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Shop For Your Y2k Garden At UCSC’s Fall Plant Sale SANTA CRUZ, CA–Forget about bank statements, bottled water, and other Y2K preparations, because what you’ll really need for the new millennium is a healthy garden. Whether you’re starting from scratch or planting for the 21st century, you’ll find what you need at the UC Santa…

UCSC Sociologist Takes Top Award For Fetal Surgery Book SANTA CRUZ, CA–Monica J. Casper, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received two of her profession’s highest honors for her new book on fetal surgery. Casper received the 1998 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study…

UCSC Offers More Beds, Rental Tips To Help Returning Students SANTA CRUZ, CA–Two years ago, students returned in September for the start of UC Santa Cruz’s fall quarter and received a rude awakening. The houses, apartments, and private rooms off campus that had been readily available to rent in past years were suddenly hard to…

Is Your American Flag Made In America? Does It Matter? New Book Looks At The Role Of "buy American" Campaigns, From The Boston Tea Party To Nafta SANTA CRUZ, CA–American flags will fly over many a Labor Day parade next month. Ironically, many of those flags waving proudly in honor of America’s workforce were manufactured,…

UCSC Receives $18.5 Million In Private Gifts, Grants For 98-99 Year SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, received nearly $18.5 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. It marked the third consecutive year the campus…

Learn About Apples For Home Gardeners At UCSC Workshop September 11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CRUZ, CA–Whether you like them tart and crunchy or thin- skinned and sweet, apples will be the subject of a free two-hour workshop on Saturday, September 11, from 10 a.m. until noon at the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa…

Rare Specimens At UCSC’s Arboretum Called Most Primitive Living Flowering Plants The Arboretum’s World-famous Collection Includes The Only Specimens In The United States Of Amborella, Recently Identified As The Most Primitive Flowering Plant SANTA CRUZ, CA–At the International Botanical Congress in St. Louis this month, a team of researchers presented genetic evidence that the most…

Fire Crews Scheduled To Burn 61 Acres Of UCSC Campus Land Annual controlled burn reduces fire hazard, encourages native plant regrowth FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz firefighters, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF), and other local crews are scheduled to burn approximately 61 acres in two meadows off Empire…

UC Santa Cruz Farm Needs Volunteers To Lead Tours For Kids SANTA CRUZ, CA–The UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden needs people with an interest in gardening and working with kids to volunteer as tour guides for small groups of schoolchildren. Volunteers lead groups of children in grades second through sixth on interactive tours of…

UCSC Faculty Win Leadership Positions In American Anthropological Assn. SANTA CRUZ, CA–Two anthropologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been elected to leadership positions with the American Anthropological Association (AAA), bringing the leadership of the two largest professional anthropological societies under the guidance of UCSC faculty. Donald Brenneis, chair of UCSC’s Anthropology Department,…

UCSC’s Two Week Course On Agroecology Attracts Participants From Around The Globe SANTA CRUZ, CA–Participants in an upcoming two-week short course on agroecology offered by the University of California, Santa Cruz, hail from all over the world: Morocco, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil, Cuba, Italy, Nepal, Colombia, Costa Rica, American Samoa, and the United…

UCSC Hosts Summer Institute For Merced High School Teachers SANTA CRUZ, CA–This summer, 36 teachers from the Merced Union High School District will attend a five-day humanities institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focused on the theme, "The Peoples and Cultures of the Central Valley." The institute takes place August 9-13. Participants will…