Author: Public Affairs

Lise Bixler, director of UCSC’s Child Care Services, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Children’s Center last year with Ivy Clarke, a preschooler in the center’s Child Development Program. The birthday celebration coincided with a visit by Chancellor Greenwood and director of housing services Jerry Walters, who participated in the annual "Chancellor Comes to Lunch…

A student dance troupe performing folkloric dances representative of various regions in Mexico is the subject of an upcoming exhibit of photographs at UCSC. The exhibit, "Los Mejicas: On Stage and Behind the Scenes," will be displayed at La Galeria de Casa Latina at Merrill College from April 6 through 29. The exhibit will feature…

UCSC’s Creative Writing Program has grown in recent years to become the nucleus of a talented and increasingly acclaimed cluster of poets and novelists. Four core faculty in the program, all of whom have published new work in the past year, will come together for the first time for a special evening of poetry and…

The aviation-inspired sculpture and functional art pieces of Marc D’Estout, UCSC Extension’s director of art and design, were featured in the March/April 1998 issue of Northern California Home and Design. In an op ed carried by the San Diego Union-Tribune, community studies professor David Wellman asked the question: Where were the conservative critics of racial…

For a week in mid-March, UCSC was featured in the "On-campus" section of the Science Coalition Web site, an online resource for information on federally funded science research. Each week, the coalition highlights scientific advances and ongoing research at member universities. During the week of March 16-22, the coalition turned its spotlight on research occurring…

All alumni, current and prospective students, and their families and friends are invited to visit UCSC for the Banana Slug Spring Fair on Saturday, April 18. Last year, more than 4,250 people attended the fair. This year’s campus open house features a faculty lecture, alumni reunions, tours of the colleges and special facilities, student support-services…

Last year, defaults on federally guaranteed education loans cost U.S. taxpayers $2.5 million. In an effort to cut these losses, Congress enacted a law authorizing student loan guarantors to withhold a portion of defaulted borrowers’ wages to repay their loans. The California Student Aid Commission, the state’s student loan guarantor, announced recently that it will…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­Two research teams at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received grants totaling $142,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct studies on the effects of El Nino on the Monterey Bay environment. One of the UCSC teams is studying how El Nino weather patterns change the reproductive and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–After a soggy winter, there’s nothing like the sights and sounds of spring to inspire the gardener in all of us. Come feed your inspiration during a free docent-led tour of the 25-acre UC Santa Cruz Farm, where spring is literally bursting out all over. The one-hour tours start Sunday, April 19, at…

Get ready for the spring gardening season by attending a free two-hour workshop on Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. to noon at San Lorenzo Lumber’s Garden Center, 235 River Street, in Santa Cruz. Albie Miles, a gardening instructor and graduate of the UCSC Farm & Garden’s apprenticeship program, will discuss basic organic gardening techniques,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Long Marine Lab’s Whale of an Auction, the largest annual fund-raising event for public education programs at UC Santa Cruz’s marine laboratory, will take place on Friday, April 3. This year’s auction, the 13th annual, begins at 6 P.M. in the Porter College Dining Hall at UCSC. Hundreds of people attend the auction…

Historian Alice Yang Murray spoke with Eric Schoeck for KUSP-Radio’s Talk of the Bay show on a range of subjects from Women’s History Month to the World War II Japanese internment. . . . Also covering Women’s History Month this week was the Santa Cruz County Sentinel, which featured a story on a new book…