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September 2006

  • UC Santa Cruz anthropologist receives social sciences teaching award

    Melissa L. Caldwell, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received the 2006 Distinguished Teaching Award today (Thursday, September 28) from the Division of Social Sciences. The award, known as the “Golden Apple Award,” was presented during the dean’s annual fall convocation. The award recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching in the…

  • NIH award supports research on nanopore DNA sequencer

    William Dunbar, an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a career development award from the National Institutes of Health. The Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award is designed to encourage researchers with backgrounds in quantitative science and engineering to focus on questions relating to health and disease. William Dunbar Dunbar,…

  • Scientists offer guidelines for coping with climate change in Alaska

    Coping with the devastating effects of climate change in Alaska will require institutional nimbleness and a willingness among those living at lower latitudes to “share the pain,” according to the authors of a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Erika Zavaleta (Photo: Jim MacKenzie) The interdisciplinary team of…

  • Fall lecture series at the Seymour Center will focus on global climate change

    The Fall Lecture Series at UC Santa Cruz’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center will focus on climate change and global warming, with six speakers providing a range of perspectives on climate science, the effects of global warming, and policy options. Lisa Sloan, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, will give the first lecture in the series.…

  • Digital divide leaving immigrants further behind, UC Santa Cruz study finds

    The digital divide between immigrants and the native born is widening in the United States, with some immigrant groups less than half as likely to have computer access at home as nonimmigrants, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Only 36 percent of Latino immigrant youth have a…

  • Business influence over environmental policy and regulation is targeted, says author of new book

    Business influence over environmental policy and regulation in the United States is strategic and focused, says the author of the new book “Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?” Sheldon Kamieniecki. (Jim MacKenzie) Business interests are more selective about exerting their influence than is commonly believed, and when they do…

  • UC Regents approve Long-Range Development Plan

    I am gratified to announce that at their meeting in San Francisco yesterday, the UC Regents voted unanimously to approve the UCSC 2005-2020 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) and Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR). (See story.) This outcome is the culmination of both campus-wide and community-wide efforts that spanned almost four years. I want to…

  • $20,000 scholarships help regional community college students transfer to UCSC

    Twelve hardworking community college students are enrolling at UC Santa Cruz this fall with $20,000 scholarships that accompany the coveted Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Award. This year’s recipients from 12 regional colleges include a single mother described by her chemistry instructor as a “force of nature,” an aspiring immigration and civil rights attorney, a…

  • New book looks at Santa Cruz coast ‘then and now’

    New book looks at Santa Cruz coast ‘then and now’

    A new book by Gary Griggs, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, and local architect Deepika Shrestha Ross offers a unique look at the Santa Cruz coastline. The book juxtaposes historic photographs with photographs taken from the same locations today, showing how the coastline has evolved and changed, sometimes dramatically, over…

  • UCSC fundraising for 2005-06 reaches nearly $22 million

    UC Santa Cruz raised nearly $22 million in private gifts and pledges during 2005-06, buoyed by crucial support for K-12 education initiatives, marine research, and expansion of McHenry Library. Alumni and parents played a key role, with nearly 2,000 contributing to the campus for the first time. “Our donors’ generosity fuels the innovation for which…

  • California Academy of Sciences honors UCSC botanist Jean Langenheim

    Jean Langenheim, professor emerita and research professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the 2006 Fellows Medal of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS). This is the highest honor bestowed by the academy, founded in 1853 as the first scientific institution in the western…

  • LRDP message from George Blumenthal

    As you may already have read in last week’s news reports, UCSC has submitted its 2005 – 2020 Long-Range Development Plan (LRDP) and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for consideration by the UC Regents at their meeting of September 19 – 21. At that meeting, I will ask the Regents to approve my recommendation that the…

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