Faculty
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Meditation sessions open to campus community
The sessions are free and open to faculty, staff, and students. No prior meditation experience is needed.
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Tragedy in Orlando
The horrific attack in Orlando has sent waves of shock and grief across the country. Like everyone, I grieve the loss of life and am thinking today about the family and friends of the victims. The campus flag flies at half-staff as a tribute to the victims.
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Citizens academy helps to ‘humanize the badge’
The nine-week program is offered three times a year to give a behind-the-scenes, hands-on perspective of the roles and responsibilities of law enforcement.
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Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity honor work, commitment
The campus recognized work done by students, faculty, staff, and programs to promote diversity and inclusion on campus through the 2016 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity.
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Art professor Dee Hibbert-Jones wins Northern California Area Emmy award
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones has been honored with yet another award for her acclaimed animated documentary film, “Last Day of Freedom.”
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Baskin School recognizes women graduating with engineering degrees
Women make up 19 percent of engineering undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz this year, up from 12 percent in 2005. The event is meant to help retain women in the engineering school.
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Time to renew parking permits and Metro bus passes
Annual parking permits and staff/faculty Metro bus passes expire on June 30, 2016.
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The sky is no limit for planet-hunting grad student
Astronomy grad student Jennifer Burt helped write software that turned a powerful telescope at Lick Observatory into the first automated planet finder in the world.
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Parking during year-end activities
As the campus prepares for the many commencement and year-end celebrations this weekend, please read about the impact this will have on traffic and parking.
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Linguistics professor Pranav Anand receives Dizikes Award for teaching in Humanities
Associate professor of linguistics Pranav Anand was presented with the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities at the Humanities Division’s 2016 Spring Awards celebration held at the Cowell Provost House.
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Incident at UCLA and UC Santa Cruz resources
The UC Santa Cruz community remains saddened today about the apparent murder-suicide incident at UCLA. Our thoughts are with those affected by the tragedy.
