Public Affairs

When Frank Trueba attended college in the late 1970s, he worked on some of the most rudimentary computers. "They had no monitor," said Trueba, ResNet and technology systems manager at Housing, Dining, and Child Care Services. "We had to type something and then run to the printer to see how it looked." Now Trueba, in…

Researcher Dennis Zaritsky Will Study The Evolution Of The Milky Way’s Nearest Neighbors In Space SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the fourth consecutive year, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has captured one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for young faculty members: a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, worth…

Porter College’s Bob Giges has won top honors at the Canadian International Annual Film and Video Festival for his video documentary From Sleepy Lagoon to Zoot Suit: The Irreverent Path of Alice McGrath. In the half-hour video, Alice McGrath tells the story of the Sleepy Lagoon case, in which 22 young Mexican-American men, charged with…

Small-scale medical trials on cancer patients provide hope that gene therapy could become a potent weapon in the fight against certain ovarian cancers and breast cancers, an audience learned at UCSC on September 19. University of Washington medical geneticist Mary-Claire King spoke to about 200 people at the Music Center Recital Hall in a public…

Beginning this quarter, new UCSC undergraduates can accumulate a grade-point average, while new and continuing students may request letter grades in almost every class. In addition, graduate students are also eligible to request letter grades for the first time. The Academic Senate approved these changes last year on the recommendation of the Committee on Educational…

The Sacramento Bee and the San Jose Mercury News called on researcher Dave Garrison of the Institute of Marine Sciences for comment upon the oceanic algal blooms known as red tides. Warmer coastal water, triggered by El Nino, may make red tides more widespread this fall and winter, Garrison said. Biochemist Jody Puglisi, late of…

In his first year as chair of Latin American and Latino studies, Manuel Pastor and his colleagues in both his program and the Chicano-Latino Research Center brought in more major grant support than they had hoped to generate in three years. But getting the money only ensures that the real work is yet to come,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In a unique partnership with its business neighbors, the University of California, Santa Cruz, has created a new internship program subsidizing wages for students in the local workforce. A project of the university’s Career Center, the Professions Training Program matches companies with qualified students, pays part of the students’ wages, covers workers’ compensation,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–University Police sergeant Nancy Carroll of the University of California, Santa Cruz, graduated September 12 from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The 11-week academy offers advanced investigative, management, and fitness training to upper- and mid-level law enforcement managers around the world. It also provides an opportunity for the officers to share…

For Olga Najera-Ramirez, the decision to study Mexican folk dance at the University of Guadalajara in the late 1970s was a fateful one. It was there, while studying the dances of a traditional Mexican festival as part of a school project, that she discovered the passion that would usher her back to graduate school and…

Chancellor Greenwood will speak on the topic of "Issues in Biotechnology" at the first meeting of the fall of the UCSC Women’s Club on Wednesday, September 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at University House. The UCSC Women’s Club meets once a month during the academic year and is open to all women in…

Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group will study methods of cleaning and releasing oiled birds A $250,000 facility dedicated to the care and monitoring of oiled seabirds soon will arise next to the state’s Oiled Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center at UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory, the California Department of Fish and Game has announced.…