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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…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–University Police sergeant Nancy Carroll of the University of California, Santa Cruz, graduated September 12 from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The 11-week academy offers advanced investigative, management, and fitness training to upper- and mid-level law enforcement managers around the world. It also provides an opportunity for the officers to share…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In a unique partnership with its business neighbors, the University of California, Santa Cruz, has created a new internship program subsidizing wages for students in the local workforce. A project of the university’s Career Center, the Professions Training Program matches companies with qualified students, pays part of the students’ wages, covers workers’ compensation,…

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…

For Olga Najera-Ramirez, the decision to study Mexican folk dance at the University of Guadalajara in the late 1970s was a fateful one. It was there, while studying the dances of a traditional Mexican festival as part of a school project, that she discovered the passion that would usher her back to graduate school and…

Chancellor Greenwood will speak on the topic of "Issues in Biotechnology" at the first meeting of the fall of the UCSC Women’s Club on Wednesday, September 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at University House. The UCSC Women’s Club meets once a month during the academic year and is open to all women in…

Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group will study methods of cleaning and releasing oiled birds 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 UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory, the California Department of Fish and Game has announced.…

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…