Author: Public Affairs

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Are deer damaging your garden? The Arboretum at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has a safe and effective answer for beleaguered gardeners. The Arboretum is selling light-weight, high-strength, virtually invisible deer fencing. The fencing is made of black plastic, is eight feet high, and generally lasts about 10 years. The cost per…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–John B. Simpson, who has extensive experience in academic administration, a distinguished background in psychology, and a lifelong affiliation with the University of California, has been selected to become the next Executive Vice Chancellor at the university’s Santa Cruz campus. Simpson will assume the position as of July 1. Currently the Dean of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory is holding a "Fishing Friendsy," a major membership drive from June 24 through September 30. A membership with the Friends of Long Marine Lab offers many benefits, including free visits to Long Marine Lab for an entire year, discount purchases at the gift and book shop, invitations…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Biologist Douglas Kellogg, an assistant professor of biology at UC Santa Cruz, 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…

UCSC construction activity will rise with the temperature this year, as a number of projects get started in June, July, and August. The following is a list of projects either breaking ground or under way this summer. Bay Tree Bookstore expansion and Graduate Commons: Construction is expected to start in August on the 6,600-square-foot commons…

Chancellor Greenwood joined Republican congressman Tom Campbell (center, back row) and 15 of his staff members for a tour of UCSC’s Long Marine Lab late last month. The congressman and his staff were visiting locations in his 15th congressional district on a get-acquainted tour for the staff. UCSC and the laboratory are not within Campbell’s…

The staff of the University Library Map Room invite the campus community to a reception honoring founding map librarian Stanley Stevens and celebrating the arrival of the "Stanley D. Stevens Honorary Map" on Thursday, June 18, at 4 p.m. in the Donald T. Clark Courtyard of McHenry Library. Stevens’s colleagues in the Western Association of…

UCSC’s class of 1998 will hold commencement exercises on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 19-21. This year, the following numbers of students are candidates for degrees: 1,630, bachelor of arts or science degrees; 156, master’s degrees; and 55, doctorate degrees. A small number of UCSC students will receive graduate certificates. Each of UCSC’s eight residential…

Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood (front, right) and Campbell Leaper (back, far left), chair of the Committee on Teaching, joined this year’s teaching award recipients at a recent reception at University House. Pictured are: (back, from left) Leaper, Michael Dalbey, Zack Schlesinger, Helen Shapiro, John Isbister, David Hoy, Cynthia Polecritti, Paul Rangell, Russell Flegal, Shelley Stamp; (front,…

(l to r) Mickey Hart and Fredric Lieberman Low class attendance may be a concern at this time of year as the weather warms and final assignments loom large. But music professor Fredric Lieberman had no such problem when he convened class on June 5. His class of approximately 200 swelled to nearly double that…

A long-standing myth at UCSC holds that once a person is hired on campus he or she can never be fired–no matter how poor the job performance. While it is true that employees at the university, unlike their private-sector counterparts, have, by law, a property right to their jobs and cannot have them taken away…

A CalSTAR (California Shock/Trauma Air Rescue) ambulance helicopter is scheduled to land at UCSC’s lower East Field on Thursday, June 25. The helicopter is part of a training exercise for the campus’s Fire and Police Departments and local emergency personnel. The training session will start at 1:30 p.m. and last approximately one hour. It is…