Campus News
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Governor’s ‘May revision’ restores some funding to UC, adds Cal Grant money to cover fee increases
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the May Revision to his original state budget proposal for 2004-05 today (May 13), protecting the University of California from additional state budget cuts and restoring $20 million in previously cut funding to the university. Acting Chancellor Chemers issued a brief statement on May 11 informing the campus community about the…
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Grateful Dead foundations help preserve UC Santa Cruz archive of renowned composer Lou Harrison
Two foundations established by members of the Grateful Dead have contributed funds to help preserve the archive of the late composer Lou Harrison at UC Santa Cruz. The Rex Foundation, founded by the Grateful Dead and friends in 1984, and the Unbroken Chain Foundation, established in 1997 by Phil and Jill Lesh, have each donated…
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Surprising ‘ultra-conserved’ regions discovered in human genome
Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat, dog, and chicken. The fact that these sequences have remained unchanged over long periods of evolutionary history indicates that they are biologically important, but for…
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Biologist Terrie Williams will read from her book, The Hunter’s Breath, at the Seymour Center on Thursday, May 13
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center will host a celebration of the new book by Terrie Williams, The Hunter’s Breath: On Expedition with the Weddell Seals of the Antarctic, on Thursday, May 13, starting at 6 p.m. Williams, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, will read from the book, talk about…
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Renowned planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy to speak at UCSC
Renowned planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the Spring Halliday Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Marcy will discuss “Extrasolar Planets and the Prospects for Life in the Universe” in his talk, which will take place in Classroom Unit 2…
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UC Santa Cruz celebrates 25th anniversary of Chautauqua student theater festival
In 1979, the UC Santa Cruz Chautauqua Festival made its debut at the Barn Theater, just inside the main entrance of the fledgling 14-year-old campus. Modeled after a tradition of theater festivals that began at Lake Chautauqua, New York, more than a century ago, the annual campus event has now helped teach students how to…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UC Santa Cruz and community colleges will launch new program for engineering students with a reception at NASA Ames on May 5
The Collaborative for Higher Education, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Foothill-De Anza Community College District will hold a reception to celebrate the launch of their new program to help students prepare for careers in engineering. Reporters are invited to attend this event Funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science…
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Understanding the UC undergraduate experience: UCSC students asked to complete online survey to improve academic, cultural life
A team of researchers based at UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education has just launched the third University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES). The survey will be sent to undergraduates at all eight undergraduate campuses. In total, up to 160,000 undergraduates in the UC system will be invited to complete the online…
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Haussler honored by computer science group as an innovator who changed the scientific world
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and director of UCSC’s Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a corecipient of the 2003 Allen Newell Award. Haussler was recognized along with UCLA computer scientist Judea Pearl for separate groundbreaking contributions that have changed the…
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UC President Dynes names search committee for new UC Santa Cruz chancellor
University of California President Robert C. Dynes has named a 15-member committee to advise him in the search for the next chancellor of the UC Santa Cruz campus, it was announced today (April 28, 2004). For more information, please go to the Chancellor’s Search page on the UCSC web site. On April 1, M.R.C. Greenwood,…