UCSC Review Magazine
Fall 2004

 

UCSC Review -Fall 2004

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Aaron Platt's seven-minute "short," which began as a project in his UCSC film production class, was honored—and shown five times—at the 2004 Sundance Festival, the prestigious event that each year showcases the very best in independent cinema. Read more.

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Teaming Up to Save California's Oaks

Erika Zavaleta and Brian Fulfrost are using state-of-the-art GIS technology to plot the precise locations of two California varieties of oak trees—and in the process, are identifying the environmental factors that may be responsible for the trees' declining numbers.

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  Erika Zavaleta
     

Bringing Organic Produce into the Mainstream

When alumnus Drew Goodman cofounded Earthbound Farm 20 years ago, he couldn't imagine that the company would one day be producing packaged organic salad mix—a product that would be on the shelves of more than 70 percent of U.S. supermarkets.

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  Goodman
     

Studying the Edges

Graduate student Cynthia Hays, whose research has been supported by the ARCS Foundation, is studying marine algae in order to understand a question that has confounded ecologists: What determines an organism's natural geographic range?

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  Cynthia Hays
     

Making Movies

Aaron Platt's seven-minute "short," which began as a project in his UCSC film production class, was honored—and shown five times—at the 2004 Sundance Festival, the prestigious event that each year showcases the very best in independent cinema.

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  Aaron Platt's
     

On the verge of a medical breakthrough

An innovative UC Santa Cruz research project brings new hope to the treatment of diabetes

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  Soya Gamsey & Nichol Baxter
     

Child's Play

History grad Mark Teague has found his niche in the rarefied world of children's book writing and illustration

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  Mark Teague

 


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