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UCSC recognized for high percentage of engineering master’s degrees awarded to women
A survey of master’s degrees awarded by U.S. engineering schools shows that UC Santa Cruz ranks third in the percentage of degrees awarded to women.
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Chance discovery sheds light on the fates of young salmon
Fisheries scientists are gaining unexpected insights from the serendipitous discovery on Año Nuevo Island of tiny tags that had been implanted in juvenile salmon and steelhead in coastal creeks.
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New book explores the effects of whales and whaling on ocean ecosystems
Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems, a new book from the University of California Press (December 2006), explores an aspect of whale ecology that until now has received surprisingly little attention–the role of whales in ocean ecosystems.
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Geoffrey Pullum to deliver 40th annual Faculty Research Lecture at UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz professor of linguistics Geoffrey K. Pullum will deliver the 40th annual Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, February 13, at 8 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall. His lecture is titled “Who Pays Any Attention to the…
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UC Santa Cruz film scholar B. Ruby Rich chairs panel at Sundance Film Festival
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Film scholar B. Ruby Rich will chair a panel discussion at the Sundance Film Festival about how the counterculture has changed since the 1960s.
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UC Santa Cruz assistant arts dean reports discovery of ancient ruin in Peru
UC Santa Cruz assistant dean of the arts Keith Muscutt reported the existence of a previously unknown pre-Columbian ruin in Peru at the annual Institute of Andean Studies conference held at UC Berkeley last week. Located in the remote and…
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UC Santa Cruz receives $350,000 to create global café and reading garden at University Library
Two gifts to UC Santa Cruz valued at $350,000 will work together to create an exciting new social and educational center at the University Library. Stephen Silberstein–cofounder and former president of Innovative Interfaces, a library software company in Emeryville, California-has…
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Eminent marine biologist Jane Lubchenco will give annual Keeley Lecture at UCSC on Monday, January 29
Jane Lubchenco, an eminent marine biologist and leading scientific voice on issues of marine policy and environmental sustainability, will deliver the third annual Fred Keeley Lecture at UCSC on Monday, January 29.
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Richard Musgrave, renowned pioneer of public finance, dies at 96
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Richard A. Musgrave, widely regarded as the founder of modern public finance and an adviser on fiscal policy and taxation to governments from Washington to Bogota to Tokyo, died Monday, Jan. 15.
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UCSC engineering dean Steve Kang awarded Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award
The Asian Pacific Fund today announced the recipients of its first annual Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Awards, recognizing Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Belle W. Y. W
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DOE awards support UCSC research on dark matter and supernovae
The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded valuable computing time on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to two research projects led by scientists at UCSC.
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Donald Osterbrock, eminent astronomer and former director of Lick Observatory, dies at age 82
Donald Osterbrock, an eminent astronomer, a leading authority on the history of astronomy, and former director of UC’s Lick Observatory, died suddenly on Thursday, January 11. He was 82.
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Astronomers find the most distant star clusters hidden behind a nearby cluster
Astronomers have discovered the most distant population of star clusters ever seen, hidden behind one of the nearest such clusters to Earth.
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American Mathematical Society honors Harold Widom, professor emeritus of mathematics
Harold Widom, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will share the 2007 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics with UC Davis professor of mathematics Craig Tracy.
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Astronomers discover an enormous halo of red giant stars around Andromeda
Astronomers have found an enormous halo of stars bound to the Andromeda galaxy and extending far beyond the swirling disk seen in images of the famous galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor.
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UC Santa Cruz to present readings by renowned authors Jonathan Franzen and Nathaniel Mackey
The UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division will kick off the new year with two public events on campus featuring nationally renowned, award-winning authors. UCSC literature professor Nathaniel Mackey–winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry–will read from his book…
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UCSC biologist Harry Noller honored by Paul Ehrlich Foundation
The Paul Ehrlich Foundation of Germany has announced that it will award the 2007 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize to Harry Noller, Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Ada Yonath of the…
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New instrument reveals raindrop formation in warm clouds
How do raindrops form? It’s a simple question, but the answer is far from elementary. Tiny water droplets somehow merge to become full-sized raindrops, but the details remain a mystery. Now, scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are…
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UCSC biochemist Olof Einarsdottir honored by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Olof Einarsdottir, professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a fellow is an…
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Jingle Shells Art and Book Festival at the Seymour Center on Saturday, December 9
The 87-foot blue whale skeleton at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory will again brighten the holiday season. Fondly known as Ms. Blue, the world’s largest mounted whale skeleton will glow each evening starting December 9 at the lab’s Seymour…
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Seismologists measure heat flow from Earth’s molten core into the lower mantle
For the first time, scientists have directly measured the amount of heat flowing from the molten metal of Earth’s core into a region at the base of the mantle, a process that helps drive both the movement of tectonic plates…
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Supercomputer study shows Milky Way’s halo of dark matter in unprecedented detail
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used NASA’s most powerful supercomputer to run the largest simulation to date of the formation and evolution of the dark matter halo that envelops the Milky Way galaxy. Their results show…