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UCSC astronomer Claire Max receives 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics to Claire Max, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Max, who is deputy director of the Center for…
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Campus raises record $32.2 million in private gifts during 2003-04 year
For Immediate Release SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz raised a record $32.2 million from private donors in 2003-04, an increase of 42 percent over the $22.7 million raised the year before. “This record level of support for UC Santa Cruz…
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Acclaimed New Yorker magazine staff writer and UCSC alumnus to return for speaking engagement at Cowell College
For the past two decades, longtime New Yorker magazine staff writer and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Lawrence Weschler has written about unexpected relationships between art, culture, war, and peace. On Friday, September 24, the 1974 Cowell College graduate will return…
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NIH training grants provide more than $1.5 million to support graduate students at UCSC
Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are receiving increased support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through training grants to two campus departments. The prestigious NIH training grants provide support for graduate students in specified areas…
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EDITOR’S ADVISORY: New academic year brings new students, academic offerings, housing, other facilities
SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz students began moving into university housing today (Thursday, September 16) in anticipation of the 2004-05 school year. The first day of instruction in the fall quarter is Thursday, September 23. The fall-quarter “move in” for…
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Gary Lease named interim dean of humanities at UC Santa Cruz
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CRUZ, CA–Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers has appointed Professor Gary Lease as interim dean of the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division. An internationally recognized expert across a remarkable range of fields–including early Christian archaeology, Vatican foreign…
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Cajun/New Orleans jazz extravaganza to kick off new Arts & Lectures season at UC Santa Cruz
The new UC Santa Cruz 2004-05 Arts & Lectures season will open with a blast of pure Southern gusto on October 8 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The Grammy award-winning sextet, BeauSoleil-described by Prairie Home Companion’s Garrison Keillor as…
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UCSC researchers to test new technologies for monitoring harmful algal blooms in California coastal waters
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received a $400,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop an improved system for monitoring toxic algae in the coastal waters of California. The UCSC researchers will…
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EDITOR’S ADVISORY: You are invited to cover a tour of new apartments for 651 students on the UC Santa Cruz campus
New on-campus apartments for 651 UC Santa Cruz students will be on display during an open house and tour for local government officials, the campus community, and the news media. Students will occupy the housing when the fall quarter begins…
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Biodiversity ‘SWAT Team’ conducts an unprecedented survey of intertidal life on the West Coast
Peter Raimondi, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been studying marine life on the West Coast for about 20 years. But when it comes to field surveys that require identification…
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Astronomers discover first Neptune-sized planets outside our solar system
A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system. The two newly discovered planets represent a new class of extrasolar planets, and their discovery is a significant advance in…
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Two UCSC graduate students receive grant for marine ecology research
Two graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the winners of the 2004 Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grants in Marine Environmental History and Historical Marine Ecology. Seth Newsome, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth sciences, and…
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UCSC physicist receives award to develop technology for neuroscience
Alan Litke, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received an award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience to support an interdisciplinary research project with neurobiologist E. J. Chichilnisky of the Salk Institute…
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$2.4 million grant supports research on coastal ecosystems at UCSC and other Monterey Bay institutions
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a grant of more than $2.4 million to support the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT), a collaborative partnership led by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The center brings together…
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The Getty Awards Campus Heritage Grant to UC Santa Cruz
Long before the first student ever set foot on campus, the land now home to UC Santa Cruz was the hub of a booming limekiln business that filled ships bound for San Francisco and beyond. Before that, Native Americans known…
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UCSC scientist Jonathan Zehr receives major award from Moore Foundation for marine microbiology research
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has selected Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to receive more than $4 million over the next five years as a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator…
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New elephant seal sculpture at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center honors Long Marine Lab volunteers
A dramatic new sculpture of northern elephant seals enlivens the entrance to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz and has already become a favorite “photo opportunity” for visitors to the center, located at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine…
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Emerita psychology professor contributes major planned gift to support history research at UC Santa Cruz library
Psychology professor emerita Melanie J. Mayer has established a $150,000 endowment to benefit history research in Special Collections at the UC Santa Cruz Library. The donation is one of the largest planned gifts in the history of the University Library.…
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UC Santa Cruz acting chancellor leads $1.5 million federal study of math, science programs
Responding to a critical shortage of young people who are interested in math and science, the federal government is investing $1.5 million at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to identify the strengths of programs that encourage underrepresented minorities to…
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UCSC seismologist Karen McNally receives University Medal from the National University of Costa Rica
Karen McNally, professor emerita of Earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received the University Medal from the National University of Costa Rica. McNally was honored in a ceremony on July 2 for her contributions in helping…