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Global Game Jam returns to UC Santa Cruz for third year
Participants in the 2011 Global Game Jam will race to create video and board games in 48 hours.
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Men’s hoops: Slugs come back, beat Pac Union College 72-63
The UCSC men’s basketball team improved its overall record to seven wins and nine losses with a 72-63 victory over Pacific Union College.
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Astronomers release the largest color image of the sky ever made
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III has released the largest digital color image of the sky ever made.
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Paul Whitworth to deliver 45th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture-Feb. 3
UC Santa Cruz professor of theater arts Paul Whitworth will deliver the 45th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture on Thursday, February 3, at 6 p.m. in the Mainstage Theater.
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Civil rights activist Terrence Roberts to address King Convocation Jan. 31
Civil rights activist Terrence Roberts will speak at UC Santa Cruz’s 27th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation on Monday, January 31.
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Stem cell discovery could lead to improved bone marrow transplants
The discovery of a key molecule for establishing blood stem cells in the bone marrow may lead to improvements in bone marrow transplants.
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Natural gas outage affects some colleges, other areas of campus
At approximately 1 p.m. on Thursday, January 6, campus crews shut down a natural gas line that serves a large area of the campus core. This action was taken in response to a report and confirmation of a leak in…
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Fulbright Scholar Program funds prof’s environmental work in Chile
Environmental toxicologist Russell Flegal is busy with teaching and research projects during a six-month visit to Chile as a Fulbright Scholar.
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UCSC National Book Award Finalist to appear at Bookshop Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz literature professor and National Book Award Finalist Karen Tei Yamashita will discuss her acclaimed novel I Hotel at Bookshop Santa Cruz on January 25.She will also appear at UCSC on January 13 as part of the campus’s…
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UC Santa Cruz makes Kiplinger’s ‘best value’ list
UC Santa Cruz, which opened with its first class of students just 45 years ago, is No. 69 on a new report listing the “best values” in public higher education.
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Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative
DNA extracted from a fossil finger bone has yielded the genome of a previously unknown group of human relatives.
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Farm apprentice shares national award in White House presentation
Karen Washington, a 2008 graduate of the apprenticeship class of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz was honored at the White House December 17 for her work with urban gardens in the Bronx.
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History grad teaches English and blogs from China
This month, UC Santa Cruz grad Matthew Palm (Kresge, History, ’10) writes in his periodic blog from China about his teenage students and the impromptu English speeches he asked them to give.
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Recharge pond study reveals dynamics of water infiltration
An infiltration pond in California’s Pajaro Valley has become a laboratory where scientists are working to improve techniques for recharging the region’s depleted aquifer.
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Men’s hoops: Slugs take down Whittier Poets
After a tough defeat to Whitworth College, the UCSC men’s basketball team rallied back to defeat the Whittier Poets 53-47 on Saturday, December 11.
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UCSC professors urge passage of the DREAM Act
Eleven UC Santa Cruz professors and lecturers are among more than 300 university scholars across the nation who have signed an open letter urging passage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.
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UCSC scientists help California coastal communities prepare for sea level rise
Sea level is rising, and California’s coastal communities will need to prepare for the gradual inundation of low-lying areas, as well as increased erosion rates and damage from storms.
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Bering Sea was ice-free and full of life during last warm period, study finds
Deep sediment cores retrieved from the Bering Sea floor indicate that the region was ice-free all year and biological productivity was high during the last major warm period in Earth’s climate history.
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UCSC is included in two new Forbes magazine ‘best of’ lists
UCSC is included in two recently released surveys Forbes magazine conducted as part of its “America’s Best Colleges” web features.
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Life thrives in porous rock deep beneath the seafloor, scientists say
Researchers have found compelling evidence for an extensive biological community living in porous rock deep beneath the seafloor.
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SocDoc student documents Myanmar’s young people
UC Santa Cruz social documentation graduate student Rian Dundon slipped into Myanmar last April, blending in with the backpack crowd. His photographs from his time there are now featured in a photo essay on Time.com.
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Appointment of Humanities Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Nirvikar Singh to the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies. The chair–established through the Sikh Foundation by Hardit and Harbhajan K. Singh in memory of their son, Sarbjit…
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President Obama nominates alumna Kathryn Sullivan for commerce post
President Barack Obama has nominated UCSC alumna Kathryn Sullivan for the post of assistant secretary of commerce.
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Study predicts distribution of gravitational wave sources
A study led by a UCSC undergraduate predicts for the first time where detectable sources of gravitational waves are likely to occur in the local galactic neighborhood.
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History graduate heading to Scotland on prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Five months after she graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in history, Cynthia Thickpenny has won a Marshall Scholarship–one of the most prestigious awards that American undergraduates can receive.
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Genome 10K Project announces first 101 species for genome sequencing
The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two years.
