Author: Public Affairs

Here are all of the questions that were submitted for Chancellor Greenwood’s consideration before her meeting with staff on June 24: 1. Kim Seidl, Assistant to the Merrill Provost, Pottery Co-Op Coordinator; also anonymously submitted My question relates to pay scales in comparison to other UC campuses. I saw a report on CNN the other…

Science News printed a series of illustrations from a supercomputer simulation by astrophysicist Lars Hernquist and Joshua Barnes, a collaborator from the University of Hawaii. The pictures, showing two spiral galaxies colliding and merging to create a bloblike elliptical galaxy, accompanied an article on the early stages of galaxy formation in the universe. Elliot Aronson’s…

When faculty and staff opened their homes to UCSC students in the 1980s through the Host Home Program, there were often more hosts than students wanting to participate, said Carol Douglas-Hammer of Housing, Dining, and Child-Care Services. That’s a "dilemma" Douglas-Hammer would like to see repeated, as she and Wanda Amos of Community Rentals prepare…

Variations on a City Garden is the title of a symposium and garden tour presented by the Arboretum on Saturday and Sunday, July 19 and 20. On Saturday morning, three well-known Santa Cruz landscape architects, Ellen Cooper, Michael Arnone, and Roy Rydell, will share plans and solutions for city gardens; in the afternoon there will…

Chancellor Greenwood had a simple message for staff members during a recent lunchtime question-and-answer session: Staff play a vital and valuable role in the operation of UC Santa Cruz, and she will do everything she can to encourage them to contribute their ideas and enthusiasm. Staff are a source of valuable cost-saving ideas, as well…

The Dickens Project presents its 17th annual summer conference, the Dickens Universe, from August 3 to 9. The conference features seminars and lectures by distinguished Dickens scholars, films, videos, a book fair, daily workshops for teachers, Victorian teas, a full-scale Victorian dance, and other surprises. The program is designed for both teachers and the general…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Marc S. Mangel, a professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been named associate vice chancellor for planning and programs. The appointment, which takes effect July 1, was announced today (June 24) by Executive Vice Chancellor Michael Tanner. Mangel will work with Tanner and the staff of the Planning and Budget…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, Student Health Services has received the highest possible rating from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAAHC), in conjunction with the Institute for Medical Quality. The accreditation means that the health center has met nationally recognized standards for quality health care set by AAAHC and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, soon will create powerful and informative graphical images from their data at a new interdisciplinary laboratory, thanks to a $460,000 equipment grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Division of Natural Sciences at UCSC will match the federal grant with about $240,000 in funding…

It was a bittersweet moment for Aromas School teacher Katy Stonebloom last Thursday as more than 30 of her students were honored by Chancellor Greenwood and other UCSC officials for their work on a bilingual book called Kids Around the University . The culmination of two years of work, the book was researched and written…

Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood earned notice recently in the world’s two leading science journals, Science and Nature. Greenwood was one of the principal sources in a special news report in Science about possible reforms in the National Research Council, the operating arm of three prestigious scientific academies. In Nature, she commented about an expanded role for…

Fred Farr, attorney, environmentalist, former state senator, and UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board trustee, died June 10 in Monterey; he was 86. He was born in Oakland and received undergraduate and law degrees from UC Berkeley. After World War II, he settled in Carmel with his wife and three children. Farr was elected to the…