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UC Santa Cruz To Host ‘preview Day’ For Prospective Students SANTA CRUZ, CA–Preview Day at the University of California, Santa Cruz–held each fall for prospective students, their parents, and counselors–will take place on campus on Saturday, October 16, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The day’s activities will include student-led campus tours of UCSC’s eight…

Eminent UCSC computer scientist David Huffman dies at age 74 ‘Huffman Codes’ Used In Fax Machines, Modems, Other Applications Involving The Compression Of Data SANTA CRUZ, CA–David A. Huffman, the founding faculty member of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a pioneer in the field, died at a local…

Surprise Grant To UC Santa Cruz Library Will Turn Materials From Obsolete To Cutting Edge SANTA CRUZ, CA–Since 1971, Slide Collections in the University Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been the home of the archive of photographer Branson DeCou. But, because DeCou produced mainly lantern slides, the delicate and dated format…

Astronomer Alex Filippenko To Give Free Public Astronomy Talk To UC Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–Recent observations of very distant exploding stars have provided evidence that the expansion of the universe is speeding up with time rather than slowing down as cosmologists had expected. These observations, called the Science Breakthrough of 1998 by Science magazine,…

UC Santa Cruz Engineer Awarded $625,000 Packard Fellowship Researcher Ali Shakouri Is Helping To Develop Cooler Computer Chips SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the sixth consecutive year, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has garnered one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for young faculty members: a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science…

UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association Welcomes Its 10,000th Member** SANTA CRUZ, CA–The UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association welcomed its 10,000th member this week, marking the latest milestone for an organization that has supported the university since its first class graduated in 1968. The newest member is Melyssa Jo Kelly, a re-entry student who graduated from…

UCSC Anthropologist Kicks Off Lecture Series With Talk About Qigong SANTA CRUZ, CA–Qigong, an ancient Chinese healing practice that integrates movement and breathing, made headlines last summer when the Chinese government publicly cracked down on practitioners of falun gong, a spinoff that combines qigong exercises with Buddhist and Taoist cultivation practices. Qigong, pronounced "chee-gong," is…

World-renowned Musician Ali Akbar Khan Accepts Teaching Post At UC Santa Cruz October 15 Concert Planned In Celebration Of Khan’s Appointment SANTA CRUZ, CA–Sarode master Ali Akbar Khan, considered to be one of the world’s greatest living musicians, has been named Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A "national…

Science Book Club Will Discuss The Fates Of Human Societies At Next Meeting In October SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Science Matters Book Club, which meets each month at the Central Branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library, holds its meeting for next month on Sunday, October 17, from 2 to 4 p.m. Mike Dalbey, a lecturer…

Hear The Latest About Farmland Preservation Efforts October 7 SANTA CRUZ, CA–Throughout the state of California, farmland is being gobbled up to make way for new housing and commercial developments. In Pajaro Valley, farmland preservationists have actively opposed efforts to annex nearly 300 acres of prime farmland that the city of Watsonville is eager to…

Seventeen Documentary Films From New York’s Margaret Mead Film Festival In Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–If you loved the movie Buena Vista Social Club, mark your calendar for October 15, when local audiences will have a chance to enjoy the poignant film Black Tears, a musical portrait of the octogenarian Cuban quintet La Vieja Trova…

Nine Students Receive $20,000 Scholarships To Transfer To Uc Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–Nine talented students from regional community colleges have been awarded $20,000 scholarships to attend the University of California, Santa Cruz. Recipients receive $10,000 scholarships for each of two years, the support of a strong academic mentoring program, and assistance finding paid summer…