Campus News

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…

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…

Susan Chesley, media development librarian, and Jan Dickens, director of Media Services are coauthors of the article, "Distance Education: Resources to Improve Learning," which appeared in the Spring 1997 College and University Media Review (vol. 3, no. 2). Their bibliography was written as a resource for teaching faculty and support staff engaged in distance learning…

When Frank Trueba attended college in the late 1970s, he worked on some of the most rudimentary computers. "They had no monitor," said Trueba, ResNet and technology systems manager at Housing, Dining, and Child Care Services. "We had to type something and then run to the printer to see how it looked." Now Trueba, in…

Researcher Dennis Zaritsky Will Study The Evolution Of The Milky Way’s Nearest Neighbors In Space SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the fourth consecutive year, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has captured one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for young faculty members: a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, worth…

Porter College’s Bob Giges has won top honors at the Canadian International Annual Film and Video Festival for his video documentary From Sleepy Lagoon to Zoot Suit: The Irreverent Path of Alice McGrath. In the half-hour video, Alice McGrath tells the story of the Sleepy Lagoon case, in which 22 young Mexican-American men, charged with…

Small-scale medical trials on cancer patients provide hope that gene therapy could become a potent weapon in the fight against certain ovarian cancers and breast cancers, an audience learned at UCSC on September 19. University of Washington medical geneticist Mary-Claire King spoke to about 200 people at the Music Center Recital Hall in a public…

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…