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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–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-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…

An excerpt from an upcoming book by psychologist William Domhoff was featured in the March/April issue of Mother Jones. The book (coauthored with Richard Zweigenhaft, a UCSC alumnus) is Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? (Yale University Press, 1998). UCSC admissions counselor Hilda Hernandez-Meza was interviewed for the show…

All members of the campus community are invited to submit nominations for the 1998-99 Alumni Association awards. Three awards are given annually; one each to a faculty member, a staff member, and an alumnus or alumna of the campus. The association holds a tribute luncheon in honor of award recipients. Faculty and staff winners each…

Laura C. Engelken, coordinator for residential education at Merrill College, is the author of a chapter titled "Making Meaning: Providing Tools for an Integrated Identity" in the book Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators (Greenwood Press, 1998), edited by Ronni L. Sanlo. The handbook, a guide…

A UCSC postgraduate researcher 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 to all living things, ribosomes are responsible for…

The University Library will hold a sale of surplus maps and LP records on Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the foyer of McHenry Library. Over 2,000 maps will be available, including superseded world and foreign maps, road and tourist maps, and other geographical materials. A small selection of local-area and…

Conservation plans advocated by many organizations to protect the world’s biodiversity could leave half of all terrestrial species vulnerable to extinction, either immediately or in the near future, according to a recent commentary by Michael Soule, a UCSC research professor of environmental studies, and M. A. Sanjayan, who earned a Ph.D. in biology from UCSC…

UCSC’s annual "open house" celebration takes place Saturday, April 18, and all alumni, current and prospective students, and their families and friends are invited to attend. The fair features alumni reunions; presentations by UCSC’s programs in the arts, engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences; a student music recital; and many other events.

SANTA CRUZ, CA­The University of California, Santa Cruz, has leased a 130- acre parcel at the former Fort Ord military base to Dynasty Farms, Inc., of Salinas, which will operate a certified organic mixed-vegetable farm on the site. Dynasty will hold the lease for a minimum of five years, said Lora Lee Martin, director of…