Resources for Learning and Research

University Library

The handsome McHenry and Science & Engineering Libraries 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, over 25,000 periodical titles (including online journals), over 800,000 microforms, and more than 400,000 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 Document Delivery 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 McHenry Library at the heart of the campus, while the engineering, mathematics, and natural sciences collections are 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 online 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 special-ized help for the researcher. Librarians assist in the use of a wide range of indexes—in print, on CD-ROM or online, and in more than 175 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 Science & Engineering 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 Symposia, 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 in 133 Kerr Hall. For more information, visit the web: 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 13 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 13 labs have over 375 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 2005–06, 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 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 is consolidating 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 2006. These services and resources will expand and change over time. Please visit its.ucsc.edu for more information.

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 choose to provide course materials via the web or electronic mail, and the UCSC and UC-wide library catalogs are web accessible.

ITS manages 13 Instructional Computing Labs (IC Labs) throughout the campus that provide for both instructional and individual open-access use. The 13 labs, including wired and wireless labs, have over 375 computers available for students to use; platforms include Intel-based PCs, Macs, and Suns.

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 ww2.ucsc.edu/drc 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 high-speed data residential network, is available in nearly all 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. The CruzNet wireless network is available campuswide.

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 account. 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 computer and technical 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 help@ucsc.edu, or visit the web: its.ucsc.edu.

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: arboretum.ucsc.edu.

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.

Arts Research Institute

The Arts Research Institute (ARI) is a funding unit based in the Arts Division that supports individual arts faculty researchers, as well as collaborative creative and research activities. Grants and awards from the ARI have helped to support performances, exhibitions, digital recordings, manuscript preparation, international field research, collaborative symposia, exhibitions, operas, and electronic installations. These and other innovative projects in arts practice and theory are among the research areas funded by the institute. For complete details, see the ARI web site at arts.ucsc.edu/ARI or contact the ARI administrator at xtina@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-2256.

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 computer servers
• Several graduate student computer labs with a mix of Windows, Linux, and Solaris workstations and network printers
• 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/lodhagisviz/index2.html.

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.

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.

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.

Internetworking Research Group. 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/~milanfar/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/slvg.

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.

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/service_catalog/network.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, in 2003, and Past and Present, in 2006. The French Revolution is forthcoming. Web: www.nd.edu/~carlyle/strouse.html.

California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research

UCSC is one of three UC campuses sponsoring the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), a California Institute for Science and Innovation (CISI). This cooperative effort among three campuses of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and San Francisco, and private industry harnesses the quantitative sciences to integrate our understanding of biological systems at all levels of complexity—from atoms and protein molecules to cells, tissues, organs, and the entire organism. This long-sought integration allows scientists to attack problems that have been unapproachable before, setting the stage for fundamental new discoveries, new products, and new technologies for the benefit of human health.

The institute involves more than 140 scientists, including 35 from UCSC. It builds on strong biology programs at the three campuses as well as individual campus strengths in biomolecular and computer engineering and mathematical sciences at UC Santa Cruz, biomedical engineering and physical sciences at UC Berkeley, and medical sciences at UC San Francisco. Harnessing these strengths, QB3 is developing effective new solutions to the world’s most urgent biomedical problems through multidisciplinary research, innovative educational programs, and industrial and venture capital partnerships.

The institute facilitates access to state-of-the-art resources to enable scientists and engineers to develop devices, drugs, and therapies that save human lives, as well as technologies to prevent or mitigate environmental damage and improve energy production and use. Research areas include bioengineering and biotechnology, bioinformatics and computational biology, structural and chemical biology, experimental genomics, proteomics, and biochemistry. Through QB3, researchers in all of these fields come together to develop interdisciplinary collaborations.

In addition to the creation of fundamental new knowledge and potent new technologies, a major goal of the institute is to train a new generation of students able to fully integrate the quantitative sciences with biomedical research.

QB3 fosters industry and venture capital partnerships by identifying potential opportunities for research collaborations and support, and by assisting faculty with intellectual property and technology transfer issues.

QB3 is administered at UCSC through the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering and involves faculty from the Departments of Biomolecular Engineering; Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology; Chemistry and Biochemistry; Electrical Engineering; Applied Mathematics and Statistics; Computer Science; and Computer Engineering.

Find more information at www.qb3.org.

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, or design their own projects and internships in collaboration with the center’s affiliated faculty and staff. 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 plots, raised-bed gardens, row crops, and orchards, as well as staff offices, a laboratory, greenhouses, and a visitor 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 www.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 facilities, such as the processing system used for the UCSC Genome Browser, the microarray facilities, and the embryonic stem cell and transgenic mouse facility.
• Help meet the need for trained professionals in industry and academia by developing training programs 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, Africa and African Diaspora, and Latin America 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 hosted 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 cgirs@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-mail global@ucsc.edu or visit the web site: cgirs.ucsc.edu.

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.

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 problems in 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 follow:

• 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.iti.ucsc.edu.

Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community

The Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community (CJTC) was established in 2000 as part of the Division of Social Sciences. CJTC is an interdisciplinary applied research center tackling issues of social justice, diversity and tolerance, and the building of collaborative communities. Current research projects include studies of environmental justice, educational equity, community-based regionalism, 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 various divisions 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/.

Chicano/Latino Research Center

The Chicano/Latino Research Center (CLRC) is an internationally recognized site for the support of scholarship on Chicano and Latino issues. Promoting cross-border perspectives linking the Americas and the study of the changing U.S. demographic and cultural panorama, the center focuses on globalization and transculturation, processes that are redefining cultural, social, and political identities in the Americas. Under new directorship, the center in the next three years (2006–08) will focus on opening up the educational pipeline by ensuring that UCSC undergraduates obtain research training, graduate students have the necessary support to complete their studies, junior faculty are given guidance in navigating the tenure process, and tenured faculty’s needs are facilitated to obtain full professor status. These goals will be supported through the research activities initiated by CLRC. The center supports research clusters, sponsors conferences and a colloquium series, and publishes an annual newsletter and a working-paper series. The center sponsors three yearly fundraisers: the Frida Kahlo Ball and Awards Ceremony (fall quarter), the CLRC Scholar of the Year Award (winter quarter), and the Gloria Anzaldúa Scholar/Activist Award (spring quarter). 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 another university each winter. The featured novel for summer 2007 is The Pickwick Papers. Each year, the 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) serves as the first point of contact for community and business partners interested in engaging with the university and its K–12 partners. It also offers support to UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff seeking to collaborate with local schools. EPC’s services are grounded in a web of partnership structures connecting institutions across the Monterey Bay region, including San Benito, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties.

Using a research- and data-driven approach, the EPC develops and implements a range of services that support students and families along the P–20 pathway, including academic counseling, tutoring, college awareness, teacher professional development, mentoring, and college advising. Its mission is to create college-bound communities that improve student learning and increase college-going rates among students from low-income and traditionally non-college-going families in collaboration with school, college, business, and community partners.

The EPC’s central support unit includes a business and operations office for financial, personnel, and technical support; integrated direct services to schools, students, and families; development and grant writing; communications and faculty and teacher relations; community college services; research and evaluation; student employee coordination; and summer residential program coordination. Included under the EPC umbrella are the integrated and affiliated programs and initiatives listed below.

The EPC is located at the University Town Center in downtown Santa Cruz at 1101 Pacific Avenue, Suite 210. Call (831) 459-3500 or visit the web: epc.ucsc.edu.

EPC Integrated Programs
The Monterey Bay Educational Consortium (MBEC) is a pioneering K–16 council comprising all the major education institutions in the Monterey Bay tricounty region. MBEC’s purpose is to bring together educational institutions to further collaborative inquiry, joint problem solving, and learning from one another, and to develop additional cooperative initiatives directed toward improving curriculum, pedagogy, policy, and the public’s understanding and support. MBEC priorities are in the following areas: early literacy, teacher and administrator training, technology and telecommunications, and communication planning.

The California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP) is instrumental in improving the flow of information about postsecondary education and financial aid while raising the achievement levels of low-income elementary and secondary school students. San Jose Cal-SOAP provides college awareness workshops and tutoring for students in the Greater San Jose area, including the “I’m Going to College,” “College: Making It Happen,” “Transfer: Making It Happen,” and “Cash for College” programs.

California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) is a four-week summer residential program for young scholars with demonstrated interest and achievement in math and science. Located on four University of California campuses (Davis, Irvine, San Diego, and Santa Cruz), COSMOS provides students with an unparalleled opportunity to work side by side with outstanding researchers and university faculty, covering topics that extend beyond the typical high school curriculum.

The California Reading and Literature Project (CRLP), one of nine California Subject Matter Projects, is governed through the University of California’s Office of the President. To help ensure that every California student achieves the highest standards of performance in reading and language arts, CRLP supports professional development opportunities for teachers of reading and literature, including expository texts, in K–12 and university classrooms.

The Developing Effective Engineering Pathways (DEEP) program is a National Science Foundation–funded program that provides students with academic support and enrichment opportunities to create a successful educational plan leading to a career in engineering. DEEP specifically targets underrepresented minority students.

The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) provides a variety of year-round services designed to increase the academic preparation, awareness, and motivation of middle- and high- school students toward higher education and to inform parents about available educational opportunities. The goal of the program is to create a cohort of college-bound ambassadors who are excited about the prospect of college and are ready to share information about college preparation with their peers.

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a federally funded, discretionary grant program designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. GEAR UP partnerships supplement (not supplant) existing reform efforts, offer services that promote academic preparation and the understanding of necessary costs to attend college, provide teacher professional development, and continuously build capacity to ensure long-term sustainability. The EPC’s two current GEAR UP projects serve the Pajaro Valley Unified School District and northern Monterey County.

Kids Around the University (KATU) creates pathways to college by developing an awareness of higher education among students at the earliest grade levels. KATU consists of a model curriculum, featuring a colorful student-authored book that has been widely adopted by elementary teachers, as well as teacher training and tours of UCSC for local elementary and middle school students.

The Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement Schools Program (MESA) provides academic development for middle-school and high-school students so they will succeed in mathematics and science and pursue undergraduate degrees in mathematics-based majors. MESA motivates students by engaging them in fun, hands-on mathematics, engineering, and science activities and by exposing them to careers in those fields. Main components of the program are: MESA Day competitions, MESA periods in school, SAT/PSAT preparation, study-skills training, career and college exploration, incentive awards, and parent leadership training.

The Transfer Partnerships Program (TPP) helps California community-college students plan a successful transfer program to the University of California, working closely with students who are attending any of 13 community colleges in the region. TPP staff can also assist individuals enrolled at other community colleges in California.

The EPC’s Math, Science, and Engineering Initiatives advance the science and mathematics education of students, teachers, and the community through innovative programming. Combining the talents and expertise of K–12 teachers, university faculty, and a range of community resources, students benefit from meaningful learning experiences that deepen their understanding and appreciation of mathematics and science.

The University of California College Prep Online (UCCP) increases access to higher education by filling gaps in localized high-school curricula, emphasizing the expansion of Advanced Placement (AP) and college preparatory courses delivered through the Internet. In addition to the high-quality curriculum, UCCP also provides the following academic services: college counseling and career planning through UC Gateways; online mentoring using the award-winning UCCP CyberTutor program; online test preparation for the SAT, ACT, CAHSEE, and AP exams; and an annual “Online Teaching and Learning Institute” for teacher professional development.

Focused Research Activity in Visual and Performance Studies

The Focused Research Activity in Visual and Performance Studies (VPS) 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. 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 seminar series and special events, such as symposia and international conferences. The seminar series for 2004–06 was Visualities/Geographies. For further information, e-mail cmsoussl@ucsc.edu.

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 Interdisci-plinary 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 Environmental Studies course listing). 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 release 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, e-mail ealsberg@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-3882. 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 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 Critical European Studies, Cuba in Americas and Transatlantic Contexts, History and Philosophy of Science, Language and Linguistics, Living Writers, Mediterranean Studies, Modernist and Avant-Garde Studies, Pre- and Early Modern Studies, and Psychoanalyis and Sexuality. 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 Humanities in the Schools, an outreach initiative to middle and high schools in the region that includes the Graduate Students Speakers Bureau and the Teacher Scholar Seminars. 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 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 and Planetary 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 and Planetary 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 and Planetary 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 41 affiliated faculty; 162 researchers, project scientists, specialists, postdoctoral researchers, and research associates; and 30 support staff. Marine scientists from the Departments of Ocean Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Toxicology, and Chemistry and Biochemistry 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 researchers, postdocs, and 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, over 50,000 people—including 10,000 schoolchildren—tour the Seymour Marine Discovery Center at Long Marine Lab. Trained volunteer docents welcome visitors, guide groups through the laboratory, and provide information on research in progress. The Seymour Center houses an aquarium, exhibits that interpret the research under way within the institute, two classrooms for school groups, 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 Island Conservation.

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 50 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 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 falcon management, the group now applies its expertise to a wider range of species. Current studies involve international bald eagle satellite telemetry studies, helping restore the delicate ecology of California’s Channel Islands, research to mitigate impacts to endangered birds by raptors, and research on solutions for avian electrocutions and wire strikes along California’s power transmissions network. SCPBRG is also expanding its activities to increase educational outreach through school assemblies and training for professionals. SCPBRG is located at the Long Marine Laboratory. For more information, review the web site at www.scpbrg.org.

Scientific Diving and Boating Safety
The university’s Diving Safety Program (DSP) is housed within the Institute of Marine Sciences, with offices at Long Marine Lab. Scuba diving and small boats are tools used in science classes and by UCSC faculty, staff, and student researchers in Monterey Bay and at study sites worldwide. In order to ensure safe scuba diving and scientific boating practices, DSP provides training and oversight for all scuba diving (scientific and recreational) and scientific boating activities conducted under UCSC auspices. The diving safety officer teaches Biology 75, Scientific Diving Certification which is a prerequisite for all UCSC courses and research using scuba diving as a tool. DSP maintains a fleet of boats and diving equipment for researchers to use. DSP assists faculty, staff, and student researchers in complying with federal OSHA standards for scientific scuba diving. Anyone who needs to use scuba diving or small boats for scientific purposes should contact the DSP Office at srclabue@ucsc.edu. The web address is www2.ucsc.edu/sci-diving.

Recreational diving opportunities offered by the Office of Physical Education, Recreation, and Sports (OPERS) include numerous scuba courses and the Scuba Club. The web address is www.ucsc.edu/opers/scuba/.

Linguistics Research Center

The Linguistics Research Center supports and facilitates research on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of languages. It publishes a working-paper series, sponsors research colloquia, and hosts longer visits to the campus by international scholars. The work of previous visitors has focused on various languages and more general topics (e.g., languages of South America and Australia, Japanese, Hungarian, Irish, Hebrew syntax, phonological theory). Founded in 1981, the center is housed in Stevenson College and fully integrated into the Department of Linguistics. Current research projects include clause structure and subjecthood, the syntax and semantics of indefinites, the phonological structure of the lexicon, morphosyntactic markedness and typology in optimality theory, the phonetic bases of phonology, and morphological parsing. For further information, call (831) 459-2386, e-mail lrc@ling.ucsc.edu; or see the web: ling.ucsc.edu.

Monterey Bay Education, Science, and Technology Center at Fort Ord

UCSC has played a leading role in the development of a multi-institutional center for science, technology, education, and policy—called the Monterey Bay Education, Science, and Technology (MBEST) Center—as a cornerstone of the Fort Ord defense conversion redevelopment plan. In 1994, about 1,100 acres at the closed Fort Ord Military Reservation were conveyed to the University of California. Of that land, 479 acres are planned for development into the research and technology center, and 605 acres of adjacent natural habitat are now part of the UC Natural Reserve System. Investments in roadway and utilities infrastructure have been completed, making 55 acres of real estate available for development. In addition, the UC MBEST Center Headquarters and a high-technology business incubator were completed in 2001.

The mission of the MBEST Center is to promote collaborative interaction among private businesses, government research agencies, public and private education and research institutions, and policy makers in strategic alliances to address the environmental opportunities and challenges of the new millennium. MBEST Center activities will focus initially on environmental science and technology, biotechnology and bioresources, information science and technology, and multimedia. And, by leveraging the strengths of over 20 public and private research and training assets of the Monterey Bay Research Crescent, the UC MBEST Center is anticipated to be a key stimulus for sustainable economic development and job generation.

The first base reuse activity began in January 1995 at the MBEST Center when UCSC Extension started offering technical training classes there in environmental remediation. Since then, several tenants have occupied existing facilities at MBEST, including an office of the U.S. Geological Survey, an organic farming operation, and a recycling plant. MBEST also houses an office of the Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program (COCMP), a multi-institution interagency collaboration that is part of a nationwide effort to develop an Integrated Ocean Observing System.

Information about the center is available from the UC MBEST Center Office, 3239 Imjin Road, Marina, CA 93933, (831) 582-1020; via e-mail: info@ucmbest.org; web: www.ucmbest.org.

Natural Reserve System

The purpose of the Natural Reserve System (NRS) is to establish and maintain for teaching and research a system of natural areas that encompasses diverse and undisturbed examples of California’s terrain, both aquatic and terrestrial. The reserves are open to all qualified individuals and institutions for scholarly work concerned with the natural environment. Such work usually deals with ecological topics or experimental studies in a natural setting.

The University of California administers 34 natural reserves throughout the state. Santa Cruz has responsibility for four—the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Fort Ord, Año Nuevo Island, and Younger Lagoon—in addition to the campus’s own reserve. Information about the system’s holdings and management is available from the director, NRS, Univer­sity of California, 1111 Franklin Street, Oak­land, CA 94607-5200, (510) 987-0150. Web: nrs.ucop.edu. You may also contact the UCSC natural reserve director, c/o Environmental Studies Department, 467 Natural Sciences 2 Building, (831) 459-4971, fusari@ucsc.edu. Web: ucreserve.ucsc.edu/.

Campus Natural Reserve
About 400 acres of campus wildlands were designated by the Regents in the 1988 Long-Range Development Plan as a Campus Natural Reserve. This reserve contains redwood forest, springs, a stream, vernal pools, secondary madrone/ Douglas fir forest, chaparral, and many soil types and geological formations and structures. Supported by a modest field-studies center, the reserve is used for research and teaching and is operated by the UCSC natural reserve director, c/o Environmental Studies Department, 467 Natural Sciences 2 Building, (831) 459-4971, fusari@ucsc.edu. Web: ucreserve.ucsc.edu/. Students may join the volunteer program by contacting the steward: mcstay@ucsc.edu.

Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
This 4,000-acre NRS reserve is located in the Santa Lucia Mountains on the Big Sur coast, about two hours by car from the campus. The reserve includes the lower portions of an undisturbed watershed containing numerous terrestrial and aquatic habitats and several geological formations and associated fault systems. The watershed is protected by the Ventana Wilderness of the Los Padres National Forest. The reserve’s four miles of rocky coastline, located within the Calif­ornia Sea Otter Refuge area and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, is now a California Department of Fish and Game Research Area and provides opportunities for marine research. There are campsites, a modest field-laboratory facility, a cabin for long-term researchers, and a small storage facility. The Big Creek Reserve is managed by the onsite reserve director. Access is controlled, and applications for use should be made to the resident reserve manager, Big Creek Reserve, Big Sur, CA 93920, (831) 667-2543, bigcreek@ucsc.edu. Web: www.redshift.com/~bigcreek/.

Fort Ord Natural Reserve
This 600-acre NRS reserve was added to the system in 1996. It contains Monterey Bay maritime chaparral, an endemic plant community, and coast live oak woodland, grassland, and coastal scrub, including nine species of plants and animals that are listed as endangered, threatened, or of special status. The reserve was part of the former Fort Ord army base and its habitats are relatively intact. The reserve specializes in studies of rare species management and habitat restoration. It is a 45-minute drive from campus. For information, contact the UCSC natural reserve director, c/o Environmental Studies Department, 467 Natural Sciences 2 Building, (831) 459-4971, fusari@ucsc.edu. Web: ucreserve.ucsc.edu.

Younger Lagoon Reserve
A 26-acre coastal lagoon and beach next to UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory is part of the NRS. Its waters are a haven for many species of migratory birds, and many small mammals, birds, reptiles, and invertebrates live in its marsh and bank vegetation. Younger Lagoon is managed by the UCSC natural reserve director, c/o Environmental Studies Department, 467 Natural Sciences 2 Building, (831) 459-4971,fusari@ucsc.edu. Web: ucreserve.ucsc.edu.

Año Nuevo Island Reserve
This 25-acre island, part of the 4,000-acre Año Nuevo State Reserve 20 miles north of Santa Cruz, is a university research reserve of the NRS. Its rich variety of resident and migratory wildlife and proximity to campus make this an ideal location for research. Northern elephant seals, California sea lions, northern sea lions, and harbor seals breed and haul out at different seasons. The reserve’s breeding colony of elephant seals has been the subject of a remarkable 40-year study by UCSC scientists. More than 300 species of land, shore, and sea birds reside in or migrate through the area, which also has a diversity of fish and intertidal organisms. Access to the island is restricted, and UCSC’s research use is managed by the UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences (see Institute of Marine Sciences section). An annual use agreement with California State Parks allows research and field work throughout Año Nuevo State Reserve. A small research facility is located on the island, and a day-use facility is available in the state reserve. For further information, call (831) 459-2883, e-mail pamorris@ucsc.edu, or visit the web: nrs.ucop.edu/ano-nuevo.htm.

New Teacher Center

The New Teacher Center (NTC) is a national resource focused on new teacher and new administrator development. The center works in the areas of teacher preparation, teacher induction, teacher leadership, and school administrator training and support, and conducts research addressing these topics. It is supported by the University of California, National Science Foundation, California Postsecondary Education Commission, and contributions from 20 foundations, corporations, and individuals. Staff members consult with policy makers, colleges and universities, county offices of education, and school districts throughout California and in 25 other states. The New Teacher Center is located at 725 Front Street, Suite 400, in downtown Santa Cruz, (831) 459-4323, e-mail ntc@ucsc.edu. Web: www.newteachercenter.org.

Physical and Biological Sciences Division

Research Programs/Centers

Biomedical Research. The Division of Physical and Biological Sciences supports a broad range of biomedical research in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Environmental Toxicology; and Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. Structural biology, the molecular biology of RNA, genetics, bioinformatics, neurobiology, and developmental biology are areas of particular strength. Small faculty-led teams conduct their research in state-of-the-art laboratories, with additional access to shared facilities, equipment, and computational tools. Collaborative research is frequent, both among investigators within the division as well as with faculty in the Baskin School of Engineering, which is internationally recognized for its expertise in computational biology. These collaborative efforts are facilitated by the university’s Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering. There are excellent training opportunities for postdoctoral fellows and graduate and undergraduate degree programs in areas of biomedical research and the health sciences. Web: biomedical.ucsc.edu.

Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture, and Development. CenTREAD is a coalition of faculty and students spanning several departments and centers at UC Santa Cruz. The center fosters interdisciplinary research and training to understand tropical environmental issues and develop ecologically based, economically viable, culturally respectful, nonexploitative solutions that serve as a foundation for future generations. The center offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses at UCSC, and strives to provide educational opportunities to U.S. citizens who work in tropical countries and to students from tropical countries.. Web: centread.ucsc.edu.

Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computer (SciDAC) and the Supernova Science Center. The center is a partnership among UCSC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of Arizona. This group strives for a full understanding, through numerical computation, of how supernovae of all types explode and how the elements have been created in nature. Web: www.supersci.org.

Research Facilities

Crustal Imaging Laboratory (CIL). The lab provides researchers with the sophisticated hardware and software resources necessary to perform high-resolution studies of the Earth’s outer layers. Although still under development, CIL facilities will consist of a state-of-the-art network of Sun and Solbourne Sparc workstations, a variety of input/output and mass-storage devices, and both commercial and academic multichannel seismic processing packages. Web: www.es.ucsc.edu/grad/research/crustal.html.

Earth System Modeling Laboratory. The lab is home to the Paleoclimate and Climate Change Research Group, which is presently focused on climatic and environmental change in the past and in the future. This research takes many forms and involves the use of various kinds of models and observations, as well as a wealth of paleoclimate proxy data from many marine and terrestrial locations. The laboratory’s computing resources are used for global and regional climate mod