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November 20, 2000

Accolades

W. Jackson Davis

W. Jackson Davis, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been appointed to serve on the selection committee for the recently established Thor Heyerdahl International Maritime Environmental Award. He will be in distinguished company on the committee, with fellow members including Prince Philip of Great Britain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and International Red Cross president Astrid Heiberg.

Davis has been a United Nations representative and negotiator in the area of international environmental issues for the past 15 years, serving as a consultant to Pacific Island countries and the UN Alliance of Small Island States. He has been involved in negotiating international treaties and conventions on the oceans, the climate, and biodiversity. Davis holds a joint appointment with UCSC and the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he is professor of international policy studies and head of the International Policy Studies Program.

The Heyerdahl Award was established in 1999 by Thor Heyerdahl and the Norwegian Shipowners' Association. The award is intended to inspire the worldwide maritime community to strive to improve the global environment. It will be presented for the first time in May 2001 at an international shipping conference in Oslo. The award consists of a statuette, a diploma, and a $100,000 prize.

Patricia Zavella

Patricia Zavella, professor of community studies and director of the Chicano/Latino Research Center, was named Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished
Visiting Professor in Women's Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In addition to travel expenses, the appointment includes an honorarium of $3,000. This year's Kreeger Wolf symposium focused on "Gender, Race, and Reproduction" and included distinguished scholars in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Martha McClintock, and Rey Chow. Zavella presented a keynote talk entitled "Silences, Risk and the 'Missing Discourse of Desire' by Latinas," based on her ethnographic research with Mexican migrant workers and Mexican women of the second generation.

Chad Sanger

Chad Sanger, right, receiving the Mayor's Proclamation at a gay pride celebration in May.
Chad Sanger, academic adviser at Stevenson College, was honored with a Mayor's Proclamation for his service to the Santa Cruz community. The proclamation, which was delivered in May at a gay pride celebration, details Sanger's achievements on behalf of the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgendered community, both on and off campus, and commends him for the "courage, conviction and . . . innate honesty and kindness" that he brings to his work.

Sanger is chair of the GLBT Campus Concerns Committee and cochair of the UC systemwide LGBT Association.







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