Campus News
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UC Santa Cruz has lost a dear friend
Chancellor Blumenthal shares the news of the passing of Rita Pister, wife of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Emeritus Karl Pister.
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Business Design Competition: high-tech test-grading system designers win top prize
UCSC engineering graduate student Paul Abumov and McMaster University astrophysics graduate Nicolas Petitclerc won the top spot at this year’s Business Design Competition. A patent is pending for their innovative, high-tech test-grading system.
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Time to Renew Parking Permits and Metro Bus Passes
It is time for staff and faculty to renew or purchase parking permits and Metro bus passes for 2011-12.
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UCSC in the News
Seismologist Thorne Lay was quoted in stories about the earthquake risk in Japan in the aftermath of the devastating March quake and tsunami, including a story in Nature and an Associated Press story that ran in the Washington Post.
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Vaccine expert Phillip Berman named finalist for Health Care Heroes Award
The Silicon Valley Business Journal has named vaccine expert Phillip Berman a finalist for the 2011 Health Care Heroes Award.
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TiE Service Award recognizes UCSC entrepreneurship
UCSC was honored with a TiE Service Award for efforts to promote entrepreneurship.
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UCSC economist expects emerging economies to push for next IMF head
The resignation of the head of the International Monetary Fund sets the stage for a tussle between developing countries and European economies, according to Joshua Aizenman, an international economics expert at UC Santa Cruz.
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UC Santa Cruz students reap the benefits of Measure 43
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of Measure 43, the student-funded Sustainable Food, Health, and Wellness Initiative at UC Santa Cruz that has treated thousands of students to a broad menu of ways to learn about food, including workshops, campus conferences, events, and classes.
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Ant Farm founder and emeritus professor Chip Lord to be honored at UCSC film symposium
Years before he joined the faculty at UCSC, Chip Lord was a member of the Ant Farm, a groundbreaking, experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels.
