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ARCS Foundation scholarships support nine outstanding graduate students at UCSC
Nine UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $100,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2005-06 academic year. The Northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation is the most generous provider of annual private awards to the UCSC campus and has provided more than $1…
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History professor’s research questions common assumption of irresolvable conflict between Christians, Muslims, and Jews
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of history Brian Catlos has spent years researching how Christians, Muslims, and Jews interact. Although his main focus has been on studying ethnic and religious minorities in the Mediterranean during medieval times, Catlos has inadvertently discovered a pattern running throughout history that applies directly to present-day political and social realities.…
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New analysis puts dark matter back into elliptical galaxies
According to the prevailing “cold dark matter” theory of the evolution of the universe, every galaxy is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that can only be detected indirectly by observing its gravitational effects. This theory faced a challenge in 2003, when a team of astronomers reported a surprising absence of dark matter in…
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UCSC fills Campus Provost position, other senior administrative posts
The Regents of the University of California have approved the appointment of Professor David S. Kliger to the position of campus provost and executive vice chancellor at UC Santa Cruz. Kliger, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and former dean of physical and biological sciences, had served in the campus’s number two administrative position on…
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Fall Plant Sale at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum on Saturday, October 8, features Australian fuchsias and South African featherheads
The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum will hold its annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 8, from noon to 4 p.m. The sale will take place at the Arboretum’s Eucalyptus Grove on High Street near the intersection with Western Drive. For gardeners on the Central Coast, fall is always a good time to get new…
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UCSC Humanities Division offers new seminars for local schoolteachers
Since 2003, the UCSC Humanities Division’s Teacher Scholar Program has offered a series of seminars each year to help local middle, junior, and high school teachers with curriculum enrichment. Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Salinas Union High School District, UCSC Extension, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation,…
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UC Santa Cruz to present conference on body modification Oct. 14-16
The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (IAFR) will present a three-day conference on body modification, October 14-16, on the university campus. The conference will explore our culture’s fascination with body modifications that range from tattooing, piercing, and cutting, to anorexia, plastic surgery, organ transplants, and life-extension technologies. Titled “Bodies in the Making:…