Campus News

With pencils and notebooks in hand, 13 fourth and fifth graders from Aromas School recently marched into Chancellor Greenwood’s office to interview her about her experience as chancellor. One of the first things they noticed were the new photographs on the wall. For most of the youngsters, their visit with Greenwood marked a return trip…

Over the past few weeks more than 200 elementary and high school students have come to the campus to see performances and art exhibits, present their own performances, and take tours of Arts Division facilities. Steve Miller, who helped coordinate these visits along with other arts division staff, hopes that the students will be back…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Nicole "Coco" Medvitz has been named as the recipient of the 1996-97 Priscilla Newton Undergraduate Scholarship in Theater Arts, given annually at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Medvitz, who has appeared in numerous campus and community productions, is a UCSC senior majoring in theater arts with a dual emphasis on drama and…

MT. HAMILTON, CA–Public officials and law enforcement agencies plan to forbid parking on roads leading to Lick Observatory and other backcountry roads in Santa Clara County for three weeks beginning Friday, March 21, to help prevent hazardous traffic situations from developing during the peak period for viewing Comet Hale-Bopp. Astronomers at Lick Observatory regret that…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed its support of a University of California effort to increase the number of science degrees awarded to underrepresented minority students. Called the California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP), the initiative has drawn $1 million per year from NSF since its inception in 1992. Now, NSF has…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Seismologist Marino Protti, who received his Ph.D. from the UC Santa Cruz Earth Sciences Department in 1994, has won the National Prize in Science from the Ministry of Science and Technology in Costa Rica. Protti, a professor at the Observatorio Vulcanologico y Sismologico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI), shared the prize with a mathematician…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Whether you’ve set sail in search of the Great White Whale or just an evening of fun, make sure to plot a course to "A Whale of an Auction," the largest annual fund-raising event for public education programs at Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory of UC Santa Cruz. This year’s soiree, the twelfth…

Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology, received the 1997 Alumni Achievement Award in Chemistry from the University of Oregon, where he earned his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1965. Noller joined the UCSC faculty in 1968 and now directs the Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA. He was elected to the National…

Developmental psychologist Campbell Leaper offers a first step for those who are concerned about gender inequality: Encourage girls and boys to play together. "If girls and boys don’t play together as children, how can we expect men and women to get along in the workplace or in love relationships?" asks Leaper. Leaper studies the role…

Dream expert Veronica Tonay was featured in an article in the Daily Herald, a Chicago newspaper. KUSP radio recently invited sociologist John Brown Childs to appear on the "Talk of the Bay" program. Childs, who was recently awarded a Fulbright Thomas Jefferson Chair award, is involved with the national urban youth antiviolence movement and Barrios…

Paleobiologist Richard Norris, who earned his B.S. with honors from UCSC’s Earth Sciences Department in 1982, made a big splash in the news in February by leading a team that investigated the biggest splash of all: the purported impact of a large meteorite in the Caribbean 65 million years ago. Norris, now an associate scientist…

Recommendations for creative action to maintain and build campus diversity are the goal of the newly formed Post-Prop. 209 Commission. "Although the passage of Prop. 209 stimulated students to respond, we don’t want merely to react," noted Professor Michael Cowan at the first meeting of the group on February 13. Rather, Cowan and his commission…