Campus Communications
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Trees planted as McHenry Library addition nears completion
Tree planting began this month around the new reading lawn and garden at McHenry Library as construction of the addition nears completion. Nearly 30 new coast redwoods, coast live oaks, and flowering cherries will be planted.
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McHenry Library Is Moving!
Construction of the addition to McHenry Library is approaching completion, so I am writing to alert you to changes that will occur in McHenry as we prepare to begin the next phase of the project. The plan is that the entire contents of the existing McHenry Library building will be moved into the addition that…
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Chancellor Blumenthal appointed to state science/technology council
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal has been appointed to the California Council on Science and Technology, a group of 30 eminent scientists, engineers, scholars and business leaders from the state’s major public and private research and instructio
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Staff Toolkit makes finding business information easier
The revised Staff Toolkit web site makes it easier to find detailed information on the web on buying, event planning, facilities, finance, people, campus safety and security, technology, and travel.
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Staff invited to attend Women@Work Retreat
The 2008 Women@Work Retreat will be held April 24-25 at St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista; staff may apply now to attend.
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Assistance for visitors coming to UC Santa Cruz this spring
Spring is a crucial time of year for university-bound high school seniors and college transfer students, since now is when they must decide where to enroll for fall. Our campus will experience an increase in visitors during this period, anticipating approximately 8,000 visitors. This increase is good news for the campus and continues to show…
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UCSC signs cooperative agreement with Korean University
Chancellor Blumenthal signed an academic cooperation agreement with representatives of a Korean Buddhist University that calls for the reciprocal exchange of faculty, staff, and students; joint research projects; and the exchange of academic publications
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CEMELA hosts research symposium at UCSC Inn
The Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELA) recently hosted a research symposium that attracted more than 60 participants from four states.
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Winter Open Staff Forum with Chancellor Blumenthal
The Staff Advisory Board will host the Winter-quarter Staff “Brown Bag” Open Forum with Chancellor George Blumenthal on Wednesday, February 27, from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., in the Stevenson Event Center. This is the second Open Forum since the appointment of George Blumenthal as our new Chancellor. Please bring your questions to ask the Chancellor…
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Important Thumbs Up Award Update, please resubmit nominations!
We regret to announce that due to a technical error, all of the Thumbs Up Awards nominations submitted until late Thursday, February 7th were not saved in the database. We have sent an e-mail to each submitter for which a nomination was received confirming their details. If you submitted AFTER 5:00 on Thursday, February 7th,…
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Incidents of Vandalism and Harassment
We are writing to inform you of several recent incidents of intimidation to faculty and staff, purportedly over laboratory research involving animals. The incidents include harassing phone calls and graffiti vandalism at the victims’ homes. While property damage thankfully was not major, these events are deeply upsetting to the people involved and their families. We…
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School of Engineering Dean Finalists, Campus Visits Update
I write to provide you with an update regarding our Baskin SoE Dean finalists visits to our campus. * Professor Mark Spong’s visit has been rescheduled to: Thursday, February 14 and Friday, February 15 Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * Professor Jean-Luc Gaudiot will visit Thursday, February 28 and Friday, February…