Public Affairs

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A conference on film and the Holocaust takes place Wednesday, April 22, through Thursday, April 23, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The conference coincides with Yom Hashoah–the international day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust. Leading Holocaust and film scholars from around the country will convene for the conference, titled…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­UC Santa Cruz alumna Laurie Garrett, a science and medical reporter for Newsday, was one of 13 journalists awarded a prestigious Polk Award for 1997. The awards were announced in March and will be formally presented on April 15 in New York City. Garrett won the foreign reporting award for her 25-part series…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­ The American Chemical Society (ACS) has awarded the 1998 James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for interpreting chemistry for the public to Joseph W. Palca, who earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from UC Santa Cruz in 1980 and 1982, respectively. Palca, a science correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) since…

The following statement by Meredith J. Khachigian refers to the admission of freshmen to the University of California for fall 1998, the first undergraduate class admitted without the consideration of race, ethnicity, or gender. The decreases in freshman admissions for next fall reported by the Berkeley and UCLA campuses is a cause for concern and…

A San Jose Mercury News book critic sang the praises of Angela Davis’s new book, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism. The critic noted that, "[Davis has] turned her considerable analytic skills to the blues–specifically, the three African-American women who pushed American music to new heights in the post-slavery period." It may feel like it at…

A public ceremony honoring Dean McHenry, UCSC’s founding chancellor, will take place Saturday, April 25, at 3 p.m. on the Arboretum knoll. McHenry, who helped create California’s multitiered system of public education, died March 17. He was 87. Ceremony participants include Chancellor Greenwood, who will act as host, and former UC President Clark Kerr. Parking…

The Santa Cruz County Elections Department has designated eight polling places–one at each of UCSC’s colleges–for students, faculty, and staff who live on campus. Each registered voter has been assigned one of the polling places for a special Santa Cruz City School District election scheduled for Tuesday, April 14. More than 2,760 people living on…

"Histories of the Future" is the title of a conference on Friday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Oakes Mural Room. The panelists are members of a larger group of scholars who are assembling a tool kit for interpreting prophetic, millennial, and futurological discourse. Their work was developed in a two-quarter…

Human Resources Posts New Web Pages HR staff have been busy spinning new Web pages and improving old ones. The result is that a wide range of useful information on UCSC and UC Human Resources is now available to Web users. Along with expanding and reorganizing the existing Staff Human Resources Web page, new pages…

Roger J. Edberg has been appointed to the position of assistant superintendent/campus arborist. Edberg has most recently been the landscape manager at the UC Davis Arboretum. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in environmental horticulture from UC Davis, where his thesis work was on structural patterns in tree failures. He is a certified arborist and…

Although President Clinton proudly proclaimed the recent federal welfare reform effort "an end to welfare as we know it," political scientist Gwendolyn Mink writes in her new book Welfare’s End (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998) that the demise of welfare can be traced back almost to its origins. The latest assault is part of…

The following statement by University of California President Richard C. Atkinson refers to the admission of freshmen to the University of California for fall 1998, the first undergraduate class admitted without the consideration of race, ethnicity, or gender. We knew this would be a year of especially difficult and complex choices in the admission of…