Author: Tim Stephens
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UCSC dedicates new W. M. Keck Isotope Laboratory with a symposium on isotope analysis
The University of California, Santa Cruz, dedicated the W. M. Keck Isotope Laboratory in June with a symposium on isotope analysis. The naming of the facility recognizes a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation that enabled the campus to buy a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer for isotope analysis of trace elements. With the…
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UCSC scientist leads expedition to establish seafloor observatories
An international team of scientists will investigate how water flows through rock formations beneath the seafloor during an eight-week expedition this summer to the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of British Columbia. It will be the first expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an ambitious new international…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Bio industry group from Russia and U.S. State Department will visit UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, June 10
A delegation of Russian scientists working through the U.S. State Department’s BioIndustry Initiative will participate in a full-day program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Thursday, June 10. Reporters are invited to attend the introductory remarks and the symposium. The event will begin with coffee and introductory remarks in the Thimann Courtyard (between…
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Long Marine Lab’s annual ‘Whale of an Auction’ set for Friday, June 18
The Friends of Long Marine Lab will hold a “Whale of an Auction,” the group’s popular annual fundraiser, on Friday, June 18. The event will take place in the Porter College Dining Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus, starting at 6 p.m. In addition to both live and silent auctions, the evening includes a…
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Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen to address 2004 graduates at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering commencement; other UCSC celebrations begin on Thursday
Bruce Chizen, president and CEO of Adobe Systems, Incorporated, will be the keynote speaker this year at the commencement exercises for UC Santa Cruz’s Baskin School of Engineering. The event will take place on Sunday, June 13, at 3:30 p.m. at the Lower West Field, Oakes College, on the UCSC campus. In addition to the…
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Scientists will discuss marine animals and human noise in a free lecture at Seymour Center
The effects of human noise on marine animals is the subject of a special presentation by three marine mammal experts on Thursday, June 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory. Admission is free. Seating is limited and is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. The speakers will be…
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Surprising ‘ultra-conserved’ regions discovered in human genome
Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat, dog, and chicken. The fact that these sequences have remained unchanged over long periods of evolutionary history indicates that they are biologically important, but for…
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Biologist Terrie Williams will read from her book, The Hunter’s Breath, at the Seymour Center on Thursday, May 13
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center will host a celebration of the new book by Terrie Williams, The Hunter’s Breath: On Expedition with the Weddell Seals of the Antarctic, on Thursday, May 13, starting at 6 p.m. Williams, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, will read from the book, talk about…
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Renowned planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy to speak at UCSC
Renowned planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the Spring Halliday Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Marcy will discuss “Extrasolar Planets and the Prospects for Life in the Universe” in his talk, which will take place in Classroom Unit 2…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UC Santa Cruz and community colleges will launch new program for engineering students with a reception at NASA Ames on May 5
The Collaborative for Higher Education, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Foothill-De Anza Community College District will hold a reception to celebrate the launch of their new program to help students prepare for careers in engineering. Reporters are invited to attend this event Funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science…
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Haussler honored by computer science group as an innovator who changed the scientific world
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and director of UCSC’s Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a corecipient of the 2003 Allen Newell Award. Haussler was recognized along with UCLA computer scientist Judea Pearl for separate groundbreaking contributions that have changed the…
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$2 million grant funds joint effort by UCSC and Silicon Valley community colleges to support engineering students
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has joined with two prominent Silicon Valley community colleges–Foothill College and De Anza College–to launch a new program that will help students prepare for careers in engineering. Funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Developing Effective Engineering Pathways (DEEP) program gives community college…