Alumni
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UC Santa Cruz welcomes 11 Pister Scholarship students to campus as 2009-10 school year begins
Eleven dedicated community college transfer students will attend UC Santa Cruz this fall as recipients of Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Awards.
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Move-in weekend: Students excited, parents bittersweet
Students were excited and nervous while parents said bittersweet goodbyes during this year’s “move-in” weekend.
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UC Santa Cruz prepares to open for 45th new class
The University of California, Santa Cruz will welcome its 45th class of new students this week, ushering in the 2009-10 academic year. An estimated 4,150 new undergraduate students are expected, most of whom will move into university housing during the fo
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Chancellor Blumenthal addresses UC Board of Regents
Earlier today, Chancellor Blumenthal described for the UC Board of Regents Committee on Educational Policy how UC Santa Cruz is moving forward with its Strategic Academic Plan in a time of diminishing resources. UC President Yudof has asked each chancellor – over a two-year period – to provide the committee with a comprehensive presentation of…
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Award-winning novelist coming to UCSC on October 7
The UCSC Center for Labor Studies and the Living Writers Series will join together to present a reading by award-winning novelist Monique Truong, Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall
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Blumenthal takes part in group envisioning UC’s future
UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal is co-chair of the Size and Shape of UC committee, one of the working groups established under the UC Commission on the Future.
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Lick Observatory celebrates 50th anniversary of Shane Telescope
For 50 years, the 3-meter Shane Telescope has helped keep Lick Observatory at the forefront of modern astronomy.
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Parents are nervous, proud, sad, elated all at once at summer orientation
Part balm for nervous souls, part information service, part the first step in letting go, the annual freshman orientation drew 3,000 proud and anxious parents to campus this summer.
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Composer donates score of acclaimed Dead-inspired symphony to UCSC Library’s Grateful Dead Archive
This summer, renowned conductor Marin Alsop brought orchestral music inspired by the Grateful Dead to the 2009 Cabrillo Music Festival as a tribute to the band’s archive being housed at UCSC.
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Newsweek’s annual colleges issue prominently features UCSC
UC Santa Cruz is one of 25 campuses profiled in the cover story of Newsweek magazine’s fall 2009 special issue on colleges. The cover story features UCSC as a campus for “Overachievers Who Need to Stop and Look Around.”
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UCSC in Sierra magazine’s top 10 list of nation’s greenest colleges
UC Santa Cruz has placed seventh in Sierra magazine’s third annual “honor roll” of the top 10 greenest colleges in the nation.
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UC, state make bond deal to help projects move forward
UC Santa Cruz and seven other UC campuses will receive funding to pay for voter-approved construction projects under a new $199.9 million bond deal between UC and state Treasurer Bill Lockyer.