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Market Cart Opens June 15 At UC Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–If the chilly spring has left you hungrier than ever for fresh organic produce, mark your calendar for Tuesday, June 15, because that’s the day the popular market cart at UC Santa Cruz opens. Enjoy the bounty of the UCSC Farm & Garden by…

UCSC Budget Initiative Process Results In $2.5 Million Allocation For Academic Priorities Process Reflects Changes Made Since Arrival Of New Vice Chancellor Last July SANTA CRUZ, CA-UC Santa Cruz Executive Vice Chancellor John B. Simpson announced today at the quarterly meeting of the campus’s Academic Senate that he will fund approximately $2.5 million in proposals…

UCSC’s School Of Engineering, Created Two Years Ago With Existing Departments Of Computer Science And Computer Engineering At Its Core, Is Already Seen As A Critical Source Of Skilled Workers For Silicon Valley’s High-technology Industry. SANTA CRUZ, CA–Since its launch in 1997, the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–One year after El Niño blasted the Central Coast, a team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, is investigating the role that early warnings had on farmers, fishermen, and residents of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Ronnie Lipschutz, an associate professor of politics, and Caroline Pomeroy, an assistant research scientist with…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-The University of California, Santa Cruz, is nationally ranked for the number of bachelor’s degrees it confers on Hispanic students, according to a report in the magazine Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. The ranking was based on the 309 bachelor’s degrees UC Santa Cruz awarded to Hispanic students in the 1996-97 school year,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Word is getting out to the rest of the world that some of the country’s best theater takes place right here in Santa Cruz during Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s annual summer festival. In what smacks of a very Shakespearean coincidence, two newspapers recently came out with different but related stories that both applauded the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-Enjoy an afternoon of poetry and classical music in the Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Saturday, June 5. The event, "Poetry and Music in the Garden," features readings by six poets from noon until 2 p.m. It is free and open to the public. The poets who…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-Most people know that the University of California, Santa Cruz, offers far more than textbooks and lectures, and summertime can be a good time to learn just how much more is offered by the campus and its facilities. Whether one wants to learn about marine mammals, tour a 100- year-old observatory, or take…

Unique Program Designed To Address The Study Of Politics In The 21st Century; First Students Expected In Fall 2000 SANTA CRUZ, CA–In the midst of rapid global change, the study of politics in the 21st century will be a dramatically different endeavor than it was when the field was born 100 years ago. To meet…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–David Huffman, professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded the 1999 Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The IEEE will honor Huffman for "design procedures of minimum redundancy (Huffman) codes and asynchronous sequential circuits" and for "contributions to…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–"Eros and the Jews: Erotic Theology and Human Sexuality in 18th Century Hasidism" will be the topic of the eighth annual Noel Q. King Lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The lecture takes place on Wednesday, May 19, from 7 to 8 p.m., in Stevenson 150, Stevenson College. A reception follows.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-On Saturday, May 29, UC Santa Cruz’s East Field will become a cultural mecca as the campus hosts the 20th annual Multicultural Festival. The celebration of international cultures takes place from noon to 5:30 P.M. and offers live entertainment and a wide variety of traditional ethnic foods. One of UCSC’s most popular events,…