Campus News

A work crew from the California Youth Authority will clear a campus fire road on Monday, August 18. The crew of 15 people will cut brush back from either side of the road, which starts behind the UCSC Fire Station and runs behind the campus to the Twin Gates area off Empire Grade. The work…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A four-pound meteorite from Mars, known unromantically as ALH84001, rocked the world last year when researchers claimed it held evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. Now, the National Science Foundation has awarded $800,000 for seven new projects to test that extraordinary claim in detail. Among the grantees is Greg Rau,…

Conference Features Presentations By World’s Leading Scholars As Well As Public Performances SANTA CRUZ, CA–Leading scholars in Andean Quechuan studies from around the world will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz, September 4-6 for the conference, The Quechua Expressive Art: Creativity, Analysis, and Performance. The conference features lectures, symposia, and performances. All events…

The Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence has issued its first research report. Titled From At-Risk to Excellence: Research, Theory, and Principles for Practice, the report was written by professor of psychology and education Roland Tharp, who is director of CREDE. The report details CREDE’s research agenda and draws on findings from previous…

Firefighters from UC Santa Cruz, the California Department of Forestry (CDF), and other local crews set fire to nearly 55 acres of campus meadowland in late July. Sunny weather, a light breeze, and low humidity helped the fire along. UCSC Fire Chief Chuck Hernandez called the controlled burn "very successful." The burn took place in…

The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG), based at UCSC’s Long Marine Lab, is one of 40 nonprofit organizations to receive a grant of approximately $5,000 in Geographic Information System hardware, software, and training from the Conservation Technology Support Program of Helena, Montana. The Conservation Technology Support Program makes gifts of complete information systems…

Users of UCSC’s planned $3.6-million fitness center will have a grand view of the Monterey Bay to take their minds off their workouts. The fitness center will be located just south of the tennis courts in the East Field area. The siting was based on a recommendation from a committee made up of students, faculty,…

The July 21 dedication of the state’s new Oiled Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center drew slick coverage from media throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood and Gary Griggs, director of UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences, appeared in many of the reports. Coverage included TV stations KRON, KPIX, KNTV, KION, and KSBW,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Visit a science museum, scan a textbook, or read any science magazine, and you’ll see it: scientific illustration, an art that both enhances and explains the often complex topics at hand. It’s a growing field, and UC Santa Cruz–thanks to the internationally renowned illustration track of its Science Communication Program–plays a key role…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG), based at the UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab, is one of 40 nonprofit organizations to receive a grant of approximately $5,000 in Geographic Information System hardware, software, and training from the Conservation Technology Support Program of Helena, Montana. The Conservation Technology Support Program makes…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Longtime Salinas resident Helen Johnson has sponsored a series of summer nature classes at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum for schoolchildren from the Salinas, Watsonville, and Santa Cruz areas. Johnson also has donated $1,000 to the Arboretum as seed money to start the Helen Johnson UCSC Arboretum Junior Nature Education Fund, which will…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Remote islands of surreal beauty, the foggy, windswept Aleutians are thousands of miles from heavily populated areas. Even so, the islands harbor a nasty reminder of human activity: Sea otters and bald eagle eggs from the western Aleutians carry potentially harmful levels of DDT and other contaminants. A team led by scientists from…