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Robert Kraft, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer emeritus, UC Observatories/Lick Observatory, was elected a foreign associate of Great Britain’s Royal Astronomical Society. According to the society’s council, Kraft was honored in recognition of his "outstanding work in stellar astrophysics," particularly his research on cataclysmic binaries and stellar rotation. Founded in 1820, the…

Psychology professor Aida Hurtado was quoted in Orange County’s Spanish-language newspaper Union Hispana in an article about UC’s systemwide Latino Eligibility Study. Hurtado, the project’s research director, discussed efforts the university can make to help prepare Latino students for college and the role parents can play in encouraging their children to go to college. The…

Two UCSC professors named as coholders of the Neufeld-Levin Holocaust Endowed Chair will be invested in a ceremony scheduled for May 4. The ceremony, a daylong conference, and evening events at Temple Beth El in Aptos have all been planned in conjunction with Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). All events are free and open to…

World-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting will give two slide lecture previews of his new book Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape on Saturday, May 3, at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Classroom Unit 2. The talks mark the world premiere of Lanting’s photographs of the bonobo, an endangered ape that lives in the remote rain forests…

The second annual Strawberry Shortcake Festival at the Farm and Garden will take place on Wednesday, April 30, from 4 to 6 p.m. Accompanied by musician/Farm manager Jim Leap on a bluegrass-pickin’ guitar and others, the folks at the Farm will serve Farm-made strawberry shortcake and lemonade for a $2 donation to the Farm and…

What: Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) takes place this year on Sunday, May 4. Special events are planned at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Temple Beth El in Aptos in commemoration of the day. Observances will begin at UCSC with an academic conference, featuring leading Holocaust scholars from around the country. Following…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–An eyewitness to many of the events that rocked Russia during 1987-95, political scientist Michael Urban has captured much of the drama of those years in his new book The Rebirth of Politics in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 1997). The book covers the tumultuous years of Mikhail Gorbachev’s leadership, the breakup of the…

Author Of Famous 1996 Hoax In Journal Social Text Is Part Of A Distinguished Group That Will Debate Recent Social And Historical Interpretations Of Science May 10-11 SANTA CRUZ, CA–Leading researchers from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities will convene at UC Santa Cruz for a weekend conference on one of the hottest topics…

In a review of best-selling sociology books, Bill Domhoff of sociology and psychology emerged as one of only two authors with four books on the list. The list, which appears in the March issue of the journal Contemporary Sociology, includes 53 books published since World War II that had sold more than 50,000 copies through…

Observatory Also Will Offer Its Annual "music Of The Spheres" Concert Series And Will Restore Its Popular Summer Visitors Program For Five Nights In 1997 MT. HAMILTON, CA–Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will soon repair the dome housing Lick Observatory’s historic 36-inch refracting telescope, thanks in part to an extraordinary public response…

Now there is an interface to the MELVYL system on the World Wide Web; The Web-based interface provides an easy-to-use format for searching the MELVYL Catalog and Periodicals databases and six of the MELVYL abstracting and indexing databases currently licensed for UC users and loaded on the MELVYL system; the interface for the remaining databases…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Friends of the late Kenneth V. Thimann will celebrate his life and his contributions to the University of California, Santa Cruz, at a memorial service on Saturday, May 3. The service, which is open to the public, will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Crown College Dining Hall at UCSC. A reception, also…