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UC-Santa Cruz chancellor warns of possible deep cuts to academic ...
Date: 11/19/2008 9:30:10 PM
(15 hours ago)
Reductions in state support to the University of California system will force UC-Santa Cruz to cut deeply into its academic programs, chancellor George Blumenthal told UC Regents at their meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday. "This raises the ...
College life's a beach
Date: 11/15/2008 12:23:43 PM
(11/15/2008)
Numero uno was the University of California Santa Cruz, which the magazine described as “the best of both worlds: a great education and some of the best, most consistent surf California has to offer, from never-ending right points and peaky ...
Scientists discover unusual microbe
Date: 11/15/2008 2:46:53 PM
(11/15/2008)
A research team led by Jonathan Zehr, a marine scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, characterized the new microbe by analyzing its genetic material, even though researchers have not been able to grow it in the laboratory. Zehr ...
Did an asteroid kill Mars' magnetic field?
Date: 11/19/2008 6:59:50 PM
(17 hours ago)
These things were enormous," James Roberts of the University of California, Santa Cruz, said. "You would not want to be around when one of these hit." One of the last giant meteors blew a hole 1,864 miles wide in the planet, creating Utopia basin in ...
454 Life Sciences: Discovery of Mysterious Microbe Offers New Insights ...
Date: 11/14/2008 1:36:29 PM
(11/14/2008)
An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. A team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz characterized a ...
Ending racism in a few hours
Date: 11/16/2008 5:27:21 AM
(11/16/2008)
Hatcher was vying to become mayor of Gary, Ind., one neighborhood near the steel mills was running nearly 90 percent against him, said Thomas Pettigrew, a research professor in social psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who helped ...
Immigrant entrepreneurs
Date: 11/15/2008 4:41:25 PM
(11/15/2008)
That is a pretty big contribution,” said report author Robert Fairlie, a professor of economics at the University of California Santa Cruz. “I think that a lot of people focus on the undocumented (immigrant) issue, and they are not focused on all ...
Elusive microbe fertilizes oceans
Date: 11/14/2008 6:29:59 PM
(11/14/2008)
This is a microscopic organism that I've been chasing for 10 years now," said researcher Jonathan Zehr of the University of California at Santa Cruz. "We couldn't culture it (in a laboratory) and couldn't see it." He is the lead author of a paper on ...
Didn't work2!
Date: 11/12/2008 11:54:28 PM
(11/12/2008)
UCLA lost to the University of California-Santa Cruz in the second round of peta2’s third annual Most Vegetarian-Friendly College competition last week, according to a statement made my peta2, the world’s largest youth animal rights organization ...
Mysterious Microbe May Play Important Role In Ocean Ecology
Date: 11/15/2008 6:57:25 PM
(11/15/2008)
... discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. A research team led by Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz ...
Families mourn loss of victims in shootings at Santa Clara startup
Date: 11/15/2008 11:58:04 PM
(11/15/2008)
... brain," Coe noted, pointing out that Pugh had earned degrees in computing and physics from Stanford and the University of California ... Copyright © 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel MediaNews Group - Northern California Network
Incidents high at Pipkin, Study and Pershing
Date: 11/19/2008 4:50:59 PM
(19 hours ago)
He spent summers with his dad in California and eventually got his bachelor's degree in Literature from the University of California-Santa Cruz. (Go Banana Slugs!) After college he spent several years working as a wilderness trip leader. He led month ...
California State University plans to cut 10,000 spots for eligible ...
Date: 11/18/2008 6:39:33 PM
(11/18/2008)
Eligible Santa Cruz County students would be guaranteed a spot at Cal State-Monterey Bay. San Mateo County students ... probability that next year’s budget will be even worse," said Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, who serves as a University of California ...
Written by Press Banner
Date: 11/14/2008 7:12:56 PM
(11/14/2008)
Thielen is the strike team leader and other agencies contributing companies were Branciforte, Central and Aptos/La Selva fire protection districts and University of California, Santa Cruz. ...
Conference explores Bay Area's hot new field of synthetic biology
Date: 11/14/2008 11:59:15 PM
(11/14/2008)
Christopher Anderson of the University of California-Berkeley. On the outside, his E. coli bacteria seems unremarkable. But it will ... Copyright © 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel MediaNews Group - Northern California Network
School bond in April?
Date: 11/18/2008 8:41:14 PM
(11/18/2008)
He spent summers with his dad in California and eventually got his bachelor's degree in Literature from the University of California-Santa Cruz. (Go Banana Slugs!) After college he spent several years working as a wilderness trip leader. He led month ...
Doug Ose: What We're Not Being Told about Changing UC's Admissions ...
Date: 11/15/2008 11:58:04 PM
(11/15/2008)
The University of California Board of Regents is considering a set of sweeping changes to the UC system's admissions criteria. Among the proposed changes is the elimination of SAT Subject Tests as an admissions requirement. Unlike the more ...
Schwarzenegger convenes global climate summit
Date: 11/17/2008 11:12:45 PM
(11/17/2008)
A study released last week by the University of California, Berkeley estimates that California alone could face as much as $23 ... Copyright © 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel MediaNews Group - Northern California Network
Carbon dioxide already in danger zone, warns study
Date: 11/18/2008 8:12:36 PM
(11/18/2008)
Dana Royer of Wesleyan University; and James Zachos of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The paper, "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?" is at: http://www.bentham.org/open/toascj/openaccess2.htm, pages 217-231 . Author contacts
The List — Best & Worst College Nicknames
Date: 11/17/2008 11:55:42 PM
(11/17/2008)
Banana Slugs (University of California-Santa Cruz) — Pairing a fruit with a slimy mollusk rarely works well in the nickname business. 2. Bearkats (Sam Houston State University) — Nothing says “higher education” more than using an incorrect ...