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SANTA CRUZ, CA–Stanford E. Woosley, professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honor reserved for the country’s most distinguished scientists, artists, and public figures. In addition to Woosley, this year’s fellows and foreign honorary…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Enriching UCSC library collections for generations to come, the Candy Coonerty Memorial Endowment has been established with a $10,000 gift from her family to honor her memory and continue to champion her passions for reading and the arts. Coonerty, co-owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz in downtown Santa Cruz, was a knowledgeable and devoted…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In an oral history just published by the Regional History Project of the University Library at UCSC, one of the most influential legislators in the history of Central California politics provides a guide to the extensive personal archive he donated to the library in his oral history narration: Henry J. Mello: A Life…

UC Santa Cruz Astronomer Elected To American Academy Of Arts And Sciences SANTA CRUZ, CA–Stanford E. Woosley, professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honor reserved for the country’s most distinguished scientists, artists, and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–"I was standing in the lobby after the ceremony holding my Oscar and some guy walks right up to me and says: ‘It’s all downhill from here, kid.’" On the other end of the phone, Stephen Mirrione laughs recalling the stranger’s dire prediction at the 72nd Academy Awards in March. "He may be…

Noted Biologist To Discuss Protein Diversity, Inaugurating A New Series Of Annual Lectures In Biology At UC Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–When researchers published the first draft of the human genome in February, one unexpected finding was that humans have only 30,000 to 35,000 genes, about twice as many as a fly. This prompted some…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–It isn’t easy being an artist, especially in a culture that spews such a dizzying flood of sensory stimulation. More images, and sounds, and lines of copy gush from the electronic media on a given day than in all of recorded history before it was invented–most of it having little to do with…

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,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Of course, you’ve noticed it by now: the spreading leaf shade, the thickets of bright blossoms. Spring has arrived and local gardens have responded with sweet floral generosity–nowhere more than at the UCSC Arboretum. And it isn’t just the flora that’s responding to the siren song of spring–on May 20, from 10 a.m.…

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–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 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…