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SANTA CRUZ, CA–Ten outstanding community college transfer students have received prestigious scholarships that will enable them to complete their undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Recipients of Leadership Opportunity Awards receive $10,000 scholarships for each of two years, as well as assistance finding paid summer work experience in a field that complements…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Faculty and staff at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received $38.8 million in contracts and grants for research last year, an increase of 19.5 percent from the amount received the previous year and twice the funding acquired just five years ago. The 1994-95 year marked UCSC’s thirteenth consecutive year of growth in…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–"Beneath the Surface: Scientific Encounters of the Mysterious Sea" is the theme for the fourth annual public lecture series presented by the Friends of Long Marine Lab. For three consecutive Tuesday evenings in October, leading marine scientists will discuss their research and captivate audiences with slides and videos from the undersea realm. The…

$4.4 Million Grant From The National Science Foundation Funds Five-Year Project SANTA CRUZ, CA–In one of the campus’s most ambitious partnerships with public schools, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Life Lab Science Program are coordinating a five-year, tri-county project designed to improve science education for K-6 bilingual students. A $4.4 million grant…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Page Smith, a nationally known historian, died early Monday morning two months after being diagnosed with terminal leukemia. He was 77. Smith, founding provost at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a professor emeritus of history, died less than two days after his wife, Eloise Pickard Smith. A noted artist and former…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–More than $9 million in private gift and grant support was received by the University of California, Santa Cruz, during the fiscal year that ended June 30–the highest total recorded in the campus’s 30-year history, according to the Development Office. The total was up more than 58 percent from the previous year, when…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Shelley Stamp Lindsey, assistant professor of theater arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is one of two scholars selected as recipients of the 1994 award for excellence from Screen, an international journal of film and television studies. Lindsey won £500 for her article, "’Is any Girl Safe?’: Female Spectators at the…

*Note to calendar and events editors: The information in this news release will affect any listing for Long Marine Laboratory that you may print on an occasional or ongoing basis. Please change your listing to reflect the new prices below. SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, an increasingly popular stop on the Santa…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Martin M. Chemers, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College, has been named dean of the Social Sciences Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The appointment, which was announced today (July 27, 1995) by UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor Michael Tanner, is effective September 1, 1995.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, fared remarkably well in a national competition for fellowships to support graduate students in the sciences, garnering $1.3 million for the 1995-96 academic year. The fellowships, from a U.S. Department of Education program known as Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN), will pay stipends, tuition,…

What: The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz is hosting a "Community Day" open house for local farmers that will feature equipment demonstrations and brief descriptions of center projects. The event offers reporters an opportunity to get an overview of the center’s activities. When: Tuesday, August 1 Muffins and coffee…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–The conveyance of 962 acres of federal land at Ford Ord to the University of California, accepted today (Friday, July 15) by UC’s Board of Regents, sets the stage for a vital base-reuse project to proceed in earnest: UC’s multi-institutional center for science, technology, education, and policy, known as the "STEP center." Project…