December 2003

  • UC Santa Cruz offers pruning workshops January 10 and 31

    Two UC Santa Cruz gardening experts will show you how to improve the health and productivity of your apple and pear trees at a three-hour pruning workshop on Saturday, January 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. The class takes place at the Louise Cain Gatehouse on the UC Santa Cruz Farm. UCSC garden managers Christof…

  • Studies show global warming is likely to drive big changes in California’s coastal waters through effects on upwelling

    Global warming could have profound effects on the wind-driven upwelling of deep ocean water along the California coast, according to recent studies by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The studies showed changes in both the intensity and the seasonal timing of the upwelling, which brings cold, nutrient-rich water into coastal ecosystems. This…

  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $17.5 million for Thirty-Meter Telescope plans

    The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $17.5 million to the University of California for collaboration with the California Institute of Technology on a project intended to build the world’s most powerful telescope. Coupled with an award by the Foundation to Caltech for the same amount, a total of $35 million is now available for…

  • Sociologist John Kitsuse, internment camp survivor, dies at 80

    John I. Kitsuse, a second-generation Japanese American who was imprisoned in an internment camp during World War II and became a leading scholar in the field of sociology, died Thursday, November 27, at his home in Santa Cruz after suffering a stroke the day before. He was 80 years old. Kitsuse, a professor emeritus of…

  • UC and union representing TAs reach tentative accord

    The University of California (UC) and UAW and its affiliated Local 2865 announced on Tuesday evening that they had reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a successor collective bargaining agreement. This morning, UC and UAW released the following joint statement: The University of California (UC) and the UAW and its affiliated Local 2865…

  • UC Santa Cruz film professor wins ‘Academy Award’

    Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp has been named one of two 2003 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences-the same folks who bring us the Academy Awards. Stamp will receive $25,000 from the Academy to complete a book about silent film director/screenwriter/actress Lois Weber. The Film…

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