Campus News

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, announces the appointments of new provosts at two of the campus’s eight colleges. David Henry Anthony, III, associate professor of history, has been named provost of Oakes College and Paul Skenazy, professor of literature, has been named provost of Kresge College. The appointments were announced by Executive…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Gwendolyn Mink, a professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been honored by her peers for her recent book on women and welfare policy. Mink received the Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for her book The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942…

MOUNT HAMILTON, CA–Of all the legacies of the eccentric businessman and land baron James Lick, born August 25, 1796, none has endured like the observatory near San Jose that bears his name. If Lick had heard Sunday’s celebration from his crypt beneath the observatory’s original telescope, he would have been pleased to learn how his…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Edward J. McCaughan, who earned his doctorate in sociology from UCSC in 1995, has been awarded the prize for the best dissertation given annually by a section of the American Sociological Association. McCaughan, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University in New Orleans, was recognized by the Political Economy of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–George Von der Muhll, professor emeritus of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Fulbright Lectureship for the coming academic year at Charles University in Prague. Von der Muhll will lecture on the principles of democracy, democratic regimes and democratization, American politics and society, and American political philosophy…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, received nearly $6.1 million in private support in the form of gifts and grants during the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to the campus’s Development Office. Gifts from UCSC alumni rose more than 40 percent over the previous year, and contributions to the Annual Fund…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Fall is a prime time to plant perennials and winter vegetables on the Central Coast, and the UC Santa Cruz Farm will help you get ready by sponsoring the first-ever Fall Plant Sale on Friday and Saturday, September 6-7. Hours are noon to 6 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Thomas Vani has been named vice chancellor of Business and Administrative Services at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Vani comes to UCSC from UC Berkeley, where he has worked since 1987, most recently as executive director of financial and business services. His appointment, which follows a nationwide search, begins August 1. Vani…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–President Clinton has nominated Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood of the University of California, Santa Cruz, to a six-year term on the National Science Board, the White House announced today. The U.S. Senate must approve Clinton’s nomination of Greenwood and four other candidates. The 24-member National Science Board recommends overall national policies for promoting basic…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Radio listeners who tune their dials to KZSC¯88.1 FM at noon on Mondays will hear something different these days, sandwiched between Celtic music in the morning and the "Soul Kitchen" in the afternoon: "UCSC Today," an hour of lunchtime conversation about the diverse people and programs that weave the fabric of UC Santa…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Teachers faced with the challenge of a classroom of students who speak different languages now have a new resource to draw on: a series of six documentary-style videotapes produced at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that demonstrate some of the most effective instructional practices being used today by teachers of linguistically and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–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 the University of California, Santa Cruz, has unveiled a common bond between them–and has bolstered one side of a…