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Three days devoted to improving teaching SANTA CRUZ, CA–Kerry Mazzoni, California’s new secretary of education, will headline the third annual symposium on new teacher support being hosted by the UC Santa Cruz New Teacher Center. The event takes place January 31-February 2 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference, "Quality Mentoring: Staying…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–‘Tis the season to be thinking about fruit trees–buying, planting, and pruning. No matter what questions you have, there’s an upcoming workshop that will provide all the answers. General care and varietal selections for the home garden will be the topic on Saturday, January 20. Orin Martin, manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden…

EDITOR’S ADVISORY What: UC Santa Cruz political scientist Gwendolyn Mink is one of 21 leaders identified by Women’s Enews as those who will "move and shape this century on behalf of all women." Mink, an expert on women and poverty, is the only academic on a list that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton and the founder…

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Modern Language Association of America will present its 16th annual Howard R. Marraro Prize to UC Santa Cruz literature professor Margaret Brose for her book, Leopardi Sublime (Bologna, Italy; Re Enzo Editrice, 1998). The Marraro Prize, which is jointly awarded with the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Literary Studies, is only…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–The West Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 5 to 6 meters, has been a focal point of concerns about global warming since the 1970s. According to a new analysis of ice streams that flow through the huge ice mass, a complete collapse of the ice…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–Erosion of seacliffs, damage to coastal structures, and the comings and goings of beach sand along California’s central coast are all closely linked to the intense winter storms associated with El Niño. Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveal the connections between this climatic heavy hitter and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, will play a key role in one of three new [California Institutes for Science and Innovation][2] established today by Governor Gray Davis. The Institute for Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) will be centered at UC San Francisco with major research components at UC Santa Cruz…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A new study suggests that too much manganese, an essential element required by the body in tiny amounts but toxic at elevated levels, may contribute to the early development of Parkinson’s disease symptoms in susceptible people. Recent epidemiological studies have suggested an association between Parkinson’s disease and elevated exposure to manganese. The new…

A Celebration Of His Life Is Planned For Saturday, December 2 SANTA CRUZ, CA–Ronald W. Henderson, a professor emeritus of education and psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose research focused on improving educational opportunities for underrepresented minorities, died at his Santa Cruz home November 24 after a lengthy battle with melanoma. He…

New Educational Video Fosters Cultural Understanding By Revealing Roots Of Food Preferences And Taboos SANTA CRUZ, CA–Instead of turkey and mashed potatoes, imagine filling your holiday plate with fried spiders and rattlesnake. Sound yucky? Welcome to the world of food preferences, where what is considered delicious–and disgusting–is more a matter of culture than most people…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–NAACP President Kweisi Mfume will be the keynote speaker at UC Santa Cruz’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation on January 24. The event begins at 7 P.M. at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street. It is free and open to the public. Mfume, who has led the National Association…

RENO, NV–Among the large mammals that roamed prehistoric North America was a type of rhinoceros that seems to have lived in the water, much like a modern hippopotamus. The extinct rhinoceros, known as Teleoceras, ranged from Florida to the West Coast from about 17 million years ago until about 4.5 million years ago. Its semi-aquatic…