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Volume 1
Number 32
June 2-8, 1997
Text-based Edition
UCSC honors eight faculty members for excellence in teaching
![[Photo of teaching award recipients]](/oncampus/art/teach.award.155.gif)
An Academic Senate committee has selected a total of eight professors and lecturers to receive 1996-97 Excellence in Teaching Awards. Ten teaching assistants were also honored. (Photos)
UC task force recommends partnerships with schools
The university's Outreach Task Force has issued a draft report
for public review that recommends
that UC undertake a major expansion of
its academic outreach to the state's
K-12 schools.
UC Regent donates $100,000 for engineering scholarships
![[Photo of David Lee]](/oncampus/art/david_lee.155.gif)
David S. Lee, chairman of CMC Industries of Santa Clara and a
member of the UC Board of Regents, has pledged $100,000 to
establish an endowed scholarship fund for the new Jack Baskin
School of Engineering at UCSC.
UCSC selected to help develop new electronic superhighway
A consortium of California private and public universities, including
UCSC and six other UC campuses, has embarked on a project to
develop a sophisticated new network that
will deliver information to each university at speeds at least 100 times faster than today's Internet.
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