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SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory is holding a "Fishing Friendsy," a major membership drive from June 24 through September 30. A membership with the Friends of Long Marine Lab offers many benefits, including free visits to Long Marine Lab for an entire year, discount purchases at the gift and book shop, invitations…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Biologist Douglas Kellogg, an assistant professor of biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a 1998 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Kellogg, the first UCSC researcher to win this prestigious award, will receive a total of $200,000 to support his research over a four-year period. He…

Digging in (l to r): Chancellor Greenwood, Churchill Grimes, Kathleen McGinty, Sam Farr, D. James Baker, and Rolland A. Schmitten. Churchill Grimes describes for the audience the layout planned for the NMFS Santa Cruz Laboratory, which he will direct. Kathleen McGinty said the new lab would support the kind of research needed to address problems…

UCSC will establish a new Center for Ocean Health at the Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, a research and education facility operated by the campus. Construction of the new center will be largely funded by a $5 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The Center for Ocean Health facility will provide flexible…

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…