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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…

UC Santa Cruz And Quantum Release S.m.a.r.t. Software For Linux S.M.A.R.T. Technology Monitors The Performance Of Hard-disk Drives And Alerts Users When Hard Drive Failure Is Imminent SANTA CRUZ, CA–Free software enabling users of the Linux operating system to monitor their hard drives and detect predictable drive failures is available from the Concurrent Systems Laboratory…

UCSC Researchers Obtain First Details Images Of A Complete Ribosome Knowing The Structure Of The Ribosome, A Molecular Machine Fundamental To All Life, May Lead To More Effective Antibiotics, New Insights Into The Origins Of Life, And Other Significant Advances. SANTA CRUZ, CA–Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have taken a huge step…

UCSC History Professor Appointed To National Endowment For The Humanities SANTA CRUZ, CA–A historian at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is one of five people to be named by President Clinton to serve on the 26-member board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Pedro Castillo, an associate professor of history at UCSC, was…

Back-to-school Activities Begin September 16 At UC Santa Cruz First day of instruction is Thursday, September 23 SANTA CRUZ, CA–The first day of classes in the 1999-2000 school year at UC Santa Cruz is Thursday, September 23. Students, however, will be moving into on-campus housing at UCSC on Thursday, September 16, through Saturday, September 18.…

UC Santa Cruz Recognized As Having One Of America’s Best Landscapes Award Cites Integration Of Campus Architecture, Natural Landscape SANTA CRUZ, CA-What do UC Santa Cruz, Hearst Castle, and Disneyland have in common? Each is among the most beautifully landscaped spots in the country, according to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The ASLA…

Starbursts Triggered By Violent Collisions Lit Up Young Galaxies In The Early Universe SANTA CRUZ, CA–When the universe was about one-tenth of its current age, more than 10 billion years ago, the precursors of massive galaxies such as our own Milky Way were being built from smaller galaxies that collided and merged, triggering violent bursts…

UC Santa Cruz Nets Two Major Grants To Increase Child Care Services For Low-income Student Families SANTA CRUZ, CA–August was a good month for Child Care Services at the University of California, Santa Cruz. First, the program was selected as one of a small group of institutions across the country to receive recently established federal…

UCSC Composer Will Represent Her Native Country In Two Upcoming Commissions SANTA CRUZ, CA–Life is busy for composer Hi Kyung Kim, an assistant professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has six separate commissions to complete over the next several years. Among them are two in which she is representing her…

Learn Fall And Winter Gardening Tips At UC Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, CA–With a little preparation, Central Coast gardeners can harvest food from their gardens all year-round. Learn how to prepare your garden for fall and winter at a three-hour workshop at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 18, from noon to 3 p.m. The…

UCSC Research Center Receives $1 Million Grant From W.m. Keck Foundation SANTA CRUZ, CA–The W. M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles has awarded a grant of $1 million to support research at the UC Santa Cruz Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA, where scientists are unraveling the mysteries of one of the most important…

Science Book Club Will Discuss The Power And Poetry Of Mathematics SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Science Matters Book Club, which meets each month at the Central Branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library, holds its next meeting on Sunday, September 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. Glenn Millhauser, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa…