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Chancellor Greenwood had a simple message for staff members during a recent lunchtime question-and-answer session: Staff play a vital and valuable role in the operation of UC Santa Cruz, and she will do everything she can to encourage them to contribute their ideas and enthusiasm. Staff are a source of valuable cost-saving ideas, as well…

The Dickens Project presents its 17th annual summer conference, the Dickens Universe, from August 3 to 9. The conference features seminars and lectures by distinguished Dickens scholars, films, videos, a book fair, daily workshops for teachers, Victorian teas, a full-scale Victorian dance, and other surprises. The program is designed for both teachers and the general…

Here are all of the questions that were submitted for Chancellor Greenwood’s consideration before her meeting with staff on June 24: 1. Kim Seidl, Assistant to the Merrill Provost, Pottery Co-Op Coordinator; also anonymously submitted My question relates to pay scales in comparison to other UC campuses. I saw a report on CNN the other…

Science News printed a series of illustrations from a supercomputer simulation by astrophysicist Lars Hernquist and Joshua Barnes, a collaborator from the University of Hawaii. The pictures, showing two spiral galaxies colliding and merging to create a bloblike elliptical galaxy, accompanied an article on the early stages of galaxy formation in the universe. Elliot Aronson’s…

When faculty and staff opened their homes to UCSC students in the 1980s through the Host Home Program, there were often more hosts than students wanting to participate, said Carol Douglas-Hammer of Housing, Dining, and Child-Care Services. That’s a "dilemma" Douglas-Hammer would like to see repeated, as she and Wanda Amos of Community Rentals prepare…

Variations on a City Garden is the title of a symposium and garden tour presented by the Arboretum on Saturday and Sunday, July 19 and 20. On Saturday morning, three well-known Santa Cruz landscape architects, Ellen Cooper, Michael Arnone, and Roy Rydell, will share plans and solutions for city gardens; in the afternoon there will…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Marc S. Mangel, a professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been named associate vice chancellor for planning and programs. The appointment, which takes effect July 1, was announced today (June 24) by Executive Vice Chancellor Michael Tanner. Mangel will work with Tanner and the staff of the Planning and Budget…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, Student Health Services has received the highest possible rating from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAAHC), in conjunction with the Institute for Medical Quality. The accreditation means that the health center has met nationally recognized standards for quality health care set by AAAHC and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, soon will create powerful and informative graphical images from their data at a new interdisciplinary laboratory, thanks to a $460,000 equipment grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Division of Natural Sciences at UCSC will match the federal grant with about $240,000 in funding…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Many of the world’s leading biochemists and molecular biologists will convene at UC Santa Cruz this week for the first international symposium devoted to the physical blueprints of one of life’s most basic and crucial molecules. The meeting, titled "RNA Structure," runs from Thursday through Saturday, June 26-28, at UCSC’s Earth and Marine…

To: The campus community From: UCSC Police Department Re: New Security Alarms Policy New policies are now in effect which regulate campus security alarms and give the UCSC police chief the authority to review all requests for new security alarms and modifications to existing alarms. In summary, after receiving Police Department authorization, the individual unit…

A journal article coauthored by Professor Michael Dine of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics was the 11th-most cited physics paper in the world during March and April, according to the Institute for Scientific Information. Other physicists cited the paper 22 times in that period, indicating that the research is having a strong impact…