August 2010 News Archive

UCSC launches new web site

UCSC hosts science conference for girls on Saturday, October 9

The 10th annual UCSC Expanding Your Horizons Conference for high school girls will take place on Saturday, October 9.

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Possible Traffic Delays at West Entrance Friday 8/27

"Science Notes 2010" now available online

Science Notes 2010, the annual magazine published by UCSC's Science Communication Program, is now available

Local group funds UCSC cancer researchers

The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group, a local charity supporting cancer research and patient care, has awarded grants of $10,000 each to three researchers at

Newly designed campus website

Summer interns gain research experience in Silicon Valley nanotech labs

Dozens of students gained valuable experience in nanotechnology and energy research labs this summer through an internship program at the Advanced Studies Laboratories, a collaborative partnership led by

Fall gardening workshop set for Saturday, August 28

Join gardener Trish Hildinger for a lecture and demonstration workshop on “Planting the Thanksgiving Feast” at the UC Santa Cruz Farm on Saturday, August 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

UCSC in the News

Seismologist Thorne Lay's research on the 2009 Samoa-Tonga earthquake received widespread news coverage, including an interview on KCBS radio and stories in the New York Times, Boston Globe...

Chancellor helps fund Olive Tree Initiative

Two UCSC politics majors want to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict, but they refuse to put their blind trust in TV, blogs, and newspaper

Professors to present New Orleans lecture on anniversary of Katrina

August 29 marks the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Crescent

Not one, but two great earthquakes caused 2009 Samoa-Tonga tsunami disaster

Scientists studying the massive earthquake that struck the South Pacific on September 29, 2009, have found that it actually involved two great earthquakes...

In memoriam: John Chase

John Chase, a writer and urban designer who championed civic space and vernacular architecture in Southern California, died August 13. He was 57.

Christina Noonan

Christina Noonan (Kresge, psychology '93), a commercial real estate executive who heads the Los Angeles Convention Center Department Commission, was recently confirmed as the newest member of the City of Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners.

Campus gets high honors in Sierra Club Coolest Schools rankings

UC Santa Cruz students throw pizza crusts into compost containers, scribble notes on recycled paper, and drink mass quantities of shade-grown organic cafeteria coffee during finals week.

Biologist Amy Ralston wins Ellison Medical Foundation grant

The Ellison Medical Foundation has selected Amy Ralston, an assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, as a New Scholar in Aging, providing $400,000 over four years to support her research on the biology of stem cells.

Report sets course for next decade of astronomy and astrophysics

Several UC Santa Cruz faculty members contributed to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC) that identifies the top priorities for astronomy and astrophysics research in the coming decade.

UCSC in the News

The New York Times quoted economics professor and department chair Carl Walsh extensively in an analysis of options open to the Federal Reserve in light of a slowing recovery...

UCSC research in international economics ranked 7th globally

The UC Santa Cruz Economics Department was ranked seventh in the world in July -- and sixth among all academic institutions -- for research in international finance, according to an analysis of research papers. Only the University of Chicago, MIT, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University and its Kennedy School of Government ranked higher. The International Monetary Fund was ranked third.

A new economy for Santa Cruz?

Former Santa Cruz Sentinel editor Tom Honig writes in an op-ed for the Santa Cruz Good Times that UCSC is a driver of the local economy, and that a growing campus could result in more private sector jobs in a rapidly changing economy.

West Entrance Signal Project

UC Santa Cruz researchers win $580,000 grant to document educational success stories

Two UC Santa Cruz education researchers will study successful school organizations and teaching approaches that engage urban low-income Latino high school students in academically challenging work thanks to a $580,000 grant from the W.T. Grant Foundation.

In Memoriam: Carter Andrew Sudeith

Cowell College is saddened to learn of the recent death of Carter Andrew Sudeith, who died on July 28, 2010.

Protein structure reveals how tumor suppressor turns on and off

The retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein acts like a gate in the cycle of cell growth and division--a gate that stays open in many types of cancer, allowing cells to multiply out of control.

UCSC in the News

Environmental Studies postdoctoral researcher Winifred Frick's paper in the journal Science that predicts a regional extinction within 20 years of the little brown bat generated widespread publicity across the country and internationally

Marine science illustration students explore the waters of Monterey Bay

Students squinted and leaned close to their ocean artifacts: seal femurs and sand dollars, seaweed twists and dried-out sea stars.

Sharks, seals and sea shells: marine science illustration students explore the waters of Monterey Bay

A unique summer session course allows beginning and advanced artists to observe the natural world in a new way.

Bats facing regional extinction in the northeast from rapidly spreading disease, UCSC researcher finds

A new infectious disease spreading rapidly across the northeastern United States has killed millions of bats and is predicted to cause regional extinction of a once-common bat species, according to the findings of a University of California, Santa Cruz re

Authors of new book about Grateful Dead's marketing approach to donate one fourth of advance and royalties to UC Santa Cruz

Inspired by a thought-provoking feature article by Joshua Green in the March issue of <i>Atlantic</i> magazine titled <i>Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead</i>, Boston writers David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan have just published a new book rele

Steelhead study earns best paper award from American Fisheries Society

The American Fisheries Society has selected a paper on steelhead trout by UCSC researcher William Satterthwaite as the best publication for 2009.

California sea otter numbers drop again

After a decade of steady recovery, the southern sea otter is in decline for the second year in a row, according to the latest population survey by USGS and UCSC researchers.

Politics professor named campus director of UC Washington D.C. program

Eva Bertram, associate professor of politics, will become the new UC Santa Cruz campus director for the UC Washington Program (UCDC).