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  • UCSC engineering dean Steve Kang wins 2005 Van Valkenburg Award

    Steve Kang, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded the 2005 Mac Van Valkenburg Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society (CAS). The Van Valkenburg Award is the CAS society’s highest honor and is given to a person…

  • UC Santa Cruz engineering students develop a coral reef monitoring system

    Five senior engineering students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are trying to push the limits of low-power wireless transmission to facilitate the monitoring of remote natural environments. The apparatus they are building will track conditions on coral reefs in distant locations and beam information back in real time to a land-based station. The…

  • Seismologists publish detailed analysis of the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

    The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was an event of stunning proportions, both in its human dimensions–nearly 300,000 lives lost–and as a geological phenomenon. The sudden rupture of a huge fault beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a devastating tsunami. It was the largest earthquake in the past 40 years and was followed by…

  • UC Santa Cruz dedicates new Laboratory for Adaptive Optics facilities

    Scientists in the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing extraordinarily precise optical systems that will enable astronomers to capture images of planets far beyond our solar system and build the next generation of giant telescopes. On Tuesday, May 17, campus officials and distinguished visitors are dedicating new facilities…

  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific awards highest honor to UC Santa Cruz astronomer Robert Kraft

    The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has awarded the 2005 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal to Robert P. Kraft, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and former director of the UC Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick). Kraft is the sixth astronomer associated with the Lick Observatory to receive this award,…

  • New book by literature professor melds criticism, poetry and fiction

    Paracritical Hinge, a new book by UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey, offers commentary on the work of a number of artists as it simultaneously sheds light on the author’s own body of work. A collection of essays, talks, notes, and interviews covering a time frame from 1990 to 2000, the diverse, yet interrelated…

  • African Americans making their mark in music and the arts but equality remains elusive, sociologist reports

    Over the past decade, African Americans have become more visible on the cultural landscape of the United States: Jazz trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center; African Americans are widely seen on network television; and African Americans represent the nation at the highest levels of power. In the new…

  • Lacking a decent meal, killer whales reach for the popcorn

    A study comparing the nutritional demands of killer whales with the caloric content of their prey has startling implications for the potential impact of these large predators on populations of other marine mammals. The study also raises issues relevant to the establishment of marine reserves and efforts to reintroduce large predators into terrestrial ecosystems, said…

  • UC Santa Cruz scholar warns against mixing religion and foreign policy

    Gary Lease-interim dean of humanities at UC Santa Cruz and an internationally recognized expert on the history of religion-has been studying the relationship between politics and religion for more than two decades. He recently returned from Tokyo where he presented his research at a conference of the International Association for the History of Religions. “I’ve…

  • Are Santa Cruz beaches destined to shrink?

    Wide sand beaches are a prized feature of Santa Cruz and other communities along the northern coast of Monterey Bay. But are they just a temporary aberration, destined to shrink in the years to come? That is the hypothesis championed by Gerald Weber, lecturer emeritus in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of…

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: Reporters invited to cover a landmark meeting of members of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)

    Reporters are invited to cover a landmark meeting of members of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) at UC Santa Cruz, taking place on Friday, April 22. The invitation-only retreat of charter members of TiE will include “Understanding Our World,” an open window into several areas of research excellence at UCSC. Details are as follows: Time: 3…

  • Computer scientist Darrell Long appointed to the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems

    The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Darrell Long, professor of computer science, to the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems. Long is the first faculty member to hold the endowed chair, established in 2004 with a $1 million gift from Kumar Malavalli, cofounder of Brocade Communications and cofounder and CEO of InMage…

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