Campus News
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UCSC’s Gail Project wins first prize in national ‘Shout Out for the Humanities’ contest
Why is studying the humanities–history, literature, languages, philosophy, culture–important? How would you convince your parents, an employer, a politician, or others that there is value in pursing the humanities?
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Sci-fi meets soprano with Star Trek opera
UC Santa Cruz–affiliated professors and staff are boldly going where no one has gone before by taking Star Trek into the high-culture realm of arias and recitatives.
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California Whistleblower Protection Act – annual notice
The university’s Whistleblower Policy provides multiple avenues for employees to bring forward concerns of potential employee misconduct.
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UC Santa Cruz team wins game design competition at E3 event
A team of students in the Games and Playable Media master’s program won the Social Connection GameJam competition.
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Campus altar honors lives lost in Orlando
The Cantú Queer Center, the Chicano Latino Resource Center, and the Women’s Center have created an altar that will be on display through July. The centers are happy to collaborate in other community support efforts.
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2016-2017 annual overtime compensation election for represented non-exempt employees
During the month of June, for the departments/units that continue to offer the option of compensatory time, employees in the bargaining units listed above can make a change to their current overtime compensation election.
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Play depicts the struggles, lessons of ALS
The one-woman performance of The Voice Bank, brought to UC Santa Cruz as a faculty member suffers from ALS, is about finding strength in the face of the disease—and about letting go.
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Getting to the bottom of degenerative muscle disease
Alexandra Houser is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Steck Family Award, which honors the best senior thesis completed during the academic year.
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‘Rebels and visionaries’ are the focus of Social Sciences’ summer reading list
From farmer to feminist, hacker, judge, surfer, scientist, geologist, and community organizer–meet the people who dared to think and act differently in the Division of Social Sciences’ Second Annual Summer Reading List.
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New campus archivist launches campaign to document 51 years of history
For Teresa Mora, the essence of UC Santa Cruz’s 51-year story is in the details—the newsletters, meeting minutes, images, correspondence, and dog-eared reports stashed away in forgotten boxes.
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Meditation sessions open to campus community
The sessions are free and open to faculty, staff, and students. No prior meditation experience is needed.
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Former CASFS intern named to Global Food Initiative 30 Under 30 list
The manager of the UC Riverside community garden, who spent two years as an intern with the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, is a winner of the inaugural University of California Global Food Initiative 30 Under 30 Awards.