Faculty
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UC Santa Cruz establishing Scotts Valley Center
I am excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz will be establishing a center in Scotts Valley to support 500 staff from three divisions: Business and Administrative Services, Information Technology Services, and University Relations.
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Bike to Work Week activities
UCSC’s Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) has joined with Ecology Action to host the 29th annual Santa Cruz County Spring Bike Week, May 6 -13, 2016.
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Extraordinary woodblock prints by visiting Chinese artist on exhibit at UC Santa Cruz
Thirteen stunning woodblock prints are now on display by acclaimed Chinese artist Xiang Silou in The Eternal Line: Ordinary Stories–an exhibition running through May 7 at the Porter Faculty Gallery on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Campus launches mobile app to track shuttles in real time
Transportation and Parking Services, in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, has launched SlugRoute, which tracks campus buses in real time.
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Student-made videos focus on sexual assault awareness, reporting options
The five videos, sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Police Department, will debut at 7 p.m., April 27 at the Stevenson Event Center.
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Percolating ideas
Grad student Sarah Beganskas is studying what could become part of the solution to California’s water crisis: collecting storm runoff so it can seep into the ground instead of being diverted to rivers and seas.
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UCSC Farm & Garden’s annual spring plant sale takes place April 30 and May 1
With winter rains and April showers greening yards and moistening garden beds, the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden’s spring plant sale comes at the perfect time.
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Enthusiasm, excitement for discovery drives Grad Slam winner
Planetary science student Michael Nayak has opened up new fields of study and planetary data analysis.
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History professor Peter Kenez honored with top UC award for emeriti faculty
The 2016 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring emeriti professors in the University of California system, has been awarded to UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus of history Peter Kenez.
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Alums Martha Mendoza, William Finnegan win 2016 Pulitzer Prize
Journalism’s highest honor is awarded to the Associated Press and Mendoza for public service and in biography to Finnegan for his surfing memoir.
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Two faculty members honored with Dickson Emeriti Professorship Awards
Chip Lord, professor emeritus of film and digital media, and Lewis Watts, professor emeritus of art, were each awarded Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorships in recognition of their outstanding achievements in scholarship and teaching.