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SANTA CRUZ–Professor of linguistics Jorge Hankamer has been appointed dean of the Humanities Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The appointment took effect July 1. Humanities is one of four academic divisions at UCSC; the others are Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. Each division is home to a wide range of departments…

Three-week institute at UC Santa Cruz to run July 10-27 SANTA CRUZ, CA–Balancing the checkbook. Remodeling the house. Playing the stock market. Understanding science and technology. It all adds up to a lot of math, and woe to those who can’t keep up. But thanks to teachers from the Monterey Bay Area Mathematics Project, area…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Carl E. Walsh, a professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named associate vice chancellor of planning and programs for the campus. The appointment is effective July 1, 1995. Walsh will work with Executive Vice Chancellor Michael Tanner and the staff of the Planning and Budget Office on…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Using the waves from earthquakes as sonar-like "pings" to probe below the earth’s crust, a seismologist has learned surprising new details about giant slabs of rock that dive into the planet at the roots of southern California’s dramatic Transverse Ranges. The study seems to verify what researchers suspected: A kink in the San…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Three new officers have assumed the helm of the board of directors of the Friends of Long Marine Lab, a community group that supports public education, student research, marine- mammal rescue, and other activities at the Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory. In addition, two other citizens have joined the board as new members.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Pelicans and cormorants often gather in shallow water near Santa Cruz. But in the summer of 1991, one such gathering took a bizarre and tragic twist. The birds seemed intoxicated, swimming in circles and squawking pitifully. Over the next few weeks, more than 100 carcasses of seabirds washed ashore near Santa Cruz. After…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Inspired by the impact a professor’s mentorship had on their son, a Los Gatos couple has pledged a gift of $250,000 to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to establish an endowed chair in environmental studies. The gift from Dr. Alan G. Giberson and Margaret S. Lyons Giberson of Los Gatos, California, establishes…

Fine-tuning Keck I, completing Keck II, and developing adaptive optics keeps observatory humming Nelson also will deliver the 1995 Heineman Prize Lecture, "The Keck Observatory: Challenges and Promise," at 11:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 15, in the Allegheny I and II rooms, Pittsburgh Vista Hotel. PITTSBURGH, PA–The W. M. Keck Telescope, mankind’s compound eye on…

Patricia Nelson Limerick, who will receive $275,000 as one of 24 new MacArthur Fellows named today (June 12, 1995) by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies in 1972 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Limerick was also the 1990 recipient of UCSC’s Alumni Achievement Award,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Conference Office at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will host more than 50 conferences, symposia, meetings, institutes, and camps this summer, on subjects ranging from Summer Bridge, a program to acquaint incoming freshmen with UCSC, to invertebrate reproduction. The ten-week conference season is expected to bring roughly 13,000 visitors to the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The public is invited to attend the annual meeting of the Friends of the UCSC Library, which will feature readings by some of the area’s most prominent writers. The free event takes place Thursday, June 15, at 4 p.m. under the cherry trees on the patio north of McHenry Library at the University…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Artwork produced by graduating seniors in visual arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be on display the weekend of June 17-18. The annual Senior Exhibit takes place in studios throughout the Baskin Visual Arts complex at UCSC from noon to 5 p.m. Sponsored by the Board of Studies in Art,…