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The Conference and Summer Housing Office is looking for students to assist with its summer operations. Applications for summer jobs are due by February 7. An informational job mixer will be held on Wednesday, January 22, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Porter Fireside Lounge. For more information, call ext. 2611.

The agroecology team of Steve Gliessman, Matt Werner, and Jan Allison published the results of their work with strawberry grower Jim Cochran in _Biological Agriculture and Horticulture. _The article, titled "A Comparison of Strawberry Plant Development and Yield Under Organic and Conventional Management on the Central California Coast," reports on the team’s multi-year project near…

Earth scientists gathered in San Francisco the week before Christmas for their largest annual confab, the American Geophysical Union meeting. As usual, UCSC researchers represented themselves well, giving about 60 talks and posters. Short summaries of five talks of interest appear below. For the full text of each article, click on the title. New way…

Hydrogeologists have taken the closest look yet at the intricate cycle of fluids that flow relentlessly beneath the seafloor. That flow, it now appears, is far more forceful than expected. Driven by the heat of the planet’s interior, water courses through pores and cracks under the ocean in earth’s upper crust. The water leaches minerals…

The slow but relentless drippings of calcium-rich water in caves may open a new window on earth’s past climate, thanks to a precise dating technique under development at UCSC. Preserved within the stark beauty of stalactites and stalagmites are two records of changes in the climate of the outside world. One such record is purely…

Research News And Feature Ideas, Issued Periodically By The UCSC Public Information Office Astronomy I Keck Telescope spies the likely building blocks of modern galaxies Acting as the world’s most powerful telescopic tandem, the Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Telescope are starting to unravel the evolutionary histories of galaxies dating to when…

The following letter was sent on December 26, 1996 by President Atkinson to UC chancellors concerning a decision by U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson to issue a preliminary injunction against enforcement of Proposition 209. December 26, 1996 CHANCELLORS Dear Colleagues: On December 23 Judge Henderson of the United States District Court for the Northern…

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…