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Regional History Project publishes oral histories of two visionary UCSC professors
The UC Santa Cruz Library’s Regional History Project has just announced the publication of two new oral histories featuring visionary professors who have helped shape the academic development of the campus. The first volume, Edges and Ecotones: The Worlds of Donna Haraway at UCSC, spotlights one of UCSC’s preeminent multi-disciplinary thinkers. A professor of history…
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Gift from botanist Jean Langenheim establishes Endowed Chair in Plant Ecology and Evolution
UCSC has appointed Ingrid Parker, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, to the newly established Jean H. Langenheim Endowed Chair in Plant Ecology and Evolution.
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Researchers cite limitations of genetic ancestry tests, urge consumers to use caution
Even as consumers embrace commercial genetic ancestry tests to trace ancestral roots or fill in gaps in the family tree, a team of researchers today (Oct. 19) is urging buyers to use caution when interpreting test results.
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UCSC professor explores Northern California’s ‘kitsch monuments’
How does a 2,000 year-old tree at Big Basin Redwoods State Park trace the history of imperialism? Who are the “Cave People” at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk? Why were two giant white stone cats erected by Highway 17 in Los Gatos? What is the real story behind the Greco-Roman-style Pulgas Water Temple built on the…
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Small-scale fishing in Mexico rivals industrial fisheries in accidental turtle deaths
New research shows that a small-scale Mexican fishery–operated by hand from small open boats–can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as all of the industrial fishing fleets in the North Pacific Ocean put together.
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Avant-garde video-game blog earns art exhibition at UC Irvine’s Beall Center
UCSC computer scientist Michael Mateas presents four works of artificial intelligence and empathy at a new art exhibit.
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Film professor provides expert commentary in new box set of rare films
A UC Santa Cruz professor has lent her voice to a 4-DVD box set of 48 rare films never before seen on video. Shelley Stamp, chair of the UC Santa Cruz Film & Digital Media Department, provides the audio commentary for Where Are My Children? in Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 (Image…
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HP’s Stanley Williams to discuss nanoscale computing at UCSC’s Silicon Valley Center on October 25
R. Stanley Williams, a senior fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and founding director of HP’s Quantum Science Research group, will discuss nanoscale computing in a free public lecture on Thursday, October 25.
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Four social scientists honored for teaching and research at UC Santa Cruz
Four social scientists at UC Santa Cruz were honored for teaching and research today (Thursday, October 11) during the annual fall convocation hosted by the dean of the Division of Social Sciences.
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Global affairs expert to deliver UCSC’s 2007 Maitra Lecture at Montalvo on Nov. 2
UC Santa Cruz and Montalvo Arts Center will present the seventh annual Sidhartha Maitra Endowed Lecture–featuring global affairs expert and award-winning author Shashi Tharoor–on Friday, November 2, at 7 p.m, in the Carriage House Theater at Montalvo. The chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Tharoor will present an insider’s…
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Discovery of retinal cell type ends four-decade search
Researchers have discovered a type of retinal cell that may help monkeys, apes, and humans see motion.