Public Affairs

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…

Undergraduate juniors and seniors in all majors can now enroll full-time in a Washington, D.C., program, the UCDC Program. Students take classes and intern at one of the many organizations or agencies in the D.C. area while fully enrolled as UCSC students. The cost for the quarter is comparable to a quarter on campus at…

TO: THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY Re: Michael Tanner leaving Executive Vice Chancellor’s post June 30 Dear Colleagues: As most of you know, Michael Tanner has served in a series of administrative positions for nearly a decade. He is widely respected by his peers throughout the University of California for his creativity, integrity, and preparedness. At UC…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Three professors in the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were honored today (Friday, October 3) for their excellence in teaching. The recipients of the Division of Social Sciences’ 1996 Distinguished Teaching Awards are: David Brundage, associate professor of community studies Carolyn Martin Shaw, professor of anthropology David…

Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group Gets First Look At Bird’s Rapid Northward Quest For Salmon SANTA CRUZ, CA–Along the wild rivers of Alaska and British Columbia, immature bald eagles forage for dead salmon and learn to hunt for live ones in the late summer and fall. The eagles fly north on fast migrations from…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The story of the "Negress Maria," who was on board a Spanish ship captured by Francis Drake in 1578-79, is one of the stories that is the focus of a lecture by Margo Hendricks, associate professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Hendricks’s talk, "Portraits in Exile: Englishwomen and Travel…

Researcher Dennis Zaritsky Will Study The Evolution Of The Milky Way’s Nearest Neighbors In Space SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the fourth consecutive year, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has captured one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for young faculty members: a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, worth…

Porter College’s Bob Giges has won top honors at the Canadian International Annual Film and Video Festival for his video documentary From Sleepy Lagoon to Zoot Suit: The Irreverent Path of Alice McGrath. In the half-hour video, Alice McGrath tells the story of the Sleepy Lagoon case, in which 22 young Mexican-American men, charged with…

Small-scale medical trials on cancer patients provide hope that gene therapy could become a potent weapon in the fight against certain ovarian cancers and breast cancers, an audience learned at UCSC on September 19. University of Washington medical geneticist Mary-Claire King spoke to about 200 people at the Music Center Recital Hall in a public…

Beginning this quarter, new UCSC undergraduates can accumulate a grade-point average, while new and continuing students may request letter grades in almost every class. In addition, graduate students are also eligible to request letter grades for the first time. The Academic Senate approved these changes last year on the recommendation of the Committee on Educational…