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SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $100,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to develop an innovative college program in U.S. Intercultural Studies designed to promote cultural understanding and unity. UC Santa Cruz was chosen in part because its eight residential colleges provide a unique opportunity to integrate…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The W. M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles has awarded $450,000 to the University of California, Santa Cruz, for equipment that will let chemists and biologists explore the structures and functions of molecules that play roles in causing or treating human diseases. The grant will help establish a laboratory for the study of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Approximately 300 people, primarily UC Santa Cruz students, demonstrated this morning (January 17) at the entrances of the University of California, Santa Cruz, closing the campus to vehicles from 7:30 a.m. until 12 noon. At that time, fourteeen students who refused to disperse were arrested. Those students face university disciplinary action as well…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Marine biologists report progress in their research to measure the effects of low-frequency sounds on marine mammals. During the first five transmission cycles from the California sound source in the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) project, the researchers observed no dramatic changes in marine-mammal behavior that would have required them to stop…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Author Judy Yung will discuss her new book and sign copies at a 7:30 p.m. talk on Wednesday, January 31, at the Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave. Yung’s book, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), was released in November in both…

Since the campus opened in 1965, UCSC’s graduate students have been collectively saving for a home of their own. Last month, they voted to commit the more than $1 million already saved–and pledge future resources–to build a Graduate Commons in conjunction with the Bay Tree Bookstore expansion. When the 4,825-square-foot commons is completed in summer…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Hilary Schor is the featured speaker for the annual Norman and Charlotte Strouse Lecture on Thomas Carlyle and His Era at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Schor, an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California, will present a talk titled "The Stupidest Novel in London: Thomas Carlyle and the…

Franklin A. Sonn, the first black South African ambassador to the United States, will deliver the keynote address at the twelfth annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Convocation this month at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This year’s convocation is scheduled for Thursday, January 25. It begins at 4 p.m. in UCSC’s Performing Arts…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Novelist, playwright, and activist Sarah Schulman will present a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. January 23 in Kresge Town Hall at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Schulman, who is in residence at UCSC for two weeks as a UC Regents’ Lecturer, will read selections from her latest novel, Rat Bohemia. The…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–An English literature professor and a Newsday reporter have won the University of California, Santa Cruz, Alumni Association’s annual Distinguished Teaching and Alumni Achievement awards for 1995. An employee of the Board of Studies in Sociology won the university’s first-ever Outstanding Staff Award. Michael Warren, professor of English literature and a fellow of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Acidic water and ultraviolet light damage the embryos of frogs far more seriously when acting in tandem rather than as separate factors, according to a laboratory study at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Researchers exposed the eggs of a common species of frog to various levels of acidity and UV-B radiation, the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Jerry Nelson, an astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz, will receive the 1996 Joseph Fraunhofer Award from the Optical Society of America in honor of his work during the last two decades on the W. M. Keck Telescope in Hawaii. Nelson, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics, is the principal designer and…