Author: Public Affairs

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…

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…

Economist Michael Hutchison’s timely commentary on Japan’s banking crisis ran in the Santa Cruz County Sentinel, which also published a letter to the editor from environmental scientist Rich Howarth, who critiqued the paper’s stance on global warming. Dickens Project director John Jordan was interviewed by NPR’s Ira Glass. Glass spoke to Jordan on the topic…

A retreat for campus managers will be held on Tuesday, January 13. The purpose of the retreat is to discuss institutional goals, foster cooperative efforts, and share insights of the reatreat with the Millennium Committee. The retreat is being coordinated by Linda Kittle, head of the retreat planning committee. "This is the first time we…

A book by economics professor Alan Richards and coauthor John Waterbury, titled A Political Economy of the Middle East, has been selected as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1997 by Choice, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Choice provides current reviews for academic libraries, and its outstanding book lists serve as…

Maria Paz Balibrea Enriquez: Assistant Professor of Literature Maria Balibrea’s expertise is in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature and culture, with a focus on postdictatorship Spain. She is interested in the role culture plays in the construction of new national discourses emerging in the democratic state. She has published on the literature and film of…

Faced with staggering cuts in state funding in the early 1990s, UCSC administrators created a fiscal-planning process in which academic and nonacademic divisions, representatives of the faculty senate, staff, and students became key players in the development of each year’s campus budget. Even though state support for the university has stabilized in recent years, that…

Assistant and associate professors at UCSC were surveyed last May concerning their satisfaction with their working environment and their needs for support and mentoring. Survey results are summarized below. The report is also available through department chairs. Eighty faculty members responded to the survey, which addressed a range of topics, including, spousal/partner employment, the Faculty…

Three people committed to enriching the lives of others have won the top awards given annually by UC Santa Cruz’s Alumni Association. Marge Frantz, a lecturer emerita in the American Studies and Women’s Studies Departments, won the Distinguished Teaching Award for 1997. Frantz is highly regarded for her dedication to students and passion for her…