Campus News
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Girls Who Code program seeks to increase retention of women in tech
When the nonprofit Girls Who Code started a new “College Loops” program last year, students at UC Santa Cruz were quick to establish a branch.
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Data Security Compliance and CruzBuy
We write to update you on new Data Security and Privacy requirements when requesting services from Suppliers who will have access to UCSC data or systems. Suppliers must comply with UC security and privacy policies and standards.
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Award-winning poet Gary Soto to read at 10th annual Morton Marcus memorial event
Award-winning poet and novelist Gary Soto will be the featured guest at the 10th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, Thursday, November 7, at 7 p.m. in the UCSC Music Recital Hall.
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Faculty diversity, retention supported by new grants
About a third of faculty searches across four academic divisions will be included in a new pilot program, while a research team will assess and rethink leadership opportunities.
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‘Solitary Garden’ imagines a landscape without prisons
‘Solitary Garden’—a yearlong public art project created to protest solitary confinement and mass incarceration—opens at UC Santa Cruz with a public reception on November 5 at the Baskin Arts Studios. It will run on campus through Dec. 6, 2020.
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First generation, lasting impact
Funding from Jacques M. Littlefield Foundation is helping first-generation students succeed and generating research on practices that can support students across the country
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Letourneau’s datasets propel research that shows biodiversity improves crop production
When Environmental Studies Professor Deborah Letourneau was getting ready to retire, she gave several of her datasets to younger researchers so they could make use of them. And did they ever.
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Public invited to view Norris Center art-science residency projects
Several examples of art-science collaborations will be on view at the Museum of Art and History on Sunday, Nov. 10 from 10-5 p.m. and at the Norris Center for Natural History on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-16 from noon to 5 p.m.
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Campus provost and executive vice chancellor search
We are now launching a national recruitment for a permanent campus provost and executive vice chancellor.
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Rash of thefts on campus
The UC Santa Cruz Police Department is asking for the community’s help in investigating a rash of thefts that occurred from mid- to late October.
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Simulations explain giant exoplanets with eccentric, close-in orbits
A giant-impacts phase in the evolution of planetary systems can explain the observations of close-in giant planets with eccentric orbits.
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Mathematician Harold Widom honored by American Mathematical Society
Harold Widom and Craig Tracy will receive the 2020 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.