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April 26, 2004
Awards and Honors
Students honored by Second
Harvest Food Bank
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Charlene Lo and Danny Ambrose
Photo: Donna Blitzer |
UCSC students Charlene Lo and Danny Ambrose, both seniors at Oakes
College, were honored by Second Harvest Food Bank at its awards dinner
on Thursday, April 15, at Temple Beth El in Aptos.
The two were chosen for Hunger Fighter of the Year awards because
of their leadership and commitment to the student food drive over the
past years. The two served as coordinators of the Student Volunteer
Connection, a student-run organization designed to involve students
in the Santa Cruz community through meaningful volunteer opportunities.
Lo is a sociology major who hopes to work in the nonprofit sector
after graduation. She plans on gaining further experience in public
policy and traveling before pursuing graduate school. Ambrose is majoring
in intensive psychology and will be attending Indiana University (at
Bloomington) in the fall to begin working on a master's in student affairs
administration.
"Working with such a devoted group of UCSC staff and administrators
through the years has truly been an inspiration. Charlene and I have
learned so much about our university, our community, and ourselves as
a result of our continued involvement in the Second Harvest Food Drive,"
said Ambrose.
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Jonathan Fox recipient
of fellowship to pursue research on institutional transparency
Jonathan Fox, professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has been
named a 2004-05 fellow by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars in Washington, D.C. The residential fellowship will support
Fox’s research on transparency and institutional accountability.
Fox, coeditor of the book Demanding Accountability: Civil Society
Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel, is interested in the
conditions under which institutional transparency promotes public accountability.
While in Washington, Fox will examine the track records of international
institutional transparency reforms in order to assess their accountability
impacts and to determine their specific causal pathways.
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Lori Kletzer's work cited
by Fed governor
In recent remarks about trade and jobs during the Distinguished Speaker
Series at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham,
North Carolina, Federal Reserve Board governor Ben Bernanke cited work
by UCSC economics professor Lori Kletzer.
Bernanke relied heavily on Kletzer’s work estimating trade-induced
job losses, which she calculated at nearly 310,000 per year for the
period from 1979 to 1999.
Kletzer, who is chair of the Economics Department, is a widely quoted
source in the outsourcing debate. She is coauthor of a wage insurance
proposal that would provide up to two years of financial help to workers
who lose their jobs through no fault of their own and who go on to get
a new job that pays less than their previous job.
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Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
is invited speaker at African conference
Anthropology professor Diane Gifford-Gonzalez was an invited presenter
of a paper on animal disease barriers to the spread of herding economies
in sub-Saharan Africa at the Second Genome in Africa Conference that
was held March 26-29 in Cairo, Egypt. The annual session, entitled "Genomics
and Society: The Future Health of Africa," was organized by the
Human Research Council of South Africa and Ain Shams University in Cairo.
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Susanne Jonas speaks
on Guatemala to U.S. Holocaust Museum committee
Latin American and Latino studies lecturer Susanne Jonas was a featured
speaker at a winter forum sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum's Committee
of Conscience. She discussed the genocidal acts that occurred in Guatemala.
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