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  • UC Santa Cruz finalizes purchase of Texas Instruments site

    The University of California, Santa Cruz announced today (September 27) the closure of escrow to purchase the land and facilities formerly occupied by Texas Instruments. All paperwork was finalized on September 24. The site is located at 2300 Delaware Avenue in Santa Cruz. “This is a unique and very desirable opportunity for our campus,” stated…

  • UCSC builds on landmark NASA contract to expand UC presence in Silicon Valley

    With over 100 employees and funding for current research tasks at about $18 million, the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) at Moffett Field has quickly become a dynamic center of activity for the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Managed by UC Santa Cruz in partnership with NASA Ames Research…

  • UCSC astronomer Claire Max receives 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics

    The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics to Claire Max, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Max, who is deputy director of the Center for Adaptive Optics at UCSC and holds a joint appointment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,…

  • Campus raises record $32.2 million in private gifts during 2003-04 year

    For Immediate Release SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz raised a record $32.2 million from private donors in 2003-04, an increase of 42 percent over the $22.7 million raised the year before. “This record level of support for UC Santa Cruz could not have come at a more critical time,” said Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers.…

  • Acclaimed New Yorker magazine staff writer and UCSC alumnus to return for speaking engagement at Cowell College

    For the past two decades, longtime New Yorker magazine staff writer and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Lawrence Weschler has written about unexpected relationships between art, culture, war, and peace. On Friday, September 24, the 1974 Cowell College graduate will return to the UCSC campus to speak on the topic: “Serenity and Terror in Vermeer, and…

  • NIH training grants provide more than $1.5 million to support graduate students at UCSC

    Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are receiving increased support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through training grants to two campus departments. The prestigious NIH training grants provide support for graduate students in specified areas of biomedical research. The agency has awarded a new NIH training grant in bioinformatics to…

  • EDITOR’S ADVISORY: New academic year brings new students, academic offerings, housing, other facilities

    SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz students began moving into university housing today (Thursday, September 16) in anticipation of the 2004-05 school year. The first day of instruction in the fall quarter is Thursday, September 23. The fall-quarter “move in” for students living on campus continues through Sunday, September 19. (See schedule, below, for photo opportunities.)…

  • STEPS Institute establishes graduate fellowships honoring M.R.C. Greenwood, Frans Lanting, and Christine Eckstrom

    The STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has established three new graduate fellowships for interdisciplinary environmental research, funded by an anonymous donor and named in honor of three individuals known for forging links between science and society: M.R.C. Greenwood, Frans Lanting, and Christine Eckstrom. UC Provost and…

  • Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to speak at UCSC

    Bruce Babbitt, who served for eight years as secretary of the interior during the Clinton administration, will give the inaugural Fred Keeley Lecture on Environmental Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Tuesday, October 5. The talk, titled “Environmental Policy for a New Century,” will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Music…

  • $200,000 gift from UCSC Professor Jean Langenheim establishes graduate fellowship in plant ecology and evolution

    Jean Langenheim, professor emerita of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been studying plant ecology and evolution for 60 years. Now she is giving financial support to a new generation of graduate students in her field through an endowed fellowship fund. The Jean H. Langenheim Graduate Fellowship in Plant…

  • Gary Lease named interim dean of humanities at UC Santa Cruz

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CRUZ, CA–Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers has appointed Professor Gary Lease as interim dean of the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division. An internationally recognized expert across a remarkable range of fields–including early Christian archaeology, Vatican foreign policy and canon law, German intellectual history, German Judaism, and religious/cultural evolution–Lease previously served as…

  • Cajun/New Orleans jazz extravaganza to kick off new Arts & Lectures season at UC Santa Cruz

    The new UC Santa Cruz 2004-05 Arts & Lectures season will open with a blast of pure Southern gusto on October 8 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The Grammy award-winning sextet, BeauSoleil-described by Prairie Home Companion’s Garrison Keillor as “simply the best Cajun band in the world-will join forces with Louisiana’s legendary Preservation Hall…

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