2004
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Cajun/New Orleans jazz extravaganza to kick off new Arts & Lectures season at UC Santa Cruz
The new UC Santa Cruz 2004-05 Arts & Lectures season will open with a blast of pure Southern gusto on October 8 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The Grammy award-winning sextet, BeauSoleil-described by Prairie Home Companion’s Garrison Keillor as “simply the best Cajun band in the world-will join forces with Louisiana’s legendary Preservation Hall…
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UCSC researchers to test new technologies for monitoring harmful algal blooms in California coastal waters
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received a $400,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop an improved system for monitoring toxic algae in the coastal waters of California. The UCSC researchers will work closely with the California Department of Health Services (CDHS), testing new technologies and developing…
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Biodiversity ‘SWAT Team’ conducts an unprecedented survey of intertidal life on the West Coast
Peter Raimondi, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been studying marine life on the West Coast for about 20 years. But when it comes to field surveys that require identification of all the organisms that occur in a particular area, he defers to the biodiversity…
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EDITOR’S ADVISORY: You are invited to cover a tour of new apartments for 651 students on the UC Santa Cruz campus
New on-campus apartments for 651 UC Santa Cruz students will be on display during an open house and tour for local government officials, the campus community, and the news media. Students will occupy the housing when the fall quarter begins later this month. When and where: 9:30 a.m. to noon, September 9, beginning with a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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$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…
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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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UCSC scientist Jonathan Zehr receives major award from Moore Foundation for marine microbiology research
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has selected Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to receive more than $4 million over the next five years as a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator in marine science. The award will support Zehr’s groundbreaking research on microorganisms that “fertilize” the…