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In its assessment of colleges and universities for 1999, U.S. News & World Report names UC Santa Cruz one of the 20 best public campuses in the country. UCSC tied with three other top-ranked institutions for 17th place in the popular survey’s list of national public universities. This rating places UCSC at a higher rank…

New Survey From U.S. News & World Report Rates UC Santa Cruz In The Top 20 Of Public Universities In its assessment of colleges and universities for 1999, U.S. News & World Report names UC Santa Cruz one of the 20 best public campuses in the country. UCSC tied with three other top-ranked institutions for…

Recovery Of Peregrine Falcons Reflects Successful Efforts By UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group SANTA CRUZ, CA-In 1970, wildlife biologists knew of only two pairs of peregrine falcons nesting in California. Now, there are approximately 150 nesting pairs and an estimated total population in the state of about 750 birds, according to Brian Walton,…

Who Rules America? Author Says It’s The Power Elite When sociologist G. William Domhoff first asserted that a wealthy few Americans control the United States, he didn’t know he was creating a classic in the field of sociology. But his book Who Rules America? became an academic best-seller, showing the institutional links among members of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Kenneth S. Norris, acclaimed marine-mammal researcher, founder of the University of California Natural Reserve System, and beloved teacher of natural history, died on Sunday, August 16. He was 74. Norris died peacefully at UCSF Medical Center, surrounded by his family, after several months of illness. As a scientist, teacher, author, and champion of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Items from the UC Santa Cruz collection of poet/novelist/artist Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) traveled the globe recently for an exhibition and lecture in London. The Patchen items, which are housed in Special Collections in the University Library, were the focus of events at two major London venues– the Tate Gallery and the Royal Festival…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received an award of 800,000 yen (approximately $8,000) from the Japan Foundation’s Library Support Program. The grant will be received in the form of an in- kind gift of more than 100 English-language titles in Japanese studies. The prestigious grant is given…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, announces the appointment of a new associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education and the appointments of new provosts at three of the campus’s eight residential colleges. Lynda Goff, professor of biology, has been named associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education; Judith Habicht-Mauche, associate professor of anthropology, has…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The prospects for cheetah cubs in East Africa’s Serengeti plains are grim: Only about 5 percent make it to adulthood, while most fall prey to lions and hyenas. Surprisingly, a careful analysis of cheetah population dynamics now suggests that in the long run, cheetah populations are affected far less by the deaths of…

UC Santa Cruz Offers New Classes On Healing Plants And Medicinal Herbs SANTA CRUZ, CA–New classes on healing plants and medicinal herbs will be offered this summer by the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The first class, Exploring Healing Plants of the UCSC Farm & Garden,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Fetal surgery is being heralded by many as the latest medical miracle, but a new book by sociologist Monica J. Casper of the University of California, Santa Cruz, raises disturbing questions about the safety of fetal surgery and the risks it poses to both mother and fetus. In The Making of the Unborn…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A new study coauthored by an economist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has found no statistical evidence that immigrants displace black-owned businesses in the United States. The study, by Robert W. Fairlie of UC Santa Cruz, and Bruce D. Meyer of Northwestern University, appears as a chapter in the new book…