Author: Public Affairs

Elaine Wedegaertner, assistant registrar for records, (right) and Greta Jacobson, narrative evaluations coordinator, show off a "faculty summary screen"–part of a new database for narrative evaluations on the World Wide Web. At the end of each quarter, UCSC faculty members must collectively write more than 30,000 course-performance or "narrative" evaluations–one for every undergraduate student earning…

A San Francisco Examiner article about the search for alien life-forms featured astronomer Frank Drake, known for his work in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. The March-April 1998 issue of VIA, the California Automobile Association’s magazine, featured excerpts from Melanie J. Mayer’s Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897-98 Gold Rush (Ohio University…

Dean E. McHenry’s official portrait, taken early in his tenure as chancellor. Photo: Moulin Studios Note: Parking will be provided for the ceremony in the East Remote parking lot, not at the base of campus as was previously reported. A public ceremony celebrating the life of Dean E. McHenry will be held on Saturday, April…

A nationally acclaimed atmospheric scientist, who currently is dean of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, was appointed on Thursday, April 16, to lead the campus as its fourth chancellor. Ralph J. Cicerone was named to the post by the UC Board of Regents on the recommendation of UC President…

At a University House reception honoring Peace Corps volunteers, Peace Corps deputy director Charles Baquet (center, left) and Executive Vice Chancellor Michael Tanner (center, right) speak with current UCSC students who will go overseas this summer as part of the Corps. Ambassador Baquet speaks with UCSC student Melanie Sheldon who leaves this summer for Cape…

The American Physical Society (APS) has awarded the 1998 Robert R. Wilson Prize to Matthew Sands, professor emeritus of physics. The Wilson Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in the physics of particle accelerators. Sands was an active faculty member at UC Santa Cruz from 1969 to 1985 and continued his research activities until 1994. He lives…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–If you’re interested in alternative agriculture and enjoy working with people, now is the time to consider volunteering as a docent at the 25-acre organic Farm at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Applications are available now for the six-week docent training program, which begins May 14. During the training, docents will learn…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–If El Nino showers bring spring and summer flowers, then this should be a banner year for gardeners. Help your garden bloom with selections from the annual UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden plant sale on Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day in the Barn…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-A postgraduate researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation. The fellowship, worth a total of $101,500 over a three-year period, supports researcher Jamie Cate’s investigation of ribosomal structure. Large and complex molecules that are common…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received the French Government’s highest honor for academic achievement. UCSC professor of history Jonathan Beecher has been awarded France’s Palmes Academiques–a decoration given to those who have advanced the cause of French culture, education, and the arts. The Palmes Academiques was…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-The University of California, Santa Cruz, will host the Banana Slug Spring Fair on Saturday, April 18. UCSC alumni, current and prospective students, and their families are invited to the annual celebration, which features faculty lectures, artistic performances, facility tours, and alumni reunions. The fair begins at 9 a.m. It drew more than…

Wednesday, April 22 Room 321, Kresge College: 7:30 p.m. Keynote address: Sharon Pucker Rivo, "Images of Jews and the Holocaust in Film" Rivo is director of the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at Brandeis Respondent: Murray Baumgarten Baumgarten, a…