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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…

James Dunne has been appointed to the position of associate director of Physical Plant. He has worked with Physical Plant for over 17 years and for the last six years has served as senior superintendent of work management. Dunne will oversee all aspects of administrative services within Physical Plant, including the Physical Plant Service Center,…

Local contractor Dan Flasher and Alan Speidel start construction of the Cooperage’s new wall. People coming through UCSC’s main entrance in the past week may have noticed that one of the historical old "barns" near the base of campus has received a facelift of sorts. A plywood side has been added to the Cooperage, which…

Two UCSC research teams 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 foraging behavior of northern elephant seals; the group…

Prior To His 13-year Tenure As Head Of UCSC, He Helped Draft California’s Higher Education Master Plan SANTA CRUZ–Dean E. McHenry, founding chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a driving force behind the growth of California’s multitiered system of public higher education, died on Tuesday, March 17. He was 87. McHenry died…

Dean E. McHenry’s official portrait, taken early in his tenure as chancellor. Photo: Moulin Studios Dean McHenry was a tireless promoter of UCSC–even before the campus opened. Here, he mugs for a Time magazine publicity still in 1962. Photo: Covello & Covello In the precampus years, unpaved roads posed unusual transportation challenges for the new…

Prior To His 13-Year Tenure As Head Of UCSC, He Helped Draft California’s Higher Education Master Plan SANTA CRUZ–Dean E. McHenry, founding chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a driving force behind the growth of California’s multitiered system of public higher education, died on Tuesday, March 17. He was 87. McHenry died…

Professor Stanley Flatté was recently made a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). His citation reads "For work on meson spectroscopy and for work on wave propagation in random media with innovative contributions to ocean acoustics, atmospheric optics, seismology, and numerical simulation." Each year only one APS member in 200 is made a Fellow,…

The AIDS epidemic has spawned a range of organizational responses, from radical groups like ACT-UP to the more staid San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The origins and strategies of both groups are among those examined in the new book Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to AIDS by sociologist Nancy Stoller, a professor…