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SANTA CRUZ, CA–A federal grant awarded to the University of California system has made it possible for health educators from UC Santa Cruz’s Cowell Student Health Services to help plan a UC systemwide alcohol and drug abuse prevention program. The receipt of the grant this academic year marks the first time the U.S. Department of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–As his life’s work, Harry Noller figures out what makes life work. Noller, a professor of biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, might not put it in such grandiose terms, of course. Nevertheless, his research has helped explain one of biology’s biggest mysteries: the tiny ribosome. Now everyone can be in…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Using a computer program that any IBM or Macintosh can run, economists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have projected a rosy future for wind power in California. They calculate that within the next 50 years, the price of wind energy will be almost as low as that of energy from gas-fired…

SANTA CRUZ–Holly Cardoza has been named as the recipient of the 1994-95 Priscilla Newton Undergraduate Scholarship in Theater Arts, given annually at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A senior who has acted and directed in numerous productions at UCSC, Cardoza designed her own major in performance studies, which allows her to pursue scholarly as…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the third consecutive year, community members and health-care professionals are invited to attend AIDS: Perspectives on an Epidemic, a special series of evening lectures offered by the Biology Department at UC Santa Cruz. The popular course will examine the biological, social, and psychological aspects of AIDS. Formally known as Biology 80J, the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–About 25,000 people die by murder or manslaughter each year in the United States. This translates into a homicide rate of 1 murder or manslaughter for every 10,000 people, a rate roughly 50 times higher than that of New Zealand, 15 times higher than that of Great Britain, and 12 times higher than…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–To complement upcoming presentations of Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit (April 2-23, locally) and Hard Times (April 30), airing as part of Mobil Masterpiece Theatre on PBS, a resource kit and viewers’ guide have been produced for use by educators and the general public. The materials were coproduced by the Dickens Project at the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Three miles under the whitecaps of the world’s oceans, large chapters of earth’s history are engraved in stone. Sediments that settled millions of years ago on the seafloor recorded everything from temperature change to the slow waltz of drifting continents. Geologists would have a field day–if they could. Alas, the crushing presence of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, already a key link in the growing chain of scientific institutions in the Monterey Bay Area, has received a significant boost from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation of Los Altos: a $1 million award to create an Endowment in Ocean…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The well-being of the Monterey Bay environment, from the mountaintops to the ocean floor, is the focus of a broad new program based at UC Santa Cruz known as Monterey Bay Regional Studies (MBRS). Researchers at UCSC created the program, pronounced "embers," to help draw dividends from the region’s remarkable wealth of natural…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Pursuing a plan to increase its membership, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Foundation has added five new trustees to its board. The trustees will participate in the private fund-raising efforts of the board, which promotes and supports academic programs, scholarships and fellowships, and capital improvements at UC Santa Cruz. Two of the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Visitors to Long Marine Lab love its blue-whale skeleton. But there’s another whale that really helps the lab thrive: the "Whale of an Auction," an annual fund-raising event for the lab’s public education programs. This year’s extravaganza, the tenth annual auction, begins at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 31, in the Porter College…