Campus News

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…

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…

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,…

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…