Public Affairs

In writing about the experience of Chinese women in America, author Judy Yung decided to focus her book on San Francisco–home to nearly 50 percent of all Chinese women in the U.S. at the turn of the century. The award-winning book–Unbound Feet (1995)–traces the stages of "unbinding" that took place in the lives of Chinese…

Marine biologist Mary Silver and her work on marine snow were the focus of an in-depth article in the Santa Cruz County Sentinel. Silver, who will be leading one of a series of workshops for teachers offered this spring by Long Marine Lab, has been studying the tiny bits of downward drifting ocean materials for…

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,…

The AIDS epidemic has spawned a range of organizational responses, from radical groups like ACT-UP to the more staid San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The origins and strategies of both groups are among those examined in the new book Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to AIDS by sociologist Nancy Stoller, a professor…

As Pat Clark led tours of Evergreen Cemetery for Black History Month in February, he described people buried there–teachers, farmers, and other pioneers–who had each played an important role in the life of the Santa Cruz community. None of the people he described were world-famous, but that was part of the point: "You don’t have…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–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…

The Report of the Chancellor’s Commission on a Changing Campus Table Of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Diversity at UCSC at the Millennium Undergraduate Student Diversity Graduate Student Diversity Staff Diversity Faculty Diversity Curricular and Research Diversity: Ethnic Studies Appendix A: Members of the Chancellor’s Commission on a Changing Campus Preface and Acknowledgments Early in…

Kirk Lew Over the past few years, the UCSC administration has implemented a new financial information system and transferred many of the responsibilities for purchasing, making payments, tracking budgets, and other financial matters from a few central offices to three dozen Service Centers on campus. Kirk Lew, assistant vice chancellor for financial affairs, believes this…

The culture we live in and the media messages we are exposed to form a myriad of attitudes that we tend to internalize. For most women in our society these attitudes include displeasure with their bodies, difficulty in expressing their ideas, fears of violence against themselves and their children, and a fear of expressing anger.…

Chancellor Greenwood was quoted in two different stories in mid-February on the function in obese people of Lepti–a hormone that signals people on when to stop eating. The first story appeared in the Chicago Tribune and was picked up by the Seattle Times. In the story, Greenwood observes that genes that were invaluable to people…