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  • UCSC physicist Michael Dine awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

    Michael Dine, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. Dine plans to use the $32,000 fellowship to support his work during the 2006-07 academic year, when he will be on sabbatical leave. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past…

  • UCSC Farm’s annual plant sale May 6-7 features “Granny’s favorites!”: Hard-to-find flowers and vegetables

    Garden favorites, like fashion trends, tend to come and go, so the flowers and vegetables your grandmother loved may now be hard to find. But don’t despair–this year’s UCSC Farm & Garden Annual Spring Plant Sale features a range of hard-to-find organic annuals, perennials, and vegetable starts. The theme of this year’s sale is “Granny’s…

  • UCSC receives funding for training grants from stem cell institute

    The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received $375,000 from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to fund the first year of a new training program in stem cell research. CIRM announced today that it has distributed $12.1 million in grants to 16 California institutions as part of the CIRM Training Program. At UCSC,…

  • UC Santa Cruz brings Chicana author Sandra Cisneros to Mello Center on April 30

    Acclaimed Chicana author Sandra Cisneros, whose book The House on Mango Street is required reading in classrooms across the country, will give a public reading at 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, at the Mello Center for the Performing Arts in Watsonville. Cisneros will be accepting the first annual Gloria E. Anzaldúa Distinguished Lecture Award,…

  • Peregrine falcons educate and entertain their fans in San Francisco, on the web, and at UCSC’s Long Marine Lab

    A pair of endangered peregrine falcons, named George and Gracie by their legions of fans, have returned to nest in downtown San Francisco. Last year, they used a nest box on the PG&E building, where a webcam installed by PG&E and scientists from the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG) enabled scientists and…

  • Banana Slug Spring Fair drawing UC Santa Cruz alums back

    A reunion luncheon, distinguished faculty lecture, alumni panel discussion, and wine tasting are just a few of the events on the crowded schedule for Banana Slug Spring Fair, April 22-23. The annual alumni weekend will also include plenty of opportunities to reconnect with old friends at an array of reunions based on fields of study,…

  • Albatross study shows regional differences in ocean contamination

    As long-lived predators at the top of the marine food chain, albatrosses accumulate toxic contaminants such as PCBs, DDT, and mercury in their bodies. A new study has found dramatic differences in contaminant levels between two closely related albatross species that forage in different areas of the North Pacific. Researchers also found that levels of…

  • Husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame to headline teach-in at UC Santa Cruz

    Former U.S. ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson-the husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame-will be among the featured speakers at “The War on Terror: A Credible Threat,” a daylong teach-in that will take place on Monday, April 24, at UC Santa Cruz in the Quarry Amphitheater. The 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. public event will…

  • UCSC researchers receive $1.6 million grant for biosensor project

    Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received major funding from the National Institutes of Health to develop new sensor technology for biomedical applications. The project builds on earlier advances by UCSC researchers in optical and electrical sensing technologies and involves a broad interdisciplinary group of collaborators at UCSC and Brigham Young University.…

  • UCSC to host a public lecture and discussion on the ethics of stem cell research on Monday, April 17

    The ethical issues involved in stem cell research will be addressed in a free public lecture and discussion on Monday, April 17, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Laurie Zoloth, professor of medical ethics and humanities and of religion at Northwestern University, will give a talk entitled “May We Make the World? Bioethics, Stem…

  • Food activist Anna Lappé discusses her new book April 17 at UC Santa Cruz

    If Santa Cruz is the heart of the alternative foods movement, it will welcome one of its own on April 17 when author Anna Lappé comes to town. Lappé, daughter of “small planet” food guru Frances Moore Lappé, will give a free public talk on Monday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in Classroom Unit 2…

  • UCSC chemist explores the membranous origins of the first living cell

    Blowing bubbles is child’s play, showing how easily soap molecules can assemble into a sheet and curl around to form a bubble. To David Deamer, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and acting chair of biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the formation of a soap bubble is no mere curiosity–it illustrates an…

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