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  • UC Santa Cruz to present 2004 ‘Thinking at the Edge’ Distinguished Lecture Series

    Internationally renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo, award-winning social psychologist Elliot Aronson, and UC Berkeley astronomy professor and planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy are just a few of the diverse array of speakers set to appear at UC Santa Cruz in the coming year. It’s all part of UCSC’s 2004 “Thinking at the Edge” Distinguished Lecture Series,…

  • Eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at annual UCSC convocation

    Actress and producer Yolanda King, eldest child of Martin Luther King, will speak January 20 at UCSC’s annual convocation honoring her father’s memory. Now in its 20th year, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation will be at 7 p.m. in the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.…

  • UC Santa Cruz offers pruning workshops January 10 and 31

    Two UC Santa Cruz gardening experts will show you how to improve the health and productivity of your apple and pear trees at a three-hour pruning workshop on Saturday, January 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. The class takes place at the Louise Cain Gatehouse on the UC Santa Cruz Farm. UCSC garden managers Christof…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • UC and union representing TAs reach tentative accord

    The University of California (UC) and UAW and its affiliated Local 2865 announced on Tuesday evening that they had reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a successor collective bargaining agreement. This morning, UC and UAW released the following joint statement: The University of California (UC) and the UAW and its affiliated Local 2865…

  • UC Santa Cruz film professor wins ‘Academy Award’

    Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp has been named one of two 2003 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences-the same folks who bring us the Academy Awards. Stamp will receive $25,000 from the Academy to complete a book about silent film director/screenwriter/actress Lois Weber. The Film…

  • 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…

  • Dickens holiday evening set for December 5 at UC Santa Cruz

    The Friends of the UCSC Library and the UCSC Dickens Project will present the annual Dickens Holiday Evening on Friday, December 5, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at UCSC’s McHenry Library Foyer. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The gathering will feature traditional Victorian entertainment and music, plus a reading from Dickens and sing-along…

  • UCSC gains from two generations of generosity

    Eugene Walsh knows the value of higher education. Forced to cut short his studies at UCLA to support his parents during the Great Depression, Walsh returned to the classroom decades later, graduating from UCLA’s executive program in 1964, and receiving an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University in 1972. Now, Walsh’s son and daughter-in-law are doing their…

  • $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…

  • UCSC Alumni Association announces award winners for 2003-04

    The UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association will give its highest honors in 2003-04 to a California assemblyman, an anthropologist, and a campus housing staff member. In ceremonies that will take place on campus in February, John Laird will receive the Alumni Achievement Award; Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, the Distinguished Teaching Award; and Carol Douglas-Hammer, the Outstanding Staff…

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