Campus News
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2013 Thumbs Up Awards
The Staff Advisory Board is very pleased to sponsor the 2013 UCSC Thumbs Up Awards.
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High school student’s work in UCSC lab earns Intel Science Fair prize
Eesha Khare, a student at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, won a $50,000 science fair prize for work carried out in Yat Li’s chemistry lab.
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UCSC scientist attends White House ceremony honoring open science
David Haussler attended a White House event highlighting Open Science “Champions of Change.”
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UCSC ham radio club takes part in annual Field Day exercise June 22-23
Faculty and students from the Baskin School of Engineering will take part in the national Emergency Communications Field Day.
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Anthropologists argue field must play a vital role in climate change studies
Anthropologists can and must play a vital role in climate change studies, a UC Santa Cruz professor and a former UCSC doctoral student argue in an influential scholarly journal. That role has long been overlooked, they write.
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UCRP Contribution Rate Increase
We write to remind you that, as previously announced, contribution rates to the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) for both the university and employees will increase next month.
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Their time in the sun: joy and inspiration at 2013 commencement
The weather was warm and breezy and the speakers were inspiring at UC Santa Cruz’s 2013 commencement celebrations, which attracted throngs of well-wishers and myriad speakers.
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Submarine springs reveal how coral reefs respond to ocean acidification
Ocean acidification due to rising carbon dioxide levels will reduce the density of coral skeletons, making coral reefs more vulnerable to disruption and erosion.
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Major grant funds UCSC researchers using big data to predict cancer outcomes
UCSC bioinformatics experts received a $3.5 million NIH grant to develop tools to analyze cancer genomics data.
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Gene patent decision called step forward for open research
Genetics researchers at UC Santa Cruz said the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that human genes cannot be patented will help keep advanced genetic research from being controlled by private biotechnology companies.
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New exhibit now on display at UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive
“Songs of Our Own: The Art of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon” is the second annual exhibition of The Grateful Dead Archive, now open to the public at UCSC’s McHenry Library.
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Free poetry reading and music at UCSC’s Alan Chadwick Garden June 23
The historic Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz will ring out with poetry and music on Sunday, June 23, from 12 noon until 2 p.m., when a bevy of award-winning poets will read their work.