Resources for Learning and Research

University Library

The handsome McHenry and Science & Engineering Library buildings house the increasingly impressive collection of UCSC’s University Library. In nearly four decades, the collection has grown from a few shelves of books and a substantial dependence on the libraries of UC Berkeley, to nearly 1.5 million volumes, nearly 17,000 periodical titles (including electronic journals), over 825,000 microforms, and more than 500,000 nonprint items, including maps, slides, and audio and video recordings.

As part of the statewide University of California library system, the University Library also serves as gateway to millions of other books and periodicals at other campuses throughout the state. The library’s efficient Interlibrary Loan service is heavily used, especially the online request service of the California Digital Library. Faculty, staff, and graduate students may also use the Slug Express service for on-campus delivery of local materials.

The University Library collection is divided into two parts. Resources in the humanities, arts, and social sciences are contained in the McHenry Library at the heart of the campus, while the science collection is housed in the beautiful Science & Engineering Library, conveniently located on “Science Hill.”

Subject bibliographers manage the growth and development of UCSC’s collection and provide in-depth research assistance.

Most of the holdings of the University Library are shelved in open stacks. Students and faculty are encouraged to help themselves, using information found via the local CRUZCAT online library catalog, the systemwide Melvyl® catalog, and the library home page. The library home page provides a convenient gateway to the CRUZCAT and Melvyl® catalogs, the California Digital Library, and a host of other electronic information resources, such as article databases and electronic journals. The library staff is also eager to offer its assistance at any of several service points.

At the Reference desks in both libraries, reference librarians give individual guidance: general orientation for the newcomer and specialized help for the researcher. Librarians assist in the use of a wide range of indexes—in print, on CD-ROM or the World Wide Web, and in more than 150 online article databases to which the library subscribes. Librarians also offer group instruction: orientation sessions at the beginning of each quarter, library research workshops, special web seminars for students and faculty, and upon request, specialized instruction to classes in all disciplines.

The Reserve desks lend copies of assigned class readings on a short-term basis, operate a web-based electronic reserve system, and provide protection for vulnerable circulating materials and heavily used periodicals. In addition, the McHenry Library Reserve Unit provides access to recent newspapers.

Special Collections at McHenry Library contains rare, valuable, and often fragile materials that do not circulate. Holdings focus on local history and 20th-century literature and book arts. Special Collections also houses the official campus archives, as well as the archives of George Barati, Gregory Bateson, Thomas Carlyle, Lou Harrison, Kenneth Patchen, Edward Weston, and the Shameless Hussy, Trianon, and Turtle Island presses.

Other important collections and services include the following:

• Government Publications, a selective depository for documents published by U.S., California, and Santa Cruz government agencies
• The Media and Electronic Resource Center (MERC), which provides access to CD-ROMs, computer files, and language-related audio and video recordings; electronic support for language study at UCSC; and printing support for the Electronic Reserve System (ERes)
• The Map Collection, with maps and aerial photographs of Santa Cruz and adjoining counties and topographic, nautical, and aeronautical maps from all over the world
• The Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, a national resource for the history of astronomy
• The Film and Music Center, which houses music recordings and a growing collection of videos and DVDs
• The Regional History Project’s documentation of central California history
• The Visual Resource Collection, which emphasizes art history but also includes slides on science, history, and the UCSC campus and offers the web-based SlideCat slide catalog For more information, see the library’s home page, library.ucsc.edu.

Center for Teaching Excellence

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) is a professional resource dedicated to promoting, sustaining, and recognizing teaching excellence at UCSC. Serving the faculty and graduate students, CTE programs and services support instructors in their efforts to develop as teachers, to enhance the quality of instruction, and to improve students’ learning.

Regular programs and services include Instructional Improvement Grants, Excellence in Teaching Awards, Teaching Convocations, Mid-quarter Class Interviews, Electronic Mid-quarter Analysis of Teaching, Videotaping of Teaching, UCSC Instructor Evaluation, and Faculty Focus, a quarterly newsletter featuring the voices of the UCSC community speaking out on teaching and learning.

CTE is located on the first floor of McHenry Library, in Room 168C. For more information, visit the CTE web site: ic.ucsc.edu/CTE.

Computing Facilities and Services

Rapid expansion is occurring in the computing environment at UC Santa Cruz. Below are the key features of this expansion:

• The campus is rapidly expanding its CruzNet wireless network to reach many points on the campus. If you have a laptop computer with a wireless network card, you can sit with a group of classmates in a serene setting among the redwoods, or at a cafe with an ocean view to do your homework, and still have Internet access.
• Because of the ubiquitous wireless access being developed, we highly recommend that you purchase a laptop computer. We have included minimum specifications below.
• The campus offers a high-speed data residential network called ResNet to all students living in university residential areas. The service cost is included in the housing fees. There are no additional fees for students who live in university residential areas to use the service that includes technical support (by phone, or room visits when necessary) provided by ResNet staff.
• There are 15 Instructional Computing Labs across the campus with high-speed network service and specialized hardware and software. Each lab is open to all students. These include the Digital Media Lab for students in the arts and the Solaris Unix labs for students in the sciences and engineering. There is a wireless laptop lab at the Academic Resources Center where you can check out an Apple laptop and have a network connection while sitting in the meadow overlooking the ocean. The 15 labs have over 340 computers available for students to use, including PCs, Macs, and Sun workstations. See ic.ucsc.edu for more information.
• Students are expected to communicate via e-mail using a UCSC e-mail account. Your account is assigned when you enroll for classes the first time. There is no cost for the e-mail account. Mail may be accessed via the web on CruzMail.

Purchasing a Computer?
If you are planning to buy a new computer, UCSC recommends purchasing a laptop with both wired and wireless network capability. In 2003–04, 98 percent of students who came to campus had a personally owned computer in their residential housing rooms.

The campus community embraces both PCs and Macs, and in some circles, Unix-based Sun Solaris and Linux are popular. The Humanities Division and the Arts Division both are heavily Mac oriented. The Social Sciences Division and the Physical and Biological Sciences Division use both Macs and PCs. The School of Engineering uses primarily PC/Windows and PC/Linux (as well as Sun Solaris), and there is an emerging interest in Macs with the Unix-based OSX environment.

Academic Course Materials on the Web
The WebCT course-management system is a tool to create sophisticated web-based course materials to supplement classroom instruction, not to replace it. WebCT uses a web browser as the interface for the course. Faculty using WebCT can incorporate a wide variety of tools in their course site such as a course calendar, student conferencing system, electronic mail, group projects with student created web pages, and quizzes. Outside of class time, students can use WebCT to view course materials, participate in web-based class discussions, collaborate on group projects, and take quizzes. Faculty can use WebCT to see what materials students have viewed before they arrive in class. When faculty administer preclass quizzes on WebCT, they can see what concepts students understand before class and tailor the lecture accordingly. Students must have established their UCSC account to be enrolled in WebCT courses. See more information about WebCT and other UCSC course web sites at ic.ucsc.edu/docs/webct and ic.ucsc.edu/courses.

Disability Accommodations for Computing
If you have a disability and will require adaptive or assistive technology to use lab computers, library facilities, or other campus services, please contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC) right away so that they can coordinate services for you. Instructional Computing Labs have common adaptive technologies, such as enlarged type for students with low vision and Dvorak keyboards for students with repetitive strain injuries. If you need accommodations, please call the DRC at (831) 459-2089 (voice), or 459-4806 (TTY).

Information Technology Services

UCSC has begun a major transformation process that will consolidate Information Technology Services (ITS) from across the campus into one newly created division. Below is a description of IT services and resources as of March 2004. Once the new IT organization is developed, these services and resources will expand and change. Please visit its.ucsc.edu for more information about the IT transformation project.

ITS at UCSC currently provides a broad spectrum of IT related resources and services that support teaching, learning, and research by providing information technology to students, faculty, and staff in the areas of instructional computing; administrative computing; network, voice, and data services; information systems security; web services; media services; technical support; and training.

ITS operates the UCSC network, which interconnects the campus network, the student residential network, and the Internet. On-campus network resources include academic, library, and administrative computing, database, and information servers. Many instructors are choosing to provide course materials via the web or electronic mail, and both the UCSC and UC-wide library catalogs are accessible via the web.

ITS manages 15 Instructional Computing Labs (IC Labs) throughout the campus that provide for both instructional and individual open-access use. The 15 labs, including wired and wireless labs, have over 375 computers available for students to use; platforms include Intel-based PCs, Macs, and Suns. Lab workstations are replaced every three years.

Labs are used like classrooms: reserved by faculty or teaching assistants (TAs) for instruction. When not reserved for instruction, the labs are available to students on a walk-in basis. Even if they are not teaching in the labs, many faculty request to have academic software installed in the labs so that their students can complete homework assignments. Every IC Lab is open to every student, no matter what his or her major. Assistive technologies are provided to disabled students who request services via the Disability Resource Center. If you need assistive technologies, please see oasas.ucsc.edu and make your request so ITS can provide services for you in a timely manner.

Technical training is available for students in the labs. In addition, faculty or TAs can request ITS staff to conduct training sessions as part of an academic course. Contact fitc@ ucsc.edu for more information.

More extensive lab information, including hardware and software specifications, hours of operation, and student employment opportunities, is available at ic.ucsc.edu.

WebCT Learning Management System is a standardized tool provided by IC’s Faculty Instructional Technology Center (FITC). UCSC faculty can use WebCT to deliver web-based course materials to supplement their classroom instruction. At FITC, student web developers provide faculty services such as audio and video digitizing, CD-ROM burning, flatbed as well as slide scanning, and web authoring. FITC student web developers provide faculty four hours per quarter of free technical assistance to develop digital course materials and train students in skills needed for academic courses.

ResNet, a network in the residence halls, is available in nearly all campus residence halls and apartments. Students can connect to the ResNet and access campus resources and the Internet from their rooms at speeds significantly faster than provided by modems. Students can also access the UCSC campus network and the Internet by modem at speeds of up to 56K.

UCSC is connected to other UC campuses and the Internet via a high-speed connection to the UC network. UCSC is also part of the state and national initiatives for the next-generation Internet, joining the other UC campuses and select California universities in this project.

To access any of the central computing services, including e-mail, individuals must have a UCSC Identity (UCSC ID). Registered students are assigned an e-mail account and may set the initial password via the web at any of the Instructional Computing Labs or from their own computers. Faculty and campus units send e-mail about classes and student services to this account. Students may forward e-mail sent to their UCSC e-mail account to another address via a web form.

ITS provides support for its services to students, faculty, and staff. This support includes walk-in, phone, and online support, including a knowledge database at ic.ucsc.edu/help. For support, please call (831) 459-4357 (459- HELP), e-mail infocat@ucsc.edu, or visit the web site: www2.ucsc.edu/cats/sc.

Research Programs and Facilities

Research at UC Santa Cruz is thriving, facilities are excellent, and the amount of external funding received for research continues to grow. In addition to their individual research projects, faculty are involved in organized research on various scales, from small focused activities within academic divisions, to large research units, some with campuswide scope and others with wider connections to the whole 10-campus University of California system.

Specialized research facilities in addition to those listed below are described in the programs and courses section.

Arboretum

The Arboretum at UCSC is a research and teaching facility committed to plant conservation and serves both the campus and the public. Its rich and diverse collection, containing representatives of more than 300 plant families, provides beginning students with a broad survey of the plant kingdom. Facilities for growing plants offer students and research faculty opportunities to experiment with living plants. The Arboretum maintains collections of rare and threatened plants of unusual scientific interest. Particular specialties are world conifers, primitive angiosperms, and bulb-forming plant families. Large assemblages of plants from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and California natives are displayed on the grounds. Many of the species in these collections are not otherwise available for study in American botanical gardens and arboreta.

Arboretum events educate and engage the public about plant diversity and conservation. Of service to the public and the nursery industry are the Arboretum’s activities in importing, selecting, and breeding choice ornamental plants, especially those that are drought tolerant and pest resistant. To date, the Arboretum is the original importer of more than 1,500 different selections of choice ornamentals. Many of these have been and will continue to be the plants of future California gardens.

Norrie’s, the Arboretum's volunteer-run gift shop, supports the Arboretum and is open Monday through Saturday, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., and Sunday, 1 to 4 P.M.

Arboretum: (831) 427-2998; Norrie’s gift shop: (831) 423-4977; e-mail: arboretum@ucsc. edu; web: www2.ucsc.edu/arboretum.

Arts Instructional Computing Laboratories

Instructional Computing (IC) has three labs that primarily serve the Arts Division: the IC Arts Mac lab, the IC Digital Media Lab, and the IC Music Lab. The IC Arts Mac Lab and IC Digital Media Lab at Porter are equipped with Arts-specific software complemented with high-end sound-, graphic-, and video-editing software. The Digital Media Lab (DML) is oriented more exclusively toward the moving image. It is equipped with Apple workstations and software capable of high-end video import, digitizing, editing, compositing, and output. The Music Lab includes hardware and software for music editing, notation, and working with MIDI. See hardware and software details at ic.ucsc.edu/labs.

These Instructional Computing labs are open to all UCSC students. In addition, the Arts Division manages computer labs for the exclusive use of students taking classes in the Art, Film and Digital Media, and Theater Arts Departments.

Baskin School of Engineering Facilities

Computing Infrastructure
The Jack Baskin School of Engineering (SOE) operates a computing network of several hundred Unix and Windows computers and several computer laboratories. These support research and graduate instruction in applied mathematics and statistics, biomolecular engineering, computer engineering, computer science, and electrical engineering. Undergraduate computing is supported by a combination of SOE Undergraduate Laboratories (BELS Labs) and the campus’s Instructional Computing Laboratories (IC Labs). For graduate and research computing, the SOE supports

• Central fileservers for core services such as mail, name service, file sharing, and backup
• Several general-access Unix systems
• Several compute servers
• Several graduate student computer labs with a mix of Windows, Linux, and Solaris workstations and network printers Open to the public, UCSC’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center at Long Marine Laboratory houses an aquarium and exhibits that interpret the vast spectrum of research taking place within the Institute of Marine Sciences.
• A variety of software purchased in cooperation with UCSC central computing, SOE computing, and individual faculty members
  

Details of SOE computing services can be found at www.soe.ucsc.edu/administration/computer.

Research Laboratories. The SOE operates and supports the following research laboratories. Current information about SOE Research Labs can be found at www.soe.ucsc.edu/research/labs.

Computer Communication Research Group. The Computer Communication Research Group (CCRG) is dedicated to basic and applied research in computer communication. CCRG research focuses on new algorithms, protocols, and architectures for wireless networks based on packet switching (packet-radio networks), Internetworking, multipoint communication, and the control of resources by multiple administrative authorities. Web: www.cse.ucsc.edu/labs/.

Geospatial Visualization Laboratory. The lab is creating a consistent four-dimensional space-time visualization of geospatial data and intelligence associated with the environment. This task requires intelligent collection of data using various sensors, including a variety of cameras, LIDAR data, and multispectral imagery in all kinds of frequency bands. The spatiotemporal GIS (geographic information systems) visualization will bring together several layers of information including terrain data, street maps, buildings, environment data, aerial images, and mobile objects data. Web: www.cse.ucsc.edu/labs/.

Group Researching Advances in Software Engineering. The Group Researching Advances in Software Engineering (GRASE) laboratory performs research in the areas of software evolution and reengineering, and software configuration management. Current areas of research include identifying unstable areas of evolving software, automatic generation of software configuration-management repositories, and development of web-based versioning and configuration-management infrastructure. Web: www.cse.ucsc.edu/labs/grase.

High-Speed Network Laboratory. Members of the High-Speed Network Laboratory explore and expand the field of high-speed computer networking and communication. Current areas of research include high-speed switching, traffic- scheduling algorithms for providing quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees in packet networks, ATM congestion control, and optical networks. Projects are funded by NSF, ARPA, and private industry. Web: www.cse.ucsc.edu/labs/.

Image Processing and Multimedia Laboratory. The Image Processing and Multimedia Lab (IPMML) is the central venue for ongoing research into topics in image processing and multimedia. Areas of interest include wireless digital video; virtual scene and panorama generation; natural and machine-generated image compression; video capture, processing, and editing techniques; color printing technology; image libraries; and combinations of the above. Web: sapphire.cse.ucsc.edu.

Internetworking Research Group. The Internetworking Research Group (i-NRG) conducts research in the design, experimental evaluation, and implementation of network protocols for Internetworks consisting of wired as well as wireless networks. Research activities span a number of areas in computer networks and distributed systems. Web: inrg.cse.ucsc.edu.

Multidimensional Signal Processing Research Group. The Multidimensional Signal Processing (MDSP) Research Group’s interests are in the area of inverse problems in imaging, statistical detection and estimation, and associated numerical methods. Current projects include image-resolution enhancement and superresolution, computationally efficient image-motion estimation, shape reconstruction from local and global geometric data, multiscale modeling and analysis of signals and images, radon transform-based algorithms for deformation analysis and dynamic imaging, image processing and inverse problems in remote sensing, and automatic target detection and recognition. The group is also associated with the Image Processing and Multimedia Lab. Web: www.cse.ucsc.edu/%7Emilanfar/MDSP.

Santa Cruz Laboratory for Visualization and Graphics. Recent research at the Santa Cruz Laboratory for Visualization and Graphics includes animal modeling and animation, environmental visualization, isosurfaces, d.v.r., hierarchies, irregular grids, massively parallel volume rendering through the net, uncertainty visualization, virtual reality in scientific visualization, nomadic collaborative visualization, tensor visualization, and flow visualization. Web: www.cse.ucsc.edu/labs/.

Storage Systems Research Center. Composed of faculty from the Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering Departments, the Storage Systems Research Center focuses on caching, storage systems hierarchies, large-scale distributed storage systems, security, and performance. Web: ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu.

UCSC Scientific Visualization Laboratory. The UCSC Scientific Visualization Laboratory provides the means for creating visualizations from scientific data. Projects include a simulation of an “extensive air shower” striking the Milagro detector at Los Alamos National Lab, representing a subsonic flow over a delta wing aircraft, a demonstration of direct volume rendering on a multiply-gridded space shuttle launch vehicle, an N-body simulation of large-scale structure in the universe, and a representation of a diving whale based on location data from a Monterey Bay tagging experiment. Web: vizwww.cse.ucsc.edu.

UCSC Visual Computing Laboratory. The UCSC Visual Computing Laboratory explores visual tracking, stereo and sparse IBR, facial modeling and analysis, and image and video processing. Web: www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/labs/.

Undergraduate Engineering Laboratories (Baskin Engineering Lab Support–BELS). The SOE operates the following special instructional laboratories for the exclusive use of engineering students. These laboratories are typically open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, during instructional quarters. Detailed information about these labs can be found at the following web site: www.soe.ucsc.edu/bels.

• Digital Logic Design Laboratory
• Controls, Signals and Instrumentation Laboratory
• Analog Circuits Laboratory
• Electrical Engineering Senior Projects Laboratory
• Optics and Laser Laboratory
• Computer Engineering Projects Laboratory
• Electromagnetic and Radio Frequency Laboratory
• Physical Electronics Laboratory
• Computer Networking Laboratory

Engineering Building Wireless Computer Network (CruzNet). A wireless (IEEE- 802.116) computer network (CruzNet) is installed on the first floor of the Baskin Engineering Building. UCSC students and faculty may access the Internet using their own laptops with wireless Internet cards. Information on CruzNet may be found at the following web site: its.ucsc.edu/services/network/cruznet/index.php.

UCSC Instructional Computing Laboratories. In addition to the facilities provided by the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, students have access to the computing facilities of the UCSC Instructional Computing Labs (IC Labs). These include several computer labs located around the campus consisting of Unix, Mac, and Windows workstations. There are two large IC Labs located in the Baskin Engineering Building. Check the UCSC Instructional Computing web site for details on these labs and hours of operation: ic.ucsc.edu.

For additional information regarding the School of Engineering, please check the web site: www.soe.ucsc.edu.

California Carlyle Edition

The splendid Norman and Charlotte Strouse Collection of Thomas Carlyle in Special Collections at McHenry Library is the focus of an exciting and innovative effort by an international group of scholars to publish an eight-volume critical edition of Carlyle’s major works. Headquartered at UCSC, it is the first “scientific” edition of Carlyle, using computer technology to compare all the lifetime editions of each work in order to establish an accurate text, as well as providing explanatory notes for the modern reader. The edition promises to set the agenda for work on Carlyle and the Victorian era for the next generation. In addition to producing a much needed critical edition of the works of Carlyle, the project is using the campus’s computer facilities to develop and demonstrate many state-of-the-art applications of data-processing technology in the humanities, from optical scanning of some editions and machine-assisted collation and proofreading, to desktop typesetting and the creation of an online Carlyle textual archive. The first volume, On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History, was published in 1993 by the University of California Press. The second volume, Sartor Resartus, was published in 2000. Historical Essays and The French Revolution are forthcoming. Web: www.nd.edu/~carlyle/strouse.html.

Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems

The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) is a research, education, and public service unit of the Division of Social Sciences, dedicated to increasing ecological sustainability and social justice in the food and agriculture system. Center researchers investigate the ecological basis for sustainable agriculture and the cultural, political, and economic aspects of developing sustainable food and agricultural systems. The center’s work is multifaceted, covering a spectrum that includes research (theoretical and applied), education (practical and academic), and public service (with audiences ranging from local schoolchildren to international agencies). Much of the center’s farming-systems research takes place on organic and conventional farms throughout the region, including a number of projects in the Santa Cruz/Monterey area and the Elkhorn Slough watershed. Center social issues staff organize and participate in the Agrifood Working Group for UCSC faculty, researchers, and graduate students, which meets regularly to discuss topics related to food systems.

Center facilities and resources are available to all UC Santa Cruz undergraduate and graduate students. Students can take part in ongoing center research and education efforts, design their own projects and internships in collaboration with the center’s affiliated faculty and staff, and apply for research funds through the center’s competitive grants program. Many undergraduate students participate in the center as part of the environmental studies major and as participants in the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture (see below). The graduate program in environmental studies includes a focus on agroecology and sustainable food systems; graduate students have access to the center’s facilities and staff assistance for field based work. Students have also pursued undergraduate and graduate studies with the center by working through the Departments of Biology, Education, Anthropology, and Sociology.

In addition, about 35 people complete a six-month apprenticeship organized and taught by center staff each year, earning a Certificate in Ecological Horticulture through UCSC Extension. Through workshops, lectures, and hands-on instruction, apprentices master basic organic farming and gardening techniques.

The center gives high priority to forging links with, and serving as a resource for, researchers on and off campus, government agencies at many levels, nongovernmental organizations, producers, consumers, students, gardeners, and other individuals interested in multiple aspects of sustainable agriculture and food systems. Center staff coordinate major agricultural conferences, teach short courses, make presentations at agricultural and ecological events, and publish a newsletter twice yearly. In addition, the center hosts a growing number of international researchers interested in working with faculty and staff.

The center manages two facilities: the 25-acre Farm on a lower meadow of campus and the four-acre Alan Chadwick Garden on the upper part of campus. As the center’s primary on-campus research facility, the Farm includes research At UCSC’s Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, researchers investigate the ecological basis for sustainable agriculture, with the goal of designing farming systems that conserve energy and water, recycle nutrients, and manage weeds and pests with minimal environmental and economic costs. plots, raised-bed gardens, row crops, and orchards, as well as staff offices, a laboratory, greenhouses, and a visitors center. The Garden showcases small-scale intensive horticulture and supports a diverse collection of ornamentals, food crops, and native California plants.

The Farm & Garden are open to the public daily from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. In conjunction with the Friends of the UCSC Farm & Garden, the center sponsors a variety of public education events for the community. For further information, contact the center at (831) 459-3240; for directions to the Farm & Garden, call (831) 459-4140. The web address is http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/casfs.

Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering

The Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering (CBSE) fosters interdisciplinary research and academic programs that address the scientific questions of the post-genomic era—the scientific opportunities arising from the completion of the Human Genome Project and the sequencing of other model organisms. As they further our understanding of biology, these scientific investigations have potential applications to medicine, agriculture, and ecology. The center serves as an umbrella organization at the University of California, Santa Cruz, spanning the Baskin School of Engineering and the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences in pursuit of the following goals:

• Promote interdisciplinary research in areas that encompass the study of genomic information and structural biology.
• Support the UCSC Genome Browsers, a crucial resource for the international scientific community.
• Support a core of instrumental facilities, such as the KiloKluster processing system and microarray facilities.
• Help meet the need for trained professionals in industry and academia by developing courses, curricula, and internships leading to degrees in the areas of bioinformatics and biomolecular engineering.
• Attract research funding for the center, for affiliated faculty, and for students from federal, state, and private agencies.
• Cultivate and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with industry through research collaborations, internship opportunities, and gifting programs.

Our location near the San Francisco Bay Area and proximity to Silicon Valley allows UCSC researchers to collaborate actively with colleagues in other world-class institutions (Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco) and in leading biotechnology and high-tech companies.

For more information about CBSE, visit the web site: www.cbse.ucsc.edu.

Center for Cultural Studies

The Center for Cultural Studies builds on UCSC’s strong history of innovative scholarship in the humanities, and particularly on its unusual strength in interdisciplinary and global cultural studies. The center sponsors conferences, lectures, film series, seminars, scholarly visits, workshops, and discussion groups. It also organizes and supports research clusters of faculty and graduate students working on a variety of topics, including cultural theory, critical regional studies (Asia-Pacific-America, Inter- Americas, and Hawai’i have been recent foci), contemporary cultural production, minority discourse, and queer studies. The center is based in the Humanities Division, under the rubric of the Institute for Humanities Research (see Institute for Humanities Research section), but it also sponsors collaborative work involving faculty and graduate students from the social sciences, the physical and biological sciences, and the arts. From 2003 to 2006, the center will host several visiting scholars each year in conjunction with an ongoing project on “Other Globalizations,” funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. It also sponsors an unfunded residency program for U.S. and international scholars in cultural studies. The center publishes a quarterly newsletter listing events and activities and maintains a web site with programs, schedules, and other material at humanities.ucsc.edu/CultStudies/. The center can be reached at (831) 459-4899, by e-mail at cult@ucsc.edu, or by mail at Oakes College Academic Services.

Center for Global, International and Regional Studies

The Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (CGIRS) was established within the Division of Social Sciences in 1996, bringing under one umbrella the Center for the Study of Global Transformations, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)– UCSC Campus Program, the UC Pacific Rim Research Program, the Global Information Internship Program (see Global Information Internship Program section), the Global Studies Honors Program initiative, and related research, teaching, conferences, workshops, and public-education activities. CGIRS is organized around the idea that human activities, although anchored in specific regions and nation-states, are increasingly integrated by social, economic, and cultural networks to states, regions, and communities in other parts of the world. Accordingly, globalization processes and responses to them are a major research focus of CGIRS. The center also sponsors collaborative research groups focusing on five main areas. These research areas are global economics; civil society and social movements; global environment and development; globalization, states, and regulation; and regions and networks. CGIRS is funded by the Division of Social Sciences, the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, multicampus research units, private donors, and foundation support. For further information, e-mailglobal@ucsc.edu or visit the web site: www2.ucsc.edu/cgirs.

Center for Informal Learning and Schools

The Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) was created in 2002 through a Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) grant from the National Science Foundation. The primary intent of this center is to strengthen K–12 science and mathematics education through deepening the understanding of informal learning and the alliances informal science environments can have with schools. CILS is a collaboration among UC Santa Cruz, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and King’s College London, England. All three institutions offer CILS graduate programs.

CILS programs at UC Santa Cruz offer doctoral and postdoctoral research support to study the nature of informal learning in diverse settings and in diverse communities traditionally underserved by schools. UC Santa Cruz CILS programs include the following:

Doctoral Fellowships
CILS doctoral students at UCSC receive support to pursue a Ph.D. through either the Science and Mathematics program in the Education Department or the Developmental Psychology program in the Psychology Department. CILS students complete the requirements in their department, as well as attend joint doctoral seminars.

Postdoctoral Fellowships
This two-year program is aimed at new Ph.D. recipients who want to develop their research in directions compatible with the goals of CILS. Postdoctoral researchers collaborate with one or more faculty members in developmental psychology, or science and mathematics education, on research of mutual interest.

CILS Science Fellows
This program offers three quarters of support for students at UC Santa Cruz who are working on their doctorates in the fields of natural or social sciences and who want to deepen their understanding about informal science learning and connections among diverse learning environments. CILS Science Fellows participate in a core course, colloquia, and a practicum in informal science education and informal learning with other CILS Ph.D. students.

For further information on CILS at UCSC, e-mail sallyd@ucsc.edu. For information on all CILS programs at all three institutions, visit the web site: www.exploratorium.edu/cils.

Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is one of four California Institutes for Science and Innovation created in 2000. Financed by state, federal, and private funds, the centers concentrate on areas of science and innovation that are of special importance to California’s high-tech economy and to homeland security.

CITRIS is seeking new ways to help realize information technology’s potential for solving many of the complex problems facing society, including those in transportation, education, emergency preparedness, health care, and the environment. At their core, such issues depend on widespread, reliable, and secure information systems that adapt to the varied needs of users and continue to perform even if part of the system is down, disabled, or threatened.

With participation from engineers, scientists, and social scientists, the focus of the institute is to develop the technical foundations of such Societal-scale Information Systems (SIS) to meet many of California’s infrastructure needs. Initial work will provide distributed “smart classrooms” for enhanced education and training; “smart buildings” that adapt their environment to their inhabitants; an urban SIS for transportation management, disaster response, seismic planning, and environmental monitoring; and a medical alert network to monitor and treat patients.

CITRIS’s lead campus is UC Berkeley. UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and UC Merced are partners in the institute. Web: www.citris.berkeley.edu.

Information Technologies Institute
The Information Technologies Institute (ITI), formerly Institute for Networking, Information Systems & Technologies (iNIST), is a Focused Research Activity (FRA) founded in 2001 and housed at the Baskin School of Engineering. ITI’s objective is to provide an environment in which its members can attract large-scale projects that bridge technology research from concept to prototype and that solve critical problems in the social and commercial sectors nationally.

In ITI, advanced Internet applications provide the impetus and focus that bring together the components of research related to the rapidly expanding world of networks, distributed computing, “smart” sensors, and Internet appliances. As electronics and packaging developments lead to powerful low-cost sensors, resulting in a broad array of instruments, these become Internet devices, bringing a significant increase in the data captured, transmitted, stored, managed, and displayed.

ITI focuses research, via its research centers in an interrelated set of areas in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering as well as physics, chemistry, and applied mathematics. Areas of emphasis include the following:

• Internet and information systems: architecture, performance, and applications
• Multimedia systems and applications in education, telecommuting, and distance learning
• Design and development of complex networked systems and software technologies
• Storage systems and databases
• Communications
• Optoelectronics (including nanotechnology devices)
• VLSI design, packaging, testing
• Sensors and Internet appliances
• Visualization and computer graphics

ITI manages the participation with other research partnerships of its faculty, including the activities of the Baskin School of Engineering in the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), with UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Merced; the High Dependability Computing Consortium (with NASA Ames, Carnegie Mellon, and other universities); the National Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (NPACI) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center; and local universities and organizations with mutual research interests, including the Naval Postgraduate School; San Jose State University; California State University, Monterey Bay; and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Web: www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/centers/inist/.

Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community

The Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community (CJTC) was established in 2000. Housed in the Division of Social Sciences and funded by divisional monies, university initiative funds, private donors, and various foundations, CJTC is an interdisciplinary center tackling issues of social justice, diversity and tolerance, and the building of collaborative communities. The center includes research clusters on age and aging; poverty and inequality; the role of faith-based movements in social change; sexuality and the public sphere; the relationship between science, technology, and social justice; and youth, education, and inequality. Current research projects include studies of environmental justice, regional and community linkages for housing and employment, the changing labor market in Silicon Valley, transnational movements for social justice, the digital divide, and the barriers faced in the welfare-to-work transition for poor women and others. While the mix of work includes considerations of fundamental issues of discrimination, power, and domination, the center actively seeks to play a public role in providing research that can inform policy and programs to improve equity. To ensure a public presence, the center sponsors an annual lecture series as well as smaller events bringing together community leaders and academic researchers. The center draws researchers from all departments in the division as well as from the humanities and arts, and includes opportunities for postdoctoral and affiliated researchers. For more information, contact CJTC at cjtc@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5743. Web: cjtc.ucsc.edu.

Center for Molecular Biology of RNA

The center, established in 1992, brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers whose common interest is to understand the structure, function, and biological roles of DNA’s intriguing cousin, RNA. An important goal of the center is to promote interaction among structural biologists on the one hand and molecular geneticists and biochemists on the other; thus, members of the center comprise faculty from molecular, cell, and developmental biology; chemistry and biochemistry; and computer science and engineering. Major funding for the center has come from grants from the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust and the W. M. Keck Foundation, as well as individual research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other sources available to members of the center.

Creation of the center was motivated by the many exciting developments in the molecular biology of RNA in recent years. It is now known that RNA can have enzymatic activity and has the ability to catalyze specific biochemical reactions. Accordingly, many molecular biologists now believe that RNA may have preceded both protein and DNA in the early molecular evolution of life. It is becoming apparent that RNA, like protein, can fold into complex and unusual three-dimensional structures and that this is crucial for its ability to carry out enzymatic functions. A better grasp of the fundamental properties of RNA will benefit a wide range of medical research projects: for example, a rigorous molecular understanding of RNA viruses— such as HIV and SARS—has become a national priority.

Research laboratories for the center are located in Sinsheimer Laboratories, a state-of-the-art research facility. High-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction facilities have been established to determine three-dimensional structures of RNA molecules and study the mechanisms of RNA-protein recognition.

Among the research areas currently under investigation by members of the center are RNA processing, translation, mRNA stability and structure, ribonucleoprotein assembly, RNA-protein recognition, three-dimensional structures of RNA and RNA-protein complexes (including the ribosome), the mechanism of action of functional RNAs, in vitro evolution of novel catalytic RNAs, and RNA genomics. Members of the center participate in the research training of doctoral students in the graduate program offered by the Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Department as well as graduate programs offered by the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering. The center sponsors research seminars and provides a forum for discussion of topics in RNA. Web: rna.ucsc.edu/rnacenter/.

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence

The Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) is a federally funded research and development program focused on improving the education of students at risk of academic failure due to language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty. CREDE is based at UCSC.

From 1996 to 2001, CREDE funded 31 research projects around the country. Researchers in these projects gathered data and tested curriculum models in wide-ranging settings and with diverse student populations— from classrooms with predominantly Zuni-speaking students in New Mexico, to inner-city schools in Florida, to California elementary schools with large populations of native Spanish-speaking students.

During 2001–04, seven synthesis teams are extracting the key findings and practices from the field. The teams are producing a range of publications and other tools to help teachers implement best practices in the classroom and to set future research agendas. CREDE is also partnered with two schools (Starlight Elementary School in Watsonville, Calif., and Waianae High School in Waianae, Hawaii) to document and develop a scalable model of school reform.

CREDE offers a wide range of multimedia products (interactive CD-ROMs, videos, and national directories of programs focused on teacher preparation, two-way bilingual immersion, and secondary newcomers), print publications, and a useful web site for practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and parents. For more on CREDE, visit crede.ucsc.edu.

Chicano/Latino Research Center

The Chicano/Latino Research Center (CLRC) was founded in 1992 and is located at Merrill College’s Casa Latina. CLRC faculty associates and affiliates conduct research within a cross-border perspective that links Latina/o studies to the rest of the Americas. The interdisciplinary approach spans empirical social scientific research and policy studies with cultural studies and the humanities. Research clusters focus on “Borders, Nations, Regions,” “Chicana/Latina Feminisms,” “Feminist Translation in the Latin/a Americas,” “Inter- Ethnicity,” “Latinos in California,” “Hemispheric Dialogues: Rethinking Area and Ethnic Studies,” “Mexico in Transition,” “Transnational Imaginaries,” and “Transnational Popular Cultures and Brazil.” The CLRC funds collaborative faculty, policy-related, and graduate research initiatives. The center supports research clusters; sponsors conferences, a colloquium series, and a visiting scholar program; and publishes an annual newsletter and a working-paper series. For further information, e-mail clrc@ucsc.edu or visit the web page: lals.ucsc.edu/clrc.

Dickens Project

Through a regular program of conferences, courses, and scholarly gatherings, the Dickens Project coordinates research and instruction in the work, times, influence, and achievement of Charles Dickens. Twice a year, faculty members and graduate students from the nine general campuses of the University of California, joined by colleagues from other universities, present their research findings to conference participants, interested undergraduate and graduate students, and members of the general public. They meet on the Santa Cruz campus each summer and at Davis or Riverside each winter. The topic for summer 2004 was A Tale of Two Cities. Each year, this conference is available as a regular Summer Session undergraduate course. The project also publishes its own newsletter, publishes curricular materials, cosponsors international conferences, and sponsors a web site, humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/. Founded in 1981, the Dickens Project is a multicampus research group of the University of California.

Educational Partnership Center

The UC Santa Cruz Educational Partnership Center (EPC) is the first point of contact for schools, community colleges, and members of the educational community interested in forging new relationships or partnerships with UCSC. It also offers support to UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff interested in collaborating with local schools. The EPC coordinates a variety of outreach programs to elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as community colleges in five counties: Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Mateo. The overall goal of the EPC is to increase UC eligibility, competitive eligibility, and college-going rates among low-income and traditionally non-college- going students.

The EPC central support team includes a financial service center, integrated planning support, grant writing, tutor coordination, summer residential program coordination, curriculum advising, communications support, and a research and evaluation team. Housed with the central support team are the integrated and affiliated programs listed below.

The EPC is located at 3004 Mission Street, Suite 220, in Santa Cruz. Call (831) 460-3000 or visit the web: epc.ucsc.edu.

EPC Integrated Programs
The Monterey Bay Educational Consortium (MBEC)—an alliance among public educational institutions in the Monterey Bay Area— is dedicated to increasing the levels of educational attainment of all students in the region.

The Partnership Schools program works at an intensive level with a number of local high schools and their feeder school systems.

Designed to work in tandem with Partnership Schools, SAAGE (Students Achieving A–G Expectations) identifies high school sophomores who lack one or more courses needed to complete the A–G sequence required for university admission, and coordinates efforts to provide them with academic counseling and advisement.

Kids Around the University provides copies of a book about college written by Aromas, California students, tours of the UCSC campus, and a curriculum guide for all fourth-grade teachers in the region to begin to learn about the importance of higher education and the pathways to attaining a college education.

The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) provides direct assistance to students in grades six through 12 in local schools with high percentages of low-income and traditionally non-college-going families.

The Transfer Partnerships Program is an initiative designed to increase the number of students transferring from community colleges to the UC system.

GEAR UP offers a full range of student- and school-centered activities for Watsonville High School and its feeder middle schools, with a focus on college-preparatory mathematics.

The EPC coordinates residential programs on the UCSC campus providing high school students with enriched learning experiences. Among them is the California State Summer School in Mathematics and Science (COSMOS), which selects academically talented high school students from around the state.

EPC Affiliated Programs
Also housed at EPC are program affiliates: the UC College Preparatory (UCCP) Initiative, which provides students opportunities to take advanced placement courses online in schools that might not normally be able to offer such courses; UC Gateways, an online database to help California K–12 students track their progress toward UC admission; MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement), a program to increase the number of minority students entering the fields of math, engineering, and science; ACCESS (Baccalaureate Bridge to the Biomedical Sciences), which brings community college students to work as interns with UCSC researchers; and the UCSC/Monterey Bay California Reading and Literature Project (CRLP).

Focused Research Activity in Performance and Visual Studies

The Focused Research Activity in Performance and Visual Studies (PVS) develops multidisciplinary and integrated approaches to performance, visual studies, and the arts. Faculty and graduate students come from three Divisions: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

The FRA explores how working across the disciplinary boundaries of theater, dance, music, art history, literary theory, anthropology, and history can uncover new methodological approaches to the study of performance and visual culture. Performance and visual culture emphasize both historical and socially aware approaches.

The impact of visual culture on performance (cultural, artistic, and ritual) since the 1960s leads to the contemporary studies undertaken by the FRA. The intersections of aesthetics and anthropology, of literature and performance, of dance and ethnography, and of all of these with the visual dimension of representation have become ever more intensive areas of interdisciplinary research since the 1980s. The performativity of viewing also contributes to our field of study. We see recent work on the body and its movements; on the diverse cultures of musical notation; and on the relationship of the physical and auditory to dramatic production, as areas of innovative and forward-reaching scholarship. Today, performative and visual media interact and redefine our understanding of culture, causing critical approaches to be of paramount importance to the future of the arts. Our work generates new theories of interpretation and meanings. The FRA sponsors a yearly speaker series and special events, such as symposia and international conferences. For further information, e-mail cmsoussl@ucsc.edu

Focused Research Activity in Performance Practice and Context in the Arts

The Focused Research Activity in Performance Practice and Context in the Arts explores issues within and around performance. The research and creative work of this multidisciplinary group of scholar-performers integrates the presentation and study of performance itself with the intellectual, historical, and cultural context of the performance, utilizing the various perspectives of ethnomusicology, historical musicology, systematic musicology, and ethnology. The FRA focuses on recorded music performance as a modality of creative expression rather than on writing about the arts, although scholarly notes typically establish a context for performances. By long-standing FRA policy, our members thus engage in basic research in cultural performance practice as well as in audio or video recordings documenting arts performance not already accessible. Our creative work consists of (1) recordings interpreting musical scores through informed performance, and (2) documentary films interpreting oral tradition performance in cultural context. Our projects are published as reviewable professional multi-author CD recordings and films.

Members collaborate with each other, visiting scholar-performers, and UCSC professorial faculty who are not yet ongoing members of the FRA. Typical projects also involve UCSC lecturers, students, staff, and alumni. Our team projects are often successful in securing external matching funds to support recording and publication costs. In the area of historical performance practice, the FRA has produced a series of recorded performances. A CD Virtual Mozart (2000), a project for Classical orchestra involving computer-generated Mozart-style “composition” by Experiments in Musical Intelligence, brought all four members of the FRA into productive collaboration with professional early-music specialists. A related project with Baroque orchestra, Virtual Bach, appeared in 2003; it premieres and records a new “Brandenburg Concerto,” a new harpsichord concerto, and a suite for solo violoncello. In the area of 20th-century performance practice, FRA members have released CDs of the works of pioneering American composer Lou Harrison, celebrated French composer Germaine Tailleferre, and American dance works by the avant-gardist Henry Cowell. A CD of music by Darius Milhaud was recorded and edited in 2003. The FRA cluster in Indonesian cultural documentation focuses on documentation of traditional music as embedded in the context of calendrical Hindu-Buddhist ritual. The first film of a projected trilogy is Kawitan (2002), distributed by the Center for Media and Independent Learning, UC Berkeley Extension.

Focused Research Activity in Shakespeare: Text, Interpretation, Performance

The Focused Research Activity in Shakespeare: Text, Interpretation, Performance brings together faculty in literature and theater arts who are engaged in research and creative activities relating to Shakespeare and other premodern drama. Members explore methodologies for establishing the texts of plays, problems in interpreting them, original performance contexts, and issues and techniques involved in presenting
older drama to modern audiences. The members’ research and creative activities focus especially on the productions of Shakespeare Santa Cruz (see description in the Student Life section). The group sponsors colloquia (including the annual Weekend with Shakespeare, held during the Shakespeare Santa Cruz Festival), lectures by visiting scholars, rehearsed play readings, and open rehearsals. The group is also responsible for the archival documentation of Shakespeare Santa Cruz productions as a scholarly and pedagogical resource. For further information, call the Shakespeare Santa Cruz company manager, (831) 459-5810.

Geographic Information Systems Laboratory

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) refers to a computerized information system that works with data referenced by spatial or geographic coordinates. GIS integrates procedures designed to support the capture, management, manipulation, analysis, modeling, and display of data for solving complex environmental planning and scientific problems. GIS allows researchers to work with vast amounts of information—ranging from local field data to satellite imagery to the U.S. Census. During the last several decades, GIS has become well established in environmental sciences, city and county planning departments, and resource management agencies, to map everything from vegetation and endangered habitat to transportation routes.

The purpose of the laboratory is for environmental and policy research and training, including teaching and self-instruction. Beyond serving the training and research needs of the campus, the lab serves as a regional resource through data and technology exchanges (e.g., with NOAA, the California Coastal Commission, U.S.G.S.). GIS brings technology to bear on critical science and policy issues and provides scientists and policy makers with a new way to analyze, simulate, and visualize alternatives.

Housed on the fourth floor of the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, the laboratory consists of networked workstations and numerous peripherals including global positioning system (GPS) equipment. It is administered by the Environmental Studies Department, Division of Social Sciences, which teaches Environmental Studies 115A (see the course listing section of the Environmental Studies department). Among the donors who have helped establish the lab are ESRI (ARC/INFO software), Sun Microsystems, ERDAS (imaging software), and the Instructional Improvement Grant Program. Interested students may contact the GIS coordinator at (831) 459-2890 (fulfrost@ucsc.edu). Web: gis.ucsc.edu/.

Institute for Advanced Feminist Research

The focus of the UCSC Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (IAFR) is Feminism and the Public Sphere. IAFR sponsors projects that are historical, international, and interdisciplinary in their conception, and collaborative and experimental in their practice. Employing scholarly methodologies and activist strategies, participants address a range of intellectual and academic problems. They seek, above all, to engage current political debates, including those from which feminist critiques have been largely absent.

Centrally, the institute facilitates sustained conversations among individuals who do not ordinarily have the opportunity to brainstorm and act in concert: scholars, artists, activists, journalists, community people and public intellectuals; people of different generations from diverse geographical areas; those who define themselves as feminists and those who do not. These conversations create new conceptual spaces, theoretical formulations and strategic interventions: written work of varying length— popular as well as academic, films and art shows, conferences and symposia, working groups and public policy collectives.

Chief among the Institute’s projects is the support of residential groups, which focus on specific problems in seminars and workshops. To facilitate their activities, faculty are given released time, graduate students receive fellowships, and undergraduates do internships—all on a rotating basis. Visiting scholars, journalists, activists, and artists are supported for varying periods of time. Each research group sponsors activities for the larger community and maintains connections—nationally and internationally —with other similar entities. Each group chooses the forms of its own productions and the kinds of social and political interventions it wishes to make. In addition, the institute sponsors other activities, which are determined by its Executive Committee.

For information, contact the director at (831) 459-4146, moglen@ucsc.edu, or staff at (831) 479-1776, nray@ucsc.edu. Web: iafr.ucsc.edu.

Institute for Humanities Research

The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) was established in the fall of 1999 with funding from the Campus Provost/Executive Vice UCSC’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory enables students and faculty to overlay various spatial data sets—ranging from local field data to satellite imagery to the U.S. Census. GIS technology provides scientists and policy makers with a new way to analyze, simulate, and visualize alternatives when formulating policy—especially policy related to environmental issues. Chancellor’s Office and the Humanities Dean’s Office. The mission of the IHR is to enhance the environment for faculty and graduate student humanities research on the UCSC campus. Recognizing that humanities research is an important component of a first-rate research university and is crucial to excellent teaching and scholarship, the IHR provides time, space, and support for the maintenance of a lively, active research community. The IHR includes the Center for Cultural Studies (see Center for Cultural Studies section) and research units including Black Music, Jewish Studies, Language Learning and Teaching, Living Writers, Mediterranean Studies, Modernist and Avant-Garde Studies, and Pre- and Early Modern Studies. It supports the Humanities Research Fellows Program, Faculty Research and Travel Grants, Graduate Dissertation Fellowships, Graduate Research and Travel Grants, and special events. In addition, the IHR sponsors the Dean’s Distinguished Lecturers and Humanities in the Schools, an outreach initiative to middle and high schools in the region. Further information is available on the web: humanities.ucsc.edu/ihr. The IHR may be contacted by e-mail at ihrstaff@ucsc.edu, by mail at IHR, Oakes College Academic Services, or by phone at (831) 459-4899.

Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research

UCSC is one of three UC campuses sponsoring the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), a new California Institute for Science and Innovation (CISI). A cooperative effort with UC San Francisco as the lead campus, UC Berkeley, and industry, QB3 focuses on biomedical research, integrating the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences to create powerful techniques for solving complex biological problems. The institute builds on strengths in the mathematical and computational sciences at UCSC, the biomedical engineering and physical sciences at UCB, and the medical sciences at UCSF, as well as strong biology programs on all three campuses.

QB3 focuses on four major challenges: developing new mathematical and computational techniques to analyze vast quantities of biological data, new imaging technologies combined with advanced mathematical and computer modeling to understand complex biological systems, new engineering technologies to analyze biological systems, and new physical and biological techniques to synthesize and modify components of living systems. QB3 is organized around four programs: Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Structural and Chemical Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Experimental Genomics/ Proteomics/Biochemistry.

The Bioinformatics (BI) Program is based at UCSC. Its mission is twofold: (1) to interact closely with the other three programs of the institute to provide the theoretical and computational expertise needed to translate experimental results into predictive models and comprehensive profiles of biological regulation at multiple levels; and (2) to drive critical research projects in the areas of genomics, proteomics, complex systems, and medical discovery informatics. The BI Program will thus provide the mathematical and computational matrix that will unify the four programs of the institute.

QB3 is administered at UCSC through the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering and involves faculty from the Departments of Biomolecular Engineering; Computer Science; Computer Engineering; Applied Mathematics and Statistics; Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology; and Chemistry and Biochemistry. More information on CISI and QB3 can be found at www.qb3.org and www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/archive/00-01/12-00/institute.html.

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

UC’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), a multicampus research unit, includes a branch at UCSC. The IGPP supports a wide range of basic research on the origin, structure, and evolution of Earth, the solar system, and the universe. One of the goals of this research is to predict future changes in global systems that may affect human life.

The UCSC branch of the institute addresses fundamental questions relating to Earth’s environment, global change, and planetary sciences. The UCSC branch includes four interdisciplinary research centers: the Center for Origin, Dynamics, and Evolution of Planets (CODEP), the Center for Dynamics and Evolution of the Land-Sea Interface (CDELSI), the Center for the Study of Imaging and Dynamics of the Earth (CSIDE), and the Center for Remote Sensing (CRS). These interdisciplinary centers serve to create bridges between different departments and heighten the focus on collaborative research efforts. A Massive Computer Simulation Facility (MCSF) has been established with a large parallel supercomputer for conducting geophysical and astrophysical modeling.

CDELSI brings together faculty from six Departments: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Environmental Toxicology, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies. Researchers in these departments are at the forefront of efforts to understand the complex processes and interactions occurring at the continental margin. A primary concern is the impact of global and regional climate change on key processes in the coastal environment, such as atmospheric circulation, ocean temperature and currents, nutrient cycling, and the geological processes that shape the continental margin.

CODEP brings together faculty from the Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Earth Sciences, and Physics. The interests of CODEP researchers include Earth’s internal dynamics, the formation of planets, how planetary systems evolve, and the discovery of new planets outside the solar system. This is a joint effort to understand as much as possible about planets in general, both in our own solar system and around other stars. The center encourages Earth scientists and astronomers to bring their different perspectives to bear on planetary issues.

CSIDE coordinates research in seismology, geodynamics, geomagnetism, hydrology, geomorphology, active tectonics, and mineral physics addressing structure and dynamics of the Earths’s interior. Thermal, chemical, and dynamic processes are studied in six affiliated research laboratories. CSIDE hosts a major industrial consortium focused on development of new seismic-imaging technologies.

CRS coordinates research efforts of faculty in the Departments of Earth Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering for the use of satellite and airborne remote sensing in studying processes occurring on the surfaces of the Earth and other planets. Specific interests include astrogeology; plant ecology; coral reef health; volcanic, geothermal, and earthquake processes; climate change; submarine and coastal geology; ocean surface processes and marine habitats; and engineering development.

The IGPP was established in 1946 at UCLA. Other branches are located at UC San Diego, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A key objective of the IGPP is to encourage and support cooperative projects that bring together researchers from different disciplines and institutional laboratories. The UCSC branch was established in 1999. Web: igpp.ucsc.edu/.

Institute of Marine Sciences

With the dynamic combination of university marine scientists, state-of-the art facilities and analytical equipment, collaborative research, and an overriding commitment to quality, UC Santa Cruz is on the forefront of marine sciences research, education, and outreach. Set in the biologically rich environment of Monterey Bay and the nation’s largest national marine sanctuary, the campus provides students and scientists who seek to study the ocean and its life a unique opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Established in 1972, the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) is composed of 46 affiliated faculty, 120 researchers and research associates, and 32 support staff. Marine scientists from the Departments of Ocean Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth Sciences, Environmental Toxicology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Environmental Studies, and Physics conduct their research within the shared focus of the institute. The institute provides facilities and administrative and technical support for faculty, researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students involved in marine sciences. Faculty and researchers work independently and collaboratively within seven clusters:

• Coastal marine biology
• Marine vertebrate biology
• Ocean processes/oceanography
• Paleoceanography and climate change
• Marine and coastal geology/geophysics
• Environmental toxicology
• Fisheries and fisheries management

An undergraduate major leading to a B.S. in marine biology is described in the Biology Program Description section; a two-year graduate program leading to an M.S. in ocean sciences is described in the Ocean Sciences Program Description section. Doctoral students pursue marine research through the Ph.D. programs in ecology and evolutionary biology, Earth sciences, environmental toxicology, or ocean sciences.

Facilities
The institute’s on-campus complex includes the IMS administrative office; research laboratories; offices for visiting scientists; state-of-the-art analytical labs for marine chemistry, biology, and geology, including a coastal imaging/Geographic Information Systems laboratory; a computer laboratory; culture rooms for invertebrates and algae; portable seagoing analytical labs; and support facilities for cruise staging.

The Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, an onshore site three miles from campus on the shoreline of the nation’s largest national marine sanctuary, has running seawater capabilities that increase opportunities for research and instruction. Facilities include research laboratory buildings; outdoor tanks for research involving marine mammals (dolphins, seals, sea lions, and otters), seabirds, and fish; and teaching laboratories. Specialized laboratories and facilities for marine physiology, ecology, and marine mammal bioacoustics studies are available. Adjacent to the lab are 55 acres of land now being planned for expanded marine-related research and education facilities, a protected lagoon, a sandy beach, and rocky intertidal platforms for field research. Because Long Marine Lab is close to the campus, work there is easily incorporated into daily campus activities. A campus–LML shuttle operates regularly.

Each year, 50,000 people—including 10,000 schoolchildren—tour Long Marine Lab. Trained volunteer docents welcome visitors, guide groups through the laboratory, and provide information on research in progress. The Seymour Marine Discovery Center at Long Marine Laboratory houses an aquarium, exhibits that interpret the research under way within the institute, and an auditorium. All are open to the public—including K–12 classes—for a modest fee. In addition, a Center for Ocean Health at Long Marine Lab, completed in 2001, houses offices and labs for marine sciences faculty and their research programs, as well as two nonprofits: the Nature Conservancy’s Coastal Waters Program and the Island Conservation and Ecology Group.

IMS maintains a number of small vessels equipped for nearshore coastal research, several small craft for inshore work, and a scientific diving program. In addition, IMS-associated faculty, researchers, and students work around the world aboard larger oceanographic vessels.

IMS has scientific control over use of Año Nuevo Island, the largest elephant seal rookery on the Pacific coast (see Año Nuevo Island Reserve section).

IMS maintains active cooperative research agreements with both the Biological Resources Division and the Coastal and Marine Group of the U.S. Geological Survey that have 40 agency scientists now housed adjacent to Long Marine Laboratory. A plan is under way to develop a larger USGS facility, the Pacific Science Center, at the Long Marine Lab site.

The institute maintains a cooperative agreement with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). In 2000, this agency completed a fisheries laboratory at Long Marine Lab, which houses 55 scientists and staff working on salmon, bottom fish, and fishery-management issues. NMFS scientists study causes of variability in abundance and health of fish populations and the economics of exploiting and protecting natural resources. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has also located an Institute for Marine Protected Area Science within this federal building. The California Department of Fish and Game operates a Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center at Long Marine Lab, which provides interior lab space and outdoor pool space for research on sea otters and the effects of oil and other contaminants on marine mammals and seabirds.

Additional collaboration also takes place with scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Hopkins Marine Station, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

IMS web sites: ims.ucsc.edu and www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter.

Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group
The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG) was formed in 1975 to restore an endangered peregrine falcon population in California. SCPBRG researchers advise students on their senior theses, direct interns in individual studies, and hire biologists in entry-level field-biologist positions for wildlife management and field research on birds.

SCPBRG has become a resource to agency biologists, industry, and university researchers who require expertise with problem solving and management of avian species, especially raptors. Having accomplished most of its goals with peregrine falc