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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…
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UCSC Extension launches new program in Knowledge Services and Enterprise Management
A new graduate certificate program in Knowledge Services and Enterprise Management (KSEM) offered by UCSC Extension and the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz focuses on building the skills required to design and manage technology-based enterprises. All courses…
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Study confirms ammunition as main source of lead poisoning in condors
A study led by environmental toxicologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has confirmed what wildlife biologists have long suspected: Bullet fragments and shotgun pellets in the carcasses of animals killed by hunters are the principal sources of lead…
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UCSC’s Regional History Project publishes oral histories of Loma Prieta earthquake and University Library
The UC Santa Cruz Library’s Regional History Project has just announced the publication of two new oral histories. The first volume is The Loma Prieta Earthquake of October 17, 1989: A UCSC Student Oral History Project. It consists of 11…