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Harry R. Wellman, who interrupted his retirement to serve as acting president of the University of California from 1967 to 1968, died August 18 following a long illness. Known by colleagues as a "quiet facilitator," Wellman started working for the university in 1925 as an extension specialist in agricultural economics and played a key role…

Living Trust Of Charles Griffin Farr Identifies UC Santa Cruz As Recipient Of His Private Collection SANTA CRUZ, CA–Charles Griffin Farr, one of California’s great realist painters and a veteran of the San Francisco art scene, died August 5 at the age of 89. Farr, described not long ago by a reporter as "the grand…

Ranking Appears In U.S. News & World Report’s 1998 "Best Colleges" Issue SANTA CRUZ–In its 1998 assessment of colleges and universities, U.S. News & World Report names the University of California, Santa Cruz, the 25th best public campus in the country. The ranking appears in the magazine’s 11th annual "America’s Best Colleges" issue, on the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, received more than $13.5 million in private support in the form of gifts and grants during the fiscal year that ended June 30–the highest total recorded in UCSC’s 32-year history, according to the campus’s Development Office. The total was more than double that received by the university…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Thirty years ago, on a scrub-covered hillside of the young UC Santa Cruz 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…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The ‘War on Drugs’ and the crack cocaine scare that gripped the nation from 1986 to 1992 triggered the most massive wave of imprisonment in the country’s history and eroded civil rights, say the authors of a new book called Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice. Crack in America focuses attention…

Flirting Or Hurting? UCSC’s Sexual Harassment Officer Takes Her Interactive Workshop On The Road SANTA CRUZ, CA–At the invitation of local principals, UCSC’s Title IX/Sexual Harassment Officer, Rita E. Walker, will spend the next several weeks presenting workshops on sexual harassment at junior high and middle schools in Santa Cruz County. (See detailed schedule information…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Gardeners, don’t take off those gloves! Don’t hang up your spades! Instead, get ready for the second annual Fall Plant Sale at UC Santa Cruz on Friday and Saturday, September 5 and 6. Hours are noon to 6 P.M. on Friday and 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. on Saturday. The sale will take…

Jonathan Fox, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has received the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize from the Journal of Development Studies for an article he wrote entitled "Governance and Rural Development in Mexico: State Intervention and Public Accountability." The award, which carries with it a prize of $500, was inaugurated in memory of…

An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy found in the universe to date by combining the unique sharpness of the images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope with the light-collecting power of the W. M. Keck Telescopes–with an added boost from a gravitational lens in space. The results show the young galaxy…

One of the most impressive archaeological discoveries of the century threatens to fade from memory unless a grassroots effort led by UCSC anthropology professor Diane Gifford-Gonzalez to preserve volumes of notes and photographs gets under way quickly. The famous ‘Peking Man’ excavation began in 1927 and led to the discovery in 1929 of early human…

The research on health care of community studies’ David Wellman came into play when the Los Angeles Times called him for comment on the impact that the drop in minority applications to UC medical schools will have. Citing studies that black and Latino doctors are far more likely to deliver medical care to underserved communities,…