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Supervising producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 speaks at UC Santa Cruz October 6
Documentary filmmaker Tia Lessin, the supervising producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, will give a free public talk on Wednesday, October 6, at UC Santa Cruz. Lessin’s talk, “Documentary Film and Human Rights,” will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room 150 of the Communications Building. An accomplished filmmaker in her own right, Lessin has…
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UC Santa Cruz finalizes purchase of Texas Instruments site
The University of California, Santa Cruz announced today (September 27) the closure of escrow to purchase the land and facilities formerly occupied by Texas Instruments. All paperwork was finalized on September 24. The site is located at 2300 Delaware Avenue in Santa Cruz. “This is a unique and very desirable opportunity for our campus,” stated…
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UCSC builds on landmark NASA contract to expand UC presence in Silicon Valley
With over 100 employees and funding for current research tasks at about $18 million, the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) at Moffett Field has quickly become a dynamic center of activity for the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Managed by UC Santa Cruz in partnership with NASA Ames Research…
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Alumnus Joseph DeRisi wins coveted MacArthur Fellowship
UCSC alumnus Joseph DeRisi, an associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UC San Francisco, is among 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2004 named in September by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. DeRisi, 35, will receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years. DeRisi, who received his B.S.…
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UCSC astronomer Claire Max receives 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics to Claire Max, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Max, who is deputy director of the Center for Adaptive Optics at UCSC and holds a joint appointment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,…
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Campus raises record $32.2 million in private gifts during 2003-04 year
For Immediate Release SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz raised a record $32.2 million from private donors in 2003-04, an increase of 42 percent over the $22.7 million raised the year before. “This record level of support for UC Santa Cruz could not have come at a more critical time,” said Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers.…
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NIH training grants provide more than $1.5 million to support graduate students at UCSC
Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are receiving increased support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through training grants to two campus departments. The prestigious NIH training grants provide support for graduate students in specified areas of biomedical research. The agency has awarded a new NIH training grant in bioinformatics to…
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EDITOR’S ADVISORY: New academic year brings new students, academic offerings, housing, other facilities
SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz students began moving into university housing today (Thursday, September 16) in anticipation of the 2004-05 school year. The first day of instruction in the fall quarter is Thursday, September 23. The fall-quarter “move in” for students living on campus continues through Sunday, September 19. (See schedule, below, for photo opportunities.)…
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Acclaimed New Yorker magazine staff writer and UCSC alumnus to return for speaking engagement at Cowell College
For the past two decades, longtime New Yorker magazine staff writer and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Lawrence Weschler has written about unexpected relationships between art, culture, war, and peace. On Friday, September 24, the 1974 Cowell College graduate will return to the UCSC campus to speak on the topic: “Serenity and Terror in Vermeer, and…