Campus News
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Astronomy alumni join Chancellor Blumenthal in panel discussion Sept. 26
Three distinguished alumni and a current grad student join Chancellor Blumenthal to discuss astronomy, space, and discovery
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Molting elephant seals add mercury to coastal seawater
UC Santa Cruz researchers traced elevated mercury levels in coastal seawater to hair shed by elephant seals.
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Tearing down the walls
Pioneering UC Santa Cruz professors and staff challenged convention and traditional academics. In the process, they helped reform American higher education.
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Application deadline approaching for Cowell College Provost position
As a reminder, the Division of Undergraduate Education is undertaking a search during 2015-16 for a part-time faculty administrator.
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Tearing down the walls
Pioneering UC Santa Cruz professors and staff challenged convention and traditional academics. In the process, they helped reform American higher education.
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UC Santa Cruz Arboretum marks 50th Anniversary with Sept. 20 Jubilee
The Arboretum will celebrate its first 50 years and raise funds for the future at the 50th Anniversary Jubilee.
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Dogs, cats, and big-wave surfers: Healthy heart lessons from animals and athletes
Heart rates of big-wave surfers are among the surprises from 30 years of studying exercise physiology in people and wild animals.
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Dickens Project receives NEH grant for public outreach to schoolteachers
The Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz has received a $119,417 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a four-week NEH Summer Seminar that will be held on campus in 2016.
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Ask them anything: gaming researchers host Reddit AMA
Gaming researchers host a Reddit AMA on making games more findable and expressive using computer science.
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Alumni Profile / 2008: Stephanie Foo: Story hunter
A couple years out of UC Santa Cruz, Stephanie Foo decided she wanted to work for the radio show This American Life. So she hitchhiked to the world’s biggest porn convention with a load of borrowed radio equipment, talked her way inside with a fake press pass, and began a podcast she called “Get Me…
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Alumni Profile / 2011: Tiffany Loftin: Changing the narrative around higher education
Tiffany Dena Loftin met President Barack Obama, she was overwhelmed and nervous, but she managed to pull herself together. After all, she wanted to talk with him about a pressing civil rights issue that had been on her mind for many years.
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1986: Kris Perry: Standing for equality
Kris Perry doesn’t think about the way historians will tell her story. Instead, the 1986 Merrill College graduate with degrees in sociology and psychology thinks how life will be different for children nationwide because of what she did.