Public Affairs

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…

Nine of the 17 UCSC faculty who contributed to the recently released book The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History took a moment to pose for the camera during a reception at University House celebrating both Women’s History Month and the release of the landmark book, which portrays the experience of women in the United…

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…

Prior To His 13-year Tenure As Head Of UCSC, He Helped Draft California’s Higher Education Master Plan SANTA CRUZ–Dean E. McHenry, founding chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a driving force behind the growth of California’s multitiered system of public higher education, died on Tuesday, March 17. He was 87. McHenry died…

Dean E. McHenry’s official portrait, taken early in his tenure as chancellor. Photo: Moulin Studios Dean McHenry was a tireless promoter of UCSC–even before the campus opened. Here, he mugs for a Time magazine publicity still in 1962. Photo: Covello & Covello In the precampus years, unpaved roads posed unusual transportation challenges for the new…

Prior To His 13-Year Tenure As Head Of UCSC, He Helped Draft California’s Higher Education Master Plan SANTA CRUZ–Dean E. McHenry, founding chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a driving force behind the growth of California’s multitiered system of public higher education, died on Tuesday, March 17. He was 87. McHenry died…

More than 30 volunteers helped Chancellor Greenwood kick off an admissions phonathon last week. Callers plan to reach all of the 2,400 underrepresented students who were admitted to UCSC for next fall before the phonathon ends on Thursday, March 19. Students, members of the faculty and staff, and even the chancellor helped kick off an…

"Endangered Landscapes," an exhibit of photographs by Christo Morris, who is completing a double major in art and environmental studies, is on display at the Science Library through May 4. The show includes photographs of Mono Lake, the tropical forests of Costa Rica, and the redwood forests of coastal California and Oregon. For the hours…

Professor Stanley Flatté was recently made a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). His citation reads "For work on meson spectroscopy and for work on wave propagation in random media with innovative contributions to ocean acoustics, atmospheric optics, seismology, and numerical simulation." Each year only one APS member in 200 is made a Fellow,…