April 28, 2003

UC physicist Brian Meadows heads the work group responsible for identifying a new sub-atomic particle.

April 28, 2003

Researchers at the Department of Energy Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle on April 28.

April 29, 2003

Scenes of monuments falling and artifacts being defaced in Baghdad.

April 30, 2003

A McMicken College of Arts and Sciences program on Iraq reveals interesting parallels between the past and the present, as well as UC involvement in efforts to retrieve Iraq's looted historical treasures and plans to build bridges between U.S. and Iraqi scholars.

May 6, 2003

Choosing a major can be a difficult decision - so difficult, in fact, that the most popular major at UC is undeclared.

May 6, 2003

McMicken College will hold its annual spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 14 at 5:00p.

May 7, 2003

The 26th Rabbi Louis Feinberg Lecture will feature David Ellenson, president of the Hebrew Union College.

May 7, 2003

The former first lady of UC will be honored on May 27 at a special dinner. The tribute will be followed by the Feinberg Lecture featuring David Ellenson.

May 11, 2003

In the years prior to 1815, some 400,000 Irish ventured across the Atlantic to America. UC professor of history emeritus Arnold Schrier and some colleagues have spent years exploring archives, private collections and attic trunks to gather up more than 5,000 letters to tell these early stories of immigration. The researchers' work has just been published in a 788-page scholarly endeavor that took nearly 20 years of work and painstaking research.

May 11, 2003

Instead of the usual voyage lasting seven weeks and four days, this crossing took a hellish 15 weeks.