Engineering school launches 10th anniversary celebrations

UCSC began its celebration of the Baskin Engineering School's 10th anniversary by hearing from its namesake, Jack Baskin, and Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal. Tours showed off the school's new facilities, cutting-edge research labs, and innovative student research projects. [More]

Engineering, humanities chairs created

Two $500,000 gifts from philanthropist Jack Baskin will establish endowed chairs, one in the Humanities Division that honors his wife, Peggy Downes Baskin, and another in the Baskin School of Engineering. [More]

Screening of Jonestown film March 6

Director Stanley Nelson and writer Marcia A. Smith will attend a free advance screening of the major new documentary, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, on March 6, at 7 p.m. in Classroom Unit 2. The film has its public TV premiere in April. [More]