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Currents

Oct. 11-17, 1999
Vol. 4, No. 10

Surprise grant will make rare slides available to public
A $14,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation will take the University Library's collection of slides by photographer Branson DeCou from obsolete to cutting edge in one fell swoop. The grant will allow Slide Collections to scan, research, and catalog 1,000 of the 10,000 mostly lantern slides. The delicate and dated format of the slides--imprinted on glass and twice as big as modern 35 mm slides--made them impractical for general use. (More)

Campus hosts 'Preview Day' for prospective students

ACE Honors Program wins Presidential award

Eminent UCSC computer scientist and founding faculty member dies at age 74

Talk about Chinese healing practices kicks off lecture series

Noted astronomer to deliver the first public lecture of a new astronomy series

Pulitzer Prize-winner's talk to focus on Chopin

Campus community warned about mountain lion sighting

Science Matters Book Club will discuss the fates of human societies at next meeting

UC establishes task force on minority medical school enrollment

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