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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…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Daniel Press, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a grant for $304,782 from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to study the role local governments play in the preservation of open space in California. The results of the five-year study, "Community and Conservation in California,"…

Jan Dickens, director of Media Services at McHenry Library, recently received the first annual Member-of-the-Year Award from Directors of Educational Technology/California Higher Education. Dickens was recognized for her significant contributions to DET/CHE, extraordinary professional contributions in improvement of classroom design, and leadership in bringing together varied media interests and expertise.

Physicists Michael Dine and Howard Haber are helping readers of Scientific American understand the nature of an elusive particle called the "Higgs boson." Dine and Haber responded to a question posed by a reader in the magazine’s online "Ask the Experts" column. Sociologist Craig Reinarman penned an op-ed piece for the _San Francisco Chronicle _about…

Jonathan Fox Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Jonathan Fox specializes in Mexican politics and international development policy. Fox has spent several years studying the impact of the World Bank’s policies, which were revised in the late 1980s and early 1990s to respond to charges that some of its projects have had devastating…

Psychology professor Aida Hurtado and community studies professor Pat Zavella presented their research at the first annual Latino Legislative Caucus and University of California Retreat held at UCLA on November 14. Zavella’s presentation focused on the restructuring of agriculture, plant closures, and poverty in Watsonville; Hurtado presented recent results of a three-year study on the…

Chancellor Greenwood hosted the University of California’s chief legislative advocate at UCSC last week as part of a campaign to gain stronger support for the campus’s interests in Sacramento. Stephen Arditti, director of state governmental relations, met with the chancellor, administrators, staff, and students on Thursday, December 5, during a daylong visit to the campus.…

The following is a letter from Provost Judson King to UC chancellors regarding a temporary restraining order issued today (Friday, December 6, 1996) against the university. The restraining order, in effect until December 16, prohibits UC from implementing Proposition 209. Mike Lassiter Director, News & Communications CHANCELLORS Dear Colleagues: Judge Henderson of the United States…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A quick scan of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a leading journal for original research in chemistry, reveals reams of papers by teams of scientists at universities and industries. Rare is the paper written by just one person, and rarer still is that author from a high school. Yet both of…