Gifts & Grants
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Grant provides funds for high-throughput DNA sequencer
UCSC scientists will be able to sequence DNA using next-generation high-throughput instrumentation, thanks to new funding from the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences.
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Researchers attract record $131 million in funding in 2007-08
UCSC researchers attracted a record $131 million in external grants and contracts to the campus in the 2007-08 fiscal year.
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Linguistics professor receives grant to help preserve endangered language
UCSC professor of linguistics Sandra Chung has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative project to help preserve the endangered Chamorro language.
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Moore Foundation awards $3.7 million in additional funding for UCSC ocean scientist Jonathan Zehr
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a four-year, $3.7 million grant to Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences at UCSC.
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UCSC receives NEA grant to celebrate poetry of environmental advocate Robinson Jeffers
UC Santa Cruz is one of three California organizations who received grants today from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to celebrate the poetry of Robinson Jeffers.
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UC Santa Cruz awarded $700,000 challenge grant from Kresge Foundation for McHenry Library construction
UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $700,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation toward the construction and modernization of McHenry Library.
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Moore Foundation renews support for marine microbiology research at UCSC
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a $4.8 million grant to UCSC to fund ongoing research in marine microbiology.
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Grateful Dead donates archives to UC Santa Cruz
At a press conference in San Francisco on April 24, members of the Grateful Dead announced that the band will donate its archives to the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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UCSC faculty receive $4.5 million in new grants for stem cell research
Two UCSC faculty members have received major grants totalling $4.5 million for stem cell research from the California Insitute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
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UCSC selected to join new Science Education Alliance
UCSC has been selected as one of 12 inaugural members of the Science Education Alliance (SEA), a new program developed and funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) that aims to enhance the teaching of science and inspire new generations of res
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New Social Sciences research award honors Martin Chemers
The new Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research in the Division of Social Sciences recognizes senior faculty members who have made major impacts through their research.