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An audience gathered at Porter College Quad under last Thursday’s sunny skies for a performance of traditional dance by Su-Nu-Nu Shinal, Pomo Indian dancers. The troupe traveled from the Mendocino area to perform for UCSC students, faculty, staff, and children from the UCSC Children’s Center. The performance was organized by theater arts student Carie Warner…

"Globalization: The Challenge and the Opportunities" is the title of a talk by Gita Sen, professor of economics and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India; visiting professor at the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University; and Research Coordinator on Alternative Development Frameworks–Development Alternatives with Women for a New…

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…

A UCSC postgraduate researcher 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 to all living things, ribosomes are responsible for…

Conservation plans advocated by many organizations to protect the world’s biodiversity could leave half of all terrestrial species vulnerable to extinction, either immediately or in the near future, according to a recent commentary by Michael Soule, a UCSC research professor of environmental studies, and M. A. Sanjayan, who earned a Ph.D. in biology from UCSC…

UCSC’s annual "open house" celebration takes place Saturday, April 18, and all alumni, current and prospective students, and their families and friends are invited to attend. The fair features alumni reunions; presentations by UCSC’s programs in the arts, engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences; a student music recital; and many other events.

SANTA CRUZ, CA­The University of California, Santa Cruz, has leased a 130- acre parcel at the former Fort Ord military base to Dynasty Farms, Inc., of Salinas, which will operate a certified organic mixed-vegetable farm on the site. Dynasty will hold the lease for a minimum of five years, said Lora Lee Martin, director of…

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…