Author: Public Affairs

Two offices at UCSC have launched a new service that uses a relatively old medium to bring the latest information about campus events to faculty, staff, and students. The service–called UCSC Presents–employs a basic TV to broadcast an up-to-date listing of lectures, concerts, and other events. A connection to the campus cable system is all…

UCSC astronomers in the news: January witnessed a burst of media coverage of the pioneering work at UC Observatories/Lick Observatory. At a meeting in Toronto, postdoctoral researcher James Lowenthal met the press at a news conference about the "Hubble Deep Field," the Hubble Space Telescope’s most probing view yet into the far reaches of the…

Lori Kletzer, assistant professor of economics, has received a prestigious grant from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. The two-year grant for nearly $39,000 will support Kletzer’s work on a book about the effect of increasing foreign competition on U.S. manufacturing and employment. Kletzer’s book will examine the relationship between changes in international trade,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In recognition of his academic achievement and his community work, John Brown Childs, professor of sociology at UC Santa Cruz, has received the prestigious Fulbright Thomas Jefferson Chair award for 1997-98. Childs, an expert on contemporary urban issues, will spend a portion of the 1997-98 academic year at the University of Amsterdam in…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A miniature forest of robotically controlled optical fibers has sprouted from the end of the 120-inch Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory near San Jose, letting astronomers capture and analyze faint rays of light from dozens of distant stars or galaxies at the same time. Named the multi-object spectrograph (MOS), the device is the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Next week’s mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope has a distinctly blue-and-gold flair: UC Santa Cruz alumnus Steven Hawley will be one of seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery, while professor of astronomy and astrophysics Harland Epps helped design one of the telescope’s sophisticated new instruments. Discovery is scheduled to lift…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The recent signing of the Guatemalan peace accords ended one of this century’s bloodiest civil wars. Susanne Jonas of the Latin American and Latino studies program at UC Santa Cruz is a leading U.S. authority on the war in Guatemala, and she will be participating in a two-day workshop on peacemaking at UCSC…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A best-selling romance novelist has made a gift to the University of California, Santa Cruz–her alma mater–to establish an important library endowment. The endowment comes from Jayne Ann Krentz, whose contribution of $10,000 has established the Castle Humanities Fund. Interest from the fund, established in Krentz’s maiden name, makes it possible for the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A floating team of scientists poking into the Pacific Ocean floor off Costa Rica has unearthed mud that raises puzzling questions about what fuels the volcanoes 125 miles away on shore. Researchers aboard Leg 170 of the Ocean Drilling Program explored the origins of Central American volcanoes and other geological mysteries during a…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Professor Ray T. Collett, director of the Arboretum at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received the California Horticultural Society Annual Award in San Francisco on Monday, February 3. Collett was honored for his lifelong contributions to California horticulture, including establishing the UCSC Arboretum, introducing new plants to California gardens, and breeding new…

The Stevenson Program on Global Security Winter Colloquium continues on Monday, February 3, with a talk by Jonathan Fox, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies, on the topic "Taking Stock of the World Bank’s ‘Sustainable Development’ Reforms: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The colloquium is held from 3:30 to 4:40 p.m.…

Harry Berger, professor emeritus of literature, is the author of a collection of Shakespeare essays called Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare, which is being released by Stanford University Press at the beginning of February. The book was edited by UCSC alumnus Peter Erickson (who earned a Ph.D. in literature in 1975). A…