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MEDIA ADVISORY: NSF Director Rita Colwell to speak at UCSC on June 21 at dedication of Center for Adaptive Optics
What: Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation, will speak at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as part of a dedication ceremony for the national Center for Adaptive Optics. Where: Science Hill, UC Santa Cruz When: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:30 p.m. Address by Rita Colwell, Director of the National Science Foundation “NSF’s…
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Researchers find clues to the normal function of prion proteins
All mammals produce a version of the prion protein, but scientists don’t know what it normally does. In an altered form, the prion protein becomes an infectious agent that causes “mad cow disease” and its counterparts in other animals, including humans. Researchers now suspect the normal prion protein plays a role in the transport or…
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Long Marine Lab’s annual ‘Whale of an Auction’ set for June 14
The Friends of Long Marine Lab will hold a “Whale of an Auction,” the group’s popular annual fundraiser, on Friday, June 14. The event will take place in the Porter College Dining Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus, starting at 6 p.m. A social and gastronomic occasion as well as an auction, the evening…
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Intertidal monitoring program provides information for the sanctuary as well as science education for high school students
For over 25 years, John Pearse taught students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, about marine life along the shore of the Central Coast through hands-on activities. Now the UCSC professor emeritus of biology is bringing his expertise and love of science to high school students through the Seymour Intertidal Monitoring Program (SIMP), an…
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Undergraduates honored at UCSC Achievement Awards ceremony
More than 400 UC Santa Cruz undergraduates who have received national, state, and campus awards will be honored at the annual Student Achievement Week Awards ceremony on May 31 from 3 to 5 p.m. at University House on the UCSC campus. Reporters and photographers are invited to attend the invitation-only awards ceremony and interview award…
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Longtime UCSC historian named provost of UCSC’s Oakes College
Pedro Castillo, a longtime professor at UC Santa Cruz, has been named provost of the campus’s Oakes College. His three-year appointment, which takes effect July 1, was announced today by Lynda Goff, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at UCSC. Castillo succeeds David Anthony, who has served as provost since 1996. Castillo has been…
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California Energy Commission enlists UC Santa Cruz research group in effort to prevent bird deaths caused by power lines
The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1 million grant to the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG) to help solve the problem of bird deaths caused by power lines and other structures used for electricity transmission. Thousands of hawks, eagles, owls, and other birds die each year from electrocution and collisions with power…
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Celebration reading highlights the work of young writers
They’ve polished their prose and published their poems, so now the young authors are ready to share their writing publicly at the Celebration Reading. This event is the annual culmination of the Creative Writing in the Schools program, which places University of California, Santa Cruz, students, trained to teach creative writing workshops, in local secondary…
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Classics event features newly discovered third century B.C. poems
100 recently discovered Greek poems, written on papyrus recycled as mummy wrappings, will be the topic of the 17th annual Carl M. Deppe Memorial Lecture in Classical Studies. The lecture, on May 23 at 4 p.m. at the Cowell College Provost House, University of California, Santa Cruz, is free and open to the public. The…