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Two graduates of UCSC–alumna Laurie Garrett (Merrill College ’75) and Joseph Palca, who received a Ph.D. degree in psychology in 1982–have been honored recently for their work as science reporters. Garrett, a science and medical reporter for Newsday, was one of 13 journalists awarded a prestigious Polk Award for 1997. The awards were announced in…

Santa Cruz–A public ceremony celebrating the life of Dean E. McHenry will be held on Saturday, April 25, on the University of California campus he helped found in the 1960s. McHenry’s family and the campus have planned the memorial, which is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum, one of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­The 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.…

To My Campus Colleagues: You may be aware of recent news reports describing the 1998 admissions statistics for the University of California, especially in regard to the serious decline of admissions of Chicano/Latino, African American and other underrepresented students at some of the other UC campuses. Presented in the context of SP-1 and Proposition 209,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A conference on film and the Holocaust takes place Wednesday, April 22, through Thursday, April 23, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The conference coincides with Yom Hashoah–the international day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust. Leading Holocaust and film scholars from around the country will convene for the conference, titled…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­UC Santa Cruz alumna Laurie Garrett, a science and medical reporter for Newsday, was one of 13 journalists awarded a prestigious Polk Award for 1997. The awards were announced in March and will be formally presented on April 15 in New York City. Garrett won the foreign reporting award for her 25-part series…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­ The American Chemical Society (ACS) has awarded the 1998 James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for interpreting chemistry for the public to Joseph W. Palca, who earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from UC Santa Cruz in 1980 and 1982, respectively. Palca, a science correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) since…

The following statement by Meredith J. Khachigian refers to the admission of freshmen to the University of California for fall 1998, the first undergraduate class admitted without the consideration of race, ethnicity, or gender. The decreases in freshman admissions for next fall reported by the Berkeley and UCLA campuses is a cause for concern and…

A San Jose Mercury News book critic sang the praises of Angela Davis’s new book, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism. The critic noted that, "[Davis has] turned her considerable analytic skills to the blues–specifically, the three African-American women who pushed American music to new heights in the post-slavery period." It may feel like it at…

A public ceremony honoring Dean McHenry, UCSC’s founding chancellor, will take place Saturday, April 25, at 3 p.m. on the Arboretum knoll. McHenry, who helped create California’s multitiered system of public education, died March 17. He was 87. Ceremony participants include Chancellor Greenwood, who will act as host, and former UC President Clark Kerr. Parking…

The Santa Cruz County Elections Department has designated eight polling places–one at each of UCSC’s colleges–for students, faculty, and staff who live on campus. Each registered voter has been assigned one of the polling places for a special Santa Cruz City School District election scheduled for Tuesday, April 14. More than 2,760 people living on…

"Histories of the Future" is the title of a conference on Friday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Oakes Mural Room. The panelists are members of a larger group of scholars who are assembling a tool kit for interpreting prophetic, millennial, and futurological discourse. Their work was developed in a two-quarter…