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  • UC Santa Cruz student wins top honors in statewide poetry contests

    A University of California, Santa Cruz, student has earned top honors in two California statewide poetry competitions. “I’m elated,” said Kristen Holden, a junior majoring in literature. “Of course it’s what I wanted, but I wasn’t expecting it to happen.” Both of Holden’s prize-winning works are expansive love poems. “Ten Love Poems Aching from Three…

  • UCSC Student Wins in Poetry Contest

    UC Santa Cruz student wins top honors in statewide poetry contests SANTA CRUZ, CA–A University of California, Santa Cruz, student has earned top honors in two California statewide poetry competitions. "I’m elated," said Kristen Holden, a junior majoring in literature. "Of course it’s what I wanted, but I wasn’t expecting it to happen." Both of…

  • Albert Whitford, eminent astronomer and former director of Lick Observatory, dies at 96

    Albert E. Whitford, an acclaimed astronomer, former director of the University of California’s Lick Observatory, and a professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, died on Thursday, March 28. He was 96. Whitford died at Meriter Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, after a short illness. “He was a very important figure in…

  • National Science Foundation director Rita Colwell to visit UC Santa Cruz for dedication of the Center for Adaptive Optics on April 26

    Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will visit the University of California, Santa Cruz, in April for the dedication of the NSF-funded Center for Adaptive Optics. During her visit, Colwell will also meet with UCSC faculty and students, tour the campus, and give a speech on “Research Trends and Opportunities at NSF.”…

  • UCSC Ranks eighth in nation in number of graduates serving in Peace Corps

    UCSC may not be one of the nation’s largest campuses, but when it comes to serving in the Peace Corps, it thinks big. UCSC, with an enrollment just over 13,000, ranks eighth in the nation in the number of former students helping around the world in the Peace Corps. The number one university in Peace…

  • UC Santa Cruz scientists star in PBS documentary The Shape of Life

    The Shape of Life, a new television documentary series about the diversity of animal life on Earth, features UC Santa Cruz researchers among the scientists who lead viewers on a dramatic exploration of the animal kingdom. The series premieres Tuesday, April 2, on PBS stations nationwide. John Pearse, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology,…

  • UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Mary Silver honored by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will present one of its highest honors, the Mary Sears Woman Pioneer in Oceanography Award, to Mary Silver, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Silver is being honored for providing “significant scientific leadership in understanding our marine environment” and for providing “the inspiration and/or…

  • New book reveals conflicted racial identity among white youth

    Teens describe immobilizing guilt, unwanted feelings of racism, and also relief at being white For white youth, coming to terms with being white in an increasingly diverse U.S. society can be a painful and contradictory experience marked by feelings of guilt and privilege, relief and persistent prejudice. In her new book, Shades of White: White…

  • Encore event: Second gopher control workshop scheduled for April 6

    If you offer it, they will come, and come they did to a March workshop on gopher control. So many people came, in fact, that dozens had to be turned away. As a result, the UC Santa Cruz Farm is hosting a second workshop on Saturday, April 6, for gardeners who want to learn the…

  • Hyperspectral imaging tracks local and global impacts on environment

    While studying a large lagoon in Papua New Guinea, meter by meter, Donald Potts decided there had to be a better way to do ecology. A new tuna factory on the lagoon’s shores threatened to drastically change the lagoon before Potts could capture a scant fraction of its initial state. Returning to the University of…

  • Two UCSC students to be honored at UC Day in Sacramento

    Each spring, alumni from the University of California’s nine campuses meet with state lawmakers in Sacramento as part of the annual UC Day legislative conference. At this year’s conference, March 18-19, two UC Santa Cruz students will be honored for work they submitted for the UC Research Poster Competition. Patrice Friedmann and Haivan Ngo will…

  • New findings support ‘Out of Asia’ hypothesis for origin of key groups of modern mammals

    An abrupt episode of global warming and major changes in plant and animal life marked the transition between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs about 55 million years ago. Several groups of mammals, including early primates and modern hooved mammals, made their first appearances in Asia, Europe, and North America around this time. A new study…

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