Campus News
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Long Marine Lab Hosts Fifteenth Annual Open House October 9
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Lovers of marine science, adults and children alike, won’t want to miss the fifteenth annual Open House at the Long Marine Laboratory in Santa Cruz on Sunday, October 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. The Long Marine Lab is a marine-research facility operated by UC Santa Cruz. Located at…
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UC Santa Cruz Team Pioneers Speech Comprehension Research
Development Of Computerized "Talking Head" Allows Researchers To Explore The Role Of Visible Cues, Which Combine With Auditory Elements To Facilitate Recognition Of Spoken Language SANTA CRUZ, CA–Spoken language is a universal means of communication, yet relatively little is known about how people comprehend speech. Auditory cues clearly play a role in speech comprehension, with…
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Long Marine Lab Seeks New Volunteer Docents
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Public educators at Long Marine Lab are seeking marine-science enthusiasts to enroll in an upcoming series of training classes for docents. The ten-week course begins on Monday, October 3. Docents lead public tours of the lab, a marine-research facility operated by UC Santa Cruz. The volunteer workers also teach visiting schoolchildren and help…
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Recycled-paper Mills Produce Far Fewer Toxics Than Mills Using Virgin Wood, Study Finds
NEW YORK–Producing recycled paper is dramatically cleaner for the environment than making paper products from virgin-wood fiber, according to a study reported today (September 1) by an environmental policy analyst from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Assistant professor of environmental studies Daniel Press found that relative to mills that use virgin wood, recycled-paper mills…
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UC Santa Cruz Tip Sheet September 1994
Astronomy Keck and HIRES take the temperature of a much younger universe The Keck Telescope and its main observing tool, the high- resolution spectrograph (HIRES), are proving their power with precise measurements of astronomical objects previously beyond reach. The latest coup: a reading of the universe’s temperature when it was only about one-fourth of its…
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Recycled-paper Mills Produce Far Fewer Toxics Than Mills Using Virgin Wood, Study Finds
NEW YORK–Producing recycled paper is dramatically cleaner for the environment than making paper products from virgin-wood fiber, according to a study reported today (September 1) by an environmental policy analyst from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Assistant professor of environmental studies Daniel Press found that relative to mills that use virgin wood, recycled-paper mills…
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UC Santa Cruz Tip Sheet September 1994
Astronomy Keck and HIRES take the temperature of a much younger universe The Keck Telescope and its main observing tool, the high- resolution spectrograph (HIRES), are proving their power with precise measurements of astronomical objects previously beyond reach. The latest coup: a reading of the universe’s temperature when it was only about one-fourth of its…
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UC Santa Cruz Researcher Coordinates Local Arm Of Statewide Program To Compost Municipal Yard Waste For Agricultural Uses
SANTA CRUZ, CA–In a demonstration project funded by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, local cities and counties are teaming up with farmers to help reduce the amount of garbage that ends up in landfills. The two-year project, which will be administered by Marc Buchanan, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of…
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Celebrate The Changing Seasons At The Harvest Festival At UCSC On Saturday, September 24
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Come celebrate the changing seasons at the first- ever Harvest Festival at the 25-acre Farm at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Saturday, September 24, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The festivities will include an apple tasting, a pie crust- making demonstration, talks on gardening topics, Farm tours, and activities for…
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South African Professor To Speak On Separation Of Church And State
University Of Natal Professor Martin Prozesky Has Been Active In The Formation Of Constitutional And Governmental Policies Defining The Role Of Religion In The New Order SANTA CRUZ, CA–Throughout its history, the conservative government of South Africa often cited the Bible as the basis of its system of apartheid. Now that the fledgling democratic government…
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Robert Kraft Of UCSC To Head World’s Foremost Astronomical Society
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The executive committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has selected astronomer Robert P. Kraft, former director of the UC Observatories/Lick Observatory and professor emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, as the new president-elect of the IAU. Committee members announced their decision today (August 24) at the IAU’s general assembly in The Hague, Netherlands.…
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NEH Grants To UC Santa Cruz Faculty Fund Institute On New Approaches To History, Seminar On Dickens’s Last Novel
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Two professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were among those named to receive the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants, which were announced today (Monday, August 22). Edmund Burke III, a professor of history, received a grant of $197,000 in support of an institute titled, "Rethinking Europe/Rethinking World History,…