News

2004

  • Emphasis on ‘culture’ in psychology fuels stereotypes, scholar says

    In the current issue of the influential journal Human Development, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges his colleagues to reconsider popular ideas about the role of culture in human development. Contemporary scholarship is rife with broad, distorted generalizations about “culture” that play into stereotypes and threaten to obscure the powerful influences…

  • New elephant seal sculpture at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center honors Long Marine Lab volunteers

    A dramatic new sculpture of northern elephant seals enlivens the entrance to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz and has already become a favorite “photo opportunity” for visitors to the center, located at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory. The exhibit honors the many volunteers who have helped over the years to interpret…

  • Emerita psychology professor contributes major planned gift to support history research at UC Santa Cruz library

    Psychology professor emerita Melanie J. Mayer has established a $150,000 endowment to benefit history research in Special Collections at the UC Santa Cruz Library. The donation is one of the largest planned gifts in the history of the University Library. The endowment was created in honor of Mayer’s parents, who inspired her appreciation of books…

  • UC Santa Cruz acting chancellor leads $1.5 million federal study of math, science programs

    Responding to a critical shortage of young people who are interested in math and science, the federal government is investing $1.5 million at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to identify the strengths of programs that encourage underrepresented minorities to pursue careers in biomedical research. The four-year project will be led by Acting Chancellor Martin…

  • UCSC seismologist Karen McNally receives University Medal from the National University of Costa Rica

    Karen McNally, professor emerita of Earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received the University Medal from the National University of Costa Rica. McNally was honored in a ceremony on July 2 for her contributions in helping to establish a modern geophysical observatory in Costa Rica–the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa…

  • Growth study of wild chimpanzees challenges assumptions about early humans, anthropologists say

    A new study of wild chimpanzee growth rates, published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that early human evolution may have taken a different course than is widely believed. The results challenge the assumption that human evolution followed a path from a chimplike ancestor to a transitionary…

  • Current problems of U.S. Senate rooted in history, says author

    The electoral college isn’t the only outdated political system that should be overhauled, according to a political scientist who says the antiquated ways of the United States Senate contribute to Congressional gridlock and thwart American democracy. Expert on U.S. politics available to discuss the U.S. Senate, electoral politics, and the presidency; see contact information below.…

  • UC Santa Cruz to become first UC campus offering new doctorate degree in music composition

    UC Santa Cruz will be the first UC campus to offer a Doctorate of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) program in Music Composition with enrollment set to begin in Fall, 2005. Although private institutions such as Stanford University, Claremont Graduate University, and the University of Southern California currently offer the Composition D.M.A., the new UC Santa Cruz…

  • UCSC dedicates new W. M. Keck Isotope Laboratory with a symposium on isotope analysis

    The University of California, Santa Cruz, dedicated the W. M. Keck Isotope Laboratory in June with a symposium on isotope analysis. The naming of the facility recognizes a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation that enabled the campus to buy a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer for isotope analysis of trace elements. With the…

  • Awards honor ‘excellence through diversity’

    Efforts promoting a diverse and inclusive environment have been recognized with the UC Santa Cruz Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Excellence Through Diversity awards. Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers presented awards June 10 to the following units and individuals providing programs, courses, activities, and one-on-one mentoring that put into practice UCSC’s Principles of Community: . Chicano/Latino…

  • High-profile film industry guests visit UC Santa Cruz

    Hollywood film director Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Election), actress Sandra Oh (Under the Tuscan Sun, Arli$$, Double Happiness), and groundbreaking new Asian American director Justin Lin have each paid a visit to UC Santa Cruz in the past two months as guests of the campus Film and Digital Media Department. Lin, voted one of Variety’s…

  • UCSC scientist leads expedition to establish seafloor observatories

    UCSC scientist leads expedition to establish seafloor observatories

    An international team of scientists will investigate how water flows through rock formations beneath the seafloor during an eight-week expedition this summer to the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of British Columbia. It will be the first expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an ambitious new international…

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