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The Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz represents a significant expansion of the campus’s existing engineering programs. New degree offerings will focus on fields expected to be in great demand, both regionally and nationally, in the next decade. Engineering students will benefit from UCSC’s traditionally strong educational approach and will participate in…

"An abundant supply of engineers educated in technological fields is essential for meeting the demands of our rapidly growing, technologically advanced economy. The School of Engineering envisioned at UC Santa Cruz will be an excellent way to meet the needs of both the students and businesses that desperately seek graduates trained in a variety of…

Computer scientist Robert Levinson’s thoughts on IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer, which conquered world chess champion Garry Kasparov last week, appeared on Wired magazine’s World Wide Web site. In the article, titled "Deep Blue still has some learning to do," Levinson commented that while the machine is impressive, it’s a far cry from the "artificial intelligence"…

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…

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…

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…

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…