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UC Santa Cruz to present major conference on ‘Rethinking Anti-Semitism’ May 3-5
The UC Santa Cruz Jewish Studies Program and the Holocaust Center of Northern California will present a three-day conference titled “Rethinking Anti-Semitism: The Holocaust and the Contemporary World,” May 3-5, at the UC Santa Cruz campus. This event will feature…
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Research Review Day at UCSC Engineering School will highlight faculty research projects
Leading faculty and researchers in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present their latest findings during a Research Review Day on Monday, May 5. Engineering research at UCSC is concentrated in the areas…
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Bioinformatics experts gain ground in protein sequence analysis
Proteins, with their extraordinary diversity of structure and function, pose some of the toughest problems in the field of bioinformatics, giving rise to a growing arsenal of computational tools for protein analysis. An array of computer-based strategies is now available…
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Kodak grants help keep film alive at UC Santa Cruz
A $2,000 grant from the Eastman Kodak Company will help keep film alive in the UC Santa Cruz digital arts program. The grant, which takes the form of Kodak motion picture camera film, was awarded in recognition of the overall…
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UC Santa Cruz Arboretum will hold annual spring plant sale on Saturday, April 26
Brighten up your garden with kangaroo paws, pincushion flowers, and sweet-smelling blossoms from the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum. The Arboretum is holding its annual Spring Plant Sale in conjunction with the California Native Plant Society on Saturday, April 26, from…
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UC Santa Cruz Genome Browser provides a portal for scientific exploration of finished human genome sequence
As leaders of the Human Genome Project announced the project’s successful completion at a press conference today in Bethesda, MD, bioinformatics researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, made the completed reference sequence of the human genome publicly available…
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Peregrine falcons take flight at Long Marine Lab
Three young peregrine falcons are testing their wings this week at Long Marine Laboratory, a research facility of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The falcons were raised in captivity and are being released to the wild by the Santa…
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Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop to give public talk on cancer research at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, April 17
Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, chancellor of UC San Francisco and a leading cancer researcher, will give a public talk at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Thursday, April 17. Bishop’s talk, entitled “Cancer: The Rise of the Genetic…
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UC Santa Cruz alumnus makes $10,000 gift to support classics
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Mark Engel has pledged a $10,000 gift to establish the Norman O. Brown Classics Endowment at the University Library. In honor of the late Norman O. Brown, a distinguished humanist and influential professor at UC Santa…
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Coots can count: Study shows surprisingly sophisticated nesting behavior in common marsh birds
Coots, the Rodney Dangerfields of the bird world, just might start to get some respect as a result of a new study showing that these common marsh birds are able to recognize and count their own eggs, even in the…
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UCSC to present Pacific Rim Festival April 2-30 featuring works of over 40 distinguished composers
UC Santa Cruz will present the work of more than 40 distinguished composers April 2-30 at the 2003 Pacific Rim Music Festival, a month-long international celebration of the contemporary music of the Pacific Rim. The festival will include 12 performances…
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UC Santa Cruz scientist Todd Lowe wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected Todd Lowe, an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in molecular biology. Lowe, whose research combines computational and experimental approaches to uncover new biology,…
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Chef and cookbook author to establish cooking resource at UCSC
Renowned chef and cookbook author Bruce Aidells has pledged a $20,000 gift to establish a cookery endowment at UC Santa Cruz. Bruce Aidells earned a Ph.D. in biology from UCSC. Aidells is the author of 11 cookbooks, including the meat…
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UCSC astronomer John Faulkner to address U.K. astronomy meeting
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has invited John Faulkner, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to give the Roger Tayler Memorial Lecture at the National Astronomy Meeting next month in Dublin. Faulkner’s talk, which…
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UCSC researcher will describe scientific voyages to Antarctica in a public talk at the Seymour Center on Wednesday, March 12
As chief scientist aboard the research vessel Laurence M. Gould, Daniel Costa led a research team investigating the ecology of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica on two cruises in 2001 and 2002. Costa, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology…
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Tiny birds are sure to make a big impression on Hummingbird Day at the UCSC Arboretum on Saturday, March 15
Visitors to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum can count on aerial acrobatics galore for the Arboretum’s annual Hummingbird Day festival on Saturday, March 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Thousands of nectar-producing Grevillea, Erica, and Salvia…
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EDITOR’S ADVISORY: UCSC transitioning from contracted to self-operated dining services
UC Santa Cruz announced today (March 3) that it will transition from a contracted dining services program to a self-operated dining program. Why: This decision will enable the university to achieve multiple benefits, including: Closer alignment with the values and…
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$1 million gift from philanthropist Jack Baskin to UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering supports new building and new department
Retired engineer and philanthropist Jack Baskin has once again demonstrated his strong support for the engineering school that bears his name with a gift of $1 million to the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…
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Utopia scholar to deliver annual UCSC faculty research lecture
UCSC professor of history Jonathan Beecher will deliver the 36th annual Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, March 11, at 8 p.m. in the Second Stage Theater on campus. The event is free and open to the public. Beecher was selected…