Acting Chancellor Chemers, sharing a light moment with
Staff Advisory Board chair Patt Takeuchi at last week's Fall Staff Forum,
provided an update on a number of subjects—including the budget,
salaries, enrollment, and even the chancellor's search. The forum was
attended by more than 200 staff members. [More]
A pair of papers published last week in the two leading
scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and
the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in human
DNA. Researchers at UCSC are involved in both projects. (Right: An artist's
rendering of the DNA double helix.) [More]
