Author: Public Affairs

Students, staff, and faculty are invited to participate in planning the 1997 Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation. The planning committee will meet on Friday, November 8, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Student Center Third World Lounge. All major aspects of the event, including the choice of the keynote speaker, will be considered. For…

Assistant professor of economics Menzie Chinn has been named a faculty research fellow in the International Finance and Macroeconomics group of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Chinn, who joined the UCSC faculty in 1991, specializes in international finance. He is currently working on capital-market integration in the Pacific Rim and the determination of exchange…

Donald Brenneis is a linguistic and social anthropologist who has spent years studying language, communication, and the relationship between talk and conflict. In Fiji, where overt arguments between adults are discouraged, Brenneis studied other genres that play important roles in village communication and politics, including gossip, insult, and oratory. More recently, Brenneis has been exploring…

During a recent visit to Roosevelt High School in Fresno, Chancellor Greenwood was interviewed about the Web sites Student Affairs has developed for prospective students. She also described UCSC’s expanding engineering program to reporters from the Santa Cruz County Sentinel, KSCO-Radio, KSBW-TV, and KCCN-TV. Manuel Pastor of Latin American and Latino studies praised a new…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Barry McLaughlin, an expert on bilingual education, will give a free public talk titled "The Good News About Bilingual Education," on Tuesday, November 12, from 6 to 8 P.M. at Temple Beth-El in Aptos. The address is 3055 Porter Gulch Road. His talk will be followed by a discussion with a panel of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A professor from North Carolina has joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, as an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 1996-97 academic year. Kathleen Kish was most recently head of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro–a position from which she took leave to…

Computers have taken total control of a 30-inch telescope at UCSC’s Lick Observatory, making it the most sensitive fully robotic telescope anywhere. The Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), built by astronomers at UC Berkeley, was dedicated Friday, October 25, by UCSC officials. Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood led the dedication. The instrument is named for the Sylvia…

Lynda Goff, professor of biology, is the new president of the Phycological Society of America, a scientific organization that promotes the study of algae. Goff’s appointment took effect in July during the 50th annual meeting of the society, which Goff hosted at UCSC. The meeting attracted more than 350 scientists from around the world. Chemistry…

The number of new students who entered UCSC this fall increased by more than 200 over last fall, and the total number of students is also up, according to third-week enrollment figures released by the Office of Planning and Budget. UCSC enrolled 3,288 new students this fall, compared to 3,042 new students last fall. As…

With affirmative action in the news daily, sociologist Dana Takagi is getting calls, most recently from the San Francisco Examiner, which did a story about how Asian Americans are being divided by the issue. Reporters continue to pursue the life on Mars story by examining what we know about how life may have arisen on…

Hirotaka Tamanoi Assistant Professor of Mathematics Hirotaka Tamanoi earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Tokyo and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, all in mathematics. He worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany, and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Paris before…

Photography Services is holding its annual Halloween costume photo contest. They’ll be taking pictures for free at 33 Communications Building on Thursday, October 31, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and 3 and 5 p.m. All those photographed will be entered automatically in the contest and become eligible to win a prize. The photos will…