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					   /*welcome*/ "DEAN'S WELCOME",
					   /*biomed*/ "BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH",
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					   /*mcd*/   "MOLECULAR, CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY",
					   /*chem*/ "CHEMISTRY &amp; BIOCHEMISTRY",
					   /*es*/   "EARTH &amp PLANETARY SCIENCES",
					   /*etox*/ "MICROBIOLOGY &amp; ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY",
					   /*math*/ "MATHEMATICS",
					   /*os*/"OCEAN SCIENCES",
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					   /*scicom*/"SCIENCE COMMUNICATION"
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/* welcome */"Every day, UC Santa Cruz scientists are redefining our understanding of the world in which we live -- working to meet, in the words of the UC Regents, &quot;the societal and community needs of the State of California, and its people, and the health and well-being of all mankind.&quot;<br><br>UCSC is a young campus, founded in the years after the discovery of DNA, the launch of Sputnik, and the publication of Silent Spring. Our youth has allowed us to approach the sciences in a new way, avoiding high barriers between the traditional disciplines. We strive instead for truly multidisciplinary approaches to today's most challenging problems in human health, the environment, and advanced technology, as when investigators at the",
			
/* biomed */"UCSC's Division of Physical and Biological Sciences supports a broad range of biomedical research within 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. <br><br>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.",

/*astro*/"The UCSC Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics Department has been at the forefront of both theoretical and observational astrophysics since it was founded with the relocation of the Lick Observatory science staff (and library) to Santa Cruz shortly after the campus was opened. State-of-the-art laboratory space is provided by the UCO/Lick shops, the new Moore Adaptive Optics Lab, and, for high-energy astrophysics, by the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. Remote observing facilities for use with Keck are on site. A 264-processor beowulf cluster is shared with Earth Sciences.<br><br>As the home campus of UCO/Lick, UCSC has a distinguished history in observational optical astronomy. The twin 10-m Keck Telescopes and the 3-m Shane and other telescopes at Mt. Hamilton are UCO/Lick's jewels, but UCSC astronomers are also active contributors to and users of <i>HST</i> and other major telescopes.",
	
/*eeb*/"EEB Faculty research interests cover a wide range of modern biology, and are grouped in four research clusters focusing on behavior and physiology, conservation biology, marine and terrestrial ecology, and evolution. In addition to state-of-the-art departmental laboratories, students have full access to the analytical laboratories and other facilities of the UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences.<br><br>The campus is located on Monterey Bay, which has the largest concentration of marine research programs in the country. Terrestrial biologists have access to all of California's natural environments through the University of California's Natural Reserve System. More than two-thirds of our faculty participate actively in field studies throughout the Pacific Basin (from Alaska to Antarctica), in Pacific Rim nations (Latin America, the Far East, and Australia), and beyond.",

/*mcd*/"MCDB Faculty research interests cover a wide range of modern biology, and are grouped in six research clusters focusing on Cell Biology, Developmental Genetics, Neurobiology, Plant Science, RNA Molecular Biology, and Structural Biology. Program faculty and students interact extensively with faculty from other biology-related programs at UCSC, including computational biology and bioinformatics, biochemistry and environmental toxicology.<br><br>The MCDB Graduate Program is designed for students with diverse backgrounds. Rotations ensure that students experience a wide range of experimental techniques and conceptual approaches. The program is supported by a National Institute of Health Training Grant.",

/*chem*/"Chemistry occupies a key position in the modern sciences. Ultimately, most phenomena in biology, medicine, geology, and the environmental sciences can be described in terms of the chemical and physical behavior of atoms and molecules.<br><br>Research in chemistry at UC Santa Cruz is closely interwoven with graduate and undergraduate education. The chemistry and biochemistry program is active at the graduate level, and the faculty also encourages undergraduates to become involved in research. The general areas of research encompassed by the graduate program are biochemistry, biophysical, inorganic, marine, organic and physical chemistry.",

/*es*/"The research areas being actively pursued at UC Santa Cruz's Earth &amp Planetary Sciences Department include: the evolution of continental margins and orogenic belts; crustal dynamics and geologic processes occurring at plate boundaries; seismological problems of the Earth's crust, mantle, and core; paleoecology; hydrogeology; paleomagnetism; experimental studies of the Earth's interior; geodynamics; geomorphology; glaciology; paleoclimatology; planetary science; coastal processes; and geologic and seismic hazards.<br><br>The Earth &amp Plantetary Sciences faculty and students at Santa Cruz maintain close working ties with the United States Geological Survey, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and NASA Ames Laboratory.",

/*etox*/"The Department for Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology (METOX) concerns itself with how toxic substances poison humans and animals. Our program at UC Santa Cruz is unique in that we study living harmful agents, such as the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, as well as chemical agents, such as the metal mercury.<br><br>The METOX department at UCSC brings together scientists who use a multitude of approaches to understand diverse toxic substances. Our research combines environmental chemistry and exposure routes of toxins with the organismal, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of intoxication. Members of the department  currently investigate toxins including lead, copper, manganese  and mercury, and microbial pathogens that cause cholera and gastric ulcers.",

/*math*/"The mathematics department at UC Santa Cruz is small but dynamic, with an ongoing commitment to both research and teaching. The department has leading research programs in several actively developing areas on the frontiers of pure and applied mathematics, interacting strongly with theoretical physics and mechanics. The extraordinary level of National Science Foundation support received by our faculty reflects the high caliber of the research carried out in the department. The current areas of research are... ",

/*os*/"The Ocean Sciences Department includes faculty and students involved in oceanography and other marine sciences and sponsors undergraduate and graduate courses in these disciplines. Through faculty sponsors, students have access to a wide variety of research facilities and equipment, including on-campus analytical chemistry, geology and molecular biology laboratories for marine research, computing and imaging facilities, an on-shore marine laboratory two miles from campus (Long Marine Laboratory) with aquariums and holding tanks that are supplied with running sea water, and a unique field station on A&ntilde;o Nuevo Island (19 miles north of Santa Cruz) especially suited for studies on pinnipeds and marine birds.",

/*physics*/"The Department of Physics offers students an outstanding academic experience. A national survey ranked the overall satisfaction with the physics graduate program at UCSC the highest in the nation.<br><br>In a report by the Institute for Scientific Information, UCSC Physics' professional papers had the highest citation rate of any university physics department in the country. With our close connection to the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) and scientific associations with Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) at Stanford, the UC Observatories, and various x-ray and neutron scattering centers at national laboratories we continue to provide exceptional research opportunities to our students.",

/*scicom*/"Do you enjoy explaining your work, and science in general, to non-scientist friends and relatives as much as you like working in the lab? The women and men who popularize science enjoy a career that never loses its zing. They stay in close touch with cutting-edge science and with the world's leading scientists, often by visiting with them in their labs or in the field. Science writers choose from a wide variety of career options: newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, public information, and educational writing for research institutions such as national laboratories, universities, aquariums, and zoos.<br><br>The science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been producing professionally trained science writers since 1982. The program is an academic year long, plus a summer internship. It is the only graduate science writing program in the nation that requires significant previous science training."
	
	
	
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