News

August 2004

  • Astronomers discover first Neptune-sized planets outside our solar system

    A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system. The two newly discovered planets represent a new class of extrasolar planets, and their discovery is a significant advance in the quest for such objects. “These are important milestones on our way toward being able…

  • Two UCSC graduate students receive grant for marine ecology research

    Two graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the winners of the 2004 Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grants in Marine Environmental History and Historical Marine Ecology. Seth Newsome, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth sciences, and Daniel Monson, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology, will use their $5,500 grant…

  • UCSC physicist receives award to develop technology for neuroscience

    Alan Litke, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received an award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience to support an interdisciplinary research project with neurobiologist E. J. Chichilnisky of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. The McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award will provide…

  • Air Pollution Reveals Privilege, Politics, and Priorities, Says Author

    It’s been more than a century since women donned dark dresses to hide the black soot of coal fires and architects streamlined building designs because corrosive air pollution was eating away at ornately carved stone details. But those examples from Manchester, England, illustrate how people since the dawning of the industrial era have coped with…

  • $2.4 million grant supports research on coastal ecosystems at UCSC and other Monterey Bay institutions

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a grant of more than $2.4 million to support the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT), a collaborative partnership led by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The center brings together a diverse group of scientists from six partner institutions around Monterey Bay to study the…

  • The Getty Awards Campus Heritage Grant to UC Santa Cruz

    Long before the first student ever set foot on campus, the land now home to UC Santa Cruz was the hub of a booming limekiln business that filled ships bound for San Francisco and beyond. Before that, Native Americans known as Costanoans settled the area. Capturing and preserving this colorful history is the goal of…

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