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UC Santa Cruz launches bold new collaboration with NASA
The University of California, Santa Cruz, will manage a national research program valued at more than $330 million under a new agreement between UC and NASA. The ten-year contract, a first-of-its-kind for NASA, will establish a University Affiliated Research Center…
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Geobiologist Kenneth Nealson to discuss the search for life on other planets in public lecture on Thursday, October 16, at UC Santa Cruz
If life exists on Mars, how would we know? Scientists have been grappling with this deceptively simple question for years. Kenneth Nealson, the Wrigley Professor of Geobiology at the University of Southern California, is a leading authority on this issue,…
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UC Santa Cruz announces recipients of $20,000 scholarships
This year’s recipients of the annual Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Awards $20,000 scholarships presented by the University of California, Santa Cruz, include two single mothers, a Pakistani immigrant, and an aspiring computer engineer. All recipients receive a $10,000 scholarship…
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UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special lecture series and public programs
Long Marine Laboratory turns 25 this fall, and the oceanside research facility will be celebrating its silver anniversary with a variety of public programs, tours, and lectures during the first 25 days in October. Highlighting the October celebration is a…
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New book on author Paul Bowles is co-edited by UCSC lecturer who inherited famed writer’s musical estate
Paul Bowles is perhaps best known as the author of The Sheltering Sky, the popular novel that was later turned into a feature film in 1990 starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger. But few people realize that the prolific writer…
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Scholarship enables aspiring teacher to enroll at UC Santa Cruz
Louise Hagio wants to be a teacher, and thanks to a $5,000 scholarship from the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Youth Fund, her goal is closer than ever. Hagio, 30, is enrolling this month at the University of California, Santa…
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UC Santa Cruz raises $22.7 million in private support
Led by grants for adaptive optics, engineering, and biology, UC Santa Cruz raised $22.7 million in private support in the form of gifts and grants during 2002-03. The total marked the second-largest amount ever raised by the campus. A record…
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UC Santa Cruz genome group is among 25 global innovators honored by The Tech Museum of Innovation
The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been honored by the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose as one of 25 laureates for the 2003 Tech Museum Awards: Technology Benefiting…
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‘Wind to Whales’ research program to investigate the Monterey Bay ecosystem receives additional funding of $2 million
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a grant of nearly $2 million to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to support the ongoing development of the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT). The center, established last year…
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Astronomers capture a dwarf galaxy being torn apart in the dark matter halo of a massive galaxy
For the first time, astronomers have found direct evidence of a phenomenon long thought to play an important role in the formation of giant galaxies: the ongoing disruption of a small galaxy as it orbits within the dark matter halo…
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UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures director offers up her second season of innovative programming
It’s only fitting that the UC Santa Cruz 2003-04 Arts & Lectures season kicks off with the Turtle Island String Quartet performing a tribute to legendary trumpet player Miles Davis. Crossing boundaries and merging genres is the order of the…
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Coastal upwelling in the California Current was weaker 6,000 years ago than today, according to new studies
The California Current is a major influence on the climate of western North America and on the productivity of both terrestrial and marine ecosystems along the West Coast. But 6,000 years ago, the California Current wasn’t quite what it is…
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UCSC professor seeks to reconnect mathematics to its intellectual roots
Anthony Tromba has loved mathematics since he was a child, and it bothers him that the field seems to be losing its appeal to students. Tromba, professor and chair of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said that…
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Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab offers tours in Spanish
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center has initiated a series of Spanish-language tours of the popular science education center, located at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory. The tours are led by a trained docent who is fluent in Spanish. They…
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Astronomers reveal the first detailed maps of galaxy distribution in the early universe
Peering back in time more than 7 billion years, a team of astronomers using a powerful new spectrograph at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has obtained the first maps showing the distribution of galaxies in the early universe.…
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UC Santa Cruz professor lauded for work to preserve Bengali films
The Cultural Association of Bengal has honored UC Santa Cruz associate professor of history Dilip K. Basu with a Distinguished Service Award for his efforts to preserve classic Bengali films. The award was presented at the North American Bengali Conference…
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Summer programs draw scholars from around the world
Scholars from around the world are getting a cram course in American academia this summer from UC Santa Cruz Extension’s English Language and International Programs department. Whether it’s Egyptian teachers, Fulbright Scholars, or professionals participating in the Humphrey Fellows program,…
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Three UC Santa Cruz faculty awarded Presidental Chairs
Three faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz-history professor Edmund Burke, III, psychology professor Barbara Rogoff, and literature professor Helene Moglen-have been appointed to Presidential Chairs on the Santa Cruz campus. UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood made the appointments,…
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Community artists create new UCSC art award
In the mid-1970s, Peter Thomas was introduced to the art of making books by William Everson, then the newly hired poet laureate for Kresge College at UC Santa Cruz. As one of Everson’s crew of five students, he would help…
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Study shows lead-based paint is poisoning albatross chicks at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
Lead-based paint from deteriorating buildings still poses a hazard to wildlife on Midway Atoll, despite extensive environmental remediation efforts undertaken as part of the conversion of the site from a military base to a national wildlife refuge. A new study…
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New book by UCSC lecturer reveals qualities shared by world’s most successful musicians
What makes the great musicians great? That’s the very first sentence and the premise of The Mastery of Music, a new book by UC Santa Cruz lecturer Barry Green. Drawing from more than 120 personal interviews with revered performers such…
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UCSC acquires new teaching tool for opera students
UC Santa Cruz opera students may find preparing for their roles a bit easier in the future thanks to a new teaching tool just donated to the campus library. Opera Practice Perfect is a comprehensive audio catalog of 209 CDs,…
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UCSC scientists part of team decoding gamma-ray burst mystery
Scientists have pieced together the key elements of a gamma-ray burst, from star death to dramatic black hole birth, thanks to a March 29 explosion considered the “Rosetta stone” of such bursts. The results are described in the June 19…