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Sea otter deaths linked to toxin from freshwater bacteria
A potent toxin produced by bright-green blooms of freshwater bacteria has been flowing into the ocean and poisoning sea otters.
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Six UCSC students win Fulbrights
Six UC Santa Cruz students – five in anthropology, one in environmental studies – have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for a year’s study and research abroad. Five doctoral degree candidates and one 2010 graduate will travel to China, the Krygyz…
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‘Slow light’ on a chip holds promise for optical communications
A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200.
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Professor wins prestigious fellowship for education research
George Bunch, an assistant professor of education at UC Santa Cruz, has won a prestigious fellowship to study the language demands faced by English learners in community college.
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UC Santa Cruz professor one of top academic experts on Honduras
In late June, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank traveled to Honduras to observe the one-year anniversary of the country’s 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya. Frank is one of the top academic experts on Honduras in…
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UCSC hosts science conference for girls on Saturday, October 9
The 10th annual UCSC Expanding Your Horizons Conference for high school girls will take place on Saturday, October 9.
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Local group funds UCSC cancer researchers
The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group, a local charity supporting cancer research and patient care, has awarded grants of $10,000 each to three researchers at UCSC.
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Summer interns gain research experience in Silicon Valley nanotech labs
Dozens of students gained valuable experience in nanotechnology and energy research labs this summer through an internship program at the Advanced Studies Laboratories, a collaborative partnership led by UCSC and NASA Ames.
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Fall gardening workshop set for Saturday, August 28
Join gardener Trish Hildinger for a lecture and demonstration workshop on “Planting the Thanksgiving Feast” at the UC Santa Cruz Farm on Saturday, August 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Not one, but two great earthquakes caused 2009 Samoa-Tonga tsunami disaster
Scientists studying the massive earthquake that struck the South Pacific on September 29, 2009, have found that it actually involved two great earthquakes…
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Biologist Amy Ralston wins Ellison Medical Foundation grant
The Ellison Medical Foundation has selected Amy Ralston, an assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, as a New Scholar in Aging, providing $400,000 over four years to support her research on the biology of…
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UC Santa Cruz researchers win $580,000 grant to document educational success stories
Two UC Santa Cruz education researchers will study successful school organizations and teaching approaches that engage urban low-income Latino high school students in academically challenging work thanks to a $580,000 grant from the W.T. Grant Foundation.
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Protein structure reveals how tumor suppressor turns on and off
The retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein acts like a gate in the cycle of cell growth and division–a gate that stays open in many types of cancer, allowing cells to multiply out of control.
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Bats facing regional extinction in the northeast from rapidly spreading disease, UCSC researcher finds
A new infectious disease spreading rapidly across the northeastern United States has killed millions of bats and is predicted to cause regional extinction of a once-common bat species, according to the findings of a University of California, Santa Cruz re
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Authors of new book about Grateful Dead’s marketing approach to donate one fourth of advance and royalties to UC Santa Cruz
Inspired by a thought-provoking feature article by Joshua Green in the March issue of Atlantic magazine titled Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead, Boston writers David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan have just published a new book rele
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Steelhead study earns best paper award from American Fisheries Society
The American Fisheries Society has selected a paper on steelhead trout by UCSC researcher William Satterthwaite as the best publication for 2009.
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California sea otter numbers drop again
After a decade of steady recovery, the southern sea otter is in decline for the second year in a row, according to the latest population survey by USGS and UCSC researchers.
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Politics professor named campus director of UC Washington D.C. program
Eva Bertram, associate professor of politics, will become the new UC Santa Cruz campus director for the UC Washington Program (UCDC).
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Art professor’s New Orleans photo makes opening credits of new HBO series
Tune into Treme, the new HBO television series by David Simon (The Wire) about post-Katrina New Orleans, and in the opening credits you will see a photograph taken by UCSC associate professor of art Lewis Watts.
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UCTV hosts next State of Minds from UC Santa Cruz
Cowell College courtyard, Terra Fresca restaurant, Earth and Marine Sciences building, the Great meadow, and the Digital Arts Research Center all serve as backdrops for the next edition of State of Minds, a 30-minute video magazine produced by UCTV.
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Earth and planetary scientist Gary Glatzmaier elected to National Academy of Sciences
Gary Glatzmaier, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his excellence in original scientific research.
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UCSC graduate students to showcase digital art with social impact
Fourteen graduate students from UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. Program (DANM) will conclude two years of artistic study with “Things That Are Possible”–an exhibition of their work running April 30 through May 9 at the campus’s new Digital…
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Ronald Evans, hormone expert who found “exercise in a pill,” to speak at UCSC on Thursday, May 6
Ronald M. Evans, an authority on hormones whose research on exercise and metabolism led to the discovery of compounds that act like “exercise in a pill” in lab tests, will deliver the 2010 Sinsheimer Lecture in Biology at UC Santa…
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Bratt brothers bring a little Hollywood to Santa Cruz
Alumnus and filmmaker Peter Bratt and his brother, TV and movie star Benjamin Bratt, were in town and on campus recently as part of the local premiere of La Mission.
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Earth sciences program ranked 13th in U.S. News grad school survey
The graduate program in Earth sciences at UCSC was ranked 13th in a survey of U.S. doctoral programs in the sciences published by U.S. News and World Report.