Author: Public Affairs

A mystery starring globular clusters, the Hubble Telescope, inflation, and the Seven (Sub)dwarfs It’s a curious cosmic conundrum: The most ancient stars appear older than the universe itself. Embarrassing headlines aside, this situation has sparked intense research by astronomers, cosmologists, and stellar modelers, all trying to turn back the clock to reconcile the histories of…

Tina Campt Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Tina Campt studies the history of Afro-Germans, and Afro-German women in particular. Her work focuses on the period of the Third Reich. She is also interested in questions of identity formation and the ways in which studying the history of Afro-Germans opens up new perspectives on the history…

Residents of Merrill’s B building will be able to bypass busy signals, time limits, and tied up telephone lines next quarter to log directly onto the campus computer network over high speed ethernet lines. In a pilot program, students in that residence hall will be the first to use the Student Communications System, an $8.1-million…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Deborah Meier, founder of one of the most remarkable public schools in the country, will give a talk at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Tuesday, February 25, at 7:30 P.M. The talk, titled "The Power of Their Ideas," is free and open to the public. It will be held in room…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In a comprehensive new analysis of more than 200 top universities, the University of California, Santa Cruz, ranks 15th in the nation in the quality of its research productivity. The study and rankings are detailed in a just-published book that chronicles the rise of a new generation of postwar research universities in 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,…

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…

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…