Author: Public Affairs

A Kathakali dancer Each year, the Alumni Association brings an outstanding scholar or teacher to UCSC for one quarter as part of its Distinguished Visiting Professor program. This year, the program is dancing to a new tune. Instead of a single person, UCSC will host six: all actors and musicians of the Kathakali Kalakeli performance…

Alumna Holly Edde spent part of spring quarter ’97, her final quarter at UCSC, as a first-grade teacher’s aide at Live Oak School through the Oakes Serves program. During his student career at UCSC, senior Javier Jimenez has balanced his academic course work with volunteer experiences. He’s educated people about the AIDS virus for the…

Except for the Whole Earth Restaurant, campus eateries are closed over the spring break. The Whole Earth is closed on Monday, March 30, and open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, March 31-April 3. They take phone-ahead orders at (408) 426-8255. Discover how easy and rewarding it is to get and stay in shape. The…

Historian Gail Hershatter has received the American Historical Association’s 1998 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for her book, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (University of California Press, 1997). In announcing the award, the association noted, "This study of prostitution in Shanghai illuminates not only the various ways the institution is constructed but also…

UCSC Extension assistant dean Dale Stansbury was invited to testify before the State Select Committee on Economic Development in Sacramento last week. At the request of the committee chair, Senator John Vasconcellos, Stansbury addressed the economic impact of the worker shortage in the high-tech industry, focusing on proposals to address the problem and what UCSC…

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…