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UCSC’s Creative Writing Program has grown in recent years to become the nucleus of a talented and increasingly acclaimed cluster of poets and novelists. Four core faculty in the program, all of whom have published new work in the past year, will come together for the first time for a special evening of poetry and…

The aviation-inspired sculpture and functional art pieces of Marc D’Estout, UCSC Extension’s director of art and design, were featured in the March/April 1998 issue of Northern California Home and Design. In an op ed carried by the San Diego Union-Tribune, community studies professor David Wellman asked the question: Where were the conservative critics of racial…

For a week in mid-March, UCSC was featured in the "On-campus" section of the Science Coalition Web site, an online resource for information on federally funded science research. Each week, the coalition highlights scientific advances and ongoing research at member universities. During the week of March 16-22, the coalition turned its spotlight on research occurring…

All alumni, current and prospective students, and their families and friends are invited to visit UCSC for the Banana Slug Spring Fair on Saturday, April 18. Last year, more than 4,250 people attended the fair. This year’s campus open house features a faculty lecture, alumni reunions, tours of the colleges and special facilities, student support-services…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­Two research teams at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received grants totaling $142,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct studies on the effects of El Nino on the Monterey Bay environment. One of the UCSC teams is studying how El Nino weather patterns change the reproductive and…

It is with a sense of profound personal sadness and loss that I share this news: this afternoon, at approximately 1:30 p.m., UCSC founding Chancellor Dean McHenry passed away. He died in Dominican Hospital of natural causes. Jane McHenry, his wife of 63 years, and two of his four children were at his bedside. Although…

Lick Observatory’s annual summer programs will take place this year from June through September. Two programs will be offered this summer: the Music of the Spheres benefit concert series and the Friday Night Visitor’s Program. The observatory, which has its administrative headquarters at UCSC, will offer the Music of the Spheres program on six nights…

Rising artists: Seniors Alicia Relles (left) and Kari Jewell mix it up for their piece, "Miss Queenie’s Worry Cakes," presented during last week’s Open Studio exhibition at Baskin Visual Arts. Cooked into each of the cakes (which were a startling crimson under their pastel frostings) was a toy symbolizing a problem or worry of one…

Approximately 185 academically outstanding UCSC applicants attended Scholars Day on Saturday, March 14. The event, held at the West Field House, attracted approximately 470 people, including the prospective students and their family members. Scholars Day celebrates the academic excellence of UCSC’s faculty, programs, and students and provides prospective students attending the event–who are academically in…

Seventy teenagers from the Watsonville area are expected to attend the third annual Teen Women’s Conference, held at Stevenson College on Thursday, April 2, and Friday, April 3. Volunteers are needed to help set up before and clean up after the event and to provide support. In its second year at Stevenson, the conference is…

United Way of Santa Cruz County honored UCSC and one of its employees last week for participation in the organization’s 1997 fund-raising campaign. The campus community earned the Gold Award as the highest donor in the education division, said Cary Oliva, director of development for United Way. Nearly 650 members of UCSC’s faculty and staff…

Nine of the 17 UCSC faculty who contributed to the recently released book The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History took a moment to pose for the camera during a reception at University House celebrating both Women’s History Month and the release of the landmark book, which portrays the experience of women in the United…