Mary A. Holmes, a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a beloved artist and art historian, died in a Santa Cruz hospital on January 21 after a brief illness. She was 91. Holmes,…

National leaders discuss underprepared teachers, the crisis facing poor districts, risk to students More than half of all new teachers in California last year entered the profession underprepared, and teachers who lack full credentials are concentrated in the state’s poorest…

Undergraduate applications to the University of California, Santa Cruz, for fall 2002 increased 6 percent among freshman applicants and 5.3 percent among transfer students compared to the totals received last year. A total of 24,275 prospective students applied by the…

Elizabeth Conerly was a broke UC Berkeley student as Mother’s Day approached last year, but being penniless inspired her to give the best gift ever: Conerly nominated her mother, Trish Virgadamo, a longtime UCSC employee, to carry the Olympic torch…

New this year: Learn to prune as your kids study “Birds in the Garden” on February 2 If the annual ritual of pruning fruit trees fills you with dread, relieve your anxiety by attending a pruning workshop with fruit-tree expert…

Gordon Wells, a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named corecipient of the 21st annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America. Wells and Hossein Nassaji of Centennial…

Have you been lusting after your neighbor’s lemon tree? Attracted by the bounty of a friend’s apple tree? Coveting the apricot tree down the block, yet too intimidated by the care of fruit trees to add these beauties to your…