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SANTA CRUZ, CA–Amid concerns about the lingering effects of DDT along California’s coast comes this bit of good news: Sea lions carried about one hundred times less of the toxic substance in their fat a few years ago than they did two decades earlier. The average level of DDT and its major breakdown product, DDE,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Eleven science students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received $5,000 scholarships from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation. The students were honored today (November 1) at a ceremony in San Francisco. Now in its 23rd year of awarding scholarships, the northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation awarded…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–For anthropologist Carolyn Martin Shaw, the decision to address the subject of female genital mutilation in her new book meant confronting much of the feminist rhetoric about clitoridectomy. "I am not an apologist for this operation–I think it should be ended–but at the same time, I wanted to understand why women participate in…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Leta Miller and Fredric Lieberman, both professors of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received a $51,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support their work on a book on composer Lou Harrison. In addition, Miller received a prestigious NEH summer stipend to work on the project…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–"If you build it, they will come." That may work in Hollywood fantasies, but it rarely holds true in the harsh reality of today’s business world. Many new ventures fail for lack of clients after sparkling new buildings are in place. Such failures are most painful when the venture is an ambitious "research…

Calendar Uses Works From Kenneth Patchen Archive At UC Santa Cruz’s University Library SANTA CRUZ, CA–Twelve of the "painted poems" of poet/novelist/artist Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) are featured in a 1996 calendar published by Pomegranate Press of Rohnert Park, Calif. Titled "Sure Is One Peculiar Way to Run a Ballgame," the calendar features reproductions of painted…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Karl S. Pister, Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz since August 1991, has announced his intention to retire, effective June 30, 1996. Chancellor Pister included the announcement in his address to the UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate this afternoon. Dr. Pister was first named to the UCSC chancellor position for an…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Studies of the host of environmental issues facing the Monterey Bay area, from the health of the bay’s fisheries to the restoration of unique habitats at Fort Ord, have received a substantial boost: a $562,500 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to train graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Marine researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received $100,000 from a $2.2 million settlement between Shell Oil Company and the California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG). Six research teams will use the funds to launch or enhance various studies on he water quality of the San Francisco Bay. The settlement,…

SANTA CRUZ–Economic uncertainty, changing societal needs, and diminishing public confidence are major challenges facing America’s research universities. In a public lecture on November 2, UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Karl S. Pister will describe the forces reshaping higher education in this country–and discuss the changes American universities must make if they are to continue to serve…

Aim Of Three-Day Gathering Is To Consolidate Nationwide Program SANTA CRUZ, CA–Over the past decade a growing number of colleges and universities have adopted a new approach to teaching foreign languages. Called "Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum" (FLAC), the method encourages students to apply their foreign language skills to the study of a variety of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Carrol Moran, an education specialist with more than twenty years of experience in the Monterey Bay Area, has been named coordinator of the Monterey Bay Educational Consortium. Moran’s appointment was announced today (Monday, October 16, 1995) by UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Karl S. Pister. Moran will oversee educational collaborations between the University of…