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UC Santa Cruz receives $9.1 million grant to establish a Laboratory for Adaptive Optics to develop new tools for astronomers
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a grant of $9.1 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to establish a Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. The new laboratory strengthens UCSC’s position as an astronomy powerhouse and a national…
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UC Santa Cruz professor awarded $1 million grant for innovative approach to undergraduate science education
Manuel Ares, a professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will use a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to pursue an innovative approach to teaching science to undergraduate…
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UC Santa Cruz experts available to comment on ‘Banned Books Week’
This year’s national Banned Books Week, September 22-28, takes on a heightened importance as Americans debate how to balance national security issues and First Amendment rights. The theme for the 2002 Banned Books Week is “Let Freedom Read: Read a…
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Rockefeller Foundation gives UC Santa Cruz $325,000 humanities award
The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded a $325,000 Humanities Fellowship to the University of California, Santa Cruz. “This Humanities Fellowship is a very competitive program,” said Lynn A. Szwaja, deputy director of creativity and culture at the Rockefeller Foundation. “This year…
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UC Santa Cruz appoints director for intellectual property management
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Gerald Barnett as director of the campus’s new Office for the Management of Intellectual Property. Before coming to UCSC, Barnett was director of software and copyright ventures at the University of Washington,…
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Move-in starts September 12 at UCSC; classes begin September 18
The first day of classes in the 2002-03 school year at UCSC is Wednesday, September 18. Students are scheduled to move into university housing between Thursday, September 12, and Sunday, September 15. (See schedule, below, for photo opportunities.) Here are…
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UC Santa Cruz professor travels country on teaching ‘gig’
For a man who jokes that he’s “out to pasture,” Harry Berger Jr. maintains a teaching and travel schedule that would fatigue a racehorse. The University of California, Santa Cruz, professor emeritus of literature and art history will be crisscrossing…
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UCSC Arboretum’s Fall Plant Sale set for Saturday, October 12
The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum is holding its annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 12, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. As in previous years, it is a joint sale with the California Native Plant Society (CNPS). For Arboretum…
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Seymour Center lecture series ‘Voices from the Sea’ celebrates marine sanctuary’s 10th anniversary
The annual fall lecture series at the Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory marks the 10th anniversary of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary this year with a program called “Voices from the Sea: Three Evenings in Celebration of Monterey…
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African liberation movement posters exhibited at UC Santa Cruz
The exhibition could be summed up by one featured image: a larger-than-life-sized portrait of a young Nelson Mandela, on a blazing yellow background, under the headline “The struggle is my life.” “A Luta Continúa: African Liberation Movement Posters,” the current…
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UC Santa Cruz raises more than $13 million from private donors
Environmental research, graduate student fellowships, and library improvements were among initiatives receiving strong support from private donors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, during the 2001-02 fiscal year. Overall, the campus received $13.1 million in private support. “This generous…
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‘Virtual High School’ leaders to meet at UC Santa Cruz
Leaders of “virtual high schools” in more than 25 states are gathering at UC Santa Cruz from August 15 to 17 to discuss common issues and consider forming a national organization. Representatives of pioneers in the field, including the Florida…
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UCSC names interim director of Center for Teaching Excellence
Lynda Goff, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, announced today (Thursday, August 1) that Ruth Harris-Barnett has been appointed interim director of the campus’s Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE). Harris-Barnett’s appointment begins…
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UCSC chancellor emeritus honored for educational outreach
Karl S. Pister, chancellor emeritus of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a prestigious international award from the World Technology Network (www.wtn.net) for his leadership in educational outreach. Pister was appointed vice president of outreach to the K-12…
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UC Santa Cruz publishes biography of longtime local resident Hal Hyde
Hal Hyde’s resume might list “founding” as a job title. A fifth-generation Santa Cruz County resident, Hyde has been in on the creation of organizations and institutions ranging from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Cabrillo College to the…
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UCSC to hold public workshop on Long Marine Laboratory plan on August 15
The University of California, Santa Cruz, will hold a public workshop on Thursday, August 15, to discuss the preliminary draft of the Coastal Long Range Development Plan (CLRDP) for Long Marine Laboratory. The meeting will take place from 7 to…
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UC Santa Cruz increases outreach to industry
On a sunny afternoon in June, the Chardonnay II set sail from Santa Cruz harbor with a passenger list that included researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and CEOs of regional biotech and high-tech companies. As the 70-foot…
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New technique shows how cells interpret genetic information
A surprising amount of the DNA sequence in the genes of humans and other higher organisms ends up on the cutting-room floor, so to speak, spliced out by the cellular machinery that turns genetic code into functional proteins. Differences in…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley to speak at UC Santa Cruz
She’s well known for her novels, but when writer Jane Smiley speaks at the Dickens Universe conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz, it will be in a different guise: As a biographer of the man himself, Charles Dickens.…