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Major gift supports crucial piece of Automated Planet Finder
The Gloria and Kenneth Levy Foundation has donated $600,000 to fund an innovative spectrometer for the Automated Planet Finder at UC’s Lick Observatory.
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Statements concerning court ruling regarding UCSC Long-Range Development Plan EIR
UC Santa Cruz issued the following statements today (8/28/07) concerning Santa Cruz County Superior Court ruling regarding UC Santa Cruz Long-Range Development Plan EIR: From Kelly Drumm, University Counsel, Office of General Counsel, University of California Regents: While we are…
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Thirty-Meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation
UC and Caltech have each received $7.5 million in additional funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development of the Thirty-Meter Telescope.
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New light-sensing ability discovered in disease-causing bacteria
The bacteria that cause brucellosis can sense light and use the information to regulate their virulence, according to a study by UCSC researchers.
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UCSC launches reclaimed water study
UCSC is initiating a study to assess the feasibility of developing an on-campus system for reclaiming and recycling water.
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UCSC students present research at World History Association conference
Under the direction of professor Edmund Burke III, director of the UC Santa Cruz Center for World History, seven UCSC current and past graduate students in history presented papers at the 16th annual
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UCSC professor emeritus William Doyle publishes new reference for California botanists
William T. Doyle, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, has published a comprehensive reference on the liverworts and hornworts of California.
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Arts & Lectures announces 2007-08 season of internationally acclaimed artists
Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, renowned Brazilian guitarist and songwriter Caetano Veloso, South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour, and National Public Radio’s Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon are just s
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UCSC neuroscientist Yi Zuo wins two new research awards
Yi Zuo’s innovative research on the nervous system has attracted funding from three major foundations since her arrival at UCSC in January.
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New program color-codes text in Wikipedia entries to indicate trustworthiness
The online reference site Wikipedia enjoys immense popularity despite nagging doubts about the reliability of entries written by its all-volunteer team. A new program developed at UCSC aims to help with the problem by color-coding an entry’s individual ph
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Wobbly polarity is key to preventing magnetic avalanches on disk drives
New research brings models of magnetic avalanches much closer to reality, helping physicists understand both why they happen and why they don’t run out of control, wiping disk drives clean.
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Influential fisheries ecologist Steven Berkeley dies at age 60
Steven A. Berkeley, an influential fisheries ecologist whose research helped propel the expansion of marine reserves, died at home in Scotts Valley on June 27 after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 60.
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Silicon chip beams light through a liquid-core waveguide to detect one particle at a time
By guiding light through liquid-filled channels smaller than a human hair, researchers at UCSC and Brigham Young University have succeeded in building a silicon chip that can detect tiny particles one at a time.
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UC Santa Cruz biologist Hinrich Boeger named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Hinrich Boeger, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
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Brian Walton, leader of falcon recovery effort, dies at age 55
Brian Walton, whose leadership of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group was highlighted by the pivotal role the group played in the restoration of the peregrin falcon on the West Coast, died on June 15 at a Santa Cruz…
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UCSC graduate awarded $10,000 for best American thesis on modern India
UC Santa Cruz graduate Gillian Goslinga has been honored with the 2006 Sardar Patel Award for “the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India.” The award of $10,000 is administered each year by the…
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More freshmen than expected say they plan to attend UCSC
About 4,200 freshmen–several hundred more than had been expected–have indicated they plan to enroll at UC Santa Cruz in the fall.
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Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success
UCSC researchers have found that female side-blotched lizards are able to induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues, “dressing” their progeny in patterns they will wear for the rest of their lives.
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State funds stem cell research facility at UC Santa Cruz
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved a $2.7 million grant to fund a stem cell research facility at UC Santa Cruz.
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Sutter scholarship will support UCSC health sciences grad in med school
Allison Abresch-Meyer will get some welcome assistance paying her medical school bills thanks to a new scholarship established by the Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center and the Central Coast Alliance for Health to benefit graduates of the health sciences p
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UCSC researchers achieve atomic spectroscopy on a chip
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have performed atomic spectroscopy with integrated optics on a chip for the first time, guiding a beam of light through a rubidium vapor cell integrated into a semiconductor chip.
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Graduates of UCSC’s Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture
Around the world, graduates of the UCSC Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture are improving the health of the environment through organic food production, education, advocacy, and social service programs. Here’s a sampling of what a few graduates have
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UC Santa Cruz celebrates 40 years of leadership in sustainable agriculture and organic farming
Decades before Wal-Mart began selling organic food, a charismatic Englishman and a group of students transformed a brush-covered hillside at the University of California, Santa Cruz, into a lush garden where vegetables and flowers were grown without chemi
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40 years at the forefront of sustainable agriculture
Research being conducted today at UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems is rooted in programs and facilities that have been developed since 1967.
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New book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) explains how self-deception dooms marriages, starts wars, and promotes a culture of unaccountability
In the new book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), Elliot Aronson spells out how the psychological mechanism of self-justification puts us on a slippery slope of self-deception that frequently gets us into enormous trouble when we are unable…
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Climate change and green technology the focus of June 8 forum at UC Santa Cruz
Climate change expert Lisa Sloan and green technology proponent Steve Westly will be the keynote speakers during the sixth annual Foundation Forum at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Friday, June 8, at 4 p.m. in the Music Center…
