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EPA names UC Santa Cruz sixth-largest campus purchaser of ‘green power’ for second year in a row
For the second year in a row, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified the University of California, Santa Cruz, as the sixth-largest campus purchaser of “green power” in the country.
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Seismologist Thorne Lay elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Thorne Lay, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
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Astronomer Claire Max elected to National Academy of Sciences
Claire Max, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Compact galaxies in early universe pack a big punch
A team of astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past have discovered nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun.
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Renee Tajima-Peña’s film wins documentary prize at film festival, premieres May 4
Renee Tajima-Peña’s film Calavera Highway, named the best television documentary by the San Francisco International Film Festival, will premiere during the festival on Sunday, May 4, at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.
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Films by four UC Santa Cruz students featured during Reel Work Film Festival
Films about the immigrant experience and last fall’s writers’ strike are among the works by four UC Santa Cruz students that will be screened during the seventh annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival, which takes place April 25-May…
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Grateful Dead donates archives to UC Santa Cruz
At a press conference in San Francisco on April 24, members of the Grateful Dead announced that the band will donate its archives to the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Grateful Dead to announce partnership with UCSC at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium – Watch press conference
PRESS CONFERENCE-APRIL 24, 2008, 11 a.m. Who: Grateful Dead bandmembers: . Bob Weir . Mickey Hart UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal, plus assorted guests Where: Fillmore Auditorium (Poster Room) (1805 Geary Boulevard, SF–Parking available in the Kabuki Cinema lot…
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Anthropologist Erin Vogel featured on Animal Planet May 6
Field work in Borneo can be hot, sweaty work. Just ask the Animal Planet crew that filmed anthropology’s Erin Vogel for a program scheduled to air Tuesday, May 6.
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UCSC computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data
UCSC computer scientists have developed a new solution for storing vast amounts of digital information in a way that allows future generations to recover it.
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Alumnus-lecturer creates Renaissance-style paintings for Wisconsin church
For the past year, UCSC alumnus and Art Department lecturer Noah Buchanan has been working to create two larger-than-life paintings for a new Renaissance-style church recently built in Wisconsin. Next week, the 11-foot tall and 4.5-foot wide oil paintings will…
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Improve teacher quality and retention by broadening teacher preparation, professor says
Aspiring teachers come to the profession with a wealth of life experience that shapes their training, their work in the classroom, and their longevity in the occupation, says the author of the new book Teaching What They Learn, Learning What…
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UCSC alumna Dana Priest wins Pulitzer Prize for Walter Reed exposé
Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her work exposing the government’s secret ‘black site’ prisons, has won journalism’s highest honor again, this time for her exposé of the mistreatment of wounded veteran
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Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew receives faculty award from Division of Social Sciences
Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew’s pathbreaking research on racism has earned him international honors as well as the admiration of his peers at UC Santa Cruz, who have named him the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty
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Scientists obtain first direct observations of protein-synthesis mechanism
Research by UCSC molecular biologist Harry Noller and his collaborators has led to the first direct observations of the mechanism for protein synthesis in living cells.
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Hatchery fish outnumber wild chinook salmon in troubled fall run
A recent study indicates that wild salmon may account for just 10 percent of California’s fall-run chinook salmon population, while the vast majority of the fish come from hatcheries.
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New findings from Tibetan Plateau suggest uplift occurred in stages
New evidence from an eight-year study by UCSC and Chinese researchers indicates that the Tibetan Plateau rose in stages, with uplift occurring first in the central plateau and later in regions to the north and south.
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UC Santa Cruz anthropologists confirm link between diet and teeth of chimpanzees and orangutans
For the first time, anthropologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have measured the mechanical properties of foods eaten in the wild by orangutans and chimpanzees to test assumptions about the link between diet and the teeth of primates.
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New book spotlights the experiences of Mexicans in Chicago
Chicago is home to one of the largest populations of Mexicans in the United States, and the experiences of Mexican immigrants in the Windy City offer a revealing lesson in how the forces of racism work, according to the author…
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UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition
A team of four students from UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering won the first-place trophy in a national student robotics competition for their design of a solar-powered robot that can climb up a vertical ribbon carrying a payload.
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National engineering honor society installs chapter at UC Santa Cruz
The Engineering Honor Society at UC Santa Cruz was officially installed as the California Alpha Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi in a ceremony held on Saturday, March 8, at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering.
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Nearby star should harbor detectable, Earth-like planets
A rocky planet similar to Earth may be orbiting one of our nearest stellar neighbors and could be detected using existing techniques, according to a new study led by UCSC astronomers.
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Biotech students learn about neglected diseases from alumna Nina Grove
As director of the malaria program at the Institute for OneWorld Health, alumna Nina Grove is involved in a unique public health project that is applying the tools of the biotechnology industry to the battle against one of the most…
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Rats on islands disrupt ecosystems from land to sea, researchers find
The ecological impacts of introduced rats on islands extend far beyond seabird nesting colonies, according to a new UCSC study that provides support for efforts to eradicate rats from the Aleutian Islands.
