Volume 2
Number 8
Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 1997
Back-to-school night at the Beach Boardwalk
Chancellor Greenwood was an eager participant in the
annual back-to-school event at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
(Photos)
Registrar schedules meetings to discuss new grading
procedures
Beginning this quarter, new UCSC undergraduates can accumulate a GPA, and
all students may request letter grades in almost every
class. To help members of the campus community understand the new
grading procedures, four
informational sessions have been scheduled.
Genetic research offers some promise for cancer treatment, speaker
says
Small-scale medical trials on cancer patients provide hope
that gene therapy could become a potent
weapon in the fight against certain ovarian cancers and
breast cancers, a UCSC audience learned recently.
Packard Foundation awards fellowship to UCSC astronomer
For the fourth consecutive year, a UCSC researcher has captured
one of the nation's most prestigious honors for young faculty
members: a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science
and Engineering. Astronomer Dennis Zaritsky,
age 33, will receive $100,000 per year for the next five years to
support his research.
UCSC brings Student Communications Services online for 2,000
students
More than 2,000 students who moved into Merrill,
Cowell, Stevenson, and Crown Colleges, and
Crown/Merrill Apartments this fall found in their rooms new
connections to the campus network and the Internet and new
telephone service.
Grants bolster ambitious plans for Latin American and Latino studies
In his first year as chair of Latin American and Latino
studies, Manuel Pastor and his colleagues in
both his program and the Chicano-Latino Research Center brought in
more major grant support than
they had hoped to generate in three years.
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