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SANTA CRUZ, CA–The members of the Academic Senate at UC Santa Cruz, polled via a mail ballot this fall, have reaffirmed an earlier vote implementing UC’s conventional grading system. The results of the most recent vote were announced late yesterday by senate chair Roger Anderson. The grading legislation continues to permit UCSC undergraduate students to…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A rare species of succulent that grows only on California’s Channel Islands has a better chance of surviving in the wild now, thanks in part to the efforts of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Arboretum. As an added benefit, succulent fans can now buy the hard-to-find plants at the Arboretum’s annual Dried…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Daniel Greenhouse, a senior physics and math major at UC Santa Cruz, thinks learning about science should be fun. He began experimenting with electricity when he was 12 years old, and before long he was building Tesla coils that could generate huge arcs of electricity. This led to special-effects projects for concerts by…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–From a biologist who studies the nearshore marine environment to an ecologist who has championed the use of rigorous statistical research methods, four faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been inducted as new fellows of the California Academy of Sciences. The academy is governed by the Fellows, a distinguished…

NOTE TO EDITORS & NEWS DIRECTORS: News media are invited to attend a news conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2000. The news conference will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., (PDT) in Bldg. 3, the Moffett Training and Conference Center. News media are also invited to attend a…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, attracted $53.4 million in external contracts and grants to UCSC last year, the highest total ever received by the campus. The increase in contracts and grants funding during the 1999-2000 year reflects a pattern of continued growth that the campus has sustained for the last…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Preview Day at UC Santa Cruz–held each fall for prospective students, their parents, and counselors–will take place on campus on Saturday, October 21, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The day’s activities will include student-led campus tours of UCSC’s ten residential colleges and workshops on financial aid, Educational Opportunity Programs, and the transfer…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Nawab Hamid Ali Khan, ruler of the state of Rampur, India, in the early 1900s, was well known for his love and patronage of the arts. Now, halfway around the world and three generations later, the great-granddaughter of this respected Nawab and her husband are carrying on that tradition, providing funding that will…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The public is invited to attend a community brunch to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the UC Santa Cruz Women’s Center on Sunday, October 15, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The festivities will take place at the Women’s Center in the Cardiff House on the UCSC campus. The program includes music by…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory will be closed all day on Tuesday, October 17, to accommodate a dedication ceremony for the center’s new neighbor, a state-of-the-art national fisheries research laboratory. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta and Representative Sam Farr are among those who will be on hand to celebrate the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a physics workshop for high school teachers on Saturday, October 28. The workshop, which is free and open to all teachers, will take place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 1, Thimann Lecture Hall,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Two longtime professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were honored by the Division of Social Sciences today (Thursday, October 5) for their excellence in teaching. Dane Archer, professor of sociology, and Isebill "Ronnie" V. Gruhn, professor of politics, have received the Division of Social Sciences’ 1999-2000 Distinguished Teaching Awards at an…