Author: Public Affairs

UCSC was featured prominently in coverage of the National Ocean Conference held June 11-12 in Monterey. Gary Griggs, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, and James Gill, vice chancellor for research, were both quoted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about marine science facilities in the Monterey Bay region. Griggs and Chancellor…

The oceans held center stage for two days of high-level meetings June 11-12 in Monterey, where government officials, researchers, business leaders, environmentalists, and others gathered for the National Ocean Conference. Declining fisheries, polluted coastlines, global climate change, and damaged coral reefs were among the concerns discussed at the conference. President Bill Clinton and Vice President…

Biologist Douglas Kellogg, an assistant professor of biology, has been named a 1998 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Kellogg, the first UCSC researcher to win this prestigious award, will receive a total of $200,000 to support his research over a four-year period. He is one of 20 junior faculty…

Coming in for a landing: A CalSTAR (California Shock/Trauma Air Rescue) ambulance helicopter landed on the lower East Field June 25 for a training session that drew fire and rescue personnel from the campus and the county. In attendance were UCSC firefighters, California Department of Forestry staff from the Big Creek Station, and paramedics from…

Some UCSC students took the expression "get the show on the road" in earnest recently. The students, performers with Shakespeare To Go, recently found themselves stuck on Highway 17 in stand-still traffic caused by an overturned truck at the summit. The troupe was en route to a morning performance at Fair Middle School in East…

Staff are invited to share their expertise with the local community by joining the Speakers Bureau. The program has been very well received by area organizations, agencies, and schools, and requests for speakers continue to increase. This year the Speakers Bureau filled more than 50 requests for presentations. A brochure describing the program, which is…

City officials, the developer, and UCSC administrators gathered on June 23 to celebrate the start of construction on a new building in downtown Santa Cruz. Dubbed "University Town Center," the building will house University Extension and approximately 100 UCSC and extension students. It will rise at the pictured site, the corner of Pacific Avenue and…

Professor of history Jonathan Beecher receives the Palmes Acadèmiques medal from Emmanuel Delloye, France’s Attaché Culturel. The medal is the French government’s highest honor for academic achievement. Beecher received the medal for his work on French utopian socialist Charles Fourier. Family, friends, and colleagues attended a June 22 reception honoring Beecher. Pictured left to right…

Winners of the poster competition pose with Chancellor Greenwood, Dean Kliger, and biology professor Lynda Goff at the Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium. Front row: Erin Osborne, Rachel Karchin, M.R.C. Greenwood, Lynda Goff. Back row: Alexi Arango, Jake Mannix, Alice Baldridge, Chris Winchell, David Kliger. From toxic marine algae to solar energy cells to the…

John G. Davies, a San Diego attorney who has been a member of the University of California Board of Regents for six years, has been elected by his colleagues to chair the university’s governing board. The Regents, meeting today (Friday, June 19) in San Francisco, unanimously selected Davies to be chair of the 26-member board.…

A groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of construction on a 10,600-square-foot weight training and fitness center on campus took place on June 9 at the East Field. In addition to the traditional shovel ceremony, the event featured a wellness fair with holistic health activities including massage and acupressure, community drumming, a barbecue dinner, and the…

Peter Careaga, a senior reproduction graphics technician in Printing Services, died May 28 of leukemia; he was 28. Described by his coworkers as a very dedicated employee, Peter Careaga worked at UCSC for three years and was attending Cabrillo College. Barbara Sheriff, a longtime UCSC staff member, died June 15 in Santa Cruz of cancer;…