Faculty
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Local group funds UCSC cancer researchers
The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group, a local charity supporting cancer research and patient care, has awarded grants of $10,000 each to three researchers at UCSC.
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Newly designed campus website
Late this evening, a newly designed campus web home page and related secondary pages, supported by a new content management system, are scheduled to go live. The structure and design of these pages reflect input from academic and staff personnel; students; alumni; and others. This is part of an ongoing comprehensive web improvement program, commissioned…
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Possible Traffic Delays at West Entrance Friday 8/27
Campus commuters who travel through the West Entrance should anticipate potential daytime traffic delays on Friday, August 27 as crews repave the Heller/Empire Grade intersection. Grinding the existing roadbed and resurfacing with new pavement will take place during the regular work day, with traffic control provided by flaggers and construction cones. Striping of the pavement…
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Chancellor helps fund Olive Tree Initiative
Two UCSC politics majors want to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict, but they refuse to put their blind trust in TV, blogs, and newspaper coverage.
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Professors to present New Orleans lecture on anniversary of Katrina
August 29 marks the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Crescent City.
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Campus gets high honors in Sierra Club Coolest Schools rankings
UC Santa Cruz students throw pizza crusts into compost containers, scribble notes on recycled paper, and drink mass quantities of shade-grown organic cafeteria coffee during finals week.
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A new economy for Santa Cruz?
Former Santa Cruz Sentinel editor Tom Honig writes in an op-ed for the Santa Cruz Good Times that UCSC is a driver of the local economy, and that a growing campus could result in more private sector jobs in a rapidly changing economy.
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Art professor’s New Orleans photo makes opening credits of new HBO series
Tune into Treme, the new HBO television series by David Simon (The Wire) about post-Katrina New Orleans, and in the opening credits you will see a photograph taken by UCSC associate professor of art Lewis Watts.
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Update on Diversity Efforts on Campus
Introducing Dr. Joy Lei We are pleased to announce that Dr. Joy Lei has joined UC Santa Cruz as the new Diversity Programs and Education Specialist in the Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) office. She is working with Ashish Sahni, the Campus Diversity Officer for Staff and Students. Dr. Lei joins the campus from Facing…
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UCSC graduate students to showcase digital art with social impact
Fourteen graduate students from UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. Program (DANM) will conclude two years of artistic study with “Things That Are Possible”–an exhibition of their work running April 30 through May 9 at the campus’s new Digital Arts
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Bratt brothers bring a little Hollywood to Santa Cruz
Alumnus and filmmaker Peter Bratt and his brother, TV and movie star Benjamin Bratt, were in town and on campus recently as part of the local premiere of La Mission.
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Alumni speakers hopeful about the future
Three prominent UCSC alumni returned to campus April 17 for a lively exchange on what the future holds for the next generation of humanity.