Author: Public Affairs

Having problems with your two-wheeler? Come down to the Recreation Office porch at the East Field House and have the expert bike maintenance specialists check it out. Drop-in bicycle maintenance will be open for the campus community on Fridays from 2 to 5 p.m. January 16 through March 13. For further information, contact Matt Brower…

Zhiwu Zhu: Assistant Professor of Biology Zhiwu Zhu will become a faculty member in the planned Environmental Toxicology Department when that degree program is established. He uses yeast cells to study the biochemistry and molecular biology of metal ions such as copper, which can trigger disease at abnormal levels. Zhu earned his B.S. from Nanjing…

For Carol Shennan, the new director of UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, navigating the sometimes antagonistic worlds of organic and conventional agriculture is nothing new. For nearly three years, she has been at the forefront of a research project that aims to resolve long-standing conflicts among environmentalists, farmers, and hunters in the…

Deborah Abbott has been named director of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered (GLBT) Resource Center. This new position was created to provide services and programming to support the GLBT campus community. Abbott, a UCSC Porter (College Five) alumna, is a longtime activist on GLBT issues. She coedited the book, From Wedded Wife to Lesbian Life,…

Gov. Pete Wilson has proposed an 8 percent state budget increase for the University of California in 1998-99, including funds to cover a 5 percent reduction in fees for undergraduates who are California residents. The governor’s plan calls for an increase of $175 million in state general funds for UC or a total $2.3 billion…

Shayna Lazarevich, after a court hearing Sasha and Andre, before the 1989 abduction Years of persistent police work paid off late last month when UCSC police officer Dale Kahoun recognized suspected child abductor Dragisa Lazarevich near the campus police station. Kahoun and his fellow UCSC officers had seen the suspect’s face dozens of times in…

Not long ago, economist Robert Fairlie was curious about whether the influx of immigrants to California was prompting the parents of native-born schoolchildren to pull their children from public schools and enroll them in private schools. Like any good social scientist, Fairlie did some preliminary research to explore the question and was intrigued by what…

Many of those who established subject endowments attended the December event at McHenry Library. Pictured in front of the wall bearing their names are: (Back row, l-r) Merryl Cicourel, Michael Clark, Marion Taylor, Charles and Jean Engel, Ton and Thelma Jue, Rolf Augustine, committee chair Lynn Stegner, and University Librarian Allan Dyson. (Front row, l-r):…

Molecular biologist Harry Noller’s work using X-ray crystallography to reveal three-dimensional images of the inner workings of ribosomes made Science magazine’s list of likely areas for promising breakthroughs in 1998. The San Jose Mercury News picked up the story and included Noller in an end-of-the-year preview of coming science attractions. Economist Manuel Pastor of Latin…

University of California President Richard C. Atkinson has selected UC Merced as the name for the university’s proposed 10th campus. The campus is scheduled to open its doors to students in 2005. Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, UC’s vice provost for academic initiatives, made the formal announcement at a ceremony at the Merced County Courthouse Museum in December.…

Holly Kunze, assistant specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences, died as the result of an accident on January 2; she was 35. She worked with researchers Marcia Gowing and David Garrison on an Antarctic project identifying microscopic plants important in the food web. Ms. Kunze had a master’s degree in marine sciences from SUNY-Stony…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Economist Lori Kletzer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a prestigious career advancement award from the National Science Foundation to explore the disparity in the economic status of black and white women. Kletzer, an assistant professor of economics at UCSC, will conduct an in-depth examination of the roles of family…