Author: Public Affairs

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Friends of Long Marine Lab will hold a "Whale of an Auction," the group’s popular annual fundraiser, on Friday, June 15. The event will take place in the Porter College Dining Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus, starting at 6 p.m. A social and gastronomic occasion as well as an auction,…

UCSC Physics Student Chosen To Attend Meeting Of Nobel Laureates SANTA CRUZ, CA–Michael Wilson, a graduate student in physics at UC Santa Cruz, is gearing up to spend five days in June hobnobbing with Nobel Prize-winning physicists in an island city on the edge of the Swiss Alps. Wilson has been chosen as one of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, will host a public workshop on Thursday, May 24, to discuss a master plan that the campus is preparing in order to build faculty and staff housing on campus land known as "Inclusion Area D." The workshop, following one that took place on April 5, will focus…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–When Irene Avila traveled to Mexico in 1996 to study the skullbones of gray whales, the UC Santa Cruz undergraduate found it lonely going at first. But by the time she left, she had not only presented her research at a major conference, but had made new friends, attended weddings, and joined a…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The conventional wisdom that a machine is only as good as its parts may no longer apply to cameras and other imaging devices. An engineer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has found a fast way to take blurry, imprecise pictures and turn them into crisp, clear images by using software to…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–America is a fragmented society. A multitude of contradictory agendas. A dizzy kaleidoscope of protean demographics. World War II may have been the last war that will ever have anything resembling popular support, but even then, when those clean-cut soldiers came marching home with every confidence they had set the world right, there…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The silence is almost suffocating–not a leaf-rattle or even the hiss of wind in the scorched mountain grass. Below, on the valley floor, feeble lights strangle in the low creeping haze of now faraway everyday. Beyond, the black buffalo ridgeline humps up in the clear air against the last smoldering banner of daylight.…

Which Came First, Minorities Or Toxics? New Study Documents Siting Of Hazards In Established Minority Neighborhoods Of Los Angeles SANTA CRUZ, CA–Which came first, minority neighborhoods or toxic storage facilities? A new study of metropolitan Los Angeles documents that neighborhoods that were selected to house toxic storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs) were more minority, poorer,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has launched a new major in bioinformatics leading to a bachelor of science (B.S.) degree. The school will begin admitting students to the new major in fall 2001. Bioinformatics, also called computational biology, is an interdisciplinary field that brings the power…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The UC Santa Cruz Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host the first annual Joseph. F. Bunnett Research Organic Chemistry Lecture at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 4. The lecture, which is supported by an endowment fund of private contributions, is in honor of Professor Emeritus Joseph Bunnett. This year’s lecture will be…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–If you’ve ever approached total synaptic stultification under the relentless fatuity of TV network programming, or felt like you were going to claw through the wallpaper if you heard one more inane sitcom laugh track, you’ve probably gotten on your remote and surfed some of those esoteric, double-digit cable combers. You may have…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The enormous popularity of films like _Titanic, The Bridges of Madison County, and Pretty Woman _reveals the universal appeal of a good love story. As in real life, though, the stories told in these three blockbusters don’t always end happily. Sociologist Marcia Millman, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, believes…