Public Affairs

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The federal government has funded an innovative in-depth study of marijuana use that is designed to answer fundamental questions about the drug, including whether it leads to the use of "harder" drugs, what its long-term effects are, and whether users become dependent on the drug. Craig Reinarman, a sociology professor at the University…

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No Other Research Group Has Learned So Much About How Seals And Sea Lions Process Information SANTA CRUZ, CA–A remarkable quartet of trained marine mammals is helping scientists push the frontiers of animal psychobiology by demonstrating, in unprecedented detail, how they see, hear, and think about the world around them. Years of careful experiments at…

From the accounting office to the police department, Business and Administrative Services (BAS) units provide a wealth of services to the campus community. A new series of lunch-time forums will give students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn about these services. At "Bag-It With BAS," the heads of BAS units will discuss what their…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $165,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund a five-week summer institute in 1998 to explore the environment and world history. Edmund Burke III, a professor of history, received the grant for the institute, titled, "The Environment…

About a dozen members of the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau toured the UCSC Farm with Chancellor Greenwood and other campus officials last Tuesday. The tour gave Farm Bureau members an opportunity to see and hear about the latest activities of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and to meet its new director,…

More than 1,000 people visited the UCSC Farm and the Alan Chadwick Garden over the weekend as part of the festivities marking the 30th anniversary of the Farm & Garden. Chancellor Greenwood attended a reception in the Alan Chadwick Garden on Friday evening. The Banana Slug String Band headlined the special anniversary edition of the…

Astronomer Dennis Zaritsky, winner of a $500,000 fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, appeared on a KNTV evening newscast to discuss his studies of stars in two nearby galaxies. Watching the Apollo missions as a child inspired Zaritsky to enter his field, he said. The anchor stated correctly that UCSC is one of…

UCSC will kick off its annual United Way campaign on Monday, October 13, with a lunchtime ice-cream social. Chancellor Greenwood and other administrators will serve ice cream at the social, which will take place from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at McHenry Library. Joyce Justus, special assistant to the chancellor, will act as a "trainer"…

An exhibit titled "Silence No More: Remembering the Japanese-American Internment" is on display at McHenry Library through December 20. The exhibit documents the history of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, with a particular focus on California. It includes art and photography created in the internment camps, the internment experience as reflected…

Senior John Sanchez had no trouble keeping the audience’s attention recently as he discussed his summer research in South America. It wasn’t just his engaging stories of Amazonian adventures. Credit also must go to his subjects: venomous long-haired caterpillars, whose "urticating" (itch-producing) secretions show promise as antibacterial compounds. Sanchez was one of 19 UCSC undergraduate…

The Staff Advisory Board and the Office of the Chancellor have invited all staff employees to a "Welcome to the 1997-98 Academic Year Barbecue." The event will be held on Tuesday, October 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the East Field. The barbecue will feature a variety of picnic foods, including burgers, hot…