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Patricia Sullivan, lecturer in the Education Department, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship for the year 1997-98. She will be the director of the master’s program in teaching English as a foreign language at Bilkent University, a private university of about 10,000 students in Ankara, Turkey. She will be working with Turkish university-level teachers of…

Thirty years ago, on a scrub-covered hillside of the young UCSC campus, Alan Chadwick planted a revolution in gardening. The iconoclastic Englishman was a pioneer of organic, French-intensive gardening in northern California, and his influence has made its way from that steep hillside to farms around the world and to the tables of the nation’s…

Enrollment: UCSC is expecting an opening-day enrollment of approximately 10,450 students, compared to an enrollment of 10,215 last fall. A student body of 10,450 would be the largest in the campus’s history–exceeding the 10,255 who enrolled in fall 1992. Of the 10,450 students, approximately 9,450 are expected to be undergraduates; 1,000, enrolled in graduate studies.…

Bryant Gumble’s new CBS-TV show, The Public Eye, tapped psychologist Craig Haney for a lengthy on-camera interview regarding conditions in the country’s super-maximum security prisons. Haney, who did the interview in the Cowell College Library, says the segment is scheduled to air sometime after the show’s premiere in October. Dateline NBC devoted a splashy 10-minute…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Amandla Poets, an acclaimed South African World Beat band, will headline a benefit concert for the UCSC Farm & Garden on Friday, October 3, at the Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building on Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz. Dandaro, Santa Cruz’s favorite marimba group, will open the show at 8 P.M. With a…

SANTA CRUZ–Former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, a longtime congressman representing the Monterey Bay Area, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at UCSC’s annual convocation for new students. The event– on Sunday, September 21–will take place from 4 to 5 P.M. in the Upper Quarry Amphitheater on the UCSC campus. The Convocation…

Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group Will Study Methods Of Cleaning And Releasing Oiled Birds SANTA CRUZ, CA–A $250,000 facility dedicated to the care and monitoring of oiled seabirds soon will arise next to the state’s Oiled Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center at the UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Laboratory, the California Department of…

Economist Dan Friedman is the first to admit that his latest research interest has him heading upstream, but he has a sturdy paddle. A three-year $185,000 grant from the National Science Foundation assured him that the time is right for his provocative analysis of the performance of customer markets. Customer markets, which include the labor…

A memorial service is planned for art professor Eduardo Carrillo, who died July 14. The service will take place on Sunday, September 28, at 11 a.m. in the Baskin Visual Arts Courtyard. The Art Department and the Carrillo family invite friends, students, and colleagues of Carrillo’s to join them in remembering his life and in…

TO UCSC FACULTY: Based on input from faculty, we are offering the following seminars and clinics in September to facilitate integrating technology into teaching and learning. These are offered as follow-up activities to the Spring ’97 Systemwide conference on "Teaching, Learning, and the New Technologies". CATS Instructional Computing and the Library’s Media Services are co-sponsoring…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Put on your dancing shoes, grab the kids, and head for the UC Santa Cruz Farm on Saturday, October 4, where the fourth annual Harvest Festival will get under way at 11 A.M. This year’s festival coincides with the 30th anniversary of the UCSC Farm & Garden, and organizers have pulled out all…

Ben Benumof, an earth sciences graduate student, appeared on the CBS Evening News during a report on the possible effects of El Nino along the California coast. Benumof is part of a team under geologist Gary Griggs that is studying, in fine detail, erosion rates and processes along the San Diego County and Santa Cruz…