Author: Public Affairs

Assemblymember Fred Keeley (left) and state senator Bruce McPherson said they came to the forum mostly to hear ideas and comments from the UCSC community. Chancellor Greenwood introduced the two legislators to the audience and helped field questions. More than 30 people attended the forum at the Red Room at College Eight. Assemblymember Fred Keeley…

National Geographic interviewed biophysicist David Deamer for a story on "The Rise of Life on Earth." A striking photo of molecules in the lab, taken by Deamer, accompanies a caption about his work on the conditions that may have formed the first cells. California’s coast is receiving a one-two punch from the season’s heavy rainstorms,…

High school students from central and northern California will converge on UCSC on Sunday, March 1, for the northern California regional Ocean Sciences Bowl. The event, which is free and open to the public, brings eight teams of students together to test their knowledge of the ocean as they field queries on the biology, chemistry,…

Because the availability of parking spaces on campus is limited, the University Police Department is increasing parking enforcement. A recent survey showed that the majority of people receiving parking citations on campus either have no permit, have a permit which is not valid in the lot where their vehicle is parked, or are parked at…

Two new oral histories focusing on the area’s agricultural history have been published by the University Library’s Regional History Project. The volumes are Jack L. DeBenedetti, Jr.: Brussels Sprouts and Artichoke Growing on the North Coast, and Charles Dick: Agricultural Regulation in Santa Cruz, 1930-1967. The DeBenedetti publication, featuring the commentary of the late Jack…

Shakespeare Santa Cruz was awarded nine Drama-Logue Critics Awards for its 1997 season. The coveted awards, presented each year for the past 21 years by the Hollywood-based weekly theater review and casting magazine Drama-Logue, recognize exceptional theater produced in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas during the previous year. This year’s awards ceremony…

Swim, bike, and run at the 8th Annual Skippy Triathlon, sponsored by UCSC intramural sports, on Saturday, March 7, at 8 a.m. at the East Field House pool. The event includes a 1,000-yard swim in the pool, a 6-mile mountain bike ride, and a 5.2-mile cross-country run. The cost is $15/person. For more information, call…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In non-Western countries, the rise of the global economy has led to an explosion in manufacturing facilities with substandard working conditions, according to organizers planning a one-day conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The emergence of these so- called "sweatshops," which often rely on child labor, is altering family and community…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–One of Europe’s oldest universities, the 650-year-old Charles University of Prague, Czechoslovakia, has presented a University of California, Santa Cruz, professor with its highest honor. Pavel Machotka, professor emeritus of art and psychology at UCSC, was named the recipient of the degree of Doctor of Education honoris causa, bestowed on him, according to…

Thanks to a recent gift, undergraduates in the Environmental Studies Department have a new Regents’ Endowment to tap to support their field-study projects. Alice Cooley recently contributed to the Richard A. Cooley Award for undergraduate field study, which was established in memory of her husband, who was the founder and first chair of the environmental…

The University of California, which is embarked on its own aggressive and innovative academic outreach program, endorsed a plan announced earlier this month by President Clinton to promote college and school partnerships and to prepare low-income students for higher education. The president’s High Hopes initiative, a $140 million competitive grant program, is designed to raise…

History professor Pedro Castillo was quoted in the Mexican newspapers–Diario de Chihuahua and El Heraldo de Chihuahua in Chihuahua and El Universal and La Cronica in Mexicali–after he presented a series of talks on Mexican immigration, the Mexican American community, and the Latino vote this past December. He was also quoted in El Norte and…