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Twenty-five scholars from around the world convened at UCSC’s Music Center in early September for a conference titled "The Quechua Expressive Art: Creativity, Analysis, and Performance." The UCSC conference examined historical and contemporary Quechua musical and verbal artistic forms in song, dance, poetry, narrative, folktale, myth, and riddle from both scholarly and performance perspectives. The…

About a dozen members of the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau toured the UCSC Farm with Chancellor Greenwood and other campus officials last Tuesday. The tour gave Farm Bureau members an opportunity to see and hear about the latest activities of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and to meet its new director,…

More than 1,000 people visited the UCSC Farm and the Alan Chadwick Garden over the weekend as part of the festivities marking the 30th anniversary of the Farm & Garden. Chancellor Greenwood attended a reception in the Alan Chadwick Garden on Friday evening. The Banana Slug String Band headlined the special anniversary edition of the…

Astronomer Dennis Zaritsky, winner of a $500,000 fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, appeared on a KNTV evening newscast to discuss his studies of stars in two nearby galaxies. Watching the Apollo missions as a child inspired Zaritsky to enter his field, he said. The anchor stated correctly that UCSC is one of…

UCSC will kick off its annual United Way campaign on Monday, October 13, with a lunchtime ice-cream social. Chancellor Greenwood and other administrators will serve ice cream at the social, which will take place from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at McHenry Library. Joyce Justus, special assistant to the chancellor, will act as a "trainer"…

An exhibit titled "Silence No More: Remembering the Japanese-American Internment" is on display at McHenry Library through December 20. The exhibit documents the history of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, with a particular focus on California. It includes art and photography created in the internment camps, the internment experience as reflected…

TO: THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY Re: Michael Tanner leaving Executive Vice Chancellor’s post June 30 Dear Colleagues: As most of you know, Michael Tanner has served in a series of administrative positions for nearly a decade. He is widely respected by his peers throughout the University of California for his creativity, integrity, and preparedness. At UC…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Three professors in the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were honored today (Friday, October 3) for their excellence in teaching. The recipients of the Division of Social Sciences’ 1996 Distinguished Teaching Awards are: David Brundage, associate professor of community studies Carolyn Martin Shaw, professor of anthropology David…

Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group Gets First Look At Bird’s Rapid Northward Quest For Salmon SANTA CRUZ, CA–Along the wild rivers of Alaska and British Columbia, immature bald eagles forage for dead salmon and learn to hunt for live ones in the late summer and fall. The eagles fly north on fast migrations from…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The story of the "Negress Maria," who was on board a Spanish ship captured by Francis Drake in 1578-79, is one of the stories that is the focus of a lecture by Margo Hendricks, associate professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Hendricks’s talk, "Portraits in Exile: Englishwomen and Travel…

Beginning this quarter, new UCSC undergraduates can accumulate a grade-point average, while new and continuing students may request letter grades in almost every class. In addition, graduate students are also eligible to request letter grades for the first time. The Academic Senate approved these changes last year on the recommendation of the Committee on Educational…

The Sacramento Bee and the San Jose Mercury News called on researcher Dave Garrison of the Institute of Marine Sciences for comment upon the oceanic algal blooms known as red tides. Warmer coastal water, triggered by El Nino, may make red tides more widespread this fall and winter, Garrison said. Biochemist Jody Puglisi, late of…