Campus News
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Bots and Broadway: Technology and theater go hand-in-hand for UCSC professor
Using AI-generated text to produce dialogue during a live performance may seem like a wild idea to some, but not to performance and new media professor Marianne Weems. Weems, co-founder and artistic director of New York-based multi-dimensional theater company The Builders Association, is used to pushing the envelope with her ground-breaking work at the intersection…
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Legal Studies Program, Santa Cruz County Public Defender’s Office partner for National Public Defense Summit
Interested in learning about the importance of public defense and criminal law? The UC Santa Cruz Legal Studies Program, in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of the Public Defender, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and the National Association for Public Defense, will host its first-ever National Public Defense Summit on…
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Campus safety strengthened with new programs, services
Restoring the late-night Safe Ride program, forming a mobile crisis intervention team, and increasing security patrols are just a few of the changes this academic year.
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SlugUnity continues with On the Margins tabling event; individual coaching sessions available for students, staff, and faculty
In continuation of SlugUnity: a space for community healing, On the Margins will be on campus this Friday, February 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Quarry Plaza. During this time, On the Margins will distribute wellness kits, social justice and racial justice literature, and resources.
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Visits set for finalists for Chief Campus Counsel
The Chief Campus Counsel is a key leadership position at UC Santa Cruz, providing the campus with advice on a broad range of legal, regulatory and governance issues.
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Pursuing cultural anthropology
Gabriel Ephraim Kaplan Wall was awarded the Jeremy Demian Marx Scholarship in 2022. Learn more about how scholarships support students at UC Santa Cruz.
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Welcoming our new Vice Chancellor for Finance, Operations and Administration
Ed Reiskin has spent more than 20 years as a public sector administrator, most recently as the city of Oakland’s top administrative officer.
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Funding opportunity to develop university innovations
The Innovation & Business Engagement Hub is now accepting applications for its new Innovation Catalyst Grant; a proof-of-concept program focused on providing targeted gap funding, training, mentorship, and support to UC Santa Cruz researchers in order to help de-risk and/or validate the implementation and adoption potential of early-stage technology innovations.
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UC Santa Cruz leads DOE program to train computational high-energy physicists
The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at UC Santa Cruz is leading a consortium of western research universities and national laboratories in a new program to train the next generation of computational high-energy physicists.
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UCSC receives NEH awards that will further research in anthropology and musicology
On January 10, the NEH announced $28.1 million in grants toward 204 humanities projects nationwide. Two of this year’s recipients are part of the Slug family themselves, and their new grants will help to further their research in both anthropology and musicology at UC Santa Cruz.
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COVID-19 community health guidance and reminders
We write today to ask for your help in promoting community wellness by following these important reminders.
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Nick Fountain: On the (Planet) money
The newest cohost of NPR’s Planet Money, Nick Fountain (Stevenson ’11, politics) covers smart and sometimes quirky stories that, nevertheless, offer some truth about the larger economy or the world.