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The Education Abroad Program is seeking applications from faculty for directorship positions for the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 academic years. Candidates must be tenured members of the Academic Senate, lecturers with security of employment, or emeriti faculty. In all but a few cases, candidates must be fluent in the language of the host country and have…

The following information is intended to provide some context for the graduate student walkout planned for May 14 and 15: What is ASE? The Association of Student Employees (ASE) is an organization of student employees, affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW), which seeks to become the exclusive representative of teaching assistants (TAs) on this…

Focus Will Be On The High-technology Needs Of The Region And The State In The Next Century SAN JOSE, CA–With its distinctive new School of Engineering, finalized yesterday (May 15) before the University of California Board of Regents, UC Santa Cruz is poised to assume a critical role in training the skilled engineering workforce that…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The popular market cart at UC Santa Cruz opens on Tuesday, June 3, bringing the fresh organic bounty of the UCSC Farm and Garden to cooks and flower lovers twice a week through the early fall. Located at the main entrance of campus, the market cart features picked-that-morning fruit, vegetables, and flowers. It…

Campus To Name New School Of Engineering In His Honor SAN JOSE, CA–Prominent Santa Cruz community philanthropist Jack Baskin, a retired developer and engineer, announced today that he will support the new School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a gift of $5 million–by far the largest private donation in the…

Assistant professor of economics Menzie Chinn and his wife, Laura Elise Schwendinger, of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, have been granted concurrent month-long residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, in July. Chinn’s residency will be used to investigate the interrelationship between increasing economic internationalization, capital flows, and competitiveness.…

The month of May is featuring an inaugural concert series in celebration of the campus’s Music Center, which opened for classes and performances this past January. The $21 million center, already critically acclaimed by both architecture and music critics, is considered one of the best university music facilities in the country because of its acoustic…

Chancellor Greenwood was quoted in a lengthy San Jose Mercury News article on how the decline of federal research funding affects Bay Area science and technology. "Most of us in the science policy field think we’re right on the edge of making some serious mistakes here," stated the chancellor, who has been part of a…

Video, CD-ROM, and the Web: Motion Media and the Library of the Future is the title of a live teleconference, sponsored by the University Library, on Thursday, May 15, from 10 a.m. to noon at 156 Applied Science. A videotape of the teleconference will be produced and at a future date be made available in…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Dr. M.R.C. (pronounced "Marci") Greenwood will be inaugurated as the seventh chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Friday, May 23. The public is invited to attend the ceremony, which will begin at 12:30 P.M. in the Upper Quarry Amphitheater. Leon Panetta, former White House chief of staff for President Clinton…

Professor Encourages Teachers And Others To Tape The Broadcast For Educational And Personal Use SANTA CRUZ, CA–The premiere broadcast of La Charreada! Rodeo a la Mexicana, a 27-minute documentary about Mexican rodeo, will take place on Monday, May 19, at 10 P.M. on Channel 68, KTEH-TV, San Jose’s public television station. The documentary provides an…

Joseph Bunnett, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry, was named trustee emeritus by the Board of Trustees at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. Bunnett received the following citation: "Reed College has been honored by your 27 years of exemplary service on the Board of Trustees and by your generous and unfailing support over the years. In…