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Frans Lanting production featured at inauguration of Large Hadron Collider

Flower Hat Jelly. Photo by Frans Lanting.

Origins, a new multimedia production by UCSC Foundation Trustee Frans Lanting, will be performed October 21 at the official ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, to inaugurate the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful machine ever built to study the origins of the universe. Read the story

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• Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics
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Tim Stephens, Thursday, Oct 9, 2008

• How children learn to 'think like scientists' is focus of prof's work at Children's Discovery Museum

  Oct 9 - Psychology professor Maureen Callanan is partnering with Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose to explore the ways kids learn to "think like scientists." ...Read the story

• Faculty to discuss presidential election during three public forums

  Oct 7 - UC Santa Cruz's Stevenson College and Politics Department are cosponsoring two upcoming events designed to heighten awareness of domestic and foreign policy issues in advance of the upcoming...Read the story

• 2nd annual UCSC 'Founders Day' gala dinner at Cocoanut Grove to honor three exceptional individuals

  Oct 2 - UC Santa Cruz hosts its second annual Founders Day gala dinner at the Cocoanut Grove on Friday, October 24, beginning at 7 p.m. ...Read the story

• Baskin School of Engineering will showcase faculty research on Friday, October 17

  Sep 29 - Advances in sustainable energy, information systems, DNA sequencing, and video-game design are among the highlighted topics in a day of UCSC engineering faculty presentations....Read the story

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