Author: Tim Stephens
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UCSC ocean scientist Margaret Delaney elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Margaret Delaney, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The AGU fellows are a select group of distinguished scientists who have attained an acknowledged eminence in a branch of the geophysical sciences. Delaney’s research in paleoceanography and marine geochemistry involves…
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Pioneering AIDS researcher Robert Gallo to speak at UCSC on Thursday, March 4
Robert C. Gallo, M.D., the scientist who 20 years ago codiscovered the HIV virus as the cause of AIDS, will deliver the fourth annual Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, March 4. The title of his talk is “HIV and AIDS in the 21st Century.” The lecture, which is free…
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UCSC forms new Department of Biomolecular Engineering
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has established a new Department of Biomolecular Engineering within the Baskin School of Engineering. The department is the new home for UCSC’s renowned programs in bioinformatics, and includes faculty and researchers with interests in nanotechnology, protein engineering, and DNA microarrays (also known as “gene chips”). The department’s unique interdisciplinary…
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UCSC offers new degree in applied physics
The University of California, Santa Cruz, is offering a new major leading to a B.S. degree in applied physics, designed to prepare students for careers in industry. The other option offered for undergraduates by the Department of Physics is a physics degree that focuses on preparing students for graduate study in physics. The department created…
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Studies show global warming is likely to drive big changes in California’s coastal waters through effects on upwelling
Global warming could have profound effects on the wind-driven upwelling of deep ocean water along the California coast, according to recent studies by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The studies showed changes in both the intensity and the seasonal timing of the upwelling, which brings cold, nutrient-rich water into coastal ecosystems. This…
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $17.5 million for Thirty-Meter Telescope plans
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $17.5 million to the University of California for collaboration with the California Institute of Technology on a project intended to build the world’s most powerful telescope. Coupled with an award by the Foundation to Caltech for the same amount, a total of $35 million is now available for…
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Professor of ocean sciences Kenneth Bruland appointed to the Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair in Ocean Health at UCSC
Kenneth Bruland, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has spent more than 25 years studying the chemistry of the ocean and the ways in which trace amounts of certain elements influence marine ecosystems. Bruland was a pioneer in the development of the demanding techniques needed to measure trace elements in…
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$1 million gift to scholarship fund will support women in engineering at UCSC
Women studying engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be the beneficiaries of a $1 million contribution to the Amy Beth Snader Memorial Scholarship Fund from the estate of Barbara Snader. The scholarship fund was established in 1997 in memory of Barbara Snader’s daughter, Amy, a UCSC alumna who died in a hiking…
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UCSC Arboretum will hold Wreath Sale on Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16
Wonderful holiday decorations and gifts will be available from the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum at the annual Dried Flower and Succulent Wreath Sale on Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16. Exotic dried flower arrangements, living succulent wreaths, rare and unusual succulent plants, and materials for making your own gifts are among the offerings at…
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Long Marine Lab research building named in honor of William T. Doyle, founding director of UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences
A monthlong celebration of the 25th anniversary of UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory culminated in a ceremony on Saturday, October 25, at which one of the lab’s original research buildings was dedicated in honor of William T. Doyle, professor emeritus of biology and founder and long-term director of UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS).…
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UC Santa Cruz now offers graduate degrees in bioinformatics
The University of California has given formal approval to UC Santa Cruz to begin offering graduate degrees in bioinformatics, an interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and computer science to solve complex problems in biology. UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering now has programs leading to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in bioinformatics, in addition to the…
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New evidence of global warming in Earth’s past supports current models for how climate responds to greenhouse gases
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Scientists have filled in a key piece of the global climate picture for a period 55 million years ago that is considered one of the most abrupt and extreme episodes of global warming in Earth’s history. The new results from an analysis of sediment cores from the ocean floor are consistent with theoretical…