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New book explores culture’s fascination with body modifications
Tattooing.piercing.anorexia.self-cutting.plastic surgery.body-building.the use of life extension technologies–these are all forms of body modification that have become increasingly prevalent in today’s culture and mainstreamed in popular media. A new book coedited by UC Santa Cruz professors Helene Moglen and Nancy Chen,…
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Planet hunters wanted to help astronomers in the search for new worlds
Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are seeking the public’s help to find and understand planets outside our solar system. But you don’t need an advanced degree or even a telescope to participate–just a computer, access to the…
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Editor’s Advisory: UC Regents host two public comment sessions during visit to UC Santa Cruz on Oct. 18-19
Members of the University of California Board of Regents will visit the UC Santa Cruz campus and its Silicon Valley Center on October 18-19. During their visit, the Regents will tour facilities, hear about plans for the future, and meet…
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UCSC astronomer Constance Rockosi wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering to Constance Rockosi, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Packard Fellowship, worth a total of $625,000, is…
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‘Living Writers Series’ begins October 4 at UC Santa Cruz
The UCSC Humanities Division’s “Living Writers Series” kicks off this fall quarter on October 4 with a presentation by poet Joshua Clover, a widely published critic and journalist, a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and the poetry editor…
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UCSC Arboretum features a wide variety of plants at the annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 14
The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum will hold its annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 14, from noon to 4 p.m. It will take place at the Arboretum’s Eucalyptus Grove on High Street near the intersection of Western Drive. Held…
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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…
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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…
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$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…
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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…
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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…
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UCSC swim team prepares for 12-hour swim across Monterey Bay on Sept. 30
In a grueling test of their endurance, 12 hearty members of the UC Santa Cruz swim team will forsake their pool with a view and plunge into Monterey Bay on September 30 for the seventh annual transbay swim. UCSC Slug…
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UC Santa Cruz’s new year getting under way
UC Santa Cruz students began moving into university housing on Friday (September 15), in anticipation of the 2006-07 school year. The first day of instruction in the fall quarter is Thursday, September 21. ‘Move-in’ activities began on Friday, September 15.…
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Astronomers trace the evolution of the first galaxies in the universe
A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago. These observations of the earliest stages in the evolution of…
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UCSC leads astrophysics research consortium
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a five-year, $9.5 million grant to researchers studying the astrophysics of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. The Computational Astrophysics Consortium includes researchers at five universities and three national laboratories and is led by…
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UC Santa Cruz grad students develop new model curriculum for U.S. history
Graduate students in history at UC Santa Cruz have developed a new globalized model curriculum for college-level survey courses in U.S. history. Under the direction of UC Santa Cruz history professor and UC Presidential Chair Edmund Burke III, four UCSC…
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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to present annual Maitra Lecture at UC Santa Cruz
Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen will deliver the sixth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, October 7, at the Music Center Recital Hall. He will speak on the topic: “The Tyranny of Identity.” The lecture…
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Researchers tackle problem of data storage for next-generation supercomputers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a five-year, $11 million grant to researchers at three universities and five national laboratories to find new ways of managing the torrent of data that will be produced by the coming generation…
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UC Santa Cruz chancellor will recommend lower enrollment in Final LRDP
UC Santa Cruz Acting Chancellor George R. Blumenthal will recommend reducing UCSC’s proposed potential enrollment to 19,500 when he presents the campus’s 2005-2020 Long-Range Development Plan to the UC Regents later in September. Compared with the earlier suggested enrollment limit…