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SANTA CRUZ, CA–Hilary Schor is the featured speaker for the annual Norman and Charlotte Strouse Lecture on Thomas Carlyle and His Era at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Schor, an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California, will present a talk titled "The Stupidest Novel in London: Thomas Carlyle and the…

Franklin A. Sonn, the first black South African ambassador to the United States, will deliver the keynote address at the twelfth annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Convocation this month at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This year’s convocation is scheduled for Thursday, January 25. It begins at 4 p.m. in UCSC’s Performing Arts…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Novelist, playwright, and activist Sarah Schulman will present a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. January 23 in Kresge Town Hall at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Schulman, who is in residence at UCSC for two weeks as a UC Regents’ Lecturer, will read selections from her latest novel, Rat Bohemia. The…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–An English literature professor and a Newsday reporter have won the University of California, Santa Cruz, Alumni Association’s annual Distinguished Teaching and Alumni Achievement awards for 1995. An employee of the Board of Studies in Sociology won the university’s first-ever Outstanding Staff Award. Michael Warren, professor of English literature and a fellow of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Acidic water and ultraviolet light damage the embryos of frogs far more seriously when acting in tandem rather than as separate factors, according to a laboratory study at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Researchers exposed the eggs of a common species of frog to various levels of acidity and UV-B radiation, the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Jerry Nelson, an astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz, will receive the 1996 Joseph Fraunhofer Award from the Optical Society of America in honor of his work during the last two decades on the W. M. Keck Telescope in Hawaii. Nelson, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics, is the principal designer and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–If pruning your fruit trees gives you an annual case of the jitters, help is available. Orin Martin, manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is offering two-day workshops for beginning and intermediate home orchardists. The workshops will cover everything you need to know to prune and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–It’s a common image in geology textbooks: Molten magma wells up from the planet’s bowels to the seafloor at midocean ridges, giving birth to new slabs of the earth’s crust. The magma, a fiery orange or red, ascends in teardrop-shaped blobs through what look like inverted funnels or gigantic pipes. There’s a problem…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Six faculty members from the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be featured in a downtown lecture series presented jointly by the Humanities Division at UCSC and the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County at the McPherson Center for Art and History. The series will offer a range of lively topics of interest…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Families are sought to host music students from Taiwan who will be visiting the area January 1 through 10 to study at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The students are undergraduates at the Ya Yun Music College in Taiwan. They are visiting the United States as part of an exchange program sponsored…

(1) Study unveils a way to probe fault zones before a quake hits Session S41A, poster #27, Thursday a.m. 12/14 A new technique may let seismologists estimate which parts of a fault are likely to rupture most severely during an earthquake, even if the fault hasn’t broken for a century or more. (2) A 5000-year…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), has entered into a unique general agreement of cooperation with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. Signed into effect by UCSC Chancellor Karl S. Pister and former NPS superintendent Rear Admiral T. S. Mercer, the memo of understanding paves the way for a programmatic…