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SANTA CRUZ, CA–Beginning this fall, college-bound students seeking information about UC Santa Cruz can use the World Wide Web to create their own personal "Success Team"–a group of UCSC professionals dedicated to providing each student with guidance on everything from deadlines to housing options. Success Teams build a bridge to personal contact by using the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Scientists have exposed for the first time the precise interactions between a common class of antibiotics and the vital machinery in bacteria that they disable, setting the stage for targeted efforts by researchers to design new and more effective drugs. A team led by biochemist Joseph Puglisi of the University of California, Santa…

Cliff Harris, Ph.D. candidate in chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz, calls himself "The Kid’s Chemist." That nickname is well deserved, Harris proved recently, as he held hundreds of kids in thrall with chemistry demonstrations at the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose. Harris conducted his innovative, funny, and visually striking educational programs for…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Carter Wilson, a professor of community studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won the 1996 Ruth Benedict Prize for his book Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995). The prize recognizes the best monograph on a gay or lesbian…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Gastronomes, lovers of marine science, and especially people who fit both categories won’t want to miss "Cheers at the Crow’s Nest," a holiday celebration to benefit public education programs at Long Marine Laboratory. This year’s festivities are scheduled for Thursday, December 5, at the Crow’s Nest Restaurant, 2218 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz.…

Freshly baked pumpkin, apple, southern pecan, and apple-cranberry pies can be purchased from the College Eight/Oakes bakery. Pie sampling will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, November 19 and 20, in the lobbies of Applied Sciences, Social Sciences 2, Earth and Marine Sciences, and Sinsheimer Labs and at the Food Services Central Office in the Housing…

Viktor Ginzburg Assistant Professor of Mathematics Viktor Ginzburg’s broad research interests are in classical global analysis. He studies mathematical models of physical processes that display symmetries, periodic motions, or initial conditions that might lead to periodic motions, such as the orbits of celestial bodies or the motions of charges in a magnetic field. Ginzburg earned…

Margaret Delaney, professor of ocean sciences, was named a distinguished lecturer for 1997-98 by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Advisory Committee. Each year, JOI/USSAC selects six scientists to give academic talks around the country on research related to ocean drilling. Assistant professor of earth sciences Andrew Fisher holds the same prestigious lectureship this year; associate…

The Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled more evidence for "walls" of galaxies at great distances from earth. Astronomer David Koo, part of a UCSC team that will use the Keck Telescope for a multiyear survey of 15,000 galaxies, provided perspective on the latest research in the pages of Science. And astronomer Jerry Nelson, designer of…

A $50,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation of San Francisco will strengthen public education programs at the Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, a research and education facility operated by UCSC. The grant will allow educators to augment "Windows to Discovery," the popular program that debuted at Long Marine Lab in 1994. Windows to…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–From Bittersweet Bistro to The Shadowbrook, recipes from some of the finest restaurants in Santa Cruz County are featured in a new cookbook, Recipes from the Great Chefs of Santa Cruz County. Whatever local specialties make your mouth water–whether it’s appetizers like poached trout and wild mushrooms with watercress and radishes, or desserts…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–It’s hard to imagine a more intriguing riddle in science than the one a machine at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) will begin to investigate in 1999: Why do we exist? More specifically, the new machine, called the "B Factory," will explore why the universe is dominated by matter–the stuff that composes…