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Researchers Uncover How A Pox Virus Fools The Immune System SANTA CRUZ, CA–Research on a rabbit pox virus has shed light on how some viruses sneak past our immune defenses. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found three separate mechanisms by which the pox virus, myxoma, silences the messengers that would normally…

Deep-diving Sea Lions Pushed To Edge Of Physical Limit, Study Shows SANTA CRUZ, CA–A new study may help explain why certain species of marine mammals seem particularly vulnerable to changes in their food supply. Researchers have found that some deep-diving sea lions already work so hard searching for food that their ability to increase the…

UCSC Will Hold Fourth Community Meeting On Plans For Long Marine Laboratory On Monday, July 30 SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, will hold a public workshop on Monday, July 30, to discuss progress toward developing a Coastal Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) for Long Marine Laboratory. The meeting will take place from…

Researchers Seek Clues To Submarine Quakes At Plate Collision Zone In Japan’s Nankai Trough SANTA CRUZ, CA–Seeking new clues to the cause of some of the Earth’s most powerful earthquakes, an international group of scientists aboard the Ocean Drilling Program vessel JOIDES Resolution is using special technology to measure and monitor physical properties at a…

Four College Provosts Appointed, Two Reappointed At UCSC SANTA CRUZ, CA–Four UCSC faculty have been newly named to the position of college provost. The new provosts are Professor Joel Ferguson, Crown College; Associate Professor Margo Hendricks, Stevenson College; Professor David Evan Jones, Porter College. In addition, Lecturer Conn Hallinan has been appointed Associate Provost of…

UC Santa Cruz Ranked Second Worldwide In Physical Sciences Research SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, is the second most influential university in the world in the physical sciences, according to rankings of research universities and other institutions published recently by the British newspaper The Guardian. The rankings are based on an analysis…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, is the second most influential university in the world in the physical sciences, according to rankings of research universities and other institutions published recently by the British newspaper The Guardian. The rankings are based on an analysis of scholarly publications from 1994 to 1998. Data for the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–According to the visionary speculations of the web wizards and Internet gurus, over-the-counter purchases should have been just about obsolete by now. By the middle of 2001, we were expected to be suckling at the teat of technology for all our needs–credit card numbers whizzing through cyberspace in an orchestrated orgy of high-tech…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In May 1985, a group of eminent biologists gathered at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to discuss a radical proposal put forth by molecular biologist Robert Sinsheimer, then chancellor of the UCSC campus. His idea was to launch a massive project to determine the complete DNA sequence of the human genome. It…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–"I was an A-plus student and I wanted with all my heart to go to college," Shirley Primack Azen recalls, "but my father was adamantly opposed to a female having an education beyond high school." There is no hint of bitterness in her voice. Azen, now into her 80s and with a doctorate…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The UC Santa Cruz Foundation has elected David B. Regan of Santa Cruz as president of the board. His two-year term took effect at the board’s meeting on June 1. The publisher of the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper, Regan has lived in Santa Cruz since 1983. In addition to his work as a…