Public Affairs

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;…

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…

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…