Alumni
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UCSC grad is an editor of the ‘Occupied Wall Street Journal’
Despite the bust-up of Occupy encampments nationwide, a UC Santa Cruz graduate who helps edit the newspaper for the popular movement credits media outreach with spreading the message of economic fairness beyond the downtown parks where the movement began.
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet to read at 2nd Morton Marcus event, Nov. 20
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kay Ryan—the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008-2010, who just a few weeks ago received a MacArthur (“genius”) Fellowship award–will be the featured guest at the 2nd annual Morton Marus Memorial Poetry Reading, Sunday, November 20.
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UCSC leads $4 million NOAA project to monitor harmful algal blooms
Scientists are launching a major effort to understand the conditions leading to blooms of toxic algae along the California coast.
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Arboretum celebrates partnership with Amah Mutsun tribe
The Arboretum and the Amah Mutsun tribe are working together on a project that highlights native plants traditionally used by the Mutsun people.
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UCSC fundraisers honored at Silicon Valley Philanthropy Day
Two UCSC fundraising teams will be recognized by the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
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Astronomers find clouds of primordial gas from the early universe
For the first time, astronomers have found pristine clouds of the primordial gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang.
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Taking it to the next level: Women’s soccer team qualifies for regional playoffs
The hard-working UCSC women’s soccer team is bound for Southern California this weekend to compete in the regional playoffs for the first time in two years.
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Slug men’s water polo hopes to make big splash at national championships
This will be a momentous weekend for the UC Santa Cruz men’s water polo team. The Banana Slugs are set to make history as they head to Atlanta as the first-ever team from a Division III school to compete in the National Collegiate Club Championship, a Division I tournament.
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UCSC wins $2.6 million grant for organic farming research
UC Santa Cruz will continue and expand its leading role in sustainable agriculture research with a $2.6 million federal grant to strengthen collaboration with Central Coast farmers to promote organic production in the region.
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UCSC art historian contributes to Touré’s new book on “post-blackness”
History of Art and Visual Culture assistant professor Derek Conrad Murray adds to candid conversation about race in the age of Obama
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UCSC Arboretum holds Dried Flower and Succulent Wreath Sale Nov. 12 and 13
Wonderful holiday decorations and gifts will be available from the UCSC Arboretum at the Dried Flower and Succulent Wreath Sale on November 12 and 13.
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UCSC’s Museum of Natural History holds open house and fundraiser
Two master naturalists will share their wisdom with the community when the UC Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History Collections (MNHC) holds its third annual open house and fundraiser Friday, Nov. 18 and Saturday, Nov. 19 at the Science and Engineering Library periodicals room on the UCSC campus.