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Frank Talamantes, professor of biology, has received a 1997 Distinguished Scientist Award from the national Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). The awards, presented for the first time this year, are given to outstanding scientists and leaders in education who have brought distinction to the scientific community. The California…

UCSC Researchers Find All Students Benefit From Strong Cognitive And Academic Instruction Conducted In Their First Language How should we educate English language learners for success academically and to become productive and integrated members of American society? State, federal, and local policies should be congruent with research-based findings, in order to stimulate and, when necessary,…

Elaine Wedegaertner, assistant registrar for records, (right) and Greta Jacobson, narrative evaluations coordinator, show off a "faculty summary screen"–part of a new database for narrative evaluations on the World Wide Web. At the end of each quarter, UCSC faculty members must collectively write more than 30,000 course-performance or "narrative" evaluations–one for every undergraduate student earning…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–If you’re interested in alternative agriculture and enjoy working with people, now is the time to consider volunteering as a docent at the 25-acre organic Farm at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Applications are available now for the six-week docent training program, which begins May 14. During the training, docents will learn…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-A postgraduate researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation. The fellowship, worth a total of $101,500 over a three-year period, supports researcher Jamie Cate’s investigation of ribosomal structure. Large and complex molecules that are common…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received the French Government’s highest honor for academic achievement. UCSC professor of history Jonathan Beecher has been awarded France’s Palmes Academiques–a decoration given to those who have advanced the cause of French culture, education, and the arts. The Palmes Academiques was…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–If El Nino showers bring spring and summer flowers, then this should be a banner year for gardeners. Help your garden bloom with selections from the annual UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden plant sale on Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day in the Barn…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-The University of California, Santa Cruz, will host the Banana Slug Spring Fair on Saturday, April 18. UCSC alumni, current and prospective students, and their families are invited to the annual celebration, which features faculty lectures, artistic performances, facility tours, and alumni reunions. The fair begins at 9 a.m. It drew more than…

Wednesday, April 22 Room 321, Kresge College: 7:30 p.m. Keynote address: Sharon Pucker Rivo, "Images of Jews and the Holocaust in Film" Rivo is director of the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at Brandeis Respondent: Murray Baumgarten Baumgarten, a…

After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the Nazis issued every person a permanent identity card. A "J" on the cover indicated that the person was Jewish. Each Jewish man’s name was prefaced with "Israel" and each woman’s name with "Sarah." Permanent yellow armbands were issued at a later time. Card courtesy of the…

Two graduates of UCSC–alumna Laurie Garrett (Merrill College ’75) and Joseph Palca, who received a Ph.D. degree in psychology in 1982–have been honored recently for their work as science reporters. Garrett, a science and medical reporter for Newsday, was one of 13 journalists awarded a prestigious Polk Award for 1997. The awards were announced in…

Fred Keeley discussed California’s coast and the Pacific Ocean at a recent environmental studies seminar at Natural Sciences 2. The state of the California coast and the Pacific Ocean was the subject of a recent lunchtime seminar led by state assemblymember Fred Keeley (D-27th District). Approximately 20 people attended Keeley’s talk on April 6. The…