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Campus Is Tops In The UC System For One-year Increases In Freshman Applications And Diversity Of Prospective Freshmen SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz has received nearly 23,000 applications from prospective students for the fall 2001 quarter, the highest number received by the campus in its 37-year history. The total is 16 percent more than the…

EDITOR’S ADVISORY Campus is increasing housing on campus and expanding lease agreement with Holiday Inn SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, will add more than 700 "bed spaces" to its housing inventory this coming fall (2001). The new accommodations will result from the expansion of university-sponsored housing both on and off campus. On…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded the first AAS Education Prize to Frank Drake, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of the public, students, and the next generation of professional astronomers. Drake, a pioneer in the search…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In an agreement that will expand opportunities for international collaborative research and education, the University of California, Santa Cruz, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand’s first and most prestigious institution of higher learning, Chulalongkorn University is a model of internationalization with strong affiliations with American…

UC Santa Cruz Researchers Produce Human Genome Cd For The National Millennium Time Capsule To Be Sealed Next Sunday SANTA CRUZ, CA–Safely housed inside the National Millennium Time Capsule for the next 100 years, alongside Ray Charles’s sunglasses and a piece of the Berlin Wall, is a CD-ROM disk produced by researchers at the University…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Researchers studying a bloom of toxic algae in Monterey Bay last summer found the algal toxin domoic acid in anchovies, sardines, and krill, all key species in the marine food web. Harvesting of anchovies and sardines for human consumption was halted and there were no reports of adverse effects on wildlife from this…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A professor of women’s studies, the national editor of the New York Times, and a media specialist have been selected to receive the highest awards bestowed annually by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association. Bettina Aptheker will be given the Distinguished Teaching Award for her more than 20 years of teaching and service;…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Astronomers have obtained new evidence of an extreme warp in the stellar disk of the Andromeda Galaxy (also known as M31), our nearest galactic neighbor. The findings are being presented by Puragra Guhathakurta and Philip Choi of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and David Reitzel of UC Irvine at the American Astronomical…

Three days devoted to improving teaching SANTA CRUZ, CA–Kerry Mazzoni, California’s new secretary of education, will headline the third annual symposium on new teacher support being hosted by the UC Santa Cruz New Teacher Center. The event takes place January 31-February 2 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference, "Quality Mentoring: Staying…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–‘Tis the season to be thinking about fruit trees–buying, planting, and pruning. No matter what questions you have, there’s an upcoming workshop that will provide all the answers. General care and varietal selections for the home garden will be the topic on Saturday, January 20. Orin Martin, manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden…

EDITOR’S ADVISORY What: UC Santa Cruz political scientist Gwendolyn Mink is one of 21 leaders identified by Women’s Enews as those who will "move and shape this century on behalf of all women." Mink, an expert on women and poverty, is the only academic on a list that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton and the founder…

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Modern Language Association of America will present its 16th annual Howard R. Marraro Prize to UC Santa Cruz literature professor Margaret Brose for her book, Leopardi Sublime (Bologna, Italy; Re Enzo Editrice, 1998). The Marraro Prize, which is jointly awarded with the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Literary Studies, is only…