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UCSC expanding university housing with purchase of adjoining apartment complex
Purchase of Laureate Court Apartments would provide housing for faculty and staff The University of California, Santa Cruz, is planning to add 64 units to its housing inventory this summer with the anticipated purchase of an apartment complex that is…
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UC Santa Cruz math professor wins prestigious George Polya Prize
Harold Widom, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will share the prestigious George Pólya Prize with UC Davis professor of mathematics Craig Tracy. The two mathematicians are being honored for their recent breakthroughs in the…
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UC Santa Cruz Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood addresses Washington policy colloquium on the risky business of research universities
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In the aftermath of September 11, the science and technology community will be expected to contribute to new counterterrorism efforts. Some of these programs may face new restrictions in access to information or to laboratory procedures. On Thursday, April…
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Major gift from alumnus Gordon Ringold will support new environmental research institute at UC Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has established a new environmental research institute, building on the campus’s strong tradition of interdisciplinary research in the environmental sciences. To help launch the new institute, UCSC alumnus Gordon Ringold and his wife Tanya…
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UC Santa Cruz student wins top honors in statewide poetry contests
A University of California, Santa Cruz, student has earned top honors in two California statewide poetry competitions. “I’m elated,” said Kristen Holden, a junior majoring in literature. “Of course it’s what I wanted, but I wasn’t expecting it to happen.”…
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Albert Whitford, eminent astronomer and former director of Lick Observatory, dies at 96
Albert E. Whitford, an acclaimed astronomer, former director of the University of California’s Lick Observatory, and a professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, died on Thursday, March 28. He was 96. Whitford died at Meriter Health…
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National Science Foundation director Rita Colwell to visit UC Santa Cruz for dedication of the Center for Adaptive Optics on April 26
Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will visit the University of California, Santa Cruz, in April for the dedication of the NSF-funded Center for Adaptive Optics. During her visit, Colwell will also meet with UCSC faculty and…
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UCSC Ranks eighth in nation in number of graduates serving in Peace Corps
UCSC may not be one of the nation’s largest campuses, but when it comes to serving in the Peace Corps, it thinks big. UCSC, with an enrollment just over 13,000, ranks eighth in the nation in the number of former…
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UC Santa Cruz scientists star in PBS documentary The Shape of Life
The Shape of Life, a new television documentary series about the diversity of animal life on Earth, features UC Santa Cruz researchers among the scientists who lead viewers on a dramatic exploration of the animal kingdom. The series premieres Tuesday,…
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UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Mary Silver honored by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will present one of its highest honors, the Mary Sears Woman Pioneer in Oceanography Award, to Mary Silver, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Silver is being honored for…
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Hyperspectral imaging tracks local and global impacts on environment
While studying a large lagoon in Papua New Guinea, meter by meter, Donald Potts decided there had to be a better way to do ecology. A new tuna factory on the lagoon’s shores threatened to drastically change the lagoon before…
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Two UCSC students to be honored at UC Day in Sacramento
Each spring, alumni from the University of California’s nine campuses meet with state lawmakers in Sacramento as part of the annual UC Day legislative conference. At this year’s conference, March 18-19, two UC Santa Cruz students will be honored for…
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New findings support ‘Out of Asia’ hypothesis for origin of key groups of modern mammals
An abrupt episode of global warming and major changes in plant and animal life marked the transition between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs about 55 million years ago. Several groups of mammals, including early primates and modern hooved mammals, made…
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The hilarious, touching and always captivating body-theater of Peru’s Teatro Hugo & Ines
UC SANTA CRUZ ARTS & LECTURES presents TEATRO HUGO & INES “Short Stories” FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! DETAILS » TWO NIGHTS ONLY: Wednesday & Thursday, April 10 & 11, 2002 at 8pm » UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage » Admission:…
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Statewide MESA program and UCSC MESA director honored for innovative education programs
The California Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program, a statewide program with an academic support center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named one of the five most innovative public programs in the country. In addition, the…
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African American musicians reflect on what is this thing called jazz?
Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes representing black accomplishment and virtuosity; sometimes a symbol of segregation…
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Author explores ‘bridge of migrations’ between Japan and Brazil
Japan and Brazil: It’s hard to image two countries further apart, or two cultures more disparate. But after almost a century of economic and social ties, Japan and Brazil have built a “dynamic bridge of migrations,” says author Karen Tei…
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Local children featured in ‘listening to the earth’ performance
Try this recipe for a special performance event: Take the leadership of Tandy Beal, a theater arts instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Add 40 UC Santa Cruz students. Mix well with 200 young local students, their teachers,…
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The beautiful and spiritual Tantric chanting of the Gyuto Monks of Tibet
UC SANTA CRUZ ARTS & LECTURES presents GYUTO MONKS of Tibet DETAILS » TWO NIGHTS ONLY: Wednesday & Thursday, March 27 & 28, 2002 at 8pm » UCSC Music Center Recital Hall » Admission: $23 Adult; $19 Students & Seniors…
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The remarkable theatrical work of Collective: Unconscious in their award-winning Charlie, Victor, Romeo
UC SANTA CRUZ ARTS & LECTURES presents COLLECTIVE: UNCONSCIOUS in “Charlie, Victor, Romeo” DETAILS » TWO NIGHTS ONLY: Tuesday & Wednesday, March 26 & 27, 2002 at 8pm » UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage » Admission: $23 Adult; $19 Students &…
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A Traveling Jewish Theatre presents ‘God’s Donkey: A Play on Moses’
UC SANTA CRUZ ARTS & LECTURES presents A TRAVELING JEWISH THEATRE in “God’s Donkey: A Play on Moses” DETAILS » TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY: Saturday April 6, 2002 at 8pm & Sunday, April 7, 2002 at 3pm » UCSC Theater Arts…