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Recruitments have opened for two senior administrative positions at UCSC: executive vice chancellor and vice chancellor for university relations. Both recruitments are national in scope, and members of the campus community are encouraged to participate in the searches by identifying and nominating qualified candidates. The EVC recruitment follows Michael Tanner’s announcement earlier this year that…

About a dozen physicists, engineers, and technicians from UCSC are among those who will participate in an international scientific collaboration to build a new high-energy particle accelerator and associated detectors near Geneva, Switzerland. Officials with the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation signed an agreement last week to invest more than $500…

Encouraged by the success of a temporary attendant-assisted parking program at the East Remote lot, Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) staff plan to start a similar program at one of the Science Hill parking lots. "Science Hill has tremendous parking demand and not many opportunities for building more parking lots," said TAPS director Larry Pageler.…

Norrie’s Gifts at the Arboretum is offering a 10 percent discount on all items in the store and all succulent plants exclusively to faculty and staff for one evening only on Monday, December 15, from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Gift wrapping is free. Norrie’s is also open as usual Tuesdays through Saturdays and Sundays from…

VICE CHANCELLOR – UNIVERSITY RELATIONS SENIOR MANAGEMENT GROUP JOB # 97-11-41 FULL TIME/CAREER SALARY COMMENSURATE WITH QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE The University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications and nominations for the position of Vice Chancellor – University Relations. This is an outstanding career opportunity for an individual seeking a key leadership role in a rapidly…

SEARCH COMMITTEE, Vice Chancellor, University Relations R. Michael Tanner, Executive Vice Chancellor (chair) Julia Armstrong-Zwart, Assistant Chancellor – Human Resources Murray Baumgarten, Professor, English & Comparative Literature Donald Brenneis, Professor and Chair, Anthropology Janice Corriden, Dean, University Extension and Summer Sessions James Gill, Associate Vice Chancellor – Research M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor (ex officio) Edward Houghton,…

UCSC’s Role Will Center On The Construction Of Two Giant Particle Detectors SANTA CRUZ, CA–About a dozen physicists, engineers, and technicians from the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among those who will participate in an international scientific collaboration to build a new high- energy particle accelerator and associated detectors near Geneva, Switzerland. Officials with…

Join the Friends of the UCSC Library for the annual Dickens Holiday Evening at 4 p.m. on Friday, December 12, in the McHenry Library foyer. The gathering features music, food, and holiday items for sale. It is free and open to the public and children are welcome. This event is handicapped accessible. For more information,…

A complete version (with all charts) of the UC White Paper, The University of California Approaching the 21st Century, has been posted on President Richard C. Atkinson’s Web homepage. The document was produced by UC for the California Commission on Higher Education. According to the document’s introductory statement, the paper "presents an analysis of issues…

Economics professor Dan Friedman has been awarded the Royal Economic Society Prize for the best paper published in 1996 in the Economic Journal. The paper, titled "Equilibrium in Evolutionary Games: Some Experimental Results," appeared the the January 1996 issue (106:434, 1-25). The Economic Journal is one of the leading general-purpose academic economics journals outside the…

The University of California Board of Regents has adopted a budget plan for 1998-99 that would restore faculty salaries to competitive levels, accommodate an additional 2,000 students, and continue to provide students with the classes they need to graduate in a timely fashion. In addition, UC budget director Larry Hershman said the university will seek…

Changhua Rich credits her academic success in part to her background, which includes working in what she calls "the real world" until she was 32 years old. "I have a strong sense of how people in the real world are going to respond," she said. "And I always ask myself 100 times how something is…