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February 2002

  • Editor’s Advisory: UCSC to dedicate the Center for Ocean Health at Long Marine Laboratory on Thursday, February 21

    MEDIA ADVISORY What: The University of California, Santa Cruz, will hold a dedication ceremony for the new Center for Ocean Health at the Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory. When: Thursday, February 21 10:30 a.m. Dedication Ceremony, La Feliz Room, Seymour Marine Discovery Center 11:30 a.m. Ribbon Cutting, Center for Ocean Health 11:45 a.m. Reception and…

  • UCSC professor/UC Silicon Valley Center leader named provost at University of Illinois at Chicago

    Robert C. Miller appointed to fill position of interim director for UC Silicon Valley Center UC Santa Cruz professor and academic administrator R. Michael Tanner has accepted a position as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), effective July 1, 2002. The appointment was announced today (February…

  • UCSC researchers help launch program to monitor coastal oceans

    The University of California, Santa Cruz, will soon be at the center of an extensive new program to monitor California’s coastal oceans. The Network for Environmental Observation of the Coastal Ocean (NEOCO) will funnel real-time data from seven UC research sites along the California coast to a database at UC Santa Cruz. Information in the…

  • UCSC scientists honored for top research paper in Science

    Harry Noller, the Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his coauthors on a groundbreaking paper published last year have received a major award in recognition of their achievements. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded them the Newcomb Cleveland Prize, which is given annually…

  • Advanced instrument destined for Keck Telescope completed at UCSC; begins shipment to Mauna Kea, Hawaii

    The most advanced optical spectrograph in the world begins a two-week journey today from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where it was built, to the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, where it will be installed at the W. M. Keck Observatory, home of the world’s largest optical and infrared telescopes. The $10 million…

  • Editor’s Advisory: UC Regents will visit UCSC on February 13-14

    Members of the University of California Board of Regents will visit the UC Santa Cruz campus on Wednesday, February 13, and Thursday, February 14. During their visit, the Regents will tour the campus and hear an overview of the campus’s programs and goals. The Regents periodically visit different campuses in the UC system. Such visits…

  • Researchers gather clues to the disappearance of northern fur seals from California a thousand years ago

    Today, northern fur seals are primarily native to Alaska and Siberia and are rarely seen on the Central Coast of California. But up until 1,000 years ago, these animals bred abundantly on the beaches of Monterey Bay and elsewhere in California. That discovery initially surprised researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who are…

  • UCSC professor honored as ‘civic entrepreneur’

    Manuel Pastor, a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named the volunteer Civic Entrepreneur of the Year by the California Center for Regional Leadership. Pastor, director of UCSC’s Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community, is a leader of the movement to forge regional solutions to…

  • Milk: Nature’s perfect food or deadly poison?

    UC Santa Cruz sociologist’s new book reveals the forces that made milk a staple of the American diet Hollywood stars don milk mustaches to ask the ubiquitous question, “Got milk?,” while vegan activists decry cow’s milk as unhealthy and tainted by antibiotic residues, hormones, and genetically modified organisms. Like it or not, milk is a…

  • Editor’s Advisory: Researchers will present findings on coastal ecosystems in public symposium on March 10

    What: The Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) is hosting a Public Symposium to present findings from three years of research on coastal ecosystems. Researchers, managers, ocean enthusiasts, and the general public are invited to join scientists from this West Coast research consortium to learn about recent progress. PISCO involves researchers from four…

  • EPA attorney to discuss tribal sovereignty of Native Americans on Feb. 5

    An attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will discuss “Tribal Sovereignty Now and in the Future,” on Tuesday, February 5, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Baobab Lounge at Merrill College on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The event is free and open to the public. Raho Ortiz, an Acoma Pueblo attorney, was…

  • UCSC computer engineer receives National Science Foundation grant for research on embedded software design

    Luca de Alfaro, an assistant professor of computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a prestigious award from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. De Alfaro will use the grant of $430,000 over five years to develop new methods and tools for designing embedded software. Embedded software…

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