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Imagine documenting a year’s worth of your household purchases, down to every last vending-machine snack. Not an easy task, right? Now imagine tackling that task for all your friends, with a computer program that you’re still learning how to use–and that’s still being tinkered with. A number of UCSC staff lived such a scenario this…

"Headliners" Highlights Recent Media Coverage Involving Members Of The UCSC Community. It was a busy summer for composer and inventor David Cope. Cope’s EMI was featured in Discover magazine’s special October issue on creativity, and his new book, Experiments in Musical Intelligence, got column space in the Los Angeles Times. Cope also spoke about EMI…

Karen Holl comes to UCSC from Stanford, where she spent two years doing postdoctoral work in southern Costa Rica. Holl, who is interested in understanding how ecosystems function and applying that knowledge to public policy, studied the factors limiting the recovery of land that had been cleared for grazing, and she researched methods for restoring…

See’s candy bars will be for sale in campus offices again this fall to raise money for the Women at Work Retreat. Representatives are needed to manage sales in the various offices. This fund-raiser begins October 15 and replaces the usual fall crafts fair. UCSC’s Ph.D. program in earth sciences ranked 22nd in the country…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the third year in a row, a faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has earned one of the most sought- after awards for young American scientists: a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, worth $100,000 per year for five years. This year’s recipient is assistant professor…

Technology Park Will Occupy The Heart Of A "research Crescent" Around Monterey Bay SANTA CRUZ, CA–Lora Lee Martin of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has become the first full-time director of UC’s Monterey Bay Education, Science, and Technology (MBEST) Center. The MBEST Center, led by UCSC, is a regional economic initiative that includes development…

Most people already know that we have a new chancellor, M.R.C. Greenwood. But they may not be aware that several other high-level appointments were made since the end of the 1995-96 academic year. Two provosts, an Academic Senate chair, and a vice chancellor are among the new appointments. David Henry Anthony III, an associate professor…

Susanne Jonas, lecturer in Latin American and Latino studies, is the author of an article titled "Dangerous Liaisons: The U.S. in Guatemala," which appeared in the June 2 issue of the journal Foreign Policy. In the article, Jonas reviews the U.S.’s involvement in the longest and deadliest civil war in Central America. She argues that…

Noë’s area of research is the philosophy of mind. His work combines traditional philosophical methods and concerns with more recent developments in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He comes to UCSC from Tufts University where he was a research associate at the Center for Cognitive Studies under the direction of Daniel Dennett. During this past…

A book by David Brundage, associate professor of community studies, titled The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver’s Organized Workers, 1878-1905, was selected by Choice Magazine (January 1996) as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books of 1995." Coaches and student athletes of the year were honored at the 1995-96 Inaugural UC Santa Cruz Athletics Awards…

The cheetah, spotted embodiment of feline grace and power, races across African plains. The pocket gopher, small and squat, scurries among tunnels in the American West. Unbeknownst to either cheetah or gopher, research at UCSC has unveiled a common bond between them–and has bolstered one side of a hot cheetah debate. That bond is remarkable…

ENROLLMENT: UCSC is expecting an opening-day enrollment of approximately 10,335 students, compared to a first-day enrollment of 10,136 last fall. Of the expected 10,335 students, 3,000 will be new students (compared to 2,716 new students last fall). These 3,000 new students were among more than 15,000 applicants for admission. The total number of applications received…