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UCSC will host nearly 60 camps, conferences, institutes, and meetings this summer, on subjects ranging from Karposi’s Sarcoma to virtual reality. More than 10,000 visitors are expected to come to the campus for the 10-week conference season, which lasts from June 28 to September 5 this year. The conference program generates roughly $3 million each…

UCSC construction activity will rise with the temperature this year, as a number of projects get started in June, July, and August. The following is a list of projects either breaking ground or under way this summer. Bay Tree Bookstore expansion and Graduate Commons: Construction is expected to start in August on the 6,600-square-foot commons…

The staff of the University Library Map Room invite the campus community to a reception honoring founding map librarian Stanley Stevens and celebrating the arrival of the "Stanley D. Stevens Honorary Map" on Thursday, June 18, at 4 p.m. in the Donald T. Clark Courtyard of McHenry Library. Stevens’s colleagues in the Western Association of…

Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood (front, right) and Campbell Leaper (back, far left), chair of the Committee on Teaching, joined this year’s teaching award recipients at a recent reception at University House. Pictured are: (back, from left) Leaper, Michael Dalbey, Zack Schlesinger, Helen Shapiro, John Isbister, David Hoy, Cynthia Polecritti, Paul Rangell, Russell Flegal, Shelley Stamp; (front,…

A long-standing myth at UCSC holds that once a person is hired on campus he or she can never be fired–no matter how poor the job performance. While it is true that employees at the university, unlike their private-sector counterparts, have, by law, a property right to their jobs and cannot have them taken away…

Students, faculty, and staff bore witness recently to an exorcism, an alien assassination, and a grisly death by vampire bite. The man sharing this unearthly montage was Paul Rabwin. Rabwin, who graduated from UCSC with a degree in English literature in 1970, is one of the six producers of the popular TV show, The X-Files.…

Chancellor Greenwood joined Republican congressman Tom Campbell (center, back row) and 15 of his staff members for a tour of UCSC’s Long Marine Lab late last month. The congressman and his staff were visiting locations in his 15th congressional district on a get-acquainted tour for the staff. UCSC and the laboratory are not within Campbell’s…

UCSC’s class of 1998 will hold commencement exercises on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 19-21. This year, the following numbers of students are candidates for degrees: 1,630, bachelor of arts or science degrees; 156, master’s degrees; and 55, doctorate degrees. A small number of UCSC students will receive graduate certificates. Each of UCSC’s eight residential…

(l to r) Mickey Hart and Fredric Lieberman Low class attendance may be a concern at this time of year as the weather warms and final assignments loom large. But music professor Fredric Lieberman had no such problem when he convened class on June 5. His class of approximately 200 swelled to nearly double that…

A CalSTAR (California Shock/Trauma Air Rescue) ambulance helicopter is scheduled to land at UCSC’s lower East Field on Thursday, June 25. The helicopter is part of a training exercise for the campus’s Fire and Police Departments and local emergency personnel. The training session will start at 1:30 p.m. and last approximately one hour. It is…

John B. Simpson will assume duties as UCSC’s executive vice chancellor in July The next Executive Vice Chancellor for UC Santa Cruz brings extensive successful experience in academic administration, a distinguished background in psychology–and a lifelong affiliation with the University of California. Dr. John B. Simpson will assume the position as of July 1. Currently…

S. Ravi Rajan of environmental studies was among three featured experts on a live radio program broadcast by KPFA-FM on the subject of nuclear proliferation and the South Asian tests. Cowell alum Paul Rabwin (1970) was featured in a Santa Cruz County Sentinel story on the topic of his work as one of six producers…