Public Affairs

UCSC Extension assistant dean Dale Stansbury was invited to testify before the State Select Committee on Economic Development in Sacramento last week. At the request of the committee chair, Senator John Vasconcellos, Stansbury addressed the economic impact of the worker shortage in the high-tech industry, focusing on proposals to address the problem and what UCSC…

Lise Bixler, director of UCSC’s Child Care Services, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Children’s Center last year with Ivy Clarke, a preschooler in the center’s Child Development Program. The birthday celebration coincided with a visit by Chancellor Greenwood and director of housing services Jerry Walters, who participated in the annual "Chancellor Comes to Lunch…

A student dance troupe performing folkloric dances representative of various regions in Mexico is the subject of an upcoming exhibit of photographs at UCSC. The exhibit, "Los Mejicas: On Stage and Behind the Scenes," will be displayed at La Galeria de Casa Latina at Merrill College from April 6 through 29. The exhibit will feature…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­Two research teams at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received grants totaling $142,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct studies on the effects of El Nino on the Monterey Bay environment. One of the UCSC teams is studying how El Nino weather patterns change the reproductive and…

Lick Observatory’s annual summer programs will take place this year from June through September. Two programs will be offered this summer: the Music of the Spheres benefit concert series and the Friday Night Visitor’s Program. The observatory, which has its administrative headquarters at UCSC, will offer the Music of the Spheres program on six nights…

Rising artists: Seniors Alicia Relles (left) and Kari Jewell mix it up for their piece, "Miss Queenie’s Worry Cakes," presented during last week’s Open Studio exhibition at Baskin Visual Arts. Cooked into each of the cakes (which were a startling crimson under their pastel frostings) was a toy symbolizing a problem or worry of one…

Approximately 185 academically outstanding UCSC applicants attended Scholars Day on Saturday, March 14. The event, held at the West Field House, attracted approximately 470 people, including the prospective students and their family members. Scholars Day celebrates the academic excellence of UCSC’s faculty, programs, and students and provides prospective students attending the event–who are academically in…

James Dunne has been appointed to the position of associate director of Physical Plant. He has worked with Physical Plant for over 17 years and for the last six years has served as senior superintendent of work management. Dunne will oversee all aspects of administrative services within Physical Plant, including the Physical Plant Service Center,…

Seventy teenagers from the Watsonville area are expected to attend the third annual Teen Women’s Conference, held at Stevenson College on Thursday, April 2, and Friday, April 3. Volunteers are needed to help set up before and clean up after the event and to provide support. In its second year at Stevenson, the conference is…

Local contractor Dan Flasher and Alan Speidel start construction of the Cooperage’s new wall. People coming through UCSC’s main entrance in the past week may have noticed that one of the historical old "barns" near the base of campus has received a facelift of sorts. A plywood side has been added to the Cooperage, which…

United Way of Santa Cruz County honored UCSC and one of its employees last week for participation in the organization’s 1997 fund-raising campaign. The campus community earned the Gold Award as the highest donor in the education division, said Cary Oliva, director of development for United Way. Nearly 650 members of UCSC’s faculty and staff…

Two UCSC research teams have received grants totaling $142,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct studies on the effects of El Nino on the Monterey Bay environment. One of the UCSC teams is studying how El Nino weather patterns change the reproductive and foraging behavior of northern elephant seals; the group…