Author: Tim Stephens
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Quentin Williams appointed chair of UCSC Academic Senate
Quentin Williams, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, has been appointed chair of UCSC’s Academic Senate.
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UCSC’s new year getting under way
UCSC students began moving into university housing on Friday (September 21), in anticipation of the 2007-08 school year.
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National report on space program recommends missions to study dark energy and black holes
UCSC physics professor Joel Primack had some good news for his colleagues when he gave a briefing on campus last week to outline the findings of a national report on NASA’s space science programs.
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UCSC research funding tops $100 million in 2006-07
UCSC researchers attracted $111 million in external grants and contracts to the campus in the 2006-07 fiscal year. This marks the second year in a row that research funding at UCSC has exceeded $100 million.
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Chemical Screening Center at UCSC will search for new drugs
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will shift their search for potential drugs into high gear on September 21, when a new Chemical Screening Center opens for business.
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Extra gene copies were enough to make early humans’ mouths water
To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That’s one interpretation of a discovery, published online September 9 in Nature Genetics, which indicates that humans carry extra copies of the salivary amylase gene.
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UCSC receives $120,000 HP Technology for Teaching leadership grant
Hewlett-Packard has selected UCSC as one of 10 recipients of its 2007 Technology for Teaching Leadership grants.
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Major gift supports crucial piece of Automated Planet Finder
The Gloria and Kenneth Levy Foundation has donated $600,000 to fund an innovative spectrometer for the Automated Planet Finder at UC’s Lick Observatory.
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Thirty-Meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation
UC and Caltech have each received $7.5 million in additional funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development of the Thirty-Meter Telescope.
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UCSC launches reclaimed water study
UCSC is initiating a study to assess the feasibility of developing an on-campus system for reclaiming and recycling water.
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New light-sensing ability discovered in disease-causing bacteria
The bacteria that cause brucellosis can sense light and use the information to regulate their virulence, according to a study by UCSC researchers.
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UCSC professor emeritus William Doyle publishes new reference for California botanists
William T. Doyle, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, has published a comprehensive reference on the liverworts and hornworts of California.