Campus News
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How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?
Practice, Practice, Practice. . . And It Doesn’t Hurt To Be In The Ucsc Wind Ensemble SANTA CRUZ, CA–That tired old joke is based on an even older truism in the world of classical music: Carnegie Hall is, and always has been, the quintessential venue in America. To perform at Carnegie is to have arrived…
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Saving The Cloud People
SANTA CRUZ, CA–If you’ve ever approached total synaptic stultification under the relentless fatuity of TV network programming, or felt like you were going to claw through the wallpaper if you heard one more inane sitcom laugh track, you’ve probably gotten on your remote and surfed some of those esoteric, double-digit cable combers. You may have…
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Lessons Of Love: New Book Shows Why Movies Like Titanic Resonate–and Sheds Light On The Path To Real-life Happy Endings
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The enormous popularity of films like _Titanic, The Bridges of Madison County, and Pretty Woman _reveals the universal appeal of a good love story. As in real life, though, the stories told in these three blockbusters don’t always end happily. Sociologist Marcia Millman, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, believes…
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Frances Fox Piven Lecture
Scholar And Activist Frances Fox Piven Speaks April 30 At Uc Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–Internationally known scholar and political activist Frances Fox Piven sees "signs of stirring" on college campuses around the country, where issues of economic justice and democracy are unifying audiences and energizing activists in ways she hasn’t seen since the 1960s.…
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Peacock And The Grizzly
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Doug Peacock is an avatar of wilderness, or at least a feral human being. If he moved in next door to you, your lawn would start to sprout grizzly grass; before long, you might find yourself staring at the distant blue mountains with a longing to trade in your suffocating comforts for an…
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Noted Biologist To Discuss Protein Diversity, Inaugurating A New Series Of Annual Lectures In Biology At UC Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ, CA–When researchers published the first draft of the human genome in February, one unexpected finding was that humans have only 30,000 to 35,000 genes, about twice as many as a fly. This prompted some to wonder how human complexity could arise from such a small set of genetic instructions. The answer may lie…
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Fingerprinting Test Helps Pinpoint The Sources Of Lead Poisoning
SANTA CRUZ, CA–A technique that detects the "fingerprints" of various lead sources may help target the causes of childhood lead poisoning, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In a new study, researchers used the method to identify the environmental sources that caused lead poisoning in three Santa Cruz County children. "It…
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Ancient Climate Excursion Linked To A Rare Anomaly In Earth’s Orbit
SANTA CRUZ, CA–About 23 million years ago, a huge ice sheet spread over Antarctica, temporarily reversing a general trend of global warming and decreasing ice volume. Now a team of researchers has discovered that this climatic blip at the boundary between the Oligocene and Miocene epochs corresponded with a rare combination of events in the…
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Feminist scholar to lecture March 5
Ancient Climate Excursion Linked To A Rare Anomaly In Earth’s Orbit SANTA CRUZ, CA–About 23 million years ago, a huge ice sheet spread over Antarctica, temporarily reversing a general trend of global warming and decreasing ice volume. Now a team of researchers has discovered that this climatic blip at the boundary between the Oligocene and…
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Coastal Research Project At Uc Santa Cruz Receives Major Boost In Funding
SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the past two years, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been studying and monitoring coastal ecosystems as part of a long-term collaborative research project involving four major universities in California and Oregon. Now the organization funding the project, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, has augmented its original $17.7…
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Feminist scholar to lecture March 5
Coastal Research Project At UC Santa Cruz Receives Major Boost In Funding SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the past two years, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been studying and monitoring coastal ecosystems as part of a long-term collaborative research project involving four major universities in California and Oregon. Now the organization funding the…
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UC Santa Cruz Publishes Oral History Memoirs Of Conservation Biologist Raymond F. Dasmann
Santa Cruz, CA–The Regional History Project of the University Library at UC Santa Cruz has published the oral history of Raymond F. Dasmann, an internationally renowned scientist whose theories on ecodevelopment influenced generations of ecologists, conservation biologists, and governments wrestling with the dilemmas posed by economic development and a deteriorating environment. The 232-page oral history,…