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Twelve UCSC Instructors, Ten Teaching Assistants Honored For Excellence In The Classroom SANTA CRUZ, CA–In a ceremony at UC Santa Cruz, 12 instructors (faculty and lecturers) and 10 teaching assistants have been recognized for excellence in the classroom. This year’s Excellence in Teaching Awards were presented by Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood and Jaye Padgett, chair of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Thirteen talented community college students are headed to UC Santa Cruz this fall thanks to a generous scholarship program that provides students with $20,000 to complete their education at the university. Recipients of the Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Awards are selected in recognition of their accomplishments despite adverse socioeconomic circumstances. The awards…

Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Summer Festival 2001 SANTA CRUZ, CA–He’s bad, he’s bloody, and this time, he’s Paul. Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s 20th anniversary season production of Macbeth will feature artistic director Paul Whitworth in the title role. It will be Whitworth’s farewell performance before he begins a two-year sabbatical from his duties as director of SSC.…

Fipse Grant Will Help UCSC Establish ‘spanish Without Walls’ Web Classroom SANTA CRUZ, CA–According to the visionary speculations of the web wizards and Internet gurus, over-the-counter purchases should have been just about obsolete by now. By the middle of 2001, we were expected to be suckling at the teat of technology for all our needs–credit…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Stanford E. Woosley, professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honor reserved for the country’s most distinguished scientists, artists, and public figures. In addition to Woosley, this year’s fellows and foreign honorary…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Enriching UCSC library collections for generations to come, the Candy Coonerty Memorial Endowment has been established with a $10,000 gift from her family to honor her memory and continue to champion her passions for reading and the arts. Coonerty, co-owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz in downtown Santa Cruz, was a knowledgeable and devoted…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In an oral history just published by the Regional History Project of the University Library at UCSC, one of the most influential legislators in the history of Central California politics provides a guide to the extensive personal archive he donated to the library in his oral history narration: Henry J. Mello: A Life…

UC Santa Cruz Astronomer Elected To American Academy Of Arts And Sciences SANTA CRUZ, CA–Stanford E. Woosley, professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honor reserved for the country’s most distinguished scientists, artists, and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–"I was standing in the lobby after the ceremony holding my Oscar and some guy walks right up to me and says: ‘It’s all downhill from here, kid.’" On the other end of the phone, Stephen Mirrione laughs recalling the stranger’s dire prediction at the 72nd Academy Awards in March. "He may be…

Noted Biologist To Discuss Protein Diversity, Inaugurating A New Series Of Annual Lectures In Biology At UC Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–When researchers published the first draft of the human genome in February, one unexpected finding was that humans have only 30,000 to 35,000 genes, about twice as many as a fly. This prompted some…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Of course, you’ve noticed it by now: the spreading leaf shade, the thickets of bright blossoms. Spring has arrived and local gardens have responded with sweet floral generosity–nowhere more than at the UCSC Arboretum. And it isn’t just the flora that’s responding to the siren song of spring–on May 20, from 10 a.m.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–It isn’t easy being an artist, especially in a culture that spews such a dizzying flood of sensory stimulation. More images, and sounds, and lines of copy gush from the electronic media on a given day than in all of recorded history before it was invented–most of it having little to do with…