Campus News
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Upcoming closures for Student Health Center, SHOP, and CAPS
Student Health Services will close early on Friday, June 10, 2022 and for the full day on Monday, June 20.
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COVID-19: What to do during finals week
Guidance for completing your finals amid the rise in local COVID-19 cases. This message includes information about what to do if you have COVID-19 symptoms and/or test positive for COVID-19 and are supposed to take a final.
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Campus update: Gearing up for commencement; celebrating Pride month; professor among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people
This has been a remarkable academic year—from the return to largely in-person instruction to many historic moments, including the naming and dedication of John R. Lewis College and leading the effort to produce the first truly complete sequence of a human genome.
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Seeking Okinawan rights
UC Santa Cruz doctoral candidate Lex McClellan-Ufugusuku appeared before the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, exploring whether the people of Okinawa could be recognized as Indigenous—meaning they might have the right to block or stop new military bases under guidelines about Indigenous people set up by the U.N.
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Free public beach tours of Younger Lagoon Reserve have resumed
Tours of the reserve, which were suspended due to COVID-19 precautions, are again being offered through UCSC’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center.
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Se reanudan las giras gratis a la playa pública de la Reserva Younger Lagoon
Las giras a la reserva, que fueron suspendidas debido a las precauciones por la COVID-19, se están ofreciendo de nuevo mediante el Seymour Marine Discovery Center de la UCSC.
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Anticipated salary increase for policy-covered staff and academic appointees, update on staff salary equity program
We are excited to share that all eligible policy-covered staff employees will receive a 4.5 percent salary increase, and senate faculty and policy-covered academic appointees will receive a 4 percent salary increase, pending approval of the state budget.
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Capstone to console: UC Santa Cruz student-developed game releasing to Nintendo Switch
The soon to be released, interactive, fast-paced game Squish was developed by UCSC engineering and arts, games, & playable media students.
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Amanda Quirk
Amanda Quirk’s research on galaxy mergers showed evidence that the Andromeda galaxy had some kind of major galactic collision in the past 4 billion years, and survived—which has implications for our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Benny Mosqueira
Benny Mosqueira felt driven to make something of himself, and he arrived on campus intending to become a medical doctor. Instead, the first-generation college student was captivated by the research opportunities he found at UC Santa Cruz and decided to pursue biomedical research as a career.

