News

Campus News

  • EDITOR’S ADVISORY: Affirmative Action experts available to journalists

    On April 1, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on two affirmative action cases involving the University of Michigan. Both cases involve white applicants, one to the undergraduate program and one to the law school, who claim they were denied admission while less-qualified minority students were admitted to promote diversity. Who is available to journalists:…

  • UCSC to present Pacific Rim Festival April 2-30 featuring works of over 40 distinguished composers

    UC Santa Cruz will present the work of more than 40 distinguished composers April 2-30 at the 2003 Pacific Rim Music Festival, a month-long international celebration of the contemporary music of the Pacific Rim. The festival will include 12 performances of seven different programs that will take place at the Music Center Recital Hall on…

  • EDITOR’S ADVISORY: UCSC experts available to discuss U.S.-Iraqi crisis and related topics

    The following experts are available to discuss the U.S.-Iraqi crisis and related topics. If you need assistance, please call Jennifer McNulty in the UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office at (831) 459-4399 or send e-mail to jmcnulty@ucsc.edu. MIDDLE EAST AND U.S. POLITICS Alan Richards–A frequent consultant to the State Department and the Department of Defense…

  • UC Santa Cruz scientist Todd Lowe wins Sloan Research Fellowship

    The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected Todd Lowe, an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in molecular biology. Lowe, whose research combines computational and experimental approaches to uncover new biology, is among 117 young scientists and economists to receive the prestigious fellowships this year. Lowe…

  • Chef and cookbook author to establish cooking resource at UCSC

    Renowned chef and cookbook author Bruce Aidells has pledged a $20,000 gift to establish a cookery endowment at UC Santa Cruz. Bruce Aidells earned a Ph.D. in biology from UCSC. Aidells is the author of 11 cookbooks, including the meat and poultry chapters for the newly revised Joy of Cooking. He has also been a…

  • UCSC astronomer John Faulkner to address U.K. astronomy meeting

    The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has invited John Faulkner, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to give the Roger Tayler Memorial Lecture at the National Astronomy Meeting next month in Dublin. Faulkner’s talk, which will take place on April 10, will be the last in a series of five…

  • UCSC researcher will describe scientific voyages to Antarctica in a public talk at the Seymour Center on Wednesday, March 12

    As chief scientist aboard the research vessel Laurence M. Gould, Daniel Costa led a research team investigating the ecology of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica on two cruises in 2001 and 2002. Costa, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, will share his experiences conducting research during the harsh Antarctic winter,…

  • Tiny birds are sure to make a big impression on Hummingbird Day at the UCSC Arboretum on Saturday, March 15

    Visitors to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum can count on aerial acrobatics galore for the Arboretum’s annual Hummingbird Day festival on Saturday, March 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Thousands of nectar-producing Grevillea, Erica, and Salvia blooms in the Arboretum fuel the tiny birds with liquid energy for their mating dances.…

  • EDITOR’S ADVISORY: UCSC transitioning from contracted to self-operated dining services

    UC Santa Cruz announced today (March 3) that it will transition from a contracted dining services program to a self-operated dining program. Why: This decision will enable the university to achieve multiple benefits, including: Closer alignment with the values and mission of the university and with the expectations of students. The opportunity for the dining…

  • New video tackles men, women, and romantic love

    Despite what the self-help books say about men and women being from different planets, there are very earthly factors that contribute to the problems men and women encounter in their shared quest for satisfying love relationships. The new video Gender and Relationships: Male-Female Differences in Love and Marriage illuminates the roots of “gendered” patterns of…

  • EDITOR’S ADVISORY: California water expert available to journalists

    A UCSC faculty member who is a leading expert on California’s complicated water rights and delivery system is available to assist journalists with their coverage of the state’s ongoing water crises. What: Leading expert on California water policy Why: State water officials are monitoring the Sierra snowpack in hopes precipitation totals will pick up before…

  • It’s not just about gender, sociologist says of adolescent girls

    In her new book, Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity, Julie Bettie calls for an overt discussion of social class–along with race and gender–as the key to ending educational inequality. “Young women are negotiating the multiple axes of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as they come of age, but that complexity often gets overlooked…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025