He is the author of New Directions in Music , one of the most popular textbooks on twentieth-century music. EMI has provoked both admiration and controversy. Phillip Crews Professor, Chemistry Crews is a leader in the search for new drugs made from tropical marine sponges, marine fungi, and other microorganisms from the sea. Many such organisms have evolved potent self-defense chemicals, and some have shown early promise as potential medicines to combat human diseases. His team collects sponges and other invertebrates from the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans, then determines the chemical structures of their natural secretions.
Crews tests the purified compounds for activity in cell cultures.
One shows promising activity against renal cancer and prostate cancer and is in clinical trials at the National Cancer Institute. Crews was the first to use nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to map the structures of marine natural products. Sandra Faber University Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics Faber is renowned for her research in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Her research has focused attention on how the seemingly impersonal inquiries of science are informed by fundamental elements of culture-gender, language, and political economy and sociology. Patrick Mantey Jack Baskin Professor, Computer Engineering Mantey, who came from IBM to establish UCSC's computer engineering program in the mid-1980s, is recognized for his work on computer system architecture, image storage and retrieval, electronic libraries and multimedia, and educational applications of computer technology.