Public Affairs

Residents of Merrill’s B building will be able to bypass busy signals, time limits, and tied up telephone lines next quarter to log directly onto the campus computer network over high speed ethernet lines. In a pilot program, students in that residence hall will be the first to use the Student Communications System, an $8.1-million…

Or, can supersymmetry save the Standard Model of the universe from itself? From a butterfly’s wings or a daisy’s petals to the cyclical repetition of the seasons, nature often shows a delicate, measured regularity. A cursory glance at the cramped equations scrawled all over the whiteboard in Michael Dine’s office suggests not the slightest trace…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden is looking for volunteer docents to help teach the principles of organic farming and gardening to visitors who tour the Farm and Garden. Farm and Garden docents participate in a range of activities that include tours, public education programs, and other activities that support the Farm…

Chemist Joe Konopelski basked in his 15 minutes in the spotlight, and much more, for attempts in his lab to synthesize a potential cancer-fighting compound from a marine animal that divers can no longer find. The San Francisco Chronicle carried the story first, followed by an Associated Press article and photo that hit the front…

This is not your father’s solar system About two years ago, astrophysicist Douglas Lin recalls, speaker after speaker at an astronomy meeting in Hawaii deplored the lack of convincing evidence for new planets outside of our solar system. Lin then arose to state that making planets is incredibly easy. Researchers weren’t finding them, he said,…

The UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden is looking for volunteer docents to help teach the principles of organic farming and gardening to visitors who tour the Farm and Garden. Farm and Garden docents participate in a range of activities that include tours, public education programs, and other activities that support the Farm and Garden.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Deborah Meier, founder of one of the most remarkable public schools in the country, will give a talk at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Tuesday, February 25, at 7:30 P.M. The talk, titled "The Power of Their Ideas," is free and open to the public. It will be held in room…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In a comprehensive new analysis of more than 200 top universities, the University of California, Santa Cruz, ranks 15th in the nation in the quality of its research productivity. The study and rankings are detailed in a just-published book that chronicles the rise of a new generation of postwar research universities in the…

Lori Kletzer, assistant professor of economics, has received a prestigious grant from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. The two-year grant for nearly $39,000 will support Kletzer’s work on a book about the effect of increasing foreign competition on U.S. manufacturing and employment. Kletzer’s book will examine the relationship between changes in international trade,…

Two offices at UCSC have launched a new service that uses a relatively old medium to bring the latest information about campus events to faculty, staff, and students. The service–called UCSC Presents–employs a basic TV to broadcast an up-to-date listing of lectures, concerts, and other events. A connection to the campus cable system is all…

UCSC astronomers in the news: January witnessed a burst of media coverage of the pioneering work at UC Observatories/Lick Observatory. At a meeting in Toronto, postdoctoral researcher James Lowenthal met the press at a news conference about the "Hubble Deep Field," the Hubble Space Telescope’s most probing view yet into the far reaches of the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In recognition of his academic achievement and his community work, John Brown Childs, professor of sociology at UC Santa Cruz, has received the prestigious Fulbright Thomas Jefferson Chair award for 1997-98. Childs, an expert on contemporary urban issues, will spend a portion of the 1997-98 academic year at the University of Amsterdam in…