UCSC to Honor Architect Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry, who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, will be honored at UCSC's seventh Founder's Day Oct. 18.

"Gehry is being recognized as an outstanding exemplar of the 2013 Founders Celebration theme of 'Creativity, Innovation, and the Arts,' according to a campus press release. "Among the qualities being celebrated are his exuberant creativity, openness to collaboration, willingness to take risks, and his love of the interplay of the arts."

Gehry is currently designing Facebook's New York headquarters and designed its Menlo Park headquarters expansion.

He will be interviewed at the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Forum the same day.

Tickets are available at events.ucsc.edu/founders/

Also recognized will be Watsonville residents Don and Diane Cooley, who have contributed and supported the UCSC Arboretum and have donated to the UCSC Opera Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Long Marine Lab, the Natural Reserves and the Robert Sinsheimer Chair in Molecular Biology.

Jock Reynolds (Stevenson '69, psychology), artist and director of the Yale University Art Gallery, will receive the Alumni Achievement Award.

Reynolds has created and shown his own artwork widely while also promoting fellow artists by organizing scores of other exhibitions, publications, and artist-in-residence programs.

He received two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists fellowships, among many other grants and honors accorded him.  During the last 25 years, he has directed the highly regarded teaching museums at Andover and Yale, whose collections are among the nation’s finest.

Howard Haber and Abraham Seiden will be honored as Faculty Research Lecture awardees. Selected by UCSC's Academic Senate to deliver the annual lecture, both Haber and Seiden are celebrated physics professors and researchers.

 Haber is particularly well known for his role in developing theories and the attendant phenomenology of the Higgs boson ("phenomenology" involves the application of theory to experiments in high-energy particle physics).

 He coauthored the definitive book on searching for the Higgs boson, The Higgs Hunter's Guide, published in 1989. A fellow of the American Physical Society, Haber received a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2009.

 Seiden, distinguished professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, led the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) from its founding in 1981 until 2010, when he stepped down as director to return to full-time teaching and research.

 Seiden is currently leading a consortium of U.S. physicists working on a new particle detector that will be the first major upgrade for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator.