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NASA Ames research director G. Scott Hubbard to speak at UCSC
NASA Ames Research Center Director G. Scott Hubbard, who was the first NASA Mars program director and served as the sole NASA representative on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, will speak at UC Santa Cruz on June 3. Hubbard will…
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Governor’s Office on Volunteerism honors 51 UCSC students
The hard work of 51 UC Santa Cruz students who spent their spring break building a house, digging trenches, and repairing roofs in Mexico hasn’t gone unnoticed. GOSERV, Governor Schwarzenegger’s Office on Service and Volunteerism, has highlighted the students on…
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Enrollment procedures changing for continuing students
Continuing students will enroll in fall 2004 classes using the new UCSC Academic Information System (AIS). To enroll, you will need your new Student ID and password. Come to a Student Town Hall to find out what you need to…
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Governor’s ‘May revision’ restores some funding to UC, adds Cal Grant money to cover fee increases
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the May Revision to his original state budget proposal for 2004-05 today (May 13), protecting the University of California from additional state budget cuts and restoring $20 million in previously cut funding to the university. Acting…
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Grateful Dead foundations help preserve UC Santa Cruz archive of renowned composer Lou Harrison
Two foundations established by members of the Grateful Dead have contributed funds to help preserve the archive of the late composer Lou Harrison at UC Santa Cruz. The Rex Foundation, founded by the Grateful Dead and friends in 1984, and…
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Surprising ‘ultra-conserved’ regions discovered in human genome
Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat, dog, and chicken. The fact that these sequences have remained…
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Renowned planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy to speak at UCSC
Renowned planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the Spring Halliday Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Marcy will discuss “Extrasolar Planets and the Prospects for…
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UC Santa Cruz celebrates 25th anniversary of Chautauqua student theater festival
In 1979, the UC Santa Cruz Chautauqua Festival made its debut at the Barn Theater, just inside the main entrance of the fledgling 14-year-old campus. Modeled after a tradition of theater festivals that began at Lake Chautauqua, New York, more…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UC Santa Cruz and community colleges will launch new program for engineering students with a reception at NASA Ames on May 5
The Collaborative for Higher Education, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Foothill-De Anza Community College District will hold a reception to celebrate the launch of their new program to help students prepare for careers in engineering. Reporters are…
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Understanding the UC undergraduate experience: UCSC students asked to complete online survey to improve academic, cultural life
A team of researchers based at UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education has just launched the third University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES). The survey will be sent to undergraduates at all eight undergraduate campuses. In total,…
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Haussler honored by computer science group as an innovator who changed the scientific world
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and director of UCSC’s Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a corecipient of the 2003 Allen Newell Award. Haussler was recognized…
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UC President Dynes names search committee for new UC Santa Cruz chancellor
University of California President Robert C. Dynes has named a 15-member committee to advise him in the search for the next chancellor of the UC Santa Cruz campus, it was announced today (April 28, 2004). For more information, please go…
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UC Santa Cruz to co-host conference on Mark Twain with Stanford University on May 14-15
UC Santa Cruz will co-host a conference on legendary American writer Mark Twain with Stanford University on the weekend of May 14-15. Titled “Mark Twain at the Century’s End: 1890-1910,” the conference will take place on Friday, May 14, at…
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UCSC student forum on LRDP planned for May 11; student representatives also plan meeting on Friday, April 30
A student forum on the effort under way to update the campus’s Long Range Development Plan has been organized for Tuesday, May 11. The meeting will take place from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the Student Union (former bookstore). Additional…
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National Public Radio’s European correspondent Sylvia Poggioli to give free public lecture in Santa Cruz
As senior European correspondent for National Public Radio’s Foreign Desk, Sylvia Poggioli has covered news from hot spots around the globe for more than two decades. Whether reporting from Rome, the Balkans, or the Middle East, Poggioli provides expert analysis…
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$2 million grant funds joint effort by UCSC and Silicon Valley community colleges to support engineering students
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has joined with two prominent Silicon Valley community colleges–Foothill College and De Anza College–to launch a new program that will help students prepare for careers in engineering. Funded by a $2 million grant from…
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UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division launches new Distinguished Professors program; five faculty honored
The Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz celebrated the launch of a new program to recognize the academic achievement of its faculty at an awards reception held on April 15 at the University Center. Dean of Humanities Wlad Godzich announced…
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UCSC biologist tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica in her new book, The Hunter’s Breath
In six trips to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams endured brutal conditions on the coldest, driest, windiest continent on Earth in order to learn the secrets of the mysterious Weddell seals, the only wild mammals capable of surviving Antarctic winters. In…
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UC Santa Cruz fall 2004 freshman admissions: Campus becomes more competitive as ‘admit’ rate declines dramatically
The University of California today (April 20, 2004) released information about freshman admissions for fall 2004. The data indicates that UC Santa Cruz received a record number (23,122) of freshman applications for 2004. UCSC’s 7.4 percent one-year increase in applications…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSC scientists are available to comment on new report from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy will release its preliminary report on Tuesday, April 20. The commission’s mandate is to establish findings and make recommendations to the president and Congress for a coordinated and comprehensive national ocean policy. The new…
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Harry Beevers, eminent plant physiologist, dies at 80
Harry Beevers, one of the leading plant physiologists of the 20th century and a professor emeritus of biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, died on April 14. He was 80. Beevers died at his home in Carmel, California,…