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A public talk by Assemblyman Fred Keeley on May 29 has been canceled. Keeley, who had been scheduled to discuss "How Is the California Legislature Treating the Environment this Year?" as part of an environmental studies course, must attend a special legislative session in Sacramento that day. Open Studios–a show of student artwork for the…

Lisbeth Haas, associate professor of history, has received the 1997 Elliott Rudwick Prize for her book Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936 (University of California Press, 1995). The $2,000 prize is considered one of the most prestigious in the field. It is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians for an outstanding book…

While forcing a last-minute change of venue, cloudy skies and intermittent rain didn’t dampen the enthusiasm last week when M.R.C. Greenwood was inaugurated as UCSC’s seventh chancellor. Rain brings out the sun-shy banana slug and, in many cultures, is considered a sign of good luck, Greenwood said to the inaugural audience on Friday, May 23.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In conjunction with the dedication of the new Music Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood announced the launching of the UCSC Music Campaign–a fund-raising program to broaden the scope and outreach of the campus’s Music Department. The campaign will support efforts to recruit top high school seniors…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Enjoy an afternoon of poetry and classical music in the Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Saturday, June 7. The event, "Poetry and Music in the Garden," features readings by four poets from noon until 2 P.M. It is free and open to the public. The poets who…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–At the base of a cliff below the Santa Cruz lighthouse, early morning low tide finds 47 student researchers from UC Santa Cruz poking under boulders, peering into tide pools, and sifting through surf grass to find every species inhabiting the rocky zone between the tides. It looks like fun, and is, but…

The Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz represents a significant expansion of the campus’s existing engineering programs. New degree offerings will focus on fields expected to be in great demand, both regionally and nationally, in the next decade. Engineering students will benefit from UCSC’s traditionally strong educational approach and will participate in…

"An abundant supply of engineers educated in technological fields is essential for meeting the demands of our rapidly growing, technologically advanced economy. The School of Engineering envisioned at UC Santa Cruz will be an excellent way to meet the needs of both the students and businesses that desperately seek graduates trained in a variety of…

Computer scientist Robert Levinson’s thoughts on IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer, which conquered world chess champion Garry Kasparov last week, appeared on Wired magazine’s World Wide Web site. In the article, titled "Deep Blue still has some learning to do," Levinson commented that while the machine is impressive, it’s a far cry from the "artificial intelligence"…

The Education Abroad Program is seeking applications from faculty for directorship positions for the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 academic years. Candidates must be tenured members of the Academic Senate, lecturers with security of employment, or emeriti faculty. In all but a few cases, candidates must be fluent in the language of the host country and have…

The following information is intended to provide some context for the graduate student walkout planned for May 14 and 15: What is ASE? The Association of Student Employees (ASE) is an organization of student employees, affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW), which seeks to become the exclusive representative of teaching assistants (TAs) on this…

Donald Osterbrock, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer emeritus, UC Observatories/Lick Observatory, received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at commencement exercises on May 16. Osterbrock was on the University of Wisconsin faculty from 1958 to 1973, when he came to UCSC as director of Lick Observatory. The university cited…