Author: Public Affairs

The campus will hum with construction activity later this school year, as a number of major projects get under way in the upcoming spring and summer. Nine projects, including a new fitness center, apartments for students, improvements to the arts facilities, and a graduate commons and expanded bookstore, are under way or are scheduled to…

For Sale: ’93 Nissan Sentra, 5 sp., AC, Cruise, AM/FM Cassette, power steering. 108K miles. Original owner. $5,000 or best offer. Bridget or Christine, 425-3549 For sale: Volvo sedan, 1982. Excellent condition, one owner, $4,000. June Gordon. 425-2060.

Susan is a 35 year old manager who leads a new product development team in a large manufacturing company. She is very confident of her leadership abilities, in part because of her life experiences (she was college class president and captain of the women’s volleyball team) and because she seems to be valued and respected…

Jennifer Gonzalez: Assistant Professor of Art History Jennifer Gonzalez taught previously at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her focus is contemporary installation art, visual culture, semiotics, museums, and material culture studies. A former Whitney Museum of Art fellow, she has received numerous grants, including two from the Ford Foundation. She is the author of…

The lead story in the New York Times science section on November 11 featured several prominent biologists, including our own Burney Le Boeuf, discussing the extraordinarily deep dives of elephant seals, whales, and other marine mammals. A medical researcher "probably won’t believe" the extent to which a seal’s lungs collapse during its mile-deep forays underwater,…

Students practice with the University Orchestra in this 1994 photo. (Photo: Mickey Pfleger) Growth in the Music Department has not been limited to facilities. Along with the new Music Center, the department has been working on expanding its nationally recognized music program. This fall two related initiatives have been launched that will strengthen the department’s…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In the rarefied world of high-energy physics, researchers at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at UC Santa Cruz have earned reputations as premier makers of tools to detect the smallest bits of matter. Now, their work on some of the most innovative physics experiments of the next decade has earned…

Over the past three summers, more than 90 students from Monterey County middle schools have studied science, math, and English at UCSC in a challenging summer program. These students–former participants in the Summer Session/Seaside Junior High School Math/Science Institute–resumed their extracurricular studies last month in a tutoring program sponsored by Summer Session and funded by…

Would your child get a kick out of a pregame clinic with a UCSC coach? A chance to meet college athletes? Attend UCSC sports events with other kids? Sounds like fun? Then sign up your son or daughter for the Junior Slug Club. Kids will receive a Junior Slug t-shirt, a membership card, and free…

Several years ago, when UCSC implemented the holiday campus closure, we were told that this was being done to save costs through payroll savings and energy use reduction. I think it is time that the administration reconsider forcing staff to take this time off with the options that are given. 1) The majority of staff…

The University Library’s Regional History Project has just published Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Crown College, the oral history memoir of the respected scientist, who died in January 1997. Thimann came to UCSC in 1965, at the invitation of founding UCSC Chancellor Dean McHenry. McHenry asked Thimann to head what…

Currents online is now accepting classified ads from faculty and staff. Before submitting an ad, please read the policies and submittal procedure. For sale: Volvo sedan, 1982. Excellent condition, one owner, $4,000. June Gordon. 425-2060. Housing wanted: One or two BR house in Emeline, East Santa Cruz, or UCSC neighborhood beginning in January or February.…