Author: Public Affairs

Seventy teenagers from the Watsonville area are expected to attend the third annual Teen Women’s Conference, held at Stevenson College on Thursday, April 2, and Friday, April 3. Volunteers are needed to help set up before and clean up after the event and to provide support. In its second year at Stevenson, the conference is…

Local contractor Dan Flasher and Alan Speidel start construction of the Cooperage’s new wall. People coming through UCSC’s main entrance in the past week may have noticed that one of the historical old "barns" near the base of campus has received a facelift of sorts. A plywood side has been added to the Cooperage, which…

United Way of Santa Cruz County honored UCSC and one of its employees last week for participation in the organization’s 1997 fund-raising campaign. The campus community earned the Gold Award as the highest donor in the education division, said Cary Oliva, director of development for United Way. Nearly 650 members of UCSC’s faculty and staff…

Two UCSC research teams 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 foraging behavior of northern elephant seals; the group…

Nine of the 17 UCSC faculty who contributed to the recently released book The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History took a moment to pose for the camera during a reception at University House celebrating both Women’s History Month and the release of the landmark book, which portrays the experience of women in the United…

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…

It is with a sense of profound personal sadness and loss that I share this news: this afternoon, at approximately 1:30 p.m., UCSC founding Chancellor Dean McHenry passed away. He died in Dominican Hospital of natural causes. Jane McHenry, his wife of 63 years, and two of his four children were at his bedside. Although…

Dean E. McHenry’s official portrait, taken early in his tenure as chancellor. Photo: Moulin Studios Dean McHenry was a tireless promoter of UCSC–even before the campus opened. Here, he mugs for a Time magazine publicity still in 1962. Photo: Covello & Covello In the precampus years, unpaved roads posed unusual transportation challenges for the new…

Prior To His 13-Year Tenure As Head Of UCSC, He Helped Draft California’s Higher Education Master Plan SANTA CRUZ–Dean E. McHenry, founding chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a driving force behind the growth of California’s multitiered system of public higher education, died on Tuesday, March 17. He was 87. McHenry died…