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UCSC graduate student’s research leads to environmental victory in Coronado Islands
Graduate student Shaye Wolf’s findings have helped save endangered seabirds from the potentially devastating effects of a liquified natural gas facility planned for a site in Baja California.
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UCSC Arboretum holds annual Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, April 21
The UCSC Arboretum will hold its annual Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, April 21, from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
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Astrobiologist Carl Pilcher to speak at UCSC on Thursday, April 19
Carl Pilcher, director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, will give the annual Sigma Xi Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, April 19.
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UC Santa Cruz to have faculty art exchange with Japan
FUSE, a group show featuring new work by 12 members of the UC Santa Cruz art faculty, will travel to Japan later this year for exhibit at two university art galleries in Tokyo and Kyoto. Running from April 11 to May 12 at UCSC’s Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, the exhibition explores the influence of digital…
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‘Green-collar’ jobs can relieve poverty and transform cities, says activist Van Jones, who will speak April 25 at UCSC
The battle to save the planet could create an “eco-apartheid” unless low-income areas and communities of color get their share of new “green-collar” jobs, according to Van Jones, an Oakland-based progressive leader whose vision of environmentalism puts po
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UCSC students monitor peregrine falcons after release at Long Marine Lab
Three peregrine falcons released by the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group are testing their wings around Long Marine Laboratory under the watchful eyes of a group of UCSC students.
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Wildlife photographer Kennan Ward branches out with feature-length documentary about grizzly cubs
Kennan Ward, who earned a B.A. in environmental studies and wildlife biology from UC Santa Cruz in 1980, has spent three decades crisscrossing the globe to photograph animals in the wild.
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Physicist Bruce Rosenblum to speak at UCSC on Monday, April 9
Physicist Bruce Rosenblum will give an Emeriti Faculty Lecture on the topic of “The Quantum Enigma: Has Physics Encountered Consciousness?”
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Lecture at UCSC to address engineering and national priorities on Thursday, April 12
Richard Buckius, assistant director for engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF), will speak at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, April 12, on the topic of “Engineering and National Priorities.”
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UCSC lecture series spotlights coastal policy challenges
A ten-week lecture series at UC Santa Cruz on “Coastal Policy Challenges of the 21st Century” will be held on Wednesdays at 2 p.m., starting April 4.
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UC Santa Cruz to collaborate with three universities for live online concert
Musicians from UC Santa Cruz and three other universities will improvise music over the internet simultaneously from different locations in a live telematic music concert on Thursday, March 22, at 5 p.m. The performance will stream live. As part of her MFA Thesis in Digital Arts and New Media (DANM), UC Santa Cruz graduate student…