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For the first time in campus history, UCSC is offering an undergraduate degree in business management economics. Responding to strong demand from current and prospective students, economics faculty proposed the new bachelor of arts degree program last fall. It was quickly approved by campus administrators. Students will be able to declare the new major officially…

![Melanie DuPuis][2] Melanie DuPuis: Assistant Professor of Sociology Sociologists of development tend to specialize in foreign countries, but Melanie DuPuis focuses on economic development in the United States. Assistant professor of sociology DuPuis’s work on the industrialization of the dairy industry integrates agricultural, industrial, environmental, and consumption studies. Her recent edited volume (with coeditor Peter…

For the third time in the past six years, Meredith J. Khachigian has been chosen by her colleagues to chair the University of California Board of Regents. The Regents elected Khachigian by a unanimous vote in a special meeting conducted by teleconference at the end of last month. Her appointment as chairman of the 26-member…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In the rarefied world of high-energy physics, researchers at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at UC Santa Cruz have earned reputations as premier makers of tools to detect the smallest bits of matter. Now, their work on some of the most innovative physics experiments of the next decade has earned…

Over the past three summers, more than 90 students from Monterey County middle schools have studied science, math, and English at UCSC in a challenging summer program. These students–former participants in the Summer Session/Seaside Junior High School Math/Science Institute–resumed their extracurricular studies last month in a tutoring program sponsored by Summer Session and funded by…

Would your child get a kick out of a pregame clinic with a UCSC coach? A chance to meet college athletes? Attend UCSC sports events with other kids? Sounds like fun? Then sign up your son or daughter for the Junior Slug Club. Kids will receive a Junior Slug t-shirt, a membership card, and free…

The University Library’s Regional History Project has just published Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Crown College, the oral history memoir of the respected scientist, who died in January 1997. Thimann came to UCSC in 1965, at the invitation of founding UCSC Chancellor Dean McHenry. McHenry asked Thimann to head what…

An artist’s conception portrays the Marine Discovery Center, now in the early phases of construction next to Long Marine Lab. The $5.3 million center will triple Long Marine Lab’s capacity to educate schoolchildren and the general public about the marine environment. To date, private donors have contributed about two-thirds of the project’s cost. SANTA CRUZ,…

Greg Rau, senior researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences, was one of 270 scientists elevated to the rank of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Rau was nominated by the Section on Biological Sciences for his expertise on the cycling of carbon in the environment, most notably in marine…

The time to make changes in benefits is at hand. Many changes can be made only once a year, during Open Enrollment. This year Open Enrollment takes place from Saturday, November 1 through Friday, November 21. Any changes that employees would like to make to medical, dental, vision, DepCare, and TIP plans must be made…

Currents online is now accepting classified ads from faculty and staff. Before submitting an ad, please read the policies and submittal procedure. For sale: Volvo sedan, 1982. Excellent condition, one owner, $4,000. June Gordon. 425-2060. Housing wanted: One or two BR house in Emeline, East Santa Cruz, or UCSC neighborhood beginning in January or February.…

UCSC student Cherry Corales discusses her first day as a literacy tutor for third graders at Natural Bridges Elementary School. SANTA CRUZ, CA–After his first day as a literacy tutor for second graders at Watsonville’s Starlight Elementary School, Octavio Murillo was buoyant. "It was awesome," he exclaimed. "I had so much fun with the kids.…