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Outstanding Student Achievement Award
This award is given in recognition of the recipient's overall scientific excellence, achievement, and promise, coupled with outstanding service to the scientific and/or public communities. [More]
Survey finds silver contamination in North Pacific waters, probably from industrial emissions in Asia
The highest levels of silver contamination ever observed in the open ocean turned up in samples collected during a survey of the North Pacific in 2002. Researchers from the University of California,... [More]
Two UCSC professors elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Two professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the 2004 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced by the association this week... [More]
UCSC dedicates new W. M. Keck Isotope Laboratory with a symposium on isotope analysis
The University of California, Santa Cruz, dedicated the W. M. Keck Isotope Laboratory in June with a symposium on isotope analysis. The naming of the facility recognizes a $1 million grant from the... [More]
Poisonous silver levels decrease in S.F. BayForget the Lone Ranger. "Hi-yo silver, away!'' is the latest cry of biologists studying decades of pollution in San Francisco Bay... [More] (c) 2004 Mercury News and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
Research on cholera bacteria focuses on biofilm formation
In regions where cholera is an endemic disease causing periodic seasonal outbreaks, the bacterial pathogen (Vibrio cholerae) lives between outbreaks in aquatic ecosystems such as coastal estuaries.... [More]
Isotope analysis shows exposure to depleted uranium
in Gulf War veterans
U.S. veterans who were exposed to depleted uranium during the 1991
Gulf War have continued to excrete the potentially harmful chemical
in their urine for years after their exposure, according to a new
study published in the journal Health Physics... [More]
Postdoctoral Fellow Accepts Faculty Position in
Sweden
Dr. Kuria Ndung’u has accepted
a tenure track faculty position at Stockholm University in Sweden.
There he will
continue his research on the environmental cycles of toxic metals...
[More]
Study shows lead-based paint
is poisoning albatross chicks at Midway Atoll National Wildlife
Refuge
Lead-based paint from deteriorating buildings still poses a hazard to wildlife
on Midway Atoll, despite extensive environmental remediation efforts undertaken
as part of the conversion of the site... [More]
Student's path to graduate school began with
undergraduate research project on drinking water contamination
Two years ago, when testers detected a notorious form of the metal chromium
in Santa Cruz County's Aromas Red Sands aquifer, residents whose drinking water...[More]
Mercury in California rainwater traced to industrial
emissions in Asia
Industrial emissions in Asia are a major source of mercury in rainwater that
falls along the California coast, according to a new study by UCSC researchers.
[More]
Researchers shed light on bacterial infection
linked to ulcers and stomach cancer
About 40 percent of the U.S. population is infected with a bacterium that can
cause stomach inflammation and ulcers and increases the risk of stomach cancer.
[More]
Natural Sciences 2001-2002 Dean's and Chancellor's
Award Recipients
The following undergraduate students were honored with 2001-2002 Natural Sciences
Dean's and Chancellors Awards presented during the last day of Student Achievement
Celebration Week. The awards recognizethe high caliber of work by the students
at UC Santa Cruz. [More]
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