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UC Santa Cruz Psychology Professor Honored For Teaching SANTA CRUZ, CA–Jean Fox Tree, an assistant professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, was honored by the Division of Social Sciences today (Thursday, October 21) for her excellence in teaching. Fox Tree, whose work was recently written up by the New York Times and featured on…

Fire Breaks Out In UC Santa Cruz Chemistry Lab One Student Is Hospitalized After Spilled Solvent Ignites SANTA CRUZ, CA–A fire that broke out in a UC Santa Cruz science building late Wednesday afternoon injured one student and caused minor damage to a chemistry laboratory. The fire was reported at 5:18 p.m. on the first…

UC Santa Cruz Graduate Students Receive Ford Foundation Fellowships SANTA CRUZ, CA-Four graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received Ford Foundation fellowships totaling nearly $80,000. Luz Calvo, a graduate student studying history of consciousness, received a $21,500 "dissertation fellows" award. In addition, three other graduate students received $14,000 fellowships plus payment…

UCSC Hosts Leading Native American Artist Winona Laduke** SANTA CRUZ, CA–Winona LaDuke, one of the nation’s leading Native American and environmental activists, is coming to the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Tuesday, October 26, at 8 p.m. LaDuke will speak and read from her new book, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and…

UCSC Offers Physics Workshop For High School Teachers SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a physics workshop for high school teachers on Saturday, November 13. The workshop, which is free and open to all teachers, will take place from 8:30 a.m. to…

UCSC Memorial Planned For Computer Scientist David Huffman Remembrance Will Take Place On Saturday, October 23, At 3 P.m. SANTA CRUZ, CA–A memorial service for David A. Huffman, the founding faculty member of UC Santa Cruz’s Computer Science Department and a pioneer in the field, will take place on campus on Saturday, October 23. Huffman…

UC Santa Cruz To Host ‘preview Day’ For Prospective Students SANTA CRUZ, CA–Preview Day at the University of California, Santa Cruz–held each fall for prospective students, their parents, and counselors–will take place on campus on Saturday, October 16, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The day’s activities will include student-led campus tours of UCSC’s eight…

Eminent UCSC computer scientist David Huffman dies at age 74 ‘Huffman Codes’ Used In Fax Machines, Modems, Other Applications Involving The Compression Of Data SANTA CRUZ, CA–David A. Huffman, the founding faculty member of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a pioneer in the field, died at a local…

Surprise Grant To UC Santa Cruz Library Will Turn Materials From Obsolete To Cutting Edge SANTA CRUZ, CA–Since 1971, Slide Collections in the University Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been the home of the archive of photographer Branson DeCou. But, because DeCou produced mainly lantern slides, the delicate and dated format…

Astronomer Alex Filippenko To Give Free Public Astronomy Talk To UC Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–Recent observations of very distant exploding stars have provided evidence that the expansion of the universe is speeding up with time rather than slowing down as cosmologists had expected. These observations, called the Science Breakthrough of 1998 by Science magazine,…

UC Santa Cruz Engineer Awarded $625,000 Packard Fellowship Researcher Ali Shakouri Is Helping To Develop Cooler Computer Chips SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the sixth consecutive year, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has garnered one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for young faculty members: a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science…

UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association Welcomes Its 10,000th Member** SANTA CRUZ, CA–The UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association welcomed its 10,000th member this week, marking the latest milestone for an organization that has supported the university since its first class graduated in 1968. The newest member is Melyssa Jo Kelly, a re-entry student who graduated from…