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2002

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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