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  • Pruning workshops January 26 and February 2 take the guesswork out of fruit-tree care

    New this year: Learn to prune as your kids study “Birds in the Garden” on February 2 If the annual ritual of pruning fruit trees fills you with dread, relieve your anxiety by attending a pruning workshop with fruit-tree expert Orin Martin, manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz. Martin will offer…

  • Earthquake expert will give a free public lecture at UCSC’s Seymour Center on Wednesday, January 16

    Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards Program, will give a free public lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Wednesday, January 16. The lecture, titled “Living It Up in the Fault Lane, or How Earthquakes Converse,” begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory,…

  • Analyzing a planetary system that closely resembles our solar system, astronomers find habitable worlds are unlikely

    Of all the extrasolar planetary systems detected by astronomers in recent years, the star 47 Ursae Majoris and its known companions, two Jupiter-sized planets, is the one that most closely resembles our own solar system. Computer simulations now show, however, that Earth-sized planets are unlikely to form in the so-called “habitable zone” of 47 Ursae…

  • Oral history published of HerBooks founder Irene Reti

    The University Library’s Regional History Project announces the publication of Irene Reti and HerBooks Feminist Press, the last in a trio of oral histories documenting archives on deposit in Special Collections, which are a part of the UC/Stanford Women’s Studies Consortium California Feminist Presses Project. UCSC Women’s Studies Librarian emerita Jacquelyn Marie interviewed Reti, and…

  • UCSC education prof shares prize from Modern Language Association

    Gordon Wells, a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named corecipient of the 21st annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America. Wells and Hossein Nassaji of Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, shared the prize for their article, “What’s the Use of Triadic…

  • Mystified by fruit trees? Answers are free on January 12

    Have you been lusting after your neighbor’s lemon tree? Attracted by the bounty of a friend’s apple tree? Coveting the apricot tree down the block, yet too intimidated by the care of fruit trees to add these beauties to your garden? Fear no more, for help is on the way. Fruit tree expert Orin Martin,…

  • White sharks migrate thousands of miles across the sea, new study finds

    A new study is shattering old beliefs about the great white shark–one of the largest, most awe-inspiring predators in the sea. Scientists have long believed that these powerful carnivores spend most of their lives relatively close to shore, pursuing seals and sea lions. But a study in the January 3 issue of the journal Nature…

  • How pox virus fools immune system

    Researchers Uncover How A Pox Virus Fools The Immune System SANTA CRUZ, CA–Research on a rabbit pox virus has shed light on how some viruses sneak past our immune defenses. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found three separate mechanisms by which the pox virus, myxoma, silences the messengers that would normally…

  • Deep-diving sea lions

    Deep-diving Sea Lions Pushed To Edge Of Physical Limit, Study Shows SANTA CRUZ, CA–A new study may help explain why certain species of marine mammals seem particularly vulnerable to changes in their food supply. Researchers have found that some deep-diving sea lions already work so hard searching for food that their ability to increase the…

  • UCSC to host public workshop on marine lab long-term plan

    UCSC Will Hold Fourth Community Meeting On Plans For Long Marine Laboratory On Monday, July 30 SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, will hold a public workshop on Monday, July 30, to discuss progress toward developing a Coastal Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) for Long Marine Laboratory. The meeting will take place from…

  • Clues to submarine quakes

    Researchers Seek Clues To Submarine Quakes At Plate Collision Zone In Japan’s Nankai Trough SANTA CRUZ, CA–Seeking new clues to the cause of some of the Earth’s most powerful earthquakes, an international group of scientists aboard the Ocean Drilling Program vessel JOIDES Resolution is using special technology to measure and monitor physical properties at a…

  • Provosts appointed, reappointed at UCSC

    Four College Provosts Appointed, Two Reappointed At UCSC SANTA CRUZ, CA–Four UCSC faculty have been newly named to the position of college provost. The new provosts are Professor Joel Ferguson, Crown College; Associate Professor Margo Hendricks, Stevenson College; Professor David Evan Jones, Porter College. In addition, Lecturer Conn Hallinan has been appointed Associate Provost of…

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