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  • Major gift funds UC Santa Cruz endowed chair in environmental studies

    Craig Griswold has fond childhood memories of admiring seashells with his mother on the beach in Santa Cruz, where his family sought relief from the scorching summer heat of the San Joaquin Valley. Now Griswold is honoring his mother, Olga, by establishing an endowed chair in environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…

  • UCSC Arboretum features a wide variety of plants at the annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 14

    The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum will hold its annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 14, from noon to 4 p.m. It will take place at the Arboretum’s Eucalyptus Grove on High Street near the intersection of Western Drive. Held in conjunction with the California Native Plant Society, the sale opens early (from 10 a.m.…

  • UC Santa Cruz anthropologist receives social sciences teaching award

    Melissa L. Caldwell, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received the 2006 Distinguished Teaching Award today (Thursday, September 28) from the Division of Social Sciences. The award, known as the “Golden Apple Award,” was presented during the dean’s annual fall convocation. The award recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching in the…

  • NIH award supports research on nanopore DNA sequencer

    William Dunbar, an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a career development award from the National Institutes of Health. The Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award is designed to encourage researchers with backgrounds in quantitative science and engineering to focus on questions relating to health and disease. William Dunbar Dunbar,…

  • Scientists offer guidelines for coping with climate change in Alaska

    Coping with the devastating effects of climate change in Alaska will require institutional nimbleness and a willingness among those living at lower latitudes to “share the pain,” according to the authors of a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Erika Zavaleta (Photo: Jim MacKenzie) The interdisciplinary team of…

  • Digital divide leaving immigrants further behind, UC Santa Cruz study finds

    The digital divide between immigrants and the native born is widening in the United States, with some immigrant groups less than half as likely to have computer access at home as nonimmigrants, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Only 36 percent of Latino immigrant youth have a…

  • Business influence over environmental policy and regulation is targeted, says author of new book

    Business influence over environmental policy and regulation in the United States is strategic and focused, says the author of the new book “Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?” Sheldon Kamieniecki. (Jim MacKenzie) Business interests are more selective about exerting their influence than is commonly believed, and when they do…

  • Fall lecture series at the Seymour Center will focus on global climate change

    The Fall Lecture Series at UC Santa Cruz’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center will focus on climate change and global warming, with six speakers providing a range of perspectives on climate science, the effects of global warming, and policy options. Lisa Sloan, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, will give the first lecture in the series.…

  • UC Regents approve Long-Range Development Plan

    I am gratified to announce that at their meeting in San Francisco yesterday, the UC Regents voted unanimously to approve the UCSC 2005-2020 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) and Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR). (See story.) This outcome is the culmination of both campus-wide and community-wide efforts that spanned almost four years. I want to…

  • $20,000 scholarships help regional community college students transfer to UCSC

    Twelve hardworking community college students are enrolling at UC Santa Cruz this fall with $20,000 scholarships that accompany the coveted Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Award. This year’s recipients from 12 regional colleges include a single mother described by her chemistry instructor as a “force of nature,” an aspiring immigration and civil rights attorney, a…

  • New book looks at Santa Cruz coast ‘then and now’

    New book looks at Santa Cruz coast ‘then and now’

    A new book by Gary Griggs, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, and local architect Deepika Shrestha Ross offers a unique look at the Santa Cruz coastline. The book juxtaposes historic photographs with photographs taken from the same locations today, showing how the coastline has evolved and changed, sometimes dramatically, over…

  • California Academy of Sciences honors UCSC botanist Jean Langenheim

    Jean Langenheim, professor emerita and research professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the 2006 Fellows Medal of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS). This is the highest honor bestowed by the academy, founded in 1853 as the first scientific institution in the western…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025