Public Affairs

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…

Farm apprentices welcome customers at the market cart, now open Tuesdays and Fridays from noon to 6 p.m. at the base of campus The popular market cart at UC Santa Cruz opens on Tuesday, June 16, bringing the fresh organic bounty of the UCSC Farm & Garden to cooks and flower lovers twice a week…

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…

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…

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…

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…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The film and video program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named an independent department, the second program in the Division of the Arts to receive this status in recent months. Film and video was previously affiliated with the Theater Arts Department. The program’s first step toward independence came last…

SAN DIEGO, CA–Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a theoretical model that may explain recent observations of tremendously powerful gamma ray bursts, the most luminous phenomena in the universe. Andrew MacFadyen, a graduate student researcher, and Stan Woosley, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics, based their model on a scenario in…