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Governor Pete Wilson today (Friday, October 10) signed into law AB 1318, which provides for a 5 percent reduction in general fees for undergraduate California resident students and a two-year freeze on general fees for resident graduate students at the University of California. The following statement was issued today by UC President Richard C. Atkinson…

Physicist John C. Browne was appointed director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory last week by the University of California, which manages the New Mexico facility for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Acting on the recommendation of UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the UC Board of Regents named Browne to the post, effective Nov.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The federal government has funded an innovative in-depth study of marijuana use that is designed to answer fundamental questions about the drug, including whether it leads to the use of "harder" drugs, what its long-term effects are, and whether users become dependent on the drug. Craig Reinarman, a sociology professor at the University…

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No Other Research Group Has Learned So Much About How Seals And Sea Lions Process Information SANTA CRUZ, CA–A remarkable quartet of trained marine mammals is helping scientists push the frontiers of animal psychobiology by demonstrating, in unprecedented detail, how they see, hear, and think about the world around them. Years of careful experiments at…

From the accounting office to the police department, Business and Administrative Services (BAS) units provide a wealth of services to the campus community. A new series of lunch-time forums will give students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn about these services. At "Bag-It With BAS," the heads of BAS units will discuss what their…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $165,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund a five-week summer institute in 1998 to explore the environment and world history. Edmund Burke III, a professor of history, received the grant for the institute, titled, "The Environment…

Senior John Sanchez had no trouble keeping the audience’s attention recently as he discussed his summer research in South America. It wasn’t just his engaging stories of Amazonian adventures. Credit also must go to his subjects: venomous long-haired caterpillars, whose "urticating" (itch-producing) secretions show promise as antibacterial compounds. Sanchez was one of 19 UCSC undergraduate…

The Staff Advisory Board and the Office of the Chancellor have invited all staff employees to a "Welcome to the 1997-98 Academic Year Barbecue." The event will be held on Tuesday, October 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the East Field. The barbecue will feature a variety of picnic foods, including burgers, hot…

Undergraduate juniors and seniors in all majors can now enroll full-time in a Washington, D.C., program, the UCDC Program. Students take classes and intern at one of the many organizations or agencies in the D.C. area while fully enrolled as UCSC students. The cost for the quarter is comparable to a quarter on campus at…

Please join us in October for the seventh year of Wellness Award Lectures on various campuses. The faculty awardees were selected competitively in response to an annual call for abstracts, issued in the spring. A distinguished universitywide steering committee selects six awardees on the basis of a blind peer review of abstracts. The awardees prepare…

Two Young Researchers Set Up Labs To Study C. Elegans, One Of Biology’s Key Model Organisms SANTA CRUZ, CA–Worms are turning by the thousands in a pair of labs at the UC Santa Cruz Biology Department. But these are not earthworms, and the work is no fishing expedition. Rather, scientists Andrew Chisholm and Yishi Jin…