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Studies show global warming is likely to drive big changes in California’s coastal waters through effects on upwelling
Global warming could have profound effects on the wind-driven upwelling of deep ocean water along the California coast, according to recent studies by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The studies showed changes in both the intensity and…
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $17.5 million for Thirty-Meter Telescope plans
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $17.5 million to the University of California for collaboration with the California Institute of Technology on a project intended to build the world’s most powerful telescope. Coupled with an award by the Foundation…
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UC and union representing TAs reach tentative accord
The University of California (UC) and UAW and its affiliated Local 2865 announced on Tuesday evening that they had reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a successor collective bargaining agreement. This morning, UC and UAW released the following…
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UC Santa Cruz film professor wins ‘Academy Award’
Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp has been named one of two 2003 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences-the same folks who bring us the Academy Awards. Stamp will receive $25,000…
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Professor of ocean sciences Kenneth Bruland appointed to the Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair in Ocean Health at UCSC
Kenneth Bruland, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has spent more than 25 years studying the chemistry of the ocean and the ways in which trace amounts of certain elements influence marine ecosystems. Bruland was…
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Dickens holiday evening set for December 5 at UC Santa Cruz
The Friends of the UCSC Library and the UCSC Dickens Project will present the annual Dickens Holiday Evening on Friday, December 5, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at UCSC’s McHenry Library Foyer. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The…
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$1 million gift to scholarship fund will support women in engineering at UCSC
Women studying engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be the beneficiaries of a $1 million contribution to the Amy Beth Snader Memorial Scholarship Fund from the estate of Barbara Snader. The scholarship fund was established in 1997…
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UCSC Alumni Association announces award winners for 2003-04
The UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association will give its highest honors in 2003-04 to a California assemblyman, an anthropologist, and a campus housing staff member. In ceremonies that will take place on campus in February, John Laird will receive the…
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New UC Santa Cruz program sends humanities graduate students into local schools
Literature graduate student Veronica Kirk-Clausen was a little nervous when she stepped into Martha Dyer’s eighth-grade class at Mission Hill Junior High in Santa Cruz last spring. “I’m used to teaching undergraduate sections and writing classes with students ages 18…
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UCSC Arboretum will hold Wreath Sale on Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16
Wonderful holiday decorations and gifts will be available from the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum at the annual Dried Flower and Succulent Wreath Sale on Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16. Exotic dried flower arrangements, living succulent wreaths, rare and…
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UC Santa Cruz receives gift of 2,700 classical CDs from late UC Berkeley professor
The University Library at UC Santa Cruz has received a gift of 2,700 classical CDs from the personal collection of the late Jesse C. Rabinowitz, a distinguished emeritus professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, as well as…
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‘Out In the Redwoods’ history book published by UC Santa Cruz library
The University Library’s Regional History Project has announced the publication of Out in the Redwoods: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1965-2003. This documentary oral history book is based on 27 interviews with UCSC…
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Long Marine Lab research building named in honor of William T. Doyle, founding director of UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences
A monthlong celebration of the 25th anniversary of UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory culminated in a ceremony on Saturday, October 25, at which one of the lab’s original research buildings was dedicated in honor of William T. Doyle, professor…
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UC Santa Cruz now offers graduate degrees in bioinformatics
The University of California has given formal approval to UC Santa Cruz to begin offering graduate degrees in bioinformatics, an interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and computer science to solve complex problems in biology. UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering…
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New evidence of global warming in Earth’s past supports current models for how climate responds to greenhouse gases
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Scientists have filled in a key piece of the global climate picture for a period 55 million years ago that is considered one of the most abrupt and extreme episodes of global warming in Earth’s history. The new…
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UC Santa Cruz social sciences dean named interim campus provost
Martin M. Chemers has accepted the position of interim campus provost and executive vice chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Tapped by Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood to succeed John B. Simpson, he will step down as dean of the…
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Bay Area recruitment consortium announces launch of first northern California web site for jobs in higher education
The search for a job in higher education at Bay Area universities, community colleges, and professional schools is now a lot less labor intensive due to the development of a new web site. The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)–a group…
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UCSC begins process of updating its long range development plan; first public workshop to take place November 5
UC Santa Cruz is beginning a multiyear effort to update its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), a revision that is expected to guide the campus’s physical development through the year 2020. The first in what is expected to be a…
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UCSC will host a public forum on electronic voting on Sunday, October 26
Are election districts throughout the country adopting unreliable electronic voting technology in a misguided effort to upgrade their voting systems? This question will be addressed by a panel of speakers at a Forum on Electronic Voting on Sunday, October 26,…
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UC Santa Cruz executive vice chancellor tapped for presidency; John B. Simpson to be appointed to the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood announced today (Thursday, October 16) that John B. Simpson will be appointed as president of the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York by the SUNY Regents at their meeting on October 28. “Although John’s…
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Editor’s Advisory: Bay Area’s Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) to launch first Northern California web site for jobs in higher education
The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, a group of 18 Bay Area campuses founded in 2000 by UC Santa Cruz, will announce on Tuesday, October 21, the launch of the first higher education job web site in northern California. You are…
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Disciple of renowned master musician Ali Akbar Khan to kick off new Indian classical music series at UCSC
Violinist Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury–a disciple of renowned master musician Ali Akbar Khan for over 30 years–will kick off the UC Santa Cruz Music Department’s 2003-04 Indian Classical Music series with a concert on Saturday, October 25, at 7:30 p.m. in…