Author: Public Affairs

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…

Elizabeth Irwin, director of Public Information and Publications, will speak on the topic "UC Santa Cruz: Connecting with Our Community" at a meeting of the UCSC Women’s Club on Wednesday, January 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at University House. The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call (408) 459-2501. The…

Ray Collett has stepped down from his administrative role as director of UCSC’s Arboretum. On January 1, Professor Collett became the Arboretum’s director emeritus. He retains his faculty position as professor of natural sciences and will maintain an active teaching schedule. In honor of Collett’s more than 30 years of service to the Arboretum and…

A new television program featuring the best of lectures and programs at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is being broadcast on Community TV, Channel 72, beginning January 4. The show, UCSC Forum, features lectures and performances by UCSC faculty and prominent guest speakers. The show airs at 8 p.m. each Sunday with a rebroadcast…

José Augusto Lindgren Alves, consul general of Brazil in San Francisco (left), chats with associate professor of literature Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal and social sciences dean Martin Chemers at a reception celebrating the Brazilian government’s support of Portuguese language classes at UCSC. Through a unique funding arrangement made possible by the Brazilian government, UCSC will begin offering…

Recruitments have opened for two senior administrative positions at UCSC: executive vice chancellor and vice chancellor for university relations. Both recruitments are national in scope, and members of the campus community are encouraged to participate in the searches by identifying and nominating qualified candidates. The EVC recruitment follows Michael Tanner’s announcement earlier this year that…

About a dozen physicists, engineers, and technicians from UCSC are among those who will participate in an international scientific collaboration to build a new high-energy particle accelerator and associated detectors near Geneva, Switzerland. Officials with the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation signed an agreement last week to invest more than $500…

Encouraged by the success of a temporary attendant-assisted parking program at the East Remote lot, Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) staff plan to start a similar program at one of the Science Hill parking lots. "Science Hill has tremendous parking demand and not many opportunities for building more parking lots," said TAPS director Larry Pageler.…