauspicious beginning toward filling acrucial need.

The San Francisco Chronicle calledthe dedication “a glowing tribute for awoman who broke through barriers ofinjustice, paved roads to advancededucation for African-Americans, andinspired generations of others with herdevotion.”

During that lonely initial year atBerkeley, to help make the campusmore hospitable for young African-American women, Jackson and a few ofher friends co-founded the Rho chapterof the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority,which has remained a strong presenceat Berkeley to this day.

Jackson graduated in 1922 andwent on to earn her master’s degree in1924. Her training was in education, andshe put it to use it for the rest of her longlife. She didn’t set out to be a pioneer, butlife sent her obstacles and she overcamethem, allowing others to follow.

Jackson was one of the firstAfrican-American women to be certifiedto teach in the state of California. In1926, she became the first African-American of either gender to teach inthe Oakland Public Schools, andremained so until 13 years later whenanother African-American woman, BethWilson, was hired. Jackson’s assignmentto teach at Oakland’s Prescott Interme-diate School “was met with protests,”said Barbara K. Phillips, a former nationalpresident of Alpha Kappa Alpha, whocame from North Carolina for thededication ceremony. She describedJackson, one of her role models, as “a starin the fabric of existence.” A large groupof white teachers and administrators triedrepeatedly to have Jackson reassignedfrom Prescott School, Phillips said. Buther students — including whitechildren — helped her through a periodJackson described as “theunpleasantries.”

She remained active in her sorority,and in the 1930s became its nationalpresident. Enlisting medical profession-als and teachers from among her sororitysisters, and using her own funds becausein those times the sorority had no

Photo of Ida Louise Jackson courtesy of theIda Louise Jackson estate.

President Benjamin Ide Wheeler,stopped and chatted with her one day,and that raised her spirits, as did afriendship she made with the dean ofwomen, Lucy Ward Stebbins.

The student was Ida Louise Jackson.Her father, Pompey Jackson, once aslave, and her mother, Nellie Jackson,made sure their eight children wereeducated. Ida, the youngest, could readat the age of three, and she was soon

helping others learn that skill. This early teaching helped determinethe course of her life.

The accomplishments of that life were commemorated onAugust 30, 2004, when the “College-Durant Apartments” wererechristened as the “Ida Louise Jackson Graduate House.” The$14-million structure “is the first building at UC Berkeley to bearthe name of an African-American woman,” said Mary Ann Mason,Dean of the Graduate Division. “And for this historic first, I don’tthink we could have chosen anyone better. Her name will beremembered here as long as the University goes on.”


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program budget, Jackson led projects tobring badly needed education andhealth care to rural areas of the DeepSouth, particularly in her nativeMississippi. “I couldn’t believe some ofthe things I saw,” she recalled in laterinterviews. “People were working onplantations, not knowing that they werefree.” She was invited twice to theWhite House, in 1934 and 1935, andspoke to President and Mrs. Rooseveltabout conditions in Mississippi and herwork there, teaching teachers andhelping inoculate thousands of infantsagainst diphtheria and cholera.

In her long journey, Jackson neverforgot about the University of Californiaand its influence on her as a person andas an educator. Later on, when she wasable to, she gave back to the campus —by creating a fellowship for African-American students seeking their doctoraldegrees at Berkeley.

The university came to treasure her,as well. In 1971, she received theBerkeley Citation, awarded to thosewho reflect the highest ideals of theuniversity. She was elected to theBerkeley Fellows honorary society,whose membership list includes notablenames from many fields. She contrib-uted to There Was Light, a book ofalumni memories published to honorthe University’s first century, and in themid-1980s the Bancroft Library’sRegional Oral History Office completedher oral history, Ida Jackson: OvercomingBarriers in Education.

Now she will live on not only inhearts and minds, but in an edifice, thepurpose of which meshes nicely withher own goals and ideals.

She wrote, in the mid-1960s, “I ammore than ever convinced that educationis the greatest factor in the upwardclimb of any person or people. Mytheme song has been: learn, study, read— continuously.” She added, “TheUniversity of California has done forthousands what it has done for me. It hasenabled me to realize the vast avenues oflearning and culture to be explored, andstrengthened a desire to try, and in theexploration to take others along on thejourney.” — Dick Cortén


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Top: Barbara K. Phillips of Alpha Kappa Alpha came 2,500 miles to attend the rechristening. Bottom: the newname is literally unveiled by Graduate Division Dean Mary Ann Mason (left pole) and Jackson estate trustee InezDones (right pole), assisted by Sunny Lee, Graduate Division’s development coordinator.

Yuan T. Lee, Ph.D. ’65, winner of theNobel Prize in Chemistry for 1986, is aformer Berkeley chemistry professor andLawrence Berkeley Lab investigator whoreturned to his native Taiwan in 1994 tobecome the chief executive of AcademiaSinica, his country’s foremost researchinstitution. Lee is Taiwan’s first recipient ofa Nobel Prize. In recent years, he alsohas served as senior advisor to thepresident of the Republic of China. Hisbanner stopped traffic at Telegraph andBlake, but only when the light was red.

Alumni Notes/Something in Common

Hanging Out on the AvenueNot exactly what you’d expect ofNobel Prize recipients, perhaps.The Nobelists suspended onbanners along Telegraph Avenuefrom April 2003 until the 2004holiday shopping season, wereBerkeley faculty members, pastand present; the ones picturedbelow did their graduate work onthis campus.

Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. ’37, won the Nobel Prize inChemistry for 1951 as a result of transuranium elementdiscoveries that would usher in the atomic age --- nuclearweapons, nuclear power, energy sources for spaceexploration; even the humble smoke detector requires theelement americium, part of the Seaborg harvest. Hisbanner flew at the corner of Channing and Telegraph.Seaborg, Berkeley’s second chancellor, headed the U.S.Atomic Energy Commission under President John F.Kennedy, returned to California as a system-wideUniversity Professor, and in “retirement” co-founded andchaired the Lawrence Hall of Science.

William F. Giauque, B.S. ‘20, Ph.D. ’22,winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1949,invented a technique for cooling to within a fewthousands of a degree of absolute zero (minus458 degrees) — previously believed impossible —leading to stronger steel, better gasoline, andother advances. Giauque taught chemistry atBerkeley for more than 40 years. His wife Murielwas a physics graduate student here; on the dayshe filed her Ph.D. thesis, they were married. Aman of stern demeanor and keen humor, Giauquewas immune to social fads. He didn’t smoketobacco or drink alcohol, not for moral reasons,but because he didn’t like their tastes. Giauque’sbanner kept a careful eye on Blake’s, the longtimeeatery and pub on Telegraph near Durant.


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Harold C. Urey, Ph.D. 1923Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934

William F. Giauque (B.S. 1920), Ph.D. 1922Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1949

Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. 1937Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1951

Selman A. Wacksman, Ph.D. 1918Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine, 1952

Willis E. Lamb, Jr. (B.S. 1934), Ph.D. 1938Nobel Prize in Physics, 1955

Willard Libby, Ph.D. 1933Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1960

Henry Taube, Ph.D. 1940Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1983

Yuan Tseh Lee, Ph.D. 1965Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986

Thomas Cech, Ph.D. 1975Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1989

Kary Mullis, Ph.D. 1973Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1993

Douglass North, Ph.D. 1952Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993

Mario Molina, Ph.D. 1972Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995

Robert F. Curl, Jr., Ph.D. 1957Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996

Steven Chu, Ph.D. 1976Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997

Alan J. Heeger, Ph.D. 1961Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000

Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 1961Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002

David J. Gross, Ph.D. 1966Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004

Nobel Prize Recipients with Berkeley Graduate Degrees

In addition to the degree holders listed,a number of other Nobel recipients havespent significant time at Berkeley doinggraduate or post-graduate work. Theyinclude: Jack Steinberger, who was aresearch assistant in 1949–50 and wonthe Nobel Prize in Physics for 1988;Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, a post-doc in1959 who received the 1991 Nobel Prizein Physics; Robert E. Lucas, Jr., a Ph.D.student in 1959–60, who won the 1995Nobel Prize in Economics; and AhmedZewail, a 1975 post-doc who receivedthe 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. ’61, won the NobelPrize in Economics for 2002 “for havingintegrated insights from psychological researchinto economic science, especially concerninghuman judgment and decision-making underuncertainty.” Translated from the English, thismeans that Kahneman, a psychologist by trade,won the economics prize (there being no NobelPrize in psychology) for grasping the way peoplereally think and the shortcuts they take whenmaking decisions, especially if risk is involved.Such shortcuts may have little to do withprobability or logic, but can affect the waysindividual investors behave and influence entirefinancial markets. His research contradictedprevious bedrock assumptions in economics —that humans were motivated by self-interest andmade rational decisions — thereby changingboth methods and the direction of research inthat field. Kahneman left Berkeley to teach in hisnative Israel, returning here as a professor ofpsychology from 1986 to 1994. From then onhe has been a faculty member at PrincetonUniversity. Photo to right: Daniel Kahnemanreceives his prize from King Carl Gustav inStockholm, 2002.

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Charles Tung receives a ceremonial lollipop and the congratulations of Chancellor Birgeneau after filing his doctoral dissertation in the Graduate Degrees Office.

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Charles Man Fong Tung was nervousand tired last December when hewalked into the Graduate DegreesOffice on the third floor of Sproul Hallto – at long last – file his dissertation.

He had made the required twocopies, printed in the required font sizeon the specified archival paper, but wasit perfect? What if it wasn’t? Would hisyears of labor be frustrated?

His worries were not uncommonamong degree candidates submittingthe fruits of their intellectual labor.But, like most, he did it right (even afew days before the deadline), and hecould relax.

At this point, a small ritual collidedwith a tall Canadian newcomer, and abit of serendipity occurred. Midwaythrough a get-acquainted tour of theGraduate Division, Chancellor RobertBirgeneau, Berkeley’s new chiefexecutive, was visiting the DegreesOffice just as Tung was handing overhis doctoral tome.

Both were informed of thelongstanding Graduate Divisiontradition of rewarding each successfulfiler with a tasty lollipop. Drawing on

Tung, whose degrees are inEnglish, pronounced the encounter“fortuitous” and said, “This is the bestadministrative day I’ve ever had.”Originally from Phoenix, Arizona,Tung did his undergraduate work atGeorgetown University in Washing-ton, D.C., and earned a master’sdegree at Oxford University beforecoming to Berkeley, which he chosebecause “it had the No. 1 graduateprogram in literature.”

His dissertation, entitled “Mod-ernist Temporalities,” is a study ofearly 20th century British and Ameri-can writers and their philosophies oftime. His dream “has always been tobe a professor,” and he is living it,currently as a tenure-track assistantprofessor at Seattle University, wherehe lives with his wife, Long-Chau.The two met at Georgetown.

At Berkeley, in addition to hisresearch, Tung honed his teaching skillsas a graduate student instructor forseven semesters. — Dick Cortén

his deepexperiencein conferringhonors, thechancellorinstinctivelytook up thesacredsucker(labelled“PhinisheD”)and withinformalmajesty

transferred it to the hand of the sur-prised and relieved Charles Tung.

After congratulating Tung,Birgeneau proceeded down the hall toother Graduate Division offices tomeet more people, shake more hands,and absorb yet more informationabout Berkeley.

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