Campus News
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Ancient Climate Excursion Linked To A Rare Anomaly In Earth’s Orbit
SANTA CRUZ, CA–About 23 million years ago, a huge ice sheet spread over Antarctica, temporarily reversing a general trend of global warming and decreasing ice volume. Now a team of researchers has discovered that this climatic blip at the boundary between the Oligocene and Miocene epochs corresponded with a rare combination of events in the…
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Feminist scholar to lecture March 5
Ancient Climate Excursion Linked To A Rare Anomaly In Earth’s Orbit SANTA CRUZ, CA–About 23 million years ago, a huge ice sheet spread over Antarctica, temporarily reversing a general trend of global warming and decreasing ice volume. Now a team of researchers has discovered that this climatic blip at the boundary between the Oligocene and…
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Coastal Research Project At Uc Santa Cruz Receives Major Boost In Funding
SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the past two years, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been studying and monitoring coastal ecosystems as part of a long-term collaborative research project involving four major universities in California and Oregon. Now the organization funding the project, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, has augmented its original $17.7…
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Feminist scholar to lecture March 5
Coastal Research Project At UC Santa Cruz Receives Major Boost In Funding SANTA CRUZ, CA–For the past two years, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been studying and monitoring coastal ecosystems as part of a long-term collaborative research project involving four major universities in California and Oregon. Now the organization funding the…
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UC Santa Cruz Publishes Oral History Memoirs Of Conservation Biologist Raymond F. Dasmann
Santa Cruz, CA–The Regional History Project of the University Library at UC Santa Cruz has published the oral history of Raymond F. Dasmann, an internationally renowned scientist whose theories on ecodevelopment influenced generations of ecologists, conservation biologists, and governments wrestling with the dilemmas posed by economic development and a deteriorating environment. The 232-page oral history,…
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Summer Day Camp Offers Big Fun At The UCSC Farm
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Among the array of summer activities available for local children is the Wildlands and Watering Cans Summer Day Camp at the UC Santa Cruz Farm, which offers hands-on gardening and wilderness activities for children ages 7 to 10. Each day will be filled with activities from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A maximum…
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Analysis Of Flight Performance In Wandering Albatrosses Yields Insights Into Foraging Patterns Of Different Ages And Sexes
SANTA CRUZ, CA–A new study of flight performance in wandering albatrosses reveals significant differences between males and females and between adults and fledglings, and suggests that these differences influence where birds of different ages and sexes forage for food in the open sea. Few studies of flight performance in birds have looked at differences between…
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New Images Reveal The Workings Of Cellular Protein Factories
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The workings of a tiny molecular machine crucial to all forms of life are emerging from highly detailed new images obtained by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In a paper published by the journal Science on March 30, the researchers describe the structure of the ribosome, a complex particle just…
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UC Santa Cruz Arboretum Will Introduce New ‘Tasman Hybrid’ Leptospermums At Annual Spring Plant Sale On Saturday, April 21
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum is holding its annual Spring Plant Sale in conjunction with the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) on Saturday, April 21, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The sale will take place at the Arboretum Eucalyptus Grove on High Street near the intersection with Western Drive. This annual event…
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UCSC Rolling Out Welcome Mat At Banana Slug Spring Fair
SANTA CRUZ–Current and prospective students, their families, and alumni are invited to campus on Saturday, April 21, for UCSC’s annual Banana Slug Spring Fair. An array of special events, including reunions for alumni and academic information fairs for prospective students, a student block party, dance performance, tours, and a nature walk, are on the schedule.…
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Wage Insurance Proposal Draws Approval Across The Political Spectrum
UC Santa Cruz economist addresses worker anxiety about job loss SANTA CRUZ, CA–A wage insurance proposal coauthored by economist Lori Kletzer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, tackles the painful subject of U.S. worker dislocations caused by technology, trade liberalization, and downsizing. The proposal has attracted support from a broad spectrum of government policy…
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UC Santa Cruz To Host ‘Inclusion Area D’ Public Workshop On April 5
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, will host a public workshop on Thursday, April 5, to discuss a master plan that the campus has begun preparing in order to build faculty and staff housing on campus land near the main entrance to UCSC. The master plan will consider development options for 28 acres…