Public Affairs

For a week in mid-March, UCSC was featured in the "On-campus" section of the Science Coalition Web site, an online resource for information on federally funded science research. Each week, the coalition highlights scientific advances and ongoing research at member universities. During the week of March 16-22, the coalition turned its spotlight on research occurring…

All alumni, current and prospective students, and their families and friends are invited to visit UCSC for the Banana Slug Spring Fair on Saturday, April 18. Last year, more than 4,250 people attended the fair. This year’s campus open house features a faculty lecture, alumni reunions, tours of the colleges and special facilities, student support-services…

Last year, defaults on federally guaranteed education loans cost U.S. taxpayers $2.5 million. In an effort to cut these losses, Congress enacted a law authorizing student loan guarantors to withhold a portion of defaulted borrowers’ wages to repay their loans. The California Student Aid Commission, the state’s student loan guarantor, announced recently that it will…

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…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–After a soggy winter, there’s nothing like the sights and sounds of spring to inspire the gardener in all of us. Come feed your inspiration during a free docent-led tour of the 25-acre UC Santa Cruz Farm, where spring is literally bursting out all over. The one-hour tours start Sunday, April 19, at…

Get ready for the spring gardening season by attending a free two-hour workshop on Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. to noon at San Lorenzo Lumber’s Garden Center, 235 River Street, in Santa Cruz. Albie Miles, a gardening instructor and graduate of the UCSC Farm & Garden’s apprenticeship program, will discuss basic organic gardening techniques,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Long Marine Lab’s Whale of an Auction, the largest annual fund-raising event for public education programs at UC Santa Cruz’s marine laboratory, will take place on Friday, April 3. This year’s auction, the 13th annual, begins at 6 P.M. in the Porter College Dining Hall at UCSC. Hundreds of people attend the auction…

Historian Alice Yang Murray spoke with Eric Schoeck for KUSP-Radio’s Talk of the Bay show on a range of subjects from Women’s History Month to the World War II Japanese internment. . . . Also covering Women’s History Month this week was the Santa Cruz County Sentinel, which featured a story on a new book…

It is with a sense of profound personal sadness and loss that I share this news: this afternoon, at approximately 1:30 p.m., UCSC founding Chancellor Dean McHenry passed away. He died in Dominican Hospital of natural causes. Jane McHenry, his wife of 63 years, and two of his four children were at his bedside. Although…

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…