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The campus HIV Prevention Program is one of 12 key community agencies that will benefit from the AIDS Walk on Saturday, October 18th. Proceeds from the walk will be used to provide greater outreach, programming, testing, and support for the campus. Walk teams have been organized at nearly all the colleges with the help of…

Accolades describes awards, honors, and other professional acitivities of faculty, staff, and students; this column also includes published books, articles, and music by members of the campus community. Three UCSC tennis players won the Fall Rolex Invitational Western Regional Championships, held October 3-5 in Claremont. Thomas Oechel (soph.) and Josh Goodley (jr.) won the doubles…

The following is a statement by UC President Atkinson regarding the governor’s veto of AB 1415 on Friday evening (October 10, 1997). Mike Lassiter UC Office of the President Governor Wilson’s veto of AB 1415 is a disappointment. I remain hopeful, however, that we can solve the serious long-term funding needs of publ ic higher…

Community Chat turns the spotlight on the community activities and personal milestones of staff and faculty. Send Community Chat items to Mary Ann Dewey ([dewey@cats.ucsc.edu][2]). Agroecology’s Sean Swezey spoke at a recent fund-raising event at the local Patagonia store at the Sash Mill. In conjunction with National Organic Awareness Month, the event was a fund-raiser…

UCSC professor of history Edmund Burke III has received a $165,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding a five-week summer institute in 1998 to explore the environment and world history. The institute, titled, "The Environment and World History, 1500-2000," will bring 25 college and university teachers of history to the campus…

Governor Pete Wilson today (Friday, October 10) signed into law AB 1318, which provides for a 5 percent reduction in general fees for undergraduate California resident students and a two-year freeze on general fees for resident graduate students at the University of California. The following statement was issued today by UC President Richard C. Atkinson…

Physicist John C. Browne was appointed director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory last week by the University of California, which manages the New Mexico facility for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Acting on the recommendation of UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the UC Board of Regents named Browne to the post, effective Nov.…

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…