Campus News
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UCSC’s popular GetVirtual internship program expands its impact and outreach with newly launched Coursera course
The brand-new Coursera GetVirtual course is an important addition to a popular program that partners student teams with local businesses while teaching students how to do consulting professionally
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Restoration and preservation: Alumna fights for inclusive science and tribal knowledge
UCSC alumna Irene Vasquez works towards a restoration of Yosemite’s cultural and ecological heritage.
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Recruitment for campus police chief underway
Initial screening interviews of highly qualified candidates will take place via Zoom in the coming weeks, and the top ranked candidates from those interviews will be invited for on campus visits and additional interviews.
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UPS packages to be available at H-Barn
Starting today (Monday, Nov. 28), all UPS packages for faculty and staff will need to be picked-up at the H-Barn from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Prescribed burns near campus today
California State Parks has been and will continue conducting prescribed burns in Wilder Ranch State Park, continuing sporadically through Dec. 13.
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New JWST data reveal more details of exoplanet WASP-39b’s atmosphere
A ‘mystery molecule’ seen in the initial spectrum has been identified as sulfur dioxide produced by photochemical reactions in the planet’s atmosphere.
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Film by Arts Division Dean continues to gain recognition and spark conversation
Since its premiere in May, 80 YEARS LATER, a feature film by Dr. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, UC Santa Cruz’s Dean of the Division of the Arts, continues to garner praise during the 80th anniversary year of the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans in World War II.
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Search begins for Chief Campus Counsel
UC Santa Cruz has launched the first phase of a national search for Chief Campus Counsel, with stakeholder meetings held last week.
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Growing Our Own – From research opportunities to the professoriate
Solidifying its commitment to increasing the diversity of its faculty, both underrepresented minorities and female faculty, last year, the University of California launched the Growing Our Own initiative.
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Division of Student Affairs and Success announces creation of Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Education; launches search for office’s first director
Following a thorough, campus-wide program review of UC Santa Cruz’s student conduct program, the Division of Student Affairs and Success is creating a new Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Education (OSSCE).
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Batalha testifies at Congressional hearing on the initial scientific findings of the JWST
The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope humans have sent to space and, Batalha asserts, it is ushering in a new era of exoplanet science.
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Fact check: setting the record straight
Did UC Santa Cruz deans send an email to graduate students threatening retaliation? False. The deans of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences and Baskin School of Engineering sent an email to graduate students in those divisions about research course credits. The email encouraged graduate students enrolled in research courses that earn academic credit…