2004
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Governor’s Office on Volunteerism honors 51 UCSC students
The hard work of 51 UC Santa Cruz students who spent their spring break building a house, digging trenches, and repairing roofs in Mexico hasn’t gone unnoticed. GOSERV, Governor Schwarzenegger’s Office on Service and Volunteerism, has highlighted the students on its web site with a “Spotlight,” honoring the state’s “everyday heroes who give selflessly so…
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Enrollment procedures changing for continuing students
Continuing students will enroll in fall 2004 classes using the new UCSC Academic Information System (AIS). To enroll, you will need your new Student ID and password. Come to a Student Town Hall to find out what you need to do to get your new Student ID and password and how you will enroll in…
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Governor’s ‘May revision’ restores some funding to UC, adds Cal Grant money to cover fee increases
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the May Revision to his original state budget proposal for 2004-05 today (May 13), protecting the University of California from additional state budget cuts and restoring $20 million in previously cut funding to the university. Acting Chancellor Chemers issued a brief statement on May 11 informing the campus community about the…
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Grateful Dead foundations help preserve UC Santa Cruz archive of renowned composer Lou Harrison
Two foundations established by members of the Grateful Dead have contributed funds to help preserve the archive of the late composer Lou Harrison at UC Santa Cruz. The Rex Foundation, founded by the Grateful Dead and friends in 1984, and the Unbroken Chain Foundation, established in 1997 by Phil and Jill Lesh, have each donated…
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Surprising ‘ultra-conserved’ regions discovered in human genome
Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat, dog, and chicken. The fact that these sequences have remained unchanged over long periods of evolutionary history indicates that they are biologically important, but for…
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Biologist Terrie Williams will read from her book, The Hunter’s Breath, at the Seymour Center on Thursday, May 13
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center will host a celebration of the new book by Terrie Williams, The Hunter’s Breath: On Expedition with the Weddell Seals of the Antarctic, on Thursday, May 13, starting at 6 p.m. Williams, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, will read from the book, talk about…
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Renowned planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy to speak at UCSC
Renowned planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the Spring Halliday Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Marcy will discuss “Extrasolar Planets and the Prospects for Life in the Universe” in his talk, which will take place in Classroom Unit 2…
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UC Santa Cruz celebrates 25th anniversary of Chautauqua student theater festival
In 1979, the UC Santa Cruz Chautauqua Festival made its debut at the Barn Theater, just inside the main entrance of the fledgling 14-year-old campus. Modeled after a tradition of theater festivals that began at Lake Chautauqua, New York, more than a century ago, the annual campus event has now helped teach students how to…