Public Affairs

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…

Assistant art professor Nobuho Nagasawa (kneeling) and the students from her Introduction to Three-dimensional Art class catch their breath after installing the art project, Neo Geo Hypertufa. The project was the result of a workshop with Seattle artist Vicki Scuri who came to UCSC for a four-day residency program sponsored by Porter College. Scuri, who…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Many of the world’s leading biochemists and molecular biologists will convene at UC Santa Cruz this week for the first international symposium devoted to the physical blueprints of one of life’s most basic and crucial molecules. The meeting, titled "RNA Structure," runs from Thursday through Saturday, June 26-28, at UCSC’s Earth and Marine…

To: The campus community From: UCSC Police Department Re: New Security Alarms Policy New policies are now in effect which regulate campus security alarms and give the UCSC police chief the authority to review all requests for new security alarms and modifications to existing alarms. In summary, after receiving Police Department authorization, the individual unit…