UCUC SANTA SANTA CRUZ CRUZ Summer 1997 R E V I E W Developmental Psychology at UCSC: How We Grow and Learn Also: UCSC’s first professional school, the new field of bioinformatics, helping teachers teach writing, inaugurating our 7th chancellor CONTENTS UC Santa Cruz Features Engineering expansion Review / Summer 1997 UCSC’s new School of Engineering will be named Chancellor in honor of Jack Baskin, M.R.C. Greenwood Living and Learning.............................6 whose $5 million gift—the Director of Public Information largest in campus history— Elizabeth Irwin is providing a big boost to the establishment of Editor The Sequence Master..........................14 the first professional Jim Burns school at Santa Cruz. 2 Art Director/Designer Jim MacKenzie Write On! ...........................................18 Associate Editors Pulitzer, part deux Mary Ann Dewey Jeanne Lance Her dramatic photograph M.R.C. Greenwood’s Inauguration .....22 of a rescue earned Annie Writers Wells (College Eight ’81) Robert Irion a Pulitzer Prize this Willow Liroff spring, the second year Marina Malikoff Departments in a row that a graduate Barbara McKenna of UCSC has received Jennifer McNulty journalism’s most Doreen Schack prestigious award. Francine Tyler 3 From the Chancellor.............................1 Cover photography James Anthony How we grow and learn Office of University Advancement Campus Update ...................................2 Employing an innovative Carriage House University of California approach to the study 1156 High Street of human development, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 UCSC psychologists are Alumni News .....................................24 providing many insights voice: 408.459.2501 into the way we learn fax: 408.459.3412 and grow—research that e-mail:
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