News

2005

  • Skewed system facilitates death sentences and undermines fairness of capital punishment, says author of new book Death by Design

    In a harsh critique of the death penalty before a gathering of the nation’s lawyers last month, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said recent exonerations of death row inmates reveal serious procedural flaws that undermine the way capital punishment is administered in this country. Stevens’s remarks before members of the American Bar Association…

  • UC Santa Cruz to present conference on body modification Oct. 14-16

    The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (IAFR) will present a three-day conference on body modification, October 14-16, on the university campus. The conference will explore our culture’s fascination with body modifications that range from tattooing, piercing, and cutting, to anorexia, plastic surgery, organ transplants, and life-extension technologies. Titled “Bodies in the Making:…

  • UCSC Professor David Haussler to receive Carnegie Mellon’s Dickson Prize

    Carnegie Mellon University will award its prestigious Dickson Prize in Science to David Haussler, a leader in the field of bioinformatics and professor of biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Haussler will receive an award of $50,000 and will deliver a public lecture as part of the prize ceremony to be held…

  • UCSC Humanities Division offers new seminars for local schoolteachers

    Since 2003, the UCSC Humanities Division’s Teacher Scholar Program has offered a series of seminars each year to help local middle, junior, and high school teachers with curriculum enrichment. Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Salinas Union High School District, UCSC Extension, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation,…

  • Economics Department at UC Santa Cruz ranked ninth in world in international finance

    The Economics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was ranked ninth in the world in the field of international finance in a survey of more than 300 public and private research universities. The ranking is based on the research productivity of faculty as measured by scholarly publications in 63 academic journals from 1993…

  • Fall lecture series at the Seymour Center will focus on sustainable fisheries

    The Fall Lecture Series at UC Santa Cruz’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center will focus on sustainable fisheries, with six speakers providing a range of perspectives on the serious challenges facing important fisheries on the West Coast and around the world. Lecture topics will include the future of seafood, the politics of fish and the oceans,…

  • Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group funds cancer research at UC Santa Cruz

    The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group (SCCBG) has established a new fellowship to support cancer research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The SCCBG Research Fellowship is an annual award of $10,000 to support a UCSC graduate student or postdoctoral researcher engaged in cancer-related research. The group awarded the first SCCBG Research Fellowship to…

  • Campus raises record $35.3 million in private gifts last year

    Led by grants promoting ocean research and drawing on strong support from alumni, private gifts to UC Santa Cruz reached $35.3 million during 2004-05. “Across the range of disciplines, from social sciences, humanities, and the physical and biological sciences to arts and engineering, our donors are making a positive difference at UC Santa Cruz,” said…

  • UCSC professor Lucinda Pease-Alvarez joins innovative teacher-prep effort

    Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, an associate professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is one of 17 educators around the country named to an innovative project that will develop a “virtual apprenticeship” for novice teachers. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Pease-Alvarez and 16 others as the first Goldman-Carnegie Quest…

  • Campus lot reserved for people purchasing a parking permit

    To facilitate parking permit renewal for the 2005-06 academic year, TAPS is reserving Campus Facilities Lot 116 (see map) from September 16 through September 30 for those faculty, staff, students and visitors that will be going to the TAPS Sales Office to purchase a parking permit. Faculty, staff and students who applied on-line for a…

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: UC Santa Cruz’s new year getting under way

    UC Santa Cruz students began moving into university housing today (Friday, September 16), in anticipation of the 2005-06 school year. The first day of instruction in the fall quarter is Thursday, September 22. ‘Move-in’ activities begin on Friday, September 16 The fall-quarter “move in” for students living on campus continues through Sunday, September 18. (See…

  • UC Santa Cruz will get training grants from California stem cell institute

    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week announced its first grant awards, including a $1.2 million training grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to establish a new training program in the systems biology of stem cells. The UCSC program will be part of a larger CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell…

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