Author: Public Affairs

Lick Observatory’s annual summer programs will take place this year from June through September. Two programs will be offered this summer: the Music of the Spheres benefit concert series and the Friday Night Visitor’s Program. The observatory, which has its administrative headquarters at UCSC, will offer the Music of the Spheres program on six nights…

Rising artists: Seniors Alicia Relles (left) and Kari Jewell mix it up for their piece, "Miss Queenie’s Worry Cakes," presented during last week’s Open Studio exhibition at Baskin Visual Arts. Cooked into each of the cakes (which were a startling crimson under their pastel frostings) was a toy symbolizing a problem or worry of one…

Approximately 185 academically outstanding UCSC applicants attended Scholars Day on Saturday, March 14. The event, held at the West Field House, attracted approximately 470 people, including the prospective students and their family members. Scholars Day celebrates the academic excellence of UCSC’s faculty, programs, and students and provides prospective students attending the event–who are academically in…

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…

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…

More than 30 volunteers helped Chancellor Greenwood kick off an admissions phonathon last week. Callers plan to reach all of the 2,400 underrepresented students who were admitted to UCSC for next fall before the phonathon ends on Thursday, March 19. Students, members of the faculty and staff, and even the chancellor helped kick off an…

The cameras roll as (seated, l to r) student Marina Baldwin, Marriott’s Scott Jones, and UCSC assistant director of housing Elise Levinson sample a potential menu item. It’s hot, but it’s a hit: Thai noodles in a red curry sauce got the nod from (l to r) Levinson, general manger of University Food Services Liz…

Focus Is On Outreach Efforts To Ensure Top Academic Quality And Ethnic Diversity In Post-prop. 209 Era The University of California, Santa Cruz, has announced the release of letters of admission to freshmen applying to enter UCSC in fall 1998. Issuance of letters of admission is an early step in the process leading to actual…

In writing about the experience of Chinese women in America, author Judy Yung decided to focus her book on San Francisco–home to nearly 50 percent of all Chinese women in the U.S. at the turn of the century. The award-winning book–Unbound Feet (1995)–traces the stages of "unbinding" that took place in the lives of Chinese…

Marine biologist Mary Silver and her work on marine snow were the focus of an in-depth article in the Santa Cruz County Sentinel. Silver, who will be leading one of a series of workshops for teachers offered this spring by Long Marine Lab, has been studying the tiny bits of downward drifting ocean materials for…

More than 30 volunteers helped Chancellor Greenwood kick off an admissions phonathon last week. Callers plan to reach all of the 2,400 underrepresented students who were admitted to UCSC for next fall before the phonathon ends on Thursday, March 19. Students, members of the faculty and staff, and even the chancellor helped kick off an…