Faculty
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Improving the Strategic Academic Plan
The campus community is invited to a town hall on Friday to learn more about the reworked Strategic Academic Plan document.
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In Memoriam: Cameron Poole
Cameron Poole, a junior at the university and a Kresge College student, died Jan. 8.
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Professor honored by Linguistic Society of America for decades of work on endangered languages
UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor of linguistics Judith Aissen was awarded the prestigious Kenneth L. Hale Award last week in New York City at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). The LSA is the major professional society in the United States that is dedicated to the scientific study of language.
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Regents to discuss Student Housing West next week
The UC Board of Regents will learn more about Student Housing West during its meeting next week, when the project will be on the agenda as a discussion item. The project and an associated Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) amendment will be before the Committee on Finance and Capital Strategies on Jan. 16. The committee…
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SAB blood drive on Jan. 30
Greetings from the Staff Advisory Board (SAB) and Happy New Year! This year’s blood drive will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Stevenson Event Center. To schedule your appointment or for more information visit redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: UCSCSAB or call 1-800 RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) If you…
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Institute of Arts and Sciences to present talk by politically provocative artist Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is perhaps best known for his landmark series of text-based paintings, which draw on the words of such diverse figures as Richard Pryor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gertrude Stein. On Jan. 15, the Institute of Arts and Sciences will present a lecture by Ligon at UCSC’s Digital Arts Research Center
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In Memoriam: Shane Sanchez
Crown College CRE Shane Sanchez passed away during the winter break. He was a member of the CHES family since 2005, working with graduate student housing, the University Town Center, and joining the Crown/Merrill family in 2011 as the CRE for the Crown apartments.
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UC Santa Cruz historian and founding faculty member John Dizikes dies at 86
John Dizikes, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, died at his home in Santa Cruz on December 26, 2018.
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News about founding faculty member John Dizikes
John Dizikes, a founding UC Santa Cruz faculty member who helped establish this campus as a student-focused institution, died Dec. 26 at his home in Santa Cruz.
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Blia Yang appointed director of undergraduate admissions
I’m very happy to announce the appointment of Blia Yang as UC Santa Cruz’s new director of undergraduate admissions. Her official start date is today, January 4th. Blia has provided remarkable leadership as the interim director since October of 2017. Her leadership was instrumental to our campus achieving the critical 2:1 agreement that we would…
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NSF funds innovative stable isotope equipment at UC Santa Cruz
The new equipment will support research across a wide range of disciplines, ranging from oceanography and earth science, paleontology, anthropology, ecology and fundamental biochemical cycle research.
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UC negotiations with journal publisher
Calling for a significant change in our university’s relationship with Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of academic journals.