Those from UCSC using the building include UCSC Extension. The top two floors provide 54 residential apartments for regularly enrolled UCSC students and students in extension's English. Virginia and Todd Keeler-Wolf traveled to New Caledonia in 1975 when they were students at UCSC and, under founding Arboretum director Ray Collett's guidance, shipped back some samples of Amborella. Tim Stephens UCSC historian appointed to NEH A UCSC historian is one of five people to be named by President Clinton to serve on the 26-member board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The national council advises NEH Chairman William Ferris on policies and programs and grant allocations.
Members serve six-year terms.
Castillo is well prepared for his new duties, having served as a member of the California Council for the Humanities. Among his priorities as a council member will be to support research in nontraditional subject areas examining such issues as race, class, and gender. His teaching and research focus on the history and politics of Mexican Americans in the United States. His most recent book is The American Nation, a textbook on American history that has been adopted by a number of school districts for their junior high school curricula. Alumna named state's professor of year Julie glass, a mathematics instructor at California State University, Hayward, who received her master's degree and Ph.D. in mathematics from UCSC, has been named the 1999 California Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.