In the wake of international pressure, the World Bank declared itself a leading force for "environmentally sustainable development." But has the World Bank really changed the way it does business? A new book looks at the bank's performance in the wake of its own reform efforts.
A UC Santa Cruz sociologist has produced a detailed profile of Santa Clara County--which includes Silicon Valley and San Jose--that reveals a disproportionate concentration of toxics in neighborhoods that are poorer and more Latino than the rest of the county.
Fetal surgery is being heralded by many as the latest medical miracle, but a new book raises disturbing questions about the safety of fetal surgery and the risks it poses to both mother and fetus.
A new study has found no statistical evidence that immigrants displace black-owned businesses in the United States. The study, coauthored by an economist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, used 1980 and 1990 Census data from 94 of the country's largest metropolitan areas to see if black self-employment levels are lower in areas with high immigrant populations. The authors found no evidence of a net loss of existing black-owned businesses.
Although President Clinton proudly proclaimed the recent federal welfare reform effort "an end to welfare as we know it," political scientist Gwendolyn Mink writes in her new book "Welfare's End" that the demise of welfare can be traced back almost to its origins.
The controversial topic of body image is explored in an intriguing and, frequently, disturbing new video by sociologist Dane Archer. Archer tackles such topics as eating disorders, body piercing and tattooing, cosmetic surgery, modeling and beauty pageants, aging, and cultural differences.
Peter Gizzi, one of the country's most celebrated young poets, is already receiving high praise for his soon-to-be released collection, Artificial Heart. The book is one of two by Gizzi that will be published this spring.
Just in time for Women's History Month, "The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History" is appearing in bookstores. The book covers the experience of women in the U.S. from precolonial times to present and is edited by a team that includes Gloria Steinem and UC Santa Cruz politics professor Gwendolyn Mink.
After years of working in a dark, windowless laboratory to understand speech perception and how speech can be communicated by machines, UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Dominic Massaro is realizing his dream of using advanced technology to help deaf children learn to speak.
The number of Atlantic salmon in American rivers has dropped dramatically in recent years. UC Santa Cruz ecologist Marc Mangel is probing the biological and environmental factors that trigger the salmon's patterns of migration and spawning.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has funded a three-year, $780,000 study of marijuana use designed to answer fundamental questions about the drug, including whether it leads to the use of "harder" drugs, long-term effects, and whether users become dependent. UC Santa Cruz will coordinate the three-nation comparative study.
A remarkable quartet of trained marine mammals is helping scientists at UC Santa Cruz push the frontiers of animal psychobiology by demonstrating, in unprecedented detail, how they see, hear, and think about the world around them.
Scientists from UC Santa Cruz have tracked, for the first time, a juvenile bald eagle's remarkable first migration northward from its nest in search of salmon. A lightweight satellite tag has tracked the eagle on its rapid flight nearly 1,000 miles north into British Columbia.
Remote islands of surreal beauty, the foggy, windswept Aleutians are thousands of miles from heavily populated areas. Even so, the islands harbor a nasty reminder of human activity: Sea otters and bald eagle eggs from the western Aleutians carry potentially harmful levels of DDT and other contaminants.
A gene linked to the most common abdominal cancer in children also may contribute to the development of breast cancer, according to a study at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Oregon Health Sciences University.
Writhing balls of snakelike protein fragments may initiate the dysfunctional lesions called plaques that clog the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease and similar neurological disorders, according to new research at UC Santa Cruz and UC San Francisco.
The biodiversity of nearshore marine ecosystems in Monterey Bay has flourished over the last 25 years despite increasingly heavy human impacts, according to marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz.
UC Santa Cruz has formally created its Jack Baskin School of Engineering, launched with a $5 million philanthropic gift. The school is expected to play an important role in training future Silicon Valley engineers.
The rematch between IBM's "Deep Blue" and chess champ Garry Kasparov inspired UC Santa Cruz Robert Levinson to ponder whether Deep Blue represents an advance toward artificial intelligence. Not even close, he concludes.
Leading researchers from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities will convene at UC Santa Cruz on May 10 and 11 for a weekend conference on one of the hottest topics in higher education today: Is science just another cultural and political construct?
UC Santa Cruz news tips, American Chemical Society meeting: antibiotic- RNA interactions, active compounds from marine sponges, clues about aggregation of partially folded proteins.
A distinguished group of physicists and historians will gather in London on March 21 for a daylong symposium at the Royal Society on the contributions of Isaac Newton to science. Three centuries after Newton published his Principia, scholars are still learning much about the development of his scientific ideas.
When did time begin? Physicist Joel Primack argues that science can answer the question. It's a fantastic scenario, involving the Big Bang, inflation, and "eternal inflation." He'll explain it all at the AAAS meeting in Seattle.
Are the oldest stars in the galaxy more ancient than the universe itself? That's the embarrassing conundrum facing astronomers today. At the AAAS meeting in Seattle, astronomer Michael Bolte will discuss solid evidence that stellar ages won't fall below 15 billion years.
Symmetries are evident everywhere in nature, even at the smallest scales of subatomic particles. At the AAAS meeting in Seattle, physicist Michael Dine will describe the latest work toward a theory of supersymmetry, which could round out the Standard Model of particle physics.
Astrophysicist Douglas Lin of UC Santa Cruz will discuss the dramatic evolution of models of planetary formation in an invited talk at the AAAS meeting in Seattle. New models must account for the wide variety of planets found since November 1995.
A miniature forest of robotically controlled optical fibers has sprouted from the end of the 120-inch Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory near San Jose, letting astronomers capture and analyze faint rays of light from dozens of distant stars or galaxies at the same time.
Acting as the world's most powerful telescopic tandem, the Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Telescope are starting to unravel the evolutionary histories of galaxies dating back to when the universe was just 10 percent of its current age. Embargoed * For release at 9:20 a.m. EST Thursday, January 16, 1997, in conjunction with the presentation of paper #103.05 at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
Many quasars, the most luminous objects in the universe, are swaddled by galaxies containing ordinary stars that lie at the same distances from earth as the quasars themselves, according to new research that used the Keck Telescopes in Hawaii.
Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood of UC Santa Cruz, a nationally recognized biologist, spokesperson for higher education, and an experienced voice in the arena of national scientific policy, has been chosen by her peers as the next president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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