News

January 2002

  • UCSC cancer survivor will carry the Olympic torch January 18

    Elizabeth Conerly was a broke UC Berkeley student as Mother’s Day approached last year, but being penniless inspired her to give the best gift ever: Conerly nominated her mother, Trish Virgadamo, a longtime UCSC employee, to carry the Olympic torch on a segment of its cross-country journey to Salt Lake City. The nomination, and the…

  • Marvelous marine mammals get the spotlight at the Seymour Center

    Local marine mammals are starring in the Seymour Center’s winter program at UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory. From January through March, the center presents “Marvelous Marine Mammals,” a series of events focused on Monterey Bay’s sea lions, sea otters, dolphins, whales, and elephant seals, and the scientists who study them. Events include three science lectures, a…

  • Earthquake expert will give a free public lecture at UCSC’s Seymour Center on Wednesday, January 16

    Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards Program, will give a free public lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Wednesday, January 16. The lecture, titled “Living It Up in the Fault Lane, or How Earthquakes Converse,” begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory,…

  • Analyzing a planetary system that closely resembles our solar system, astronomers find habitable worlds are unlikely

    Of all the extrasolar planetary systems detected by astronomers in recent years, the star 47 Ursae Majoris and its known companions, two Jupiter-sized planets, is the one that most closely resembles our own solar system. Computer simulations now show, however, that Earth-sized planets are unlikely to form in the so-called “habitable zone” of 47 Ursae…

  • Oral history published of HerBooks founder Irene Reti

    The University Library’s Regional History Project announces the publication of Irene Reti and HerBooks Feminist Press, the last in a trio of oral histories documenting archives on deposit in Special Collections, which are a part of the UC/Stanford Women’s Studies Consortium California Feminist Presses Project. UCSC Women’s Studies Librarian emerita Jacquelyn Marie interviewed Reti, and…

  • Mystified by fruit trees? Answers are free on January 12

    Have you been lusting after your neighbor’s lemon tree? Attracted by the bounty of a friend’s apple tree? Coveting the apricot tree down the block, yet too intimidated by the care of fruit trees to add these beauties to your garden? Fear no more, for help is on the way. Fruit tree expert Orin Martin,…

  • UCSC education prof shares prize from Modern Language Association

    Gordon Wells, a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named corecipient of the 21st annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America. Wells and Hossein Nassaji of Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, shared the prize for their article, “What’s the Use of Triadic…

  • White sharks migrate thousands of miles across the sea, new study finds

    A new study is shattering old beliefs about the great white shark–one of the largest, most awe-inspiring predators in the sea. Scientists have long believed that these powerful carnivores spend most of their lives relatively close to shore, pursuing seals and sea lions. But a study in the January 3 issue of the journal Nature…

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