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UC Santa Cruz Arboretum inspires young author’s nature guide
Nature walk and book signing on May 17 celebrates the publication of ‘The Budding Naturalist’s Guide to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum’ by 15-year-old Kelly McCandless
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CASFS updates instructor’s manual for teaching small farm direct marketing
The new edition of “Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors,” 2nd Edition, draws on nearly 50 years of experience teaching beginning organic farmers and gardeners at the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden Apprenticeship.
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‘CAVE Lab’ offers immersive virtual reality tools for research and teaching
A new multi-disciplinary facility featuring interactive 3-D visualization technology is available to researchers across campus.
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Spreading science education, one telescope at a time
UC Santa Cruz grad student Tuguldur Sukhbold is using grant money to bring telescopes to schools in Mongolia so that science-starved kids might be exposed to the wonders of the universe.
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Astronomers set a new distance record for galaxies
Astronomers have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5 percent of its present age.
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Bettina Aptheker featured in NBC’s ‘Rebels & Revolutions’ documentary
An interview with UC Santa Cruz professor Bettina Aptheker will be featured in Rebels & Revolutions, the second installment of NBC Bay Area’s year-long documentary series Bay Area Revelations, premiering May 9.
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Student study tells the stories of low-wage workers in Santa Cruz County
A year-long study by UC Santa Cruz students that finds low-wage workers in Santa Cruz County earn about $10 an hour compared with the county median of $17.81 will be released at ‘Working for Dignity,’ a public event 7-9 p.m. Thursday, May 7 at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz.
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UC Santa Cruz ranks 2nd in the U.S., 8th overall among universities under 50
UC Santa Cruz ranks 2nd in the U.S. and 8th overall among the top universities in the world under 50 years old, according to an annual analysis by “Times Higher Education.”
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UC Santa Cruz ranks 2nd in the U.S., 8th overall among universities under 50
UC Santa Cruz ranks 2nd in the U.S. and 8th overall among the top universities in the world under 50 years old, according to an annual analysis by “Times Higher Education.”
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UC Santa Cruz biomedical research facility wins $2 million NIH grant
Grant funds new instrument used to explore the structures and functions of complex molecules involved in human health and disease.
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UC Santa Cruz history professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UC Santa Cruz history professor Gail Hershatter has joined Nobel Prize-winning chemist Brian Kobilka, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, singer-songwriter Judy Collins, novelist Tom Wolfe, and UC President Janet A. Napolitano as a newly elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Cosmologist Robert Kirshner explores accelerating universe in public talk on May 13
Kirshner’s talk, “The Accelerating Universe: Einstein’s Blunder Undone,” is free and open to the public.