February 2006
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UCSC presents free public lecture on 1906 San Francisco earthquake on Wednesday, March 15
With the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake approaching, UC Santa Cruz will host a free public talk next month on the earthquake that devastated San Francisco and marked the birth of modern earthquake science. Mary Lou Zoback, a senior research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, will speak on…
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UC Santa Cruz receives $100,000 gift to create California History Room
UC Santa Cruz has received a gift of $100,000 from the Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust in San Jose to create a new California History Room at Special Collections in the newly expanded and renovated Dean E. McHenry Library. The Hugh Stuart Center California History Room will be established with the aim of introducing a…
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Philanthropist Jack Baskin inducted into Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame
Jack Baskin, whose steadfast support led to the establishment and rapid growth of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame at a ceremony on Friday, February 24. The induction ceremony is part of the Silicon Valley Engineering Council’s annual…
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Authors of The View from the Center of the Universe will discuss our place in the cosmos in a free public lecture on Thursday, March 9
In a free public lecture and multimedia presentation next month in Santa Cruz, cosmologist Joel Primack and his wife, Nancy Abrams, will offer a preview of the remarkable ideas in their forthcoming book, The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (Penguin/Riverhead, April 2006). Primack, a professor of…
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High-tech tags on marine animals yield valuable data for biologists and oceanographers
Researchers are enlisting seals, sea lions, tunas, and sharks to serve as ocean sensors, outfitting these top predators with electronic tags that gather detailed reports on oceanographic conditions and, in many cases, transmit the data via satellite. The data are proving useful to both biologists and oceanographers, yielding new information about the migrations and behavior…
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Studies of ancient climates suggest Earth is now on a fast track to global warming
Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth’s past, according to an expert on ancient climates. “The emissions that caused this past episode of global warming probably lasted 10,000 years. By burning fossil fuels, we are…
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Top Hollywood script supervisor visits UC Santa Cruz
For the past 14 years, Ana Maria Quintana has worked as a script supervisor for director Steven Spielberg on films such as Munich, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, and Hook. One of the highest-ranking Latinas in the film industry, she has worked on more than 100 movies in a career that has spanned three decades,…
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UC Santa Cruz protest no longer on Pentagon’s ‘credible threat’ list
The Department of Defense has removed mention of a campus demonstration at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from the TALON (Threat and Local Observation Notice) database, following recent efforts by UCSC Chancellor Denice D. Denton and members of California’s congressional delegation. Chancellor Denton advocated for change in Defense Department database For more information, go…