Campus News
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The future of UCSC: Chancellor, EVC discuss looming budget cuts
During two on-campus meetings, Chancellor George Blumenthal and College Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway addressed concerns about the looming, estimated $500 million system wide cut including an anticipated $30.9 million cut to UC Santa Cruz.
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UCSC in the News
Marine ecologist Mark Carr was interviewed on a PBS NewsHour segment about marine reserves in California that also featured members of Carr’s survey team conducting scuba surveys of marine life.
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Gilead grant supports collaborative drug discovery program with UCSC
Biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences is supporting a collaborative drug discovery program using UCSC’s unique collection of marine natural products.
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Nominations sought for 2011 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity
You are invited to submit nominations for the 2011 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity. These awards will honor and showcase people and programs that have made outstanding contributions to furthering diversity, inclusion and excellence at UC Santa Cruz. Eligible recipients include undergraduate and graduate students, student organizations, faculty, non-senate academics, and staff employees, campus units…
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Author gives UCSC’s annual Dickens event a shout-out in Oprah interview
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley lauded UCSC’s annual summer celebration of writer Charles Dickens during a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey. Their chat took place for a special video broadcast to an audience that included more than two million of her bookclub members from around the world.
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Seymour Center presents lecture on scientific diving in Antarctica
Master divers Steve Clabuesch and Cecilia Shin will discuss diving beneath the ice in Antarctica in a public lecture on Sunday, March 20.
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Bullfighting droids face off in UCSC student robotics competition
UCSC engineering students will give a public demonstration of bullfighting robots on Thursday, March 10.
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New UC MRPI seeks Fellows & Affiliates and proposals for planning and development grants (RFP)
The Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC), a UC multicampus research program, has released the attached Request for Proposals (RFP) for planning and development grants of up to $15,000 to UC faculty for innovative projects that use collaborative methodologies to address California’s complex crises.
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Honoring Gabe Zimmerman: UCSC nears endowment goal
Donors are closing in on their goal to establish the Gabriel Zimmerman Scholarship, honoring the hard-working, socially conscious UCSC grad who died in the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Arizona.
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Newsletter survey results
In September 2010, we sent a survey to newsletter readers asking for feedback. We’ve compiled a few of the top-line take-aways from the survey here.
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Women at Work retreat postponed
The Women at Work chairs have determined that this years planned retreat will be postponed
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UCSC economist testifies on widening wealth gap and barriers to financing
UC Santa Cruz economics professor Rob Fairlie told a U.S. Senate committee Thursday that significant financial barriers are keeping minority businesses from opening and expanding even in a recovering economy.