Month: May 2011
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Paul Koch named interim dean of physical and biological sciences
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz has appointed Paul Koch, professor and chair of Earth and planetary sciences, to serve as interim dean of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences. The appointment, announced by campus provost and executive vice chancellor Alison Galloway, is effective July 1, when current dean Stephen…
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QB3 fellowship furthers research on hollow gold nanospheres for cancer treatment
By Nathan Boyd A fellowship from the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) launched Damon Wheeler, a graduate student in Jin Zhang’s physical chemistry lab at UC Santa Cruz, in research on nanoparticles and their potential role in cancer therapy. Wheeler characterizes the optical properties of hollow gold nanospheres (HGNs) to discover how they can…