Public Affairs

Training begins March 1 SANTA CRUZ, CA–For Jim Rollins, it’s all about the bees. Rollins is a volunteer docent at the UC Santa Cruz Farm, and he gets a kick out of guiding tour groups around the campus’s 25-acre organic farm and garden. Reflecting on what he gets out of being a docent, Rollins recalled…

SANTA CRUZ, CAThey may as well go ahead and give Jim Kent his Ph.D. now, considering his role in a scientific achievement destined for the history books. Kent, a graduate student in biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, designed and wrote the computer program called GigAssembler used to put together the draft sequence…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has named Charles McDowell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Carnegie Scholar for 2001-02. McDowell is the second UCSC faculty member to serve as a Carnegie Scholar, following the selection of professor of mathematics Bruce Cooperstein for the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Author and Israeli political activist David Grossman will headline a one-day conference on Holocaust literature that is free and open to the public on Friday, February 23, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The conference, Reading Holocaust Literature: David Grossman and Contemporary Writing, will take place at Kresge College on the UCSC…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In an unparalleled ecological disaster, more than half of the world’s tropical forests have been lost since 1950, due in large part to the developed world’s appetite for agricultural and wood products. While environmentalists lobby for conservation, some scientists are trying to find ways to restore tropical forests that have been cleared and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Union organizer Amy Dean, head of San Jose’s Central Labor Council, has emerged as a labor leader for the new millenium, taking on labor issues at the core of today’s "new economy," such as the rise in temporary employment, access to health insurance, and pension portability. Dean will be joined by two other…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, in close consultation with state agencies, has launched a new research program to help solve the major management problems facing California’s 1,100-mile coastline. Coastal issues covered by the program include coastal water quality, fisheries, marine ecosystems, and shoreline erosion. The research program, known as the Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative,…

Campus Is Tops In The UC System For One-year Increases In Freshman Applications And Diversity Of Prospective Freshmen SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz has received nearly 23,000 applications from prospective students for the fall 2001 quarter, the highest number received by the campus in its 37-year history. The total is 16 percent more than the…

EDITOR’S ADVISORY Campus is increasing housing on campus and expanding lease agreement with Holiday Inn SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, will add more than 700 "bed spaces" to its housing inventory this coming fall (2001). The new accommodations will result from the expansion of university-sponsored housing both on and off campus. On…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded the first AAS Education Prize to Frank Drake, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of the public, students, and the next generation of professional astronomers. Drake, a pioneer in the search…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In an agreement that will expand opportunities for international collaborative research and education, the University of California, Santa Cruz, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand’s first and most prestigious institution of higher learning, Chulalongkorn University is a model of internationalization with strong affiliations with American…

UC Santa Cruz Researchers Produce Human Genome Cd For The National Millennium Time Capsule To Be Sealed Next Sunday SANTA CRUZ, CA–Safely housed inside the National Millennium Time Capsule for the next 100 years, alongside Ray Charles’s sunglasses and a piece of the Berlin Wall, is a CD-ROM disk produced by researchers at the University…