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UC Santa Cruz scientists to discuss life on Earth in conjunction with world premiere of Frans Lanting's Life: A Journey through Time
A scientific forum exploring advances in the understanding of life on Earth will take place on Monday, July 31, at 7 p.m. at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.[More]
Astronomer Sandra Faber awarded Harvard Centennial Medal, elected to Harvard Board of Overseers
Sandra Faber, University Professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC, has been awarded the Centennial Medal of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)... [More]
George Blumenthal will present "A Century of Paradigm Shifts in our Thinking about the Universe." [More]
Large survey of galaxies yields new findings on star formation
New findings from a large survey of galaxies suggest that star formation is largely driven by the supply of raw materials, rather than by galactic mergers that trigger sudden bursts of star formation. [More]
Two UCSC faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
Two faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were elected to the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. [More]
Joe Miller and Peter Bodenheimer were honored as "Active Pioneers" [More]
Hubble surveys find gamma-ray bursts and supernovae in different environments
Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are associated with the deaths of only the most massive stars and occur relatively rarely in spiral galaxies such as our own Milky Way, according to research published...
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Original seismographic record of 1906 San Francisco earthquake found and put on display at UC's Lick Observatory
On April 18, 1906, the seismographic station at the University of California's Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton obtained the only good record of local strong ground motion from the great earthquake that devastated San Francisco that day. [More]
E. Armandroff Appointed Director for W.M. Keck Observatory
KAMUELA, Hawaii (February 1, 2006) The Board of the California Association for Research in Astronomy (CARA), the governing body for the W. M. Keck Observatory, is pleased to announce that Dr. Taft E. Armandroff has been appointed director of the Obse... [More]
Joseph Miller steps down as director of UC Observatories/Lick Observatory after 14 years at the helm
SANTA CRUZ, CA--Joseph S. Miller has resigned as director of the University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick), a position he held for 14 years. Miller will return to full-time teaching and research at UC Santa Cruz, where he is... [More]
Nearly Normal Galaxies in a ΛCDM Universe
A Conference celebrating the 60th birthdays of George Blumenthal, Sandra Faber and Joel Primack to be held at UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA on August 8-12, 2005. The conference addressed the recent explosion of observational data in the field of galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and confronts it with advanced theory and numerical simulations. | 
