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King Memorial Convocation Will Feature Editor Of Essence Magazine SANTA CRUZ, CA–Susan L. Taylor, editor-in-chief of Essence magazine, will be the featured speaker at UC Santa Cruz’s 16th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation. The convocation will take place on Tuesday, February 8, at 7 p.m. in the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307…

UCSC Offers Pruning Workshop On January 29 SANTA CRUZ, CA–Fruit tree expert Orin Martin will offer you all the tips you need to prune your fruit trees successfully at a two-hour pruning workshop on Saturday, January 29, from 10 a.m. to noon. The class will be held at the Louise Cain Gatehouse on the Farm…

UCSC Astronomy Professor Receives Outstanding Faculty Award SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz professor of astronomy and astrophysics Sandra Faber has received the Outstanding Faculty Award for 1998-99 from UCSC’s Division of Natural Sciences. The award recognizes Faber’s distinguished research career, teaching excellence, and commitment to service. Faber is renowned for her research on the formation…

New Book Rivers Of Gold Proposes Innovative Water Allocation System For California SANTA CRUZ, CA–It’s tough for environmental scientist Brent Haddad to address California water policy issues in the wake of the movie Chinatown and the book Cadillac Desert. Even Californians who know little about the state’s pending water crisis know enough history to fear…

Educators Invited To Attend Symposium On Teacher Quality January 27-28 SANTA CRUZ, CA–Educators are invited to attend a two-day symposium on teacher quality that is being sponsored by the New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on January 27-28. The gathering, "Keeping the Dream Alive: A Quality Teacher for Every Child," will…

The Hip Danny Hoch Comes To UC Santa Cruz January 22 SANTA CRUZ, CA-What do a billionaire rapper, a Cuban break dancer, a prison guard, and a young boy in physical therapy recovering from a gunshot wound have in common? They all spring from the fertile mind of Danny Hoch. These characters and many others…

Butoh Dancer Brings Exquisite Art Form To Santa Cruz This Month SANTA CRUZ, CA-Imagine actually observing a stalactite forming drip by drip, a constellation navigating the sky, or sweet peas vining their way up a trellis. Of course it’s impossible to witness such subtle wonders but, through the evocative work of Butoh dancer Maureen Fleming,…

UCSC Alumni Association Names Award Winners For 1999 SANTA CRUZ, CA-A biology professor, the department assistant for women’s studies, and an alumnus who was an environmental biologist defending the human rights of indigenous people in Colombia have won the three top awards given annually by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association. Barry Bowman, Nicolette Czarrunchick,…

Downtown Lecture To Focus On Prisons And Racism SANTA CRUZ, CA–Angela Davis, professor of history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a talk titled "The Prisoner Exchange: The Underside of Civil Rights" on Thursday, January 13, from 7 to 8 p.m. at the McPherson Center for Art and History, 705…

High-tech Tracking Devices Reveal New Details Of Elephant Seal Migrations And Feeding Strategies SANTA CRUZ, CA–Thousands of elephant seals are now returning from their fall migrations for the winter birthing and breeding season at Año Nuevo, a major rookery for seals and sea lions 55 miles south of San Francisco. How the elephant seals spent…

UC Santa Cruz Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood Focuses On Science Education Issues At Aaas Board Meeting In San Jose SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meets this week in San Jose to focus on the issue of science education, a top priority of the board’s chair,…

New Institute At UCSC Will Support Global Environment And Planetary Science Research SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), a multicampus research unit, is expanding to include a branch on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The UCSC branch of the institute will address fundamental questions relating to Earth’s environment,…