Author: Public Affairs
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Two Eminent San Francisco Authors Present Public Reading At UCSC
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, two prominent San Francisco area poet/authors, will read from their works on Thursday, November 30, at 4 p.m. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the Cowell College Provost’s House. The talk is free and open to the public. Bellamy is a leading figure in the "New…
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New Book By UC Santa Cruz Sociologist Examines Television And Race
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Million Man March. The O. J. Simpson trial. The Los Angeles riots. The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings. In recent years, current events have put issues of race at the top of the American agenda, and each of these events is indelibly linked with television images, says Herman Gray, an associate professor of…
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Scientists Map The Structure Of A Protein-Rna Complex In A Retrovirus
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Biochemists have published the first detailed view of the molecular tango between two critical units in the life cycle of a retrovirus–a virus that uses RNA, not DNA, to direct its genetic infiltration of a host cell. The research reveals a precise fit between the viral RNA and a section of a protein…
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Dinner And Holiday Fun At Crow’s Nest To Benefit Public Education At Long Marine Lab
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Crow’s Nest restaurant on the shores of Monterey Bay will support public education programs at another well-known bayside institution, the Long Marine Laboratory, with "Cheers at the Crow’s Nest," a benefit holiday celebration on Thursday, December 7. For all diners who state their support for Long Marine Lab, the Crow’s Nest will…
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UCSC Physicist Elected Fellow Of National Scientific Society
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Joel Primack, a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest federation of scientists. The AAAS Council elevates members to the rank of fellow to recognize distinguished efforts toward advancing science or its…
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Hubble Space Telescope Peers Deep Into The Crowded Heart Of The Densest Known Star Cluster
SANTA CRUZ, CA–By pinpointing individual suns in the glare of the most tightly packed cluster of stars in our galaxy, the Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled hints of either a massive black hole or another remarkable phenomenon: a "core collapse" driven by the intense gravitational pull of so many stars in such a small volume…
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DDT Contamination In Sea Lions Plummets A Hundredfold In Twenty Years
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Amid concerns about the lingering effects of DDT along California’s coast comes this bit of good news: Sea lions carried about one hundred times less of the toxic substance in their fat a few years ago than they did two decades earlier. The average level of DDT and its major breakdown product, DDE,…
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UC Santa Cruz Anthropologist’s New Book Offers Insight Into African Cultural Practices That Have Sparked Outrage In The West
SANTA CRUZ, CA–For anthropologist Carolyn Martin Shaw, the decision to address the subject of female genital mutilation in her new book meant confronting much of the feminist rhetoric about clitoridectomy. "I am not an apologist for this operation–I think it should be ended–but at the same time, I wanted to understand why women participate in…
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ARCS Foundation Recognizes Eleven UCSC Students
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Eleven science students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received $5,000 scholarships from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation. The students were honored today (November 1) at a ceremony in San Francisco. Now in its 23rd year of awarding scholarships, the northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation awarded…
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Book-In-Progress On Composer Lou Harrison Receives NEH Funding
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Leta Miller and Fredric Lieberman, both professors of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received a $51,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support their work on a book on composer Lou Harrison. In addition, Miller received a prestigious NEH summer stipend to work on the project…
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New Contract Will Promote Redevelopment In Monterey Bay Region By Guiding Technology Center At Fort Ord
SANTA CRUZ, CA–"If you build it, they will come." That may work in Hollywood fantasies, but it rarely holds true in the harsh reality of today’s business world. Many new ventures fail for lack of clients after sparkling new buildings are in place. Such failures are most painful when the venture is an ambitious "research…
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Kenneth Patchen Painted Poems Appear In 1996 Calendar
Calendar Uses Works From Kenneth Patchen Archive At UC Santa Cruz’s University Library SANTA CRUZ, CA–Twelve of the "painted poems" of poet/novelist/artist Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) are featured in a 1996 calendar published by Pomegranate Press of Rohnert Park, Calif. Titled "Sure Is One Peculiar Way to Run a Ballgame," the calendar features reproductions of painted…