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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–Frank Drake, president of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View and research professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has issued the following statement about the death today of astronomer Carl Sagan. Drake and Sagan were close friends and longtime working colleagues, dating to their simultaneous tenures…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Members of a University of California task force charged with developing strategies to get more Latino students "in the pipeline" toward higher education have issued a new report that concludes that the university must work closely with public schools to help prepare Latino students for college, and that parents can play an important…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Adrienne Zihlman, professor of anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, is the featured speaker in this month’s Humanities Lecture Series, presented jointly by UCSC’s Humanities Division and the Museum of Art and History. Zihlman’s talk, ""Africa, Apes, and Ancestors: An Abridged Account of Human Evolution," takes place from 7 to 8 P.M. on Thursday,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Two sons colluded in a self-described conspiracy to surprise their mother and before they were done they had inveigled respectable members of the local community, top campus administrators, and three former chancellors to join in the scheme. The sons, Mark Engel of Santa Cruz and Charlie Engel of Beverly Hills, plotted to surprise…

The latest nod to David Chalmers’s new book came from the London Times. Following up on earlier coverage, the paper printed two stories on Chalmers in a recent Sunday edition–one in the magazine section and one in the books section listing The Conscious Mind as one of the best science books of the year. The…

Nobuho Nagasawa Assistant Professor of Art Nobuho Nagasawa’s work, including numerous public arts projects, has been exhibited around the world, from the Czech Republic to Mexico to the U.S. to Japan. Most recently, she was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles to collaborate on the design of a new Metro station. Nagasawa…

Counseling and Psychological Services’ training director MaryJan Murphy hosted the annual Northern California Intern Training Conference at UCSC on November 8. Approximately 75 psychology interns, staff, and training directors from counseling centers throughout northern California (UC, state, and private universities) attended the conference. The theme of the conference was Multicultural Issues in Counseling and Supervision.…

Virginia Jansen, professor of art history, is a contributor to the newly released 34-volume The Dictionary of Art (Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996). The set, which covers all aspects of visual arts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century, is considered the authoritative reference book on art and includes feminist and non-Western perspectives. William Ladusaw and Geoffrey…

New way to gauge ages of stalactites may yield precise climate-change tool Sunday, December 15, 2:45 p.m. Session OS72D, talk #6 Moscone Center, room 306 Speakers: Craig Lundstrom (408/459-4089 or cclund@bagnold.ucsc.edu) and Peter Holden (408/459-5559 or pholden@rupture.ucsc.edu) The slow but relentless drippings of calcium-rich water in caves may open a new window on earth’s past…

Editor’s notes: Researchers will discuss the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Verification Regime at the American Geophysical Union meeting on Sunday, December 15, during sessions U71B and U72C in room 104, Moscone Center, San Francisco, and during poster session U11A on Monday morning in Hall D. AGU also will hold a news conference at 11 a.m.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The horrors of war became much more vivid for Josh Snodgrass recently when he spent three weeks on a humanitarian mission in Croatia, examining the remains of bodies recovered from a mass grave. Trained in forensic anthropology, Snodgrass took a leave from his job managing the anthropology labs at UC Santa Cruz to…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Two sons plotted a self-described conspiracy having to do with their mother and before they were done they had inveigled respectable members of the local community, top campus administrators, and three former chancellors to join in the scheme. The sons, Mark Engel of Santa Cruz and Charlie Engel of Beverly Hills, plotted to…