News

January 2002

  • New supercomputer at UCSC provides high-speed platform for research in planetary physics and astrophysics

    Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have installed a new supercomputer that ranks among the 100 fastest computers in the world. The computer will be used for research in planetary physics and astrophysics by scientists in the Departments of Earth Sciences, Physics, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Research in these fields often involves computer…

  • Laurie Anderson’s ‘Happiness’ scheduled for March 10

    UC SANTA CRUZ ARTS & LECTURES presents LAURIE ANDERSON “HAPPINESS” Anderson’s “work captures an essential ‘Americanness’ of American Art.” -The New York Times DETAILS » Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 8pm » Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz » Tickets: Adult $25; Senior or Student $20; UCSC Student with ID $14 NOTE:…

  • The spirit of jazz, past, present and future, comes alive with Marcus Roberts on February 16

    UC SANTA CRUZ ARTS & LECTURES presents MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO The spirit of jazz, past, present and future, comes alive with Marcus Roberts. DETAILS » Saturday, February 16th, 2002 at 8pm (pre-performance discussion begins at 7:30pm) » UCSC Music Center Recital Hall » Tickets:Adult $23; Senior or Student $19; UCSC Student $13 Tickets may be…

  • Noted historian to give public talk about democracy in America on February 6

    Noted historian Lawrence Goodwyn will give a free public talk about democracy in America on Wednesday, February 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the College Eight Red Room at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During his talk, entitled “Reorganizing Democracy in America,” Goodwyn will outline his vision of what’s needed to create a…

  • Editor’s Advisory: Reporters invited to cover kickoff of new science education center

    What: The launch of the new Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS), an international collaboration to improve science education by integrating the best of the informal learning that takes place in zoos, aquaria, natural history museums, and “hands-on” science centers with the formal learning that takes place in schools. Keynote speaker and former astronaut…

  • Mary Holmes, beloved UC Santa Cruz art historian, dead at 91

    Mary A. Holmes, a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a beloved artist and art historian, died in a Santa Cruz hospital on January 21 after a brief illness. She was 91. Holmes, who grew up in various towns in the West, and in Chicago, began her career…

  • Press forum on January 28: The crisis in schools

    National leaders discuss underprepared teachers, the crisis facing poor districts, risk to students More than half of all new teachers in California last year entered the profession underprepared, and teachers who lack full credentials are concentrated in the state’s poorest schools. In 2000-01, 1.7 million children in California attended schools in which 20 percent of…

  • UCSC researchers receive grant to study toxin production in algal blooms

    Toxic algae periodically bloom in Monterey Bay and other coastal waters, sometimes poisoning seabirds and marine mammals and interfering with economically important fisheries. It can take weeks, however, for scientists to determine that an algal bloom is producing a potentially deadly toxin. Now researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, hope to catch toxin-producing…

  • Fall 2002 freshman applications to UCSC up 6 percent

    Undergraduate applications to the University of California, Santa Cruz, for fall 2002 increased 6 percent among freshman applicants and 5.3 percent among transfer students compared to the totals received last year. A total of 24,275 prospective students applied by the November deadline for admission to UCSC. The UCSC increases are in sync with systemwide increases…

  • Botanists discover a new species of conifer in Vietnam

    An unusual conifer found in a remote area of northern Vietnam has been identified as a genus and species previously unknown to science. The limestone ridges where the tree grows are among the most botanically rich areas in Vietnam and certainly harbor many other undescribed species, but they are outside the country’s protected reserves, said…

  • Editor’s Advisory: Early morning fire destroys research lab at UCSC

    Fire was confined to a suite of laboratories on the fourth floor; no injuries are reported A major fire in Sinsheimer Labs triggered an alarm at approximately 5:30 a.m. today (Friday, January 11). The fire was contained within approximately two hours and was controlled by late morning. No one was in the building at the…

  • Pruning workshops January 26 and February 2 take the guesswork out of fruit-tree care

    New this year: Learn to prune as your kids study “Birds in the Garden” on February 2 If the annual ritual of pruning fruit trees fills you with dread, relieve your anxiety by attending a pruning workshop with fruit-tree expert Orin Martin, manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz. Martin will offer…

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