Faculty
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UC Santa Cruz professor one of top academic experts on Honduras
In late June, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank traveled to Honduras to observe the one-year anniversary of the country’s 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya. Frank is one of the top academic experts on Honduras in the United States
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Our University – Post-Employment Benefits Recommendations
Read about the Post-Employment Benefits Task Force recommendations released last week. This special issue of Our University includes: * An overview of the task force recommendations * A comparison of UCRP contributions to those of other employers * Announcement of a September 29 systemwide web-based town hall meeting, and more. Our University is available at:…
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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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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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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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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