Author: Public Affairs

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Preview Day at UC Santa Cruz–held each fall for prospective students, their parents, and counselors–will take place on campus on Saturday, October 21, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The day’s activities will include student-led campus tours of UCSC’s ten residential colleges and workshops on financial aid, Educational Opportunity Programs, and the transfer…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Nawab Hamid Ali Khan, ruler of the state of Rampur, India, in the early 1900s, was well known for his love and patronage of the arts. Now, halfway around the world and three generations later, the great-granddaughter of this respected Nawab and her husband are carrying on that tradition, providing funding that will…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The public is invited to attend a community brunch to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the UC Santa Cruz Women’s Center on Sunday, October 15, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The festivities will take place at the Women’s Center in the Cardiff House on the UCSC campus. The program includes music by…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory will be closed all day on Tuesday, October 17, to accommodate a dedication ceremony for the center’s new neighbor, a state-of-the-art national fisheries research laboratory. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta and Representative Sam Farr are among those who will be on hand to celebrate the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a physics workshop for high school teachers on Saturday, October 28. The workshop, which is free and open to all teachers, will take place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 1, Thimann Lecture Hall,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Two longtime professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were honored by the Division of Social Sciences today (Thursday, October 5) for their excellence in teaching. Dane Archer, professor of sociology, and Isebill "Ronnie" V. Gruhn, professor of politics, have received the Division of Social Sciences’ 1999-2000 Distinguished Teaching Awards at an…

WHEATON, Ill.–The greatest challenge facing educators today is attracting students from a wide range of backgrounds into the teaching profession, said June A. Gordon, author of the new book The Color of Teaching, who gave the keynote address today (October 6, 2000) at the Illinois regional conference of the Association of Teacher Educators. Student diversity…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Gaurang Yodh, a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, is both an expert in high-energy physics and a highly accomplished sitar player. When Yodh visits UC Santa Cruz next week, he will perform a public concert of sitar music in addition to delivering a talk at the Physics Department’s weekly…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–"Frontiers in Toxicology," an inaugural lecture to celebrate the establishment of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will feature presentations by two distinguished scientists on Thursday, October 5, from 3 to 5 p.m. The event will take place at the Theater Arts Second Stage and is free…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Construction began this month on the first new facilities to be built at the former Fort Ord military reservation: a headquarters building complex for the University of California’s Monterey Bay Education, Science, and Technology (MBEST) Center. The 26,000-square-foot headquarters complex, scheduled for completion in spring 2001, will house a variety of tenants, including…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Brush the cobwebs off your creativity and create a seasonal sensation for the first-ever scarecrow contest that will highlight the UC Santa Cruz Farm’s annual Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 14. The contest will be a centerpiece of the annual festival,which takes place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Harvest Festival features…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The recipients of named scholarships for community college transfer students have been announced by the University of California, Santa Cruz. Named scholarships honor contributors of major gifts, in this case to the Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Awards (KSPLOA) program, which provides $20,000 scholarships to regional community college students who transfer to UC…